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I'm down to currently winning 2 lots (it was 4 before the server issues last night)...and those 2 lots have gone up $1500 combined today (so far) with the added "bonus" of an entire extra day of extended bidding. Cosigner and AH happy...potential buyer not so happy. |
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Last night/early morning was brutal, kindly stay off my 4 lots and I'll leave the other 3500+ alone...
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I got outbid on my last lot I was high on today. I think I am going to put my head down and dive back in ..Damn the torpedoes!
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For me Howard nails it right here. Everything else is fine - but the uncertainty during that hour really pissed me off. You felt like you had to continue bidding and yet you had no idea what was happening. I understand the lack of emails until they were really sure what they needed to do, but they should have suspended bidding right at 12:10 and not turned anything back on until after they had made the decision to extend for a day.
Tim 4) The thing that bothers me most was the lack of communication between ~12AM and 1:14AM - The clock was counting down on each lot - I and others were permitted to place bids without clarity on whether the auction would end last night or be pushed till today. I placed bids in that time period thinking there was a chance the auction would close according to the clocks that were counting down. At 1:14 well over an hour after the problem started the email went out saying the auction would be extended. Fairer (imo) would have been to "pause the auction" closer to when the problem began until a decision was made and clearly communicated with everyone.[/QUOTE] |
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Especially #3. It's a proven fact that given more time to think about it, more bids will come in. That's precisely why sniping is so effective. What if your winning eBay snipe erroneously registered an hour early? More than likely, someone would outbid it. |
hahaha - and so it begins - items i won 3 different times last night i've not been outbid
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I am out. Every item I was high bidder on through the night and through overtime has now been outbid and I can't bid on any other items to put my money elsewhere. Have a good night in REA everyone.
My wife will be happy I will not be spending any money! :) |
Thank you REA for starting the extended bidding tonight at 9 pm. My lots are already locked and sold and I can go to bed early. Love it.
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Alright, I'm out. Whoever keeps bumping me on the M101 type cards, congratulations on your winnings.
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Managed to win the "one that got away" last night. It's a card that Leon would approve of, low technical grade=lower price(still a record price for the grade level) with killer eye appeal. Bought the card, not the holder.
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I still have 1 consigned card going strong!
Yay! Mike |
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I sold the Cobb and won the Wagner. I'm quite pleased with the results.
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Didn't expect REA would end this early tonite, i was going to put in my last few bids on the Wagner. Damn.
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For what it is worth...
As a buyer - I won and was not bid up on the one card I was winning last night when this whole thing started. As a seller - I had 11 items and the extra day netted me an extra $125 As a bidder who was out - I was out last night before the craziness on 4 items...2 of those 4have been bid up quit a bit given the extra day (Cubs signed check lot and 1914 World Tour signed journal)...the other 2 didnt get bid up on EDIT - the 1914 World Tour Signed Journal and 1917-1920 Cub Checks are still going |
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You're Cobb was fantastic Robert, great consignment.
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Thanks Phil
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All three lots I was winning all night were outbid right after 6 PM. I decided not to bid again in the auction again, so away they went. I'm not totally unhappy about it either given the way this went down, not to mention the strong prices. Congrats to the winners.
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Is it possible? of course, it is! I definitely don't think it's a leap to think someone woke up to see they had another chance to take a shot at a much-desired card they had bid on earlier in the auction and decided to bid? No leap either way - but a crapy way for the auction to have ended IMO. |
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I had about a 12% bump with the added day.
I can't say I'm displeased with the outage! Mike |
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I get the nuance and the 'nobody knows for sure' I just sympathize for the guy who got sniped at noon today on a card he most likely (not guaranteed) was going to win..... maybe he came over the to and ultimately won the card. Great DiMaggio too! |
Nice Pickup!!!
Whoever won the e92 Crofts Eddie Collins - congrats, and AWESOME pickup.....beautiful card and so, so, so rare!
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Great pick up Scott, I went 3 for 4, lost out on the Gehrig exhibits but happy with my pickups.
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I won the 27 exhibit gehrig. Love the image and fact that it’s the same as his rookie image really appealed to me. After reviewing the pop it also appears it’s very more scarce than some others Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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some of the results were absolutely staggering!
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The Charleston went for $132 w BP. It was $40k range at midnight. I was shutout but was going close going one more on the 1906 Harrisburg Giants photo and Pop Lloyd.
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It was interesting to see some lots stay still from last night, while others doubled in the final minutes tonight.
I had bid on many items early in the auction and then waited until tonight to let a few go, while grabbing a couple of others. I guess, we have to improvise as we go. You have to play the hand you're dealt! It was a successful auction overall. REA had an incredible selection! |
Believe it or not, the site appears to be down, was hoping to look over some prices.
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FWIW, only one of my 12 consigned cards got any bids during the day Monday (it was bid up by $300), and NONE of my cards received any bids after 9 p.m. tonight. This suggests to me that some bidders were too pissed about last night's hiccup to bid again today/tonight.
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Are Caramels making a push? Looks like some strong prices on them. They seemed to languish off their historic highs. But imagine what they can do in this market environment if the demand returns to what it was then.
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I survived on one card-- the low number Herpolsheimer J. Franklin Baker. If anyone cares, it went for one bid more than where it ended during last night's fiasco, when I could not make that same bid. Also, I made the bid at 5 minutes before extended bidding, just in case there were more problems tonight. It held. Sorry for the large scan.
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As a bidder, I lost one card I would have won, but won two I would have lost. I had three lots as a consignor, two didn’t receive additional bids, the third gained $700 to end at $3600. I can’t say I’m disappointed.
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I did win my 2 original lots that I was high on before the glitch--yesterday morning I bid on 4 more lots---I won the 1921 Exhibit Ruth graded 3--I bumped the 1952 topps Authentic Mantle--also bumped the 4/1 exhibit and one other card--REA gained $1300 on my late bids--but I was pleased to get the Ruth and I just didnt want to hit the Mantle again---At least the Auction closed fast last night.
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I placed a bid on a lot that "I don't really need but let's place a bid and see how it goes) and sadly..... no one outbid me and I need to stuck with it. :(
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and congrats to all on their pickups I bowed out and did not participate in yesterdays finale part 2 :) |
I debated one more bid but talked myself out of it. Really strong prices on not only the high end e93s but also the mid grades.
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Strong prices on the Carl Horner cabinets. I was hoping to snag one but bowed out. I still managed to snag one other cabinet so all is well.
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T206 HOFers and rare backs continue to skyrocket. Happy with my one win.
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1958 Topps Jim Brown Rookie 8.5 Vs. 8
The 8.5 sold for 10X the 8. Buy the 8 and save 1/4 Million$ for other things!
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whoever I was battling for the higher grade T207's, well played.
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I managed to win the one card I was after.
I was the leading bidder from just after the auction opened until 11:53pm on Sunday night when i was outbid. The technical issues prevented me from increasing my bid in extended bidding, so I was happy the auction was extended. I finally managed to win the card in last night's extended bidding. Now, bear in mind that I'm doing this from a UK time zone. I was up to 3:00am (10pm EST) on Monday night Then I woke up to for extended bidding at 4:45am (11:45pm EST) only to encounter technical issues. Then last night I was up to 2:30am to do it all again. But at least, I got the card. Signed, Mr. Tired But Happy |
Great auction last night hope everyone enjoyed it !
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THe e93's in this auction were pieces of art! |
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As a bidder I was outbid last night in the extended version.
As a seller of three lots I think I picked up like $25 LOL. That said, I was pleased with the prices I received overall. |
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Extending that auction the way it was gave losing bidder who many times in the heat of battle regret placing one more bid after the auction ended or were chasing something else had a full day to think things over, and up their bid the next day. Watching the lots I was in on anyway, many of the out bids did not come right a way, they came the next day. The money I saved on a card I lost in the last minute the next day, I used to jumped on eBay and negotiated a back and forth 4 hour purchase on a card much nicer than the one I would have won at RE.
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my consignments moved marginally over the extended auction...my bids all got decimated. I walked away with some batman trading cards!!!!
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It's hard to figure out the psychology of thousands of bidders. For some, having a day to think about things may have meant deciding not to keep bidding (plus, maybe they were pissed off and did not bid in protest). For others, the extra day allowed them to get in bids they could not get in during the outage...but in the light of day may have focused them on the lots they really wanted.
My experience was that the one item I won was from a bid made on 4/25 (before extended bidding). My consignments picked up some bids during the day but only one (out of eight) received any bids in the extended period. I think the extended bidding was much calmer than it would have been the day before and that the vast majority of items closed at 9:10. My guess is that much of what would have happened in the extending bidding the night before happened during the day of 4/25 (before extended bidding). |
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My understanding is that outage was not that long, that auction should have ended that night even though it could have gone until 2 or 3 am like some of the other auctions do anyways.
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More time means people get an opportunity to re-evaluate. For those who did their homework, set their budgets and prepared for the actual auction end, what happened was a punch to the groin because it made a lot of that effort less useful and far less valuable - particularly since the extension was effectively another entire day.
I lost a card that I believe I was absolutely about to win, and actually did win a couple different times on Sunday night, because someone had a chance to spend the entire day Monday recalibrating prices. Good for the consignor, good for that bidder I guess, sucks for me but that's the breaks. For consignors, there's "opportunity" as a result of that day, which is ultimately a free option, even if no additional bids come through. What eeks me, and I'm sure many others, is that putting in the work to actually be prepared and ready to go so frequently is rendered less valuable by events like this, whether we're talking auction closes or just life in general. Those who prepare should have an advantage and be rewarded for their efforts, and changing the rules as the scoreboard is about to go final nullifies that in some sense. Anyway, thankfully this is collecting, and there's always something else... I'll post my wins after they come in. |
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Nice pick up Leon!
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Ditto for Leon's card. Are T208s considered rarer than D359s? Or are they on about the same level?
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This will be behind us soon and next time we can get back to the ritual banter about the catalog and its arrival, the breathless wow just wows, the bids placed!, and so forth. :)
Fortunately my too-high bid held up although it got bumped a couple of levels in the extended bidding. So it goes. I think it's hard to know what would have happened on Sunday night if the site had not had issues, and I think no matter what REA did some part of their constituency would have been pissed off. |
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