REA Summer Auction is open
 

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/Lots/Gallery

Wow!

I’m sorry for outing them, but there are a few T206s available.

Time for my semi-annual plea for these auction sites to keep you logged in longer than 5 minutes.

Including a nice near set listed #25 on PSA registry.

Dammit, everyone needs to stop bidding against me.

Getting tired of this nonsense.

I'd publish a list, but that would just encourage people to bid against me even more.

Any one want to guess what the 1947 Bond Bread Jackie Portrait PSA 7 goes for?

I'm thinking 24K

There's definitely some eye candy. I bid on 38 different items and will be happy to win one or two when the smoke clears.

I'll take the over.

Apologies for my sarcasm. If that set is yours, good luck with the sale.

This was a 2k card less than a decade ago. The market has lost its mind. Nothing has changed to make the last sale of 62k make sense.

I certainly hope you're right, the higher the better for me. I have a 5.5 in that card

Obviously you don't have to say if you don't want to, but are you in on the PSA 8.5 1951 Bowman Mays, Nicolo?

HA.

Looks like a nice piece, for sure. But I'm going to sit pretty with my 8.0.

I'll let someone else pay the better part of a million clams for the 8.5.

We all have limits, and that much bread is more than I'm willing to deploy for a single piece of cardboard, be it ever so nice.

That and after my experience getting burned with my altered 54T Mays previously in PSA 8.5, my desire to climb the set registry ladder is greatly reduced, particularly on big cards.

I believe there is also a psa 8 in the auction sifting through the thousands of cards. Should bode well...or not

Yes, plus one at Heritage and one at Goldin, all running simultaneously.

Guess I should proof read. Was thinking 34K

WOW

Sensory Overload

Every where you look a WOW card

Many Cards/players I do not collect but the temptation is there are these rarities and goodies

Very curious what the T206 registry set ends up at. Some nice cards.

I’m intermittently scrolling through this auction for a dopamine rush.

Have you decided what you are going to do with the 54T Mays?

It's resting comfortably in my display case, in its new and glorious AA slab.

I have designs to replace it with something a little less obviously odious, although I'm in no rush to do so.

I was looking through the autographs in the auction and I saw the album page signed by Johnny Evers. It has one autographed that is listed as illegible, but it appears to me that it's John Bernard "Jack" Ryan, a player from the 1880s and 1890's. Does anyone else think that's who it is? He even lists his years with Boston.

My guess, Hammer : $325,000

Bidders these days are plain idiotic! It's not mine, but do you really think you're going to get a steal for 18K on the Bond Bread? Shoot your best shot now instead of waiting for the last five seconds. Online auctions are the worst.

Not ever too many steals in REA. Awesome auctions with awesome items but way too many eyeballs to get many deals much less steal anything from them. A couple times over the years made what I thought were real strong bids on a few of their 50s and 60s shoebox collections and just get creamed.

New money, flipper money, investment money, has found its way to the pre and post war market. PC collectors have had to pivot to stay interested or just pay the freight to add to our collections. What used to buy 3 cards now buys one.

Will make some people on here mad but Im ready for them to go away and find the next new shiny toy.

This ^^^^

We don't all have unlimited funds or are only interested in one item. Most people I know put in placeholder bids then see where things are on auction night. If I shot my best shot on every item I have some interest in and then accidentally won everything I'd have to sell my house to pay for them.

How is it a last five second situation when REA has a 15 minute clock? Why would any bidder push the lot up to a max with a week to go?

So you're saying the guy who bid 14K really thinks he's getting a 30K+ card for that? Bidders that wait the last few minutes to bid still end up paying a more realistic price (they won't steal it for 15K). These thirty day online auctions are plain dumb. If promoted right they can be done in a day. Look at MECUM Auctions, they auction off a 250K car in less than a minute.

More likely the guy who bid 14K did so to make sure he qualified for extended bidding.

Yup. I refer to this the giddy tax. There are certain auctions where there is a sense of pride collectors take in overpaying and participating. Nobody steals anything in REA...they generally pay up.

Price of card -- whatever.
Feeling of community -- priceless.

What’s the alternative? The high bidder should ask that his bid be changed to 30K today? It’ll get to the right number eventually. Why does it have to be on day 1?

And yes, 30 days is too long for an auction. But who tf cares? It will end soon enough.

Like the old AMEX commercials' slogan...membership has its privileges.

Rea
 

Gee (certain) folks- anyone envious much? People "take pride" in overpaying?
That's nonsense. I've won plenty of REA items despite not being made of
money, and not having the secret "membership" alluded to above. Isn't it
just possible that there are people who recognize quality and do their best
to win a coveted piece? Aren't cards an extravagant collectible market? (that
last word is important). The original post was merely a heads up that REA
opened- and apparently the floodgates with it. Good Lord, the whining is
unreal.

Trent King

As I am sure most of you know, the auction ends at some point tonight. Good luck to all bidders and consigners!

Alan

Rea
 

Alan- thanks, and right back at you! Trent King

I’ve got 5 lots closing tonight, so bid early and often!

Bidding seems strong on everything I’m chasing.

Lots of great lots

And lots of strong bidding going on

Be interesting to see what some members here win tonight

Lot.of time left...200k

The Signed Campanella '49 bowman is at an unbelievable 100k. The crazy price of the auction to me, wow. Awesome card.

LOL @ "bid early" three week auction and people want to bid last 30 secs

What am I not understanding? A lot's bid didn't change from 8P to 9:15... Why would it go to another 15 min ext bidding?

Yes it is. More irony from the King of Irony.

Rea
 

Lorewalker-

Stay in your lane. I'll PM you my "secret membership code" so you can take
part in the meetings, k?

Trent King

Pasted below are the bidding rules that were added to each lot listing at 9pm EST:

Extended Bidding! You may only bid on lots you have bid on prior. Bidding continues until no bids have been placed in the entire auction for 15 minutes. If the auction continues to 12AM ET every lot will enter a final 15 minute lot-by-lot close.


Brian

There were ZERO bids the first round of extended. Why would it go another 15?