The points about not everyone seeing everything are good ones. And Ebay can be very strange. I looked at a non card item, listed at $100. Asked a friend who is really into that sort of stuff (16mm films) and he said "maybe $50-75" No bids at 100, relisted with a $50 opener. Sold for over $400!
I think it all depends on who sees an item and when they see it.
Sometimes it can just be marketing. A dealer I knew had an odd card, they didn't know what it was. Had it at a few shows for five bucks with no takers.
On a whim they priced it at $50 for the next show, and it sold in the first hour or so. This was before most price guides. All they could figure was that at $5 people figured it couldn't be all that odd or valuable. But at $50 it MUST be valuable! Made no sense to me, and still doesn't, but people arent always logical.
Steve B
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