Not quite an offer story, but I've experience the curiosity of buyers and collecting psychology. One of my favorites was years back I had a mint condition 1950 R423 13-card strip including the cards of Ruth, Gehrig and Ty Cobb-- tiny gumball machine cards with perorations. I put the strip on eBay twice with min bid of $100 with no takers, then a third time with a min bid of $75 with no bids. I finally relented, took apart the cards at the perforations and put them up as single card lots. The Ruth, Gehrig and Cobb singles sold for well over $100 each, and the rest of the singles totaled over $150.
I also once had a Cal Ripken rookie that got no bids, so I relisted the same day with lower minimum bid and it ended up selling a week later for more than the first minimum bid.
So eBay can be a psychology experiment.
Last edited by drcy; 03-17-2015 at 02:33 PM.
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