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Posted By: Rob Fouch

About a year or so ago on ebay, I took a chance on a red Cobb that was being sold by a non-dealer. He had good feedback (but not much of it) and the scans weren't the greatest but the card looked nice and he said it was crease-free and wrinkle-free. If memory serves, his starting price was around $800 and if the scans could be believed, that was a more-than-fair price. It didn't sell, so I offered him $700 and he said he'd consider it. I asked if he had any others and he sent me scans of about 20 other T206s, including a red Chance and another Hall-of-Famer I'm forgetting, plus a couple other issues I didn't know much about. Again, he said many were crease-free.
So I offered $1500 for everything, and he accepted. I sweated that one out waiting for the cards, but they arrived within a couple of days.

the Cobb ended up a PSA 4.
The Chance is a PSA 5
lots of others got 4s and 5s. And there were two or three 6's in the lot, included a Wildfire Schulte with an Old Mill back. Really a gorgeous card. Now one of my favorites.

I sold the ones I don't collect for a couple hundred dollars. So in the end, I figure I paid less than half what I would have shelled out on the open market.