Tough back crazy price...
 

I was watching this one and couldn't believe the final price.
Great card with a tougher back, but wow the seller has to be(pleasantly) surprised with that price.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I saw that Mike. Insane!! If you look at the bid history if not for the under bidder's bid the winner would have won it for darn near $900 bucks less.
OUCH!! Don't you just hate when that happens.

I saw that Tony, you know the seller liked that as much as the high bidder didn't.

No doubt Mike. I bet both the seller & high bidder fell out of their chair once bidding ended.

Mike you said you were gonna win that one what happened ?

I said I would like to have it, but I didn't want it nearly as much as a couple of others.

Crazy
 

I was going to bid on that one too but I got caught up with other things and missed the ending. It wouldn't have mattered. I still don't understand why that one went so high.

crazy
 

it must have been that 'rare' back.
nice card but way too much money spent IMHO.
still, to each his own

best,
barry

I don't know who won it but I'm pretty sure he's going to need $2200 next month on the BST in order to get his money out of it.

wow
 

Why can't I ever be that seller? And to think there were two, what looked like legitimate bidders, at $1800 or more. Makes me wonder where the Lenox (brown) Lajoie will end up?

I doubt the selling price of this card is relative to what the brown Lenox Lajoie will sell for. The buyer of the Cycle doesn't think it's worth $1,825. The unrealistic price likely is the result of two bidders placing extremely high bids in hopes of ensuring they would top all others. One of them did, and paid a premium to do it, because someone else used the same strategy. It happens.

Such a scenario can't play out in an auction that doesn't have a fixed ending time, like eBay does.

good points
 

Good points Rob. I agree that both top bidders probably had the same strategy. I would be pooping in my shorts if I won that card on ebay for that price. It's a great card but that is a very, very strong price for it.

That's why you should never leave a snipe that is higher than what you are willing to pay for something.

At least I'm not the only person who buys cards at twice what I can sell them for. :eek:

I have been stuck once or twice at a price I thought was top dollar for a card on a late bid, but WOW. Those are a couple of BIG max bids.

I had to take a 10% ($300) hit on the P42 Cobb last year after putting down a big last second bid. I wanted to keep the card, but had to sell because of what I had to pay on it. I tell you, there is nothing like thinking you are going to be in good shape with a nice card at a good price, then BOOOM, it takes a $1000 jump in the last 3 seconds.

I hope for the buyers sake that card is not seen on the market for many years. Great card for the collector, heavy durden for the flipper/investor.

How long has it been since one of those has been on the market?

Hope all is well and everyone is enjoying the fall,
Bob

amazing
 

i agree, I really wish I could be that seller. Honestly that is where the allure of ebay is because you never know what something might end for. I miss the Bidding wars of the early years of ebay.

Cycle Lajoie?
 

Wow, that card sold for more than twice what I thought.

It reminds me of when I used to sell on ebay. It seemed like it would always happen that one card would sell for 2-3 times what I was expecting. The profit on that one card made it worthwhile to pay the ebay fees on all the others that sold for the normal price.

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