Posted By:
Al C.risafulli"In the real "un-plasticized world" this card would have sold in the range of $200 - 300, at best.
And, I wouldn't have any qualms about paying that amount."
Ted, this is precisely the point I'm trying to make. You are implying that the plasticized world is bad. Yet YOU are the one who bought the card. Do you know that the underbidder is a cert buyer who was just looking for a PSA 5 HOFer? Of course not. You don't know that any more than I know why you paid $410 for the card. Perhaps the underbidder also thought the card should be a $200-300 card, and wanted to win it as badly as you so he put in a bid that was far higher than the card should sell for, just to be SURE he'd win it. And then you did the same thing. Perhaps the underbidder is, at this very minute, complaining about the cert buyer that paid $410 for a card that's not worth more than $200-300.
If you read my original post, I agree - the card is overgraded. You bought it anyway. You can blame the plastic all you want, but the bottom line is that YOU bought it. You didn't have to, but you did. In fact, you placed FOUR bids on the card, and each bid was for more money than you thought the card was worth. You say the card is worth $200-300, but your first bid was for $333.77, and you made that bid just one day after the auction listing began. Then, with bidding on the card at $344, you placed a bid of $355.55. Less than 15 minutes later you took the card up over $400. And then you finished up at $410.
It was not the cert buyers who drove the price of this card up so high. It was you. Had you not bid, either bidder 2 or bidder 8 would have won the card, and they would have been bidding to beat bidder 7's high bid of $344, not your high bid of $410.
-Al