Photos are important!
 

For all your newbie ebay sellers, take a little extra time and post good photos. I was able to buy this PSA 3 T206 Speaker for about $100 under market because the photos weren't good and other cards got the bids this one would have received. Took a chance because seller had "good coloring" in title, but you'd never know it from his photo. Check out before and after pics.

And your scanner doesn't have a CCD element, so if you sold it, you'd get less than the next guy would probably. You can tell the colors are nice though.

Whenever I see a low res, fuzzy, or odd angle photo on eBay, I assume the seller is intentionally hiding / attempting to minimize flaws.

I thought this was obvious.
It's selling 101 for anything, not just T206's

That is a night and day difference.

Sorry, but both the pic and the scan look terrible to me. Nice card though!

Lol Dan you're right. After I posted this, I realized my scanner (Epson XP-410) could use an upgrade and just bought a canon with CCD (thanks to some recommendations). So it took a post on the importance of good pics to get me to upgrade to good pics.

p.s. this was my first T206 purchase in over 10 years and I think one of the best of the set! The greatest CF all time - The Grey Eagle!

Haha, good move!

Night and Day difference with a new Canon scanner 9000F vs. all in one Epson xp410.


Lid down and Up

Buy the card, not the scanner.

I posted this card in the pickups thread, but the first pic is the one which was shown in the eBay listing. The second pic is one I found from a prior auction listing where the exact card was sold. When I saw the pic from the earlier listing, I felt more confident bidding on it. I felt like I got it cheaper because of the crappy picture in the listing.