Shocked on this Selling price!!
 

Although not Vintage by any means, I am sitting here scratching my head wondering why this card Non Graded/Raw would fetch for over $600 last night???


https://www.ebay.com/itm/1979-TOPPS-...T/183767230835

Someone is gambling on a 9 (poorly imho) plus underbidder has 99% of his bids with that seller.

corners look a bit fuzzy to me

The card has a bit of a tilt too.

The winner had left an even higher bid. Insane.

No way it gets a 9. Maybe an 8, but I can see it getting a 7.5

Is the card tilted or trimmed?? The thin black border line seems to be parallel with the top border but the bottom border seems to be tilted as compared to the black border line.

David

Makes me feel a little better about how much I have been paying for raw Mantles this month.

My plan is to get the best raw cards I can afford and find and hope they grade high...but, I'm afraid my plan, just like what the OP described, is a fool's errand.

I decided to take this course when I realized how much graded Mantles have gone up since I sold off my last representations.

Let's hope I get as lucky as that guy who put down $85K on Tiger at the last moment.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

How can you tell that, Scott?

Click on the "21 bids" hyperlink next to the price, then click on the "l***a" link and you see this:

Bidding Details


Bidder Information
Bidder: l***a ( 905Feedback score is 500 to 999)
Feedback: 100% Positive
Item description: 1979 TOPPS SET BREAK 116 OZZIE SMITH RC PADRES MINT!
Bids on this item: 3

30-Day Summary
Total bids: 542
Items bid on: 326
Bid activity (%) with this seller: 99% Help
Bid retractions: 0
Bid retractions (6 months): 0

tilt
 

I think solid 8

Click the number of bids then click the bidder name you want to see the stats on.

EDIT: He asked me John :p

Thanks to both of you gents!

Slight diamond cut...


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Check out the price of this Sutton. People are just throwing money around.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1966-Topps-...app-cvip-panel

[QUOTE=greenmonster66;1870698]Although not Vintage by any means, I am sitting here scratching my head wondering why this card Non Graded/Raw would fetch for over $600 last night???

Cuz the Seller lives in Beverly Hills?

"Lots of eyeballs "

Same winning bidder as the Ozzie in the OP! Someone with deep pockets just gambling on raw? If he keeps buying like this he's losing, don't thnk that Sutton is more than an 8 either.

Even more shocked
 

i am even more shocked
that the seller has nearly 18,000 feedback score , a 100% feedback with 9000 transactions in the last year
and no negs' or neutral ,
https://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...ab=AllFeedback

also he has no returns accepted
he sure has some magic sauce

His bidders are a bit more loyal than mine apparently. 99% is strong as gas.

That is a really high price for a raw one.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1966-Topps-...orig_cvip=true

We need to identify this buyer and market to him!

buyer can always return but the sale shows up on VCP..

Is VCP tracking raw cards now too?

no but ebay past sales history does..