Posted By:
warshawlawI resent the implication that I am dishonest.
Since I had a number of inquiries on the card, IMHO the fairest way to handle it was to post it on our board and send it to the 1st member who responded. Had it been you, you'd have gotten the card. I didn't have to offer it here at all; ebay beckons on something like this...if I wanted to be a jerk and wring out maximum auction results for it, I'd have listed it there and let all the sharks in the sea have a tear at it. Also, you will note from the first part of the string that Tbob already opined that the card was worth less than I wanted for it, so I didn't see much point to offering it to him directly. I got a couple of emailed value opinions from folks here who were kind enough to share their expertise. The range of views was $225-$300, so I put it at the higher end of the spectrum given the hots for T207s right now, and alternatively offered it for a card I wanted, and let the first reader have it. BTW, I was after any Matty in trade; I am well aware there are a variety but I have none.
As far as grading, etc., goes, I wanted card slabbed in trade because the rest of my T206s are slabbed and if I can have the card w/o having to send it in and wait a month to get it back, why not ask for it that way?