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Originally Posted by jhs5120
I was on the receiving end once. I consigned a 1935 Shutter-Johnson Joe Cronin card to PWCC which sold for $787. The buyer emailed PWCC and said it was a bidding mistake and never paid. The card sold for only $32 the second time around.
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Similar story here with one of my own auctions. This time last year with a Roger Maris newspaper and a bidding war. Guy who won, decided right after he won that he had made a mistake on the bidding, 3 days after he put his bid in. Decided he wasn't going to pay for it unless I sold it to him for $450+ less then the final bid.
Put it up again, blocked him, the underbidder also disappeared, and it went for about $450+ less next time around.
Did a little digging, realized the guy bragged about having several copies of that issue already, and it struck me that he may have been artificially enhancing the results of that item in ended auctions, in order to make his copies appear more valuable.
Since, even though I hung a unpaid item notice on this guys neck for this item (which he did not like at all), it still showed in the SOLD auction section as a realized price.