is this a ridiculous price?

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Posted By: Anonymous

http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-THE-PITTSBURGH-LEADER-BASEBALL-SCHEDULE-1897-NL_W0QQitemZ140156014266QQihZ004QQcategoryZ64495QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Posted By: barrysloate

I think $230,000 is more than reasonable for a schedule that looks like it's falling apart.

Offer him fifty bucks, see if he accepts!

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Posted By: Jim VB

Ummmm. I don't know. $230,000 seems a little high. It does have pencil writing inside...


I'm with Barry.

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Posted By: anthony

i would agree that it is pretty rare but it's not a first edition charles dickens...

i would hope that if someone was comfortable to spend $6k on a baseball schedule/book they wouldnt be stupid enough not to do some research

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Posted By: barrysloate

The seller also says it was supposed to have belonged to the owner.

Any documentation? Or are we supposed to take his word for it and fork over the $6000 opening bid. I think that is a lot that ebay should know about.

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Posted By: dennis

$50.00 would be a generous offer. imo

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Posted By: barrysloate

Well, it was supposed to belong to the owner so I added an extra sawbuck!

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Posted By: Paul

The owner of what? The National League?

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Posted By: Ed Hans

He's got his decimal points out of whack.

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Posted By: Mike Mccullough

The seller will throw in a Babe Ruth Calender card for the winner.

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Posted By: JimB

That book is not worth a dime more that 220k.
JimB

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Posted By: Marc

This reminds me of this local goof where I live who keeps advertising his T206 cards in the paper. He says he found 3 of them under a mantle in an old house and is asking for $1200 or trade for a Mustang or Camaro. He writes "RARE", "100 Years Old". So, I call him up this past summer thinking he must have a Ty Cobb, W. Johnson, etc. Nope, he has a Howie Caminitz, Jimmy Sheckhard, and a Larry Doyle. When I asked him on the phone what players he had, he said, "Oh, I don't know off hand, they are upstairs in my safe...I'll have to go look. Why, what does it matter, they are 100 years old?" I told him it does indeed matter in value. After he told me those three names he asked what they were worth. I told him they were worth maybe $50 a piece...and to be quite honest that is inflated and quite generous. I've seen those three for $20 a piece many times. After I told him that, he said I was crazy and that there has to be a collector of these things who would pay that. I told him I was a collector. He still wanted $1200 or a Camaro or Mustang. I just laughed at him and said, "Good luck getting that! I told you what they are worth."

Some people say collectors just try to rip off 'innocent' people with their valuable collections. This is a case of the opposite. This guy is trying to rip off the collector. It goes both ways.

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Posted By: Jared

Marc,

Your story reminds me of this guy I met with who was posting cards on craigslist...

On the phone he gave a long list of 50's-60's cards, gloating that they were in "mint" condition. So I met with him out of curiosity. He pulls these "mint" cards from an old cracker tin, organized with rubber bands and plastic sandwich bags. Most of the cards were FR-GD at best, but he had one of those stupid phonebook-sized bookstore price guides and insisted he was cutting me a deal by offering 30% off the high price. I knew he was stubborn from the start, so I didn't push back much - I just chatted with him for a while and left empty-handed. The experience was well worth the trip, haha.

He also claims he has this large pre-war collection "in boxes" 'that he's been selling off in partitions. I don't really doubt him. However, he did mention that one of the items he sold within the last year or so was an autographed T206 Wagner. Does anyone know if such card exists???

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Posted By: davidcycleback

It's safe to say a signed T206 Honus Wagner does not exist. An autographed 1933 Goudey Lajoie exists, though, which many (including myself) would say is the best autographed baseball card in the hobby. Was part of the Barry Halper collection.

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Posted By: Jim VB

For the record, this seller has adjusted his BIN price, downward, by about 93%! Now that's a sale!

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Posted By: barrysloate

A starting bid of $9.95 and a bin of $50.00 would be more appropriate. He's still a tad high.