Help Me With This Ebay -- 1933 Gehrig PSA/DNA
 

This 1933 Goudey Gehrig autographed (PSA/DNA) sold for $4,850 ten days ago on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

High bidder was: a***d ( 259Feedback score is 100 to 499)

This morning, I got an email that the card had been relisted. When I clicked on it, I found out that it had been relisted at $3,250 with a $3,600 BIN, which was almost immediately triggered:

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=200465366773

As far as I can tell, the first bidder fell through and then the seller arranged this quasi-auction sale with another potential buyer afterwards.

What I don't get is why he would sell for $3,600 when the original listing had several bidders over that amount. Not surprisingly, the seller declined to respond to my request for information on this one. And, yes, I had placed a bid for more than $3,600 on the first one.

Any ideas?

Maybe the seller meant to make the BIN 4600.00...

could have been schilling the first time, although it is hard to say for certain. How long after was it re-listed?? if it was within a week, i would question it.

Seller finally emailed back and said he needed a quick sale at $3,600. Said he couldn't offer me a second chance offer because he didn't see me as an under bidder (I had a snipe that didn't register because of a higher bid at the time it was placed). Hard to believe all those bidders above $3,600 turned down the second chance. Oh well...:confused:

including me. That would have made signed 1933 goudey #176. Oh well

he emailed me that he was just laid off and needed the money quickly.

Seller in a rush = high likelihood of fraud. Relisting is often a sign of previous bad behavior.

Also, I purposely know nothing about autographs, so I'll take a page from the anti-vaccine crowd: if the experts tell me it's good, it must be bad.


Bill

Ah, the anti-vaccine crowd. Nothing like a medical luddite during a polio, swine flu or smallpox outbreak, except perhaps a faith healer with appendicitis. In the immortal words of Special Agent Harris from The Sopranos: "Maybe Darwin was right. Nature really does weed out the nimrods."