no reserve $.99 bid
 

just curious

Often after an Ebay no reserve auctions starts, someone will bid $0.99

Has anyone ever won an auction for $.99(assuming the card is worth much more)?

Most of the time when I do that, the bid would be serving as a placeholder. I have never been that lucky to have the bid end at $0.99. :)

Has it ever happened? I suppose its within the realm of possibility. More likely a few people have gotten cards for $0.99 that are worth $5-10 and just got overlooked.

People bid on these in this manner mostly because their watch list is full and they still want to keep track of the auction. A few people also do this because they don't understand the ebay process and how everything works, so they think theres a small chance they'll get lucky and get if for that price.

I used to place placeholder bids like that often in the early days of ebay. And yes, I won my share of auctions at that .99 starting price. Most often because the seller's listing was confusing, misleading, or listed in an "off" category or because there were no pictures. I have a very nice '51 Topps team card because of this and several t205s. I stopped doing this when a few people who knew my ebay id would watch what I was bidding just to see if they could score a bargain. When ebay went to mostly private bidder names, I started doing it more again. Most recently, I won a Globe card for the initial 9.99 price. About a third of what I thought it might go for.

Joshua

My two cents, plus 97 or 98 cents
 

I won one auction a few years back at .99, a pre-ww2 card worth about $8-10. The seller didn't return my multiple messages about my winning bid, and eventually I gave him a negative. Then he got back to me. Never got the card.

The moral of the story is always start your auctions at $1.00...no one ever does it, and you will do fine job messing up those $.99 placeholder bidders.

Brian

English for a penny
 

One cent.

The seller thought I got a good deal. I wonder what his fee was.

Yes, the card is graded BVG 7.5. Hope to sell it one day for a dime.:D

I have won a few "good" deals but never for .99

Frank, English did have a sweet "J". Worth every bit of what you paid:D

I picked something up last week for a $1.99 starting bid. I had been searching for the card for six months now, so I was very pleased. Unfortunately, two came up for sale at the same time and my $30.00 starting bid bought me the other one.

never at .99:mad::(

i have won a few...not at .99 but at the actual acking price and exactly like josh just said cause the title wasnt what it should of been

Same thing happened to me, more or less. I won 18 PSA graded Griffeys for $1.04 and never got the cards.
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