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Posted By: bwparker

I totaled up the thirty trimmed E98 cards that ended today on ebay, and came up with around $2130. The winning bid in Lipset's auction, with hammer fee and shipping, would have been around $1350. After ebay's listing and seller fees, the seller will have netted around $600.

I have dealt with this seller before and had no problems, but I still think he ended up with quite a few extra bucks by not mentioning the trimming in his original posting. Give him credit for mentioning it after being contacted.

Which brings up a point--I think that ebay's format of where additional information to the listing ends up is flawed. It should be placed before the original lot description--I think it quite often is not seen by the bidder because it is so separated from the rest of the description.

And one more thing--the Dahlen card at $212 beat at the winning bid amounts of both Cobb and Wagner? Sure, it is pretty, but that thing is obviously trimmed.

Brian