My best and worst involve the same item.
About 20 years ago, I spotted a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle rookie graded GAI 2 and with a rookie era autograph offered on Ebay with a $1000 BIN. I knew the autograph was authentic as Mike Guiterrez who authenticated autographs for GAI in the early days had authenticated the autograph.
I assume the seller just thought someone else had written Mantle's name on the front of the card and that was the reason for the low BIN.
So, I won it and got it in a week or so.
I relisted it for $2000 and it immediately sold.
Card has never reappeared on the open market but autographed examples with Mantle's card show era autograph bring $100K in today's environment so a rookie era autograph would obviously be worth more.
Oh well, a thousand dollars profit is still a nice profit but oh what could have been!!
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