I want the item described.

If you're describing a 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr in PSA 10, perhaps you don't need to say much more than describing any important characteristics in the card, and maybe a little bit about the significance of that card in the hobby.

But if you're describing a Henry Johnson Confectioners Ty Cobb, some information about how there are two graded copies and this one is the highest, and perhaps some background on how tough the cards truly are, how they were issued, and what their significance was, well, that may have helped the consignor get the price that card should have gotten.

I'd rather have too much copy than too little.

That said, useless crap like "A REAL GEM!" and "WHAT A GREAT DEAL!" is used car salesman copy that has no business in an auction of historically important sports memorabilia. That's Crazy Eddie stuff.

-Al

What? I never told you how much I actually paid for the card?

I believe the hammer price was $425.

There was no description in the auction catalog. Just a title.

-Al

"Who ever bought these deserves a punch in the throat. Seriously... a bunch of late 60s test cards that have no historical value."

I agree. And I also can't stand cards that depict the decapitated heads of ballplayers. What's really amazing, though, is that another buyer paid the exact same price, $41,125, for 521 different T206s including the Magie error. Which would you rather have?

Like the men's magazine we claimed to buy for the interviews?

Dan, you're like a shill who's trying desperately to discourage me from continuing to expose the most obvious fraud in our hobby today in order to protect the company to which you consign cards. And no matter how many times I post about it, you keep coming back to tell me I should ignore circumstantial evidence and instead get my hands on Goodwin's bidding records. So when everyone keeps ignoring my posts (you know, like they did with Mastro) then I'll stop posting about it. But that day doesn't seem very close now, does it?

And just for fun:

1962 Topps AL & NL Homer Kings #401:

7/14/09 eBay $247.83
3/19/09 eBay $143.62
3/1/09 eBay $224.50
2/6/09 eBay $190.61
1/20/09 eBay $271.88
11/25/08 eBay $235.99
11/14/08 Goodwin $282.00
9/18/08 eBay $214.38
9/2/08 eBay $214.83
3/11/08 eBay $153.78
3/6/08 Goodwin $192.00
1/17/08 eBay $321.11
12/3/07 eBay $133.81
11/30/07Goodwin $5,011.00
11/29/07 eBay $168.59
6/16/07 eBay $142.29
6/14/07 eBay $83.11
3/14/07 eBay $143.61
3/7/07 eBay $154.05
3/2/07 eBay $355.00
1/17/07 eBay $134.49
10/29/06 eBay $189.50

And: Red Heart Mantle PSA 9

6/4/09 eBay $4,000.00
4/5/09 Memory Lane $3,435.70
12/19/08 Mastro $2,400.00
9/1/08 eBay $3,800.00
8/4/08 eBay $3,151.10
6/29/08 eBay $2,700.00
5/30/08 Goodwin $3,124.32
3/6/08 Goodwin $3,697.00
2/14/08 eBay $3,106.00
1/21/08 eBay $2,945.00
1/7/08 eBay $2,500.00
12/18/07 eBay $3,569.00
12/14/07 Mastro $3,049.20
12/9/07 eBay $2,999.99
11/30/07 Goodwin $3,124.00
8/24/07 Goodwin $11,294.00
5/31/07 Goodwin $2,581.00
5/23/07 eBay $3,375.99
3/17/07 eBay $3,200.00
12/18/06 eBay $3,230.00
12/8/06 Mastro $2,722.00
11/7/06 eBay $3,350.00
10/28/06 Heritage $3,107.00
10/4/06 Goodwin $3,525.00
8/19/06 Mastro $3,285.30
8/11/06 Memory Lane $4,074.45
7/24/06 eBay $3,250.00

Oh wait, almost forgot: :) <-----jest inserted

Among my favorites is "Bid to win!"

Why else would someone bid?

Oops. Never mind.

Jeff the other Goodwin sales on those cards you posted
 

Appear to be within the correct range. Why are those the only outliers?

Rich

Jeff- Choose your words very carefully when you decide to call me out! I really could care less about your obsession with Goodwin, but you need to chill. You’re becoming annoying and irrelevant.

Dan, I chose those words very carefully. Really. And my obsession is 'retarded?' Maybe you want to choose another word?

I chose that word carefully.

Then I'm sending you a dictionary.

Rich there are of course two possibilities, one is that there really were two genuine bidders going against each other with an underbidder genuinely bidding an insane amount, and the other is that someone who didn't know better placed an outlying ceiling bid and was taken advantage of. I am not sure there is a third scenario, but perhaps there is. One has to draw one's own conclusions, of course.

I thought Larry's original theorem that started this thread was interesting.

any other thoughts regarding genres or specialties that certain auction outfits currently seem to outperform others on?

I've been kinda on the sidelines for a few years, so my question is sincere.

Okay, the monks in this monastery are allowed to speak only two words once every ten years so this newbie monk has his first chance to speak in 10 years and he contemplates and comes out with "Food bad"....ten years pass and the same monk says "Bed hard".....another ten years go by and finally the monk says "I quit"....and the head monk says "I don't blame you, you've been complaining ever since you got here".

that was good
 

Nice one Dan..

Joke good

Big laugh