The "OFFICIAL" REA - Sweat it out thread!
 

We're only 20 minutes away from the start of Extended Bidding!!! Feel free to use this thread as a way to share your frustrations or comment on the obscene prices you see get thrown out there.

Good luck to everyone!

I'll be sweating it out @ the Cardinals-Brewers game. Good luck to all!

Bids
 

4 more minutes to place your initial bids!

Still have yet to be outbid actually even bid against in the last 13 days.:)

Post # 11

Love the title of the thread...!

Just remember the chat room works now :)

Even so, I'm sitting this one out tonight

Since some are sweatin it out let's get some exercise in!http://www.myvideo.ro/watch/5066385/Sport_pentru_grasi

I have 2 bids in on items I want in my collection, but if I get outbid, trust me, I will still sleep at night :D

Outbid already, and not upping my bid :( too many whales out there :)

Holding on by my fingernails to the one item I want most.

Tom C

Crossing fingers, clover, rabbit tail, a bowl of lucky charms and a winning lottery ticket(maybe)
If i my bids dont last..600 million cant hurt.

Rea
 

I sure hope I get outbid

I'm still the high bidder on one of my lots; really surprised at this point I haven't been outbid. Truth is, the bid was more of a holder and just for fun. Now I may end up with the lot. I'd be happy, the wife not so much.

+1

This lot right here seems INSANE to me!

http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=26122

I had all three cards in the Decemeber PWCC auction (except my Hagan was a 5.5 and this one is a 6).
The grand total I got for my three cards was a shade under $1,200. To be at $2,000 AND THEN pay 20% juice on top of that makes this lot roughly $2,400. So basically $1,200 more for one half graded higher! To me, that is INSANITY!! Makes me wish I had consigned my whole collection with REA instead of PWCC!

You're right Bobby! I had a card on here (not important which one) but was an SGC70 and sold it for $3350 and now the same card at an SGC45 is at $2500 + the 20% vig bringing it to $3000.

I think some folks just wait for REA all year long and are not members here, or else they would have jumped ALL over my offering of my card, just didn't see it.

I am always blown away by what some items draw in this auction. I know this is not a non-sports forum, but as someone who's almost as proud of my non-sports collection as I am of my baseball/football collection, I am simply stunned by what this lot has drawn (as impressive as it is):

http://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/...x?itemid=26204

I had visions of maybe getting a "steal" in the $3-4K range. Not so fast....

Granted, it's one of the premier non-sports sets of the 1880s, but it's only 61 cards - that's not even two-thirds of the set. And only eight cards are graded. With the premium this is currently sitting at $23,700 - or nearly $390 per card!!

I can't find the countdown timer. Is it on the site ? It only states "Extended bidding " I thought it usually countsdown from 15mins.

Gah!!!

Got outbid on the one I wanted most, the Comiskey scrapbook. I'm out.

Tom C

You won't need that until well after midnight.

But you can always use the 'recent bids' link at the left - it will show you the last 100 items

Hope my Baltimore News Ruth bid holds up:eek:. I'm excited to see what these high dollar items go for.

Was just outbid on the 1914 Cobb... Debating one more bid.
Was outbid a couple days ago on my main desire.
Looking like another empty-hander for this kid!

Matt, at almost $5K with the vig, I think you'll be able to find another less than that in a 1

Greg,

My thoughts exactly. At 4k I was all good. But now I'm okay hoping for a comparable one at The National and seeing what cash can land it. I def want a 1914 in 1 or 2, but my gut says you're right in how to play it now.

bobby
 

it's an impossible set. In mid 1990's I sold singles for around 45.00. In the mid 2000's 150.-225.. I was/am shocked a bit myself.............

Prices rare backs here escalate or hold down the current trend? What about CJ 14 prices?

I have no idea who the consignor of that card is but that is a really nice 1. If I was looking for a 2-3 grade, I would consider this 1 very strongly.

I am kind of surprised at some of the 1914 cj prices. Some really nice mid grade hofer examples going pretty cheap imo.

Also some of the rare backs are still trading "cheap" compared to current trends. A few have taken off though!

Leon, I agree with the exception of the pinholes.

Greg

That is a pretty damn nice looking 1....I know the pinholes can be a turn off, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better 1 for the price right now.

Going nuts. It looks like there is one other collector chasing a rare card I want. It's starting to dig in to my 'Chicago' money :-(

Same with me. I hope we aren't competing. :(

That card just looks awful. Has no eye appeal, forget the pin hole. My opinion only :D

Interesting that as of right now, Lot #1 is going for more than Lot #2!

Steve

FINALLY!!! Over at 4:55am EST, is that a new record for REA?

Most of the items in REA are way out of my price range. I was left far behind on the only items I bid on: $3,250 with the juice for the 1973 Mike Schmidt Puerto Rican Winter League contract and $1,650 with the juice for a 1908 Reading Pretzels photo with Home Run Baker.

A 1972 Schmidt Puerto Rican winter league contract sold for $1,100 in a 2005 auction at Leland's. I know there are some rabid Schmidt collectors out there, but I never expected the contract to go that high.

I am not a pic collector, but the Reading Pretzels piece was cool, since I live 20 minutes from Reading, Pa., and have attended minor league games there since I was a kid. I wonder if the pic was a 1/1. I have seen a couple Home Run Baker/Reading Pretzels postcards in recent years, but never a team cabinet photo before.

Woke up this morning to find out I was out bid at ~3:30 am. And not totally depressed about it since my bid was certainly more than I'd originally planned on spending, even if it was a 1 of 1.

I agree with the others that some lots went much higher than expected or typically valued at, especially with regards to those on my watchlist.

I officially had my rear handed to me and now will spend the rest of the weekend with my tail between my legs. We just put 30k in to a basement remodel and I was not near prepared for my first REA. My sweat ran out at about 11:30 PM.

Happy to say one of my bids that I placed 2 weeks ago held up, and I got it for $400 less than my max bid!! :D

rea
 

WOW!
blank back ghosts went fairly cheap:eek:

That doolan was sick.............hope my boy got it;)

Rea
 

I truly can't even believe what many of these items went for last night, as everything that I tracked went for double and triple what I thought. It really makes it difficult to consign with anyone else, seeing the money that REA commands.

For any art lovers out there, the Peter Max pieces went for peanuts!! I was able to obtain three original watercolors in the $350-400 range a piece, which is just insane! Completed listings on eBay for similar pieces more than triple those numbers. I couldn't pass them up...

I went in targeting baseball and now, apparently, I am a Peter Max collector!! Lol...WTF!

Very high prices overall, but here are some observations:

Top prices for the N172 McPhee's and N173 Welch cards. Was surprised that the O'Day and Deacon White cards didn't pick up steam - I assumed that with their inductions, they would go much higher on the hype. Strong price for the Williamson and Mascot.

I didn't look that closely, but other than an OM Tinker going for a crazy price, T206 back insanity didn't seem full blown this auction, which surprised me. The Red Hindu Johnson, in particular, went low, especially considering that is an epic card.

Now I'm just curious to see what the pick-up thread looks like...

This is why......I'm never a buyer in REA auctions. They're great to consign to, not so great if you actually prefer NOT to be bent over for every card. The only way I would ever be interested in being a buyer with REA auctions is if I came into PowerBall money and was targeting a Wagner, Ruth Balt. News or any other ultra high end card in the 6-7 figure range. Other than that, I pass on the REA hype every year.

So with the Ruth Balt News card selling for nearly $50k more with BP than the Wagner, does that mean that it is the new "king"?

The Wares Ruth RC also went for $130k with BP. Incredible prices.

[QUOTE=CharleyBrown;1132952]So with the Ruth Balt News card selling for nearly $50k more with BP than the Wagner, does that mean that it is the new "king"? [QUOTE]

Agreed Yes

To me, the Wagner T206 card will always be king of the hobby unless a Batlimore News Ruth can surpass the $2.1 million paid for the Wagner copy at the Goldin Auction last month. The Honus T206 card also has 100 years of intrigue behind it and comes from perhaps the most iconic set of all time. Even many people with no interest whatsover in baseball cards are familair with what a Honus Wagner T-206 card is and how valuable it is.

Here, here!! I never bid in REA either! Same reason! :)

Things can change over time. As a player and name in the sport, Ruth is towering-- and now his first card may be getting some richly deserved recognition. It may even take some more time to cement what the market just said last night of course. Only time will tell, but my money is on the Ruth surpassing the Wagner in the years to come, when comparing examples of the same grade.

Agreed - I had a tough time not going for one.

Very nice wins!

There are two in existence (at least) - the other is the exact same grade.

I personally thought the ghost backs went where they should have - perhaps one bid too high.

Agreed. Great Peter Max pickups. I was the underbidder on the naked flyer around the sun. Can imagine only a few things as good as flying around the sun naked with socks on. :)