1952 Mantle PSA 8
 

Anyone for floating the rumor that this card appears to be trimmed?

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I'm currently winning Gettysburg Eddie =)

Josh- since you have THAT much money, please send me a PM so I can give you my mailing address for any extra $100 bills you have lying around.

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So is it Fair ta say that Players like Harper, Trout, Goldschmidt & the Likes will be all the Rage 20-40 years from now!
The New Money will have ta Collect someone... RiGHT!?

Maybe that's why the new shinny Rookie's are goin fir crazy money even before this boys even touch the Major's...

Ohhh and I'm not one who believes that the Mantles are gonna do a nose dive when us baby boomers die off... Sure they'll be a baseline, but a nosedive is a much different theory.

Anyone notice a couple of bid retractions on the Plank? Same bidder is leading on the Mantle, perhaps all in on the Mick or? Has about 30 bids on that auction. Can never understand why someone needs to bid 30/40 times on one lot?

The timing of the two bids, and retractions, is odd.

Member Id: -***o( 1271Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Retracted: US $62,000.00
Bid: Nov-04-15 21:53:00 PST
Retracted: Nov-04-15 21:54:20 PST
Member Id: -***o( 1271Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Retracted: US $60,349.00
Bid: Nov-04-15 21:54:39 PST
Retracted: Nov-05-15 12:32:57 PST

My guess is PWCC cancels all bids from that guy. And then eBay cancels the account.

A thread on CU mentions bidder 1271 as well. I was able to click on the link earlier and besides having so many bids on the Mantle, the bidder had a relatively high number (can't recall how many) of relatively recent bid retractions as well.

not so good....

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...p2047675.l2565



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Well we've seen it b4...are we seeing it again? Will the mantle and plank sell legitimitely???

1271 is the high bidder on the Mantle.

Maybe he checked his wallet and realized he only had $470,000 and just couldn't afford the additional 60k for the Plank. :D

This Plank sold for 75k in 2010, so if it does sell it will probably result in a big loss. Does anyone feel this card in overgraded?

He is the high bidder again, what the heck is going on?

He checked under the couch cushions and found the 60k he needed for the Plank.

62k and counting......great card

I think the card is graded at about the right grade. Back is a little questionable but the front is pretty damn nice.

Plank ended at $71,732.


Steve

That seems like a strong price. Good for all involved.

PWCC Response
 

Wanted to quickly chime in on this auction as there was some discussion over a single bidder with a feedback score of 1271.

The bidder in question has eBay ID: d-drodeo

This member is an aggressive participant in the hobby and bids regularly with us, as well as most catalog auction houses.

I want to first be clear that bid retractions are something we absolutely despise and are working very hard with eBay to bring about some changes (hoping to announce some progress on this in the coming weeks).

Some further color on this auction is that after the retractions were issued, I was informed by eBay and they had actually retracted the second bid themselves in response to a prior retraction which was issued by d-drodeo (they also manually removed a bid on a 1954 Banks PSA 8). We have empowered eBay to monitor our auctions and take action if/when impropriety occurs and in this case they acted in response to this users initial retraction which was in violation of policy. eBay us testing some news tools currently and those tools are not yet fully vetted; case in point, it still appears that the retractions occurred at the hand of d-drodeo when they should say 'administrative cancellation' or something similar.

Once the dust settled we reached out to d-drodeo and explained the impropriety of having retracted the first bid. They understood our concern and then agreed to reinstate the first retracted bid at $62,000. They apologized for their actions and said what many people have said before... "I didn't realize it was against the rules".

This is a great example of a system which is flawed. eBay has rules on bid retractions but they don't enforce them and the only way we can educate users on our personal company policies is after that first retraction has been placed. eBay needs to enforce their own rules and we are working with them to accomplish this.

We can also say with confidence that none of the other 9 retractions on d-drodeo's account have been placed with PWCC Auctions, otherwise this matter would have been addressed at an earlier time.

Regards,

Brent Huigens
PWCC Auctions

Thank you for reaching out to confirm the bids were validated.

Brent, I don't think you checked carefully enough before saying with confidence that none of his prior retractions were with you, it took me all of five minutes to find this looking through your high dollar auctions. Now maybe there is a good explanation for the retraction and it's no big deal but nonetheless your statement above appears to be inaccurate.

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...p2047675.l2565

Bid retraction and cancellation history
Bidder Action Date of Bid and Retraction
Member Id: -***o ( 1271Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) Retracted: US $16,000.00
Bid: Oct-14-15 18:29:12 PDT
Retracted: Oct-14-15 18:31:04 PDT