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Originally Posted by Tyruscobb
If the seller was not receiving any more money, there are two main reasons he/she would go through the trouble to cancel an existing deal.
First, the second buyer and the seller are friends. Secondly, if the deal included the seller paying shipping, and the second buyer lived closer to the seller, the seller may’ve saved a few bucks on shipping.
I’m sure there are other possible reasons. However, those are the main ones - if the selling price remained the same.
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I could imagine a couple more. The second guy might've had a compelling story, like maybe he is the grandson of the player on the card and wanted it to keep in the family, or it was the last card needed to complete a set.
Or, maybe the buyer also wanted to purchase some other cards, so it was part of a package deal.
The first scenario happened with me recently, although there was no competing would-be buyer. I was looking for two very specific GU jerseys, and a fellow Net54 member sold them to me, although a bit reluctantly I think, because he's also an avid GU jersey collector. I think it really does matter to a lot of us, that things we collect and matter to us will receive maximum appreciation from their next owner. So, just saying, that's a possible reason a sale could go in one direction rather than another, for the same money.