I hear ya...
 

Steve, bad news the REA shitter is full. Doesn’t look like it will close until midnight. Put your max bids in and then watch some golden girls reruns until you fall asleep. Then you don’t have to think about it. ����*♀️


Steve, if you’re bidding on lot 2509 go to bed now. Not sure where your compete level is. Mine is a 10 .

I waiting to bid at 11:59 Just because.....

There are sacred cows on this board you can’t say anything remotely critical of. Even a sniff that you question how they do things send people into a spiral. How dare you. That’s why it’s fun to post even a mild suggestion that maybe they could do things a little differently. Reminds me a little of young kids rushing to the defense of one of the Kardashian’s sisters or some pop star.

A couple of t206s (with no special backs) I consigned are going for triple or quadruple (or more) what I had figured. What's going on?

..

Rea
 

Maybe, just maybe, it’s NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS on how other people conduct their business! Worry about your own collecting/bidding habits and stop being critical of others. Cannot say it any other way!

Feel fortunate Greg, on the other hand, I know you're just bullshitting (no pun intended from Pete's pic)...

Presume that's a joke. I hope.

Must be nice to be able to complain about the ending because of the dozens of lots one is able to bid on lol. I pretty much just go for 1 card in REA auctions- enter my max. bid and bam I’m done

It was, sorry. I am curious however about the two cards that you said brought quadruple prices. Can you share them with us?

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=50210

Bummer to the guy that lost 20-25k on the original Satchel Paige artwork over just 8 years.

Auction is still going on...

cannot believe it is 10:30 at night and i am still up. on my second pot of coffee. hope i can last another 90 minutes. so ... sleepy ...

Kevin-- to mention three, and auction still going:

Schulte PSA 6 front view now $2300 or so ewith juice--5 times usual price.

Chance PSA 6 portrait yellow: 1900 with juice, more than double

Birmingham PSA 7 -- 2000, double.

several others 1.5x than expected...

I see a wet dream in his future:D

5x makes no sense lol. Enjoy your good fortune.

Green Cobbies don't appear to be slowing down. :eek:

Below is the text from the second Fair Warning email that just deployed:

THE AUCTION WILL CLOSE WITHOUT WARNING!
PLACE YOUR FINAL BIDS NOW!

This is the FINAL email notice that the auction will close without warning! It may be in 10 minutes, it may be in 30 minutes, but there will be no additional notice! It is entirely dependent on the items being bid on and the activity on our phone lines with call backs we have in place. The auction will close prior to 12 AM Midnight EST, and it will close WITHOUT WARNING once the FAIR WARNING email is sent. We cannot guarantee the delivery time of any outbid emails based on your independent email servers, so do not hesitate with your bids!

PAST AUCTION ENDING TIMES ARE NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENTATIVE OF WHEN THIS AUCTION WILL CLOSE!

There are FAR MORE bidders participating in this auction than any other sports auction so keep in mind that as time winds down, you may experience slower connections. We have upgraded our systems to the best available software, but the fact remains that potentially thousands of people will all be attempting to access the same page(s) at the same time. We recommend bidding earlier and/or using Honest Auto Bid, SMS text message outbid notices, or our call back system to ensure you are not shut out on important items.

The auction will close without warning. You should bid as if you will have no other opportunity to come back to an item. The Honest Auto Bid system allows you to place max bids known only to you. If an item is important, you should use this option.

It will not continue beyond Midnight Eastern, and all of the last several auctions using this method has closed BEFORE Midnight Eastern.

A real nail biter!
 

Hanging in on a few

Is anyone else having trouble getting on the website?

I haven't left...
 

Things are moving slow, but I'm on.

Never mind, I am back on.

Time for bed haha :)

I didn't win anything. On the items I sold, most were in the ballpark of what I was expecting except one went way low and one went a lot higher, so they basically canceled each other out.

Fun day, amazing auction. Wasn't a ton of items that fit squarely in my collection, which saved me some money. Loads of items that had me thinking, "I should start a collection of those..." but I held strong.

And it's over. I got the T3 Merkle, but nothing else. :) :( :rolleyes:

WOW! What an auction
 

It is both frustrating (because I can't afford it all) and exciting to see some of the oddballl, test and regionals get some respect (in prices realized - Mantle Dice - 144K incl juice). That said, next to a 300K Rookie you could buy any day of the week, 144k doesn't sound like much for a card that money probably couldn't buy again tomorrow (or the next 10-20 years for that matter).

I started out with opening bids on about 90 lots. When the dust settled I ended up with 6. Fought hard for a few more, but backed off.

59 Mantle Bazooka box, 59 Mantle salesman sample panel, Exhibit display signs, and 3 T3's - My first foray into prewar!! - the Clarke, Camnitz and Leach - I am collecting Pirate team sets from 1952-1973 with my kids. My 11 year old actually expressed interest in getting into some of the tobacco era cards - So I figured these would be a nice start! Already told him he can work on the T206 Wagner when he starts earning money!!

Go figure, No Clemente items!!

The 1941 play ball set going for 30,000... wow.

I lost the D350-1 Ruth with 2 minutes left, but ended up with the ‘33 Goudey advertising poster.

That sucks! (on the Ruth)
 

Sorry to hear Jon

I got the T216 Cobb, f50 harrington’s Babe Ruth and the m101-5 WaJo.

I am so stoked on the Cobb. I was surprised it was such a sleeper!

Mantle
 

52 topps mantle psa 8 sold for $300k with buyers premium.

Another great job by Brian, Dean, and the rest of the team.

REA auction
 

I won 2 lots and am pretty excited. I got a N28 Cap Anson card (my first 19th century card) and an E95 Eddie Plank....

What do you think about the 53 Topps with PSA 6 Mantle & Mays going for 9k before BP? I thought it would touch 12 grand fully loaded. Also, the 56 Topps with the PSA 7 Mantle and the other 7’s went for 8k before BPv

I was in on the 53-55 Red Mans for a while and will probably regret backing out but it was a fun auction. I think the PSA 5 Mantle for 2 grand was decent value. Everything else I was after felt like it hit the going price before the vig was added.


Edit to add - 2400 on the Mantle - it got bumped at the end. I think that is a 3k card For a nice example in a 5 holder. So 2400+ BP got it close to that number

Congrats Howard on that Mantle Bazooka box, it is a special item.

Congrats on a great Cobb!

Earlier in the thread, I expressed surprise at the price on the Topps All-Stars Robin Roberts card. Needless to say, I am even more shocked at the hammer price of $132,000. :eek: I know it is a legendary rarity. I just didn't think it was a six-figure rarity.

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=48918

The Stanky and Konstanty cards went for $45,000 each. :eek:

No
 

No, some people are just friends with some of these people and will defend them against ignorant statements from fools that constantly post dumbness and have actually contributed to the lowering of this great boards standards not the raising of them.

Stunned to have won the lot of 10 OJ's as I am generally looking for deals, also was the only bidder on one of the shoe box lots. Didn't expect to find "bargains" I've sold with REA before but this was my first time bidding.

Yeah, I’ve bitched about auction closing times for 5 years and in that period nearly all of the major ones have changed their closing procedures. I guess maybe my dumbness is on to something.

Nice pick up on the T216. That is one rare Cobby. I lost out on my main goal, The Big Show Ruth as it went for around double what I would have paid. I just need more money.

I feel like many of my problems would be less significant if I simply acquired more money. ��

Consignor want it open as long as possible. I'm sure 1 out of 100 items people miss until that last day of bidding. Without material, there would n't be any auction. There will be buyers and, to paraphrase The Matrix, "there are levels of prices we are prepared to accept"

Yeah not a big fan of the new format and will not bid in another REA auction again until it changes.

Was high bidder in extended bidding for 11 and a half hours and then found out later that I was out bid at the end. I would rather have it be on a Saturday and stay up all night vs Sunday and they hold you hostage from "after 6 it will close at any time until 12:30am or what ever stupid time it was.

There is not a better solution than this, really?

I thought it ended at 12:00:00.

I agree the pseudodrama of "it could close any time" was unnecessary. Obviously they were going to run it until very close to midnight. That said, a hard stop seems better to me than an all nighter.

Well my email said it ended at after 12:00. Maybe it was then I just think 12 hours of extended bidding is about 8 hours longer than it needs to be.

It was very clear that the close was going to be at 12 am sharp as bids were coming in at 20-30 per minute right up until the end

At the very end they should have said they decided to keep it open 5 more minutes. Can you imagine those 5 minutes of bids? :)
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Then just say its a hard close at midnight and forget the 6:00 thing, then I will just wait until 11:58 and place my bid. That is what I will do next time, just snipe then like eBay.

But I do think 12 hours of extended bidding is a bit much after its been online for what 3-4 weeks?

If we all keep "bitching" for the next 5 years like Steve we can probably get auction closes to a format that makes us all happy campers :)

Never will happen but we will keep bitching for sure. :)

Why not place a higher max bid?

At 10:30pm, I spent 15 mins placing my max bids on lots and went to bed. Not sure why anyone had to wait around for 12 hours and ruin an entire Sunday.

I don't have a problem with the ending format for REA. I won a bunch of stuff, stuff I really wanted and stuff I overbid on. Nothing new there, of course. The only issue I had with REA during closing time was the system was slow. I started placing my final bids around 11:30pm EST, and there were times when the system was timing out on me. I was checking my emails to see if I were outbid because I couldn't get a list of my current bids to display. It all worked out in the end, but I think REA should try to add some bandwidth to handle this for their fall auction.

[QUOTE=hcv123;1773981]It is both frustrating (because I can't afford it all) and exciting to see some of the oddballl, test and regionals get some respect (in prices realized - Mantle Dice - 144K incl juice).

About time ....

---Brian Powell

Ha. Perhaps Steve is the Ralph Nader of the baseball card industry, and we will one day celebrate the reforms he ushered in through his activism.

(insert smiling emoji as I mean this to be good fun.)

I like that if you had an initial bid by 12 noon that only you can bid on that item the rest of the auction. I think it should then go into extended bidding for 9-10 hours for these bidders. After that, each item could close individually if no bid for more than 15 minutes. So the earliest the auction could end is maybe 10:15 pm on some items and others could go until no bids are received for 15 minutes. Maybe lower to 5 minutes after Midnight. Also this Eliminates snipe bids . As long as a bid is received the item stays alive.

How about that 54 Banks PSA 7? $4800 has to be a record for a 7.

Oh I did place my max bids which were outbid almost 12 hours later. I'm sort of amazed that no one has issues with it lasting that long. Like I said, it is what it is, I personally don't like it is all. They just won't get my business, not that it's a big deal but there are plenty of "other" guys out there so there is a never ending amount of stuff so you miss an auction twice a year. Not a big deal in my eyes and it might save someone else money too. :)

I am not seeing your grievance. If it ended 6 hours earlier, you still in all likelihood would have been outbid because someone wanted it more than you did. They just bid at the end and would have done so whenever the end was.

Just be thankful you were even given the opportunity to "win" items in such a wonderful auction. Dissent is not welcome. One party line here. if you want to question or criticize an auction please head to the line marked "Probstein/Yepg/PWCC".

The not-so-sacred cows.

Holy crap on the Schulte, very tough common, but not that much. What back did it have Greg? Chance yellow is a very unusual HOFer, up and down all over the place. I would think the Red version would be more like that....

As a seller, I was watching the pace of the bids and thinking the same thing lol.

I love knocking Yepg.... dude has silly asking prices! (But some nice cards)

Nope I'll be first in this line thanks.

And Peter you are probably right I may have been outbid six hours earlier which is fine. This is not a knock on them just personal preference, is that good with you?

I will say when I do sell my high dollar items some day they may go to REA for their 8 day extended bidding session that should be in place by then.

Closing Time
 

I'm sure some bidders liked the earlier closing time but as a consignor I would have preferred some more of the alcohol infused 3,4, and 5 AM bids.

Brad that's funny. Or they may have a rule that the auction ends only when there's been a week without any bidding.

REA

I love the history, just question the REA impact on prices for no reason other than profit.

With the internet, we can grade anything without a premium..

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Peter I think we are on to something here!! :)

Hope you are doing well!

What does that mean? And as for an impact on prices I don't think it's necessarily REA as much as the bidders. REA does a great job but they don't set any prices. You have the tail wagging the dog.

Love, love, love the close by midnight approach. I've said many times that I don't really care what the format of the auction is (lot by lot, hard close like ebay, close sometime up to a particular time, etc.) as long as the closing occurs when I'M AWAKE.

It is completely ridiculous to close auctions in the middle of the night and am quickly moving away from bidding on any auction that makes me do this. Fortunately more and more auction house are setting realistic closing times.

Go REA!!!!!!!!!!!

jeff

Who are you? Do you live on planet earth? I am so confused by your recent posts...

Russian bots invade Net 54. Trying to stir up more unrest in the USA.