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Posted By: anthony

I was looking through the Mastro site at all the awesome stuff that I can't afford and noticed that there are a few items that have seemingly low opening bids for items that are altered some how (trimmed, re-touched, etc.) but graded "authentic" by one of the big 3 grading companies.

I was wondering how you guys who regularly bid in Mastro's gauge the price a card could fetch? for example:

Let's say there is a SGC graded "authentic" card of Ty Cobb Red Portrait that looks like a 5 or 6 but is trimmed with an opening bid of maybe $500. Typically it might bring in excess of $3-4k but now that it is trimmed how would someone not overpay? would 50% or 25% of normal price be a good estimate? or...?

(I have checked out the t206.net site already)

thanks for input!