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Posted By: boxingcardman

I made a very nice offer early on. Ironically, I made the offer not because I thought he'd accept it and end the auction but as a defensive move to alert him to the fact that the cards were valuable and keep him from panic selling on the cheap to anyone who made a lowball auction-ending offer. I figured with my offer in hand he'd let the auction run, and my snipe had a reasonably good shot at winning it (or so I thought). When he replied to my email telling me that he was pulling the auction to sell the cards with an auction house because he'd been alerted to their rarity and value, I sweetened the offer and we went back and forth until we reached a deal. I think it helped that he was local and we could meet and make the deal in person rather than through the mail.