Why?

[vintagetoppsguy]

I won this 1965 Topps Swoboda/McGraw RC for my 1965 Topps set last week and the card arrived today. The closing price was $67 w/ free shipping.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...27#ht_44wt_989

I got outbid on this very same card (same cert #) in February as it sold for $170.39 (I had a proxy of $155.55).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...47#ht_25wt_989

Here's where it gets interesting. The card was sold in February by itz4fun91 to twobrothersgames. The card turns up on eBay a few days later, but the seller is cjmarq2345 and he lists it as a BIN of $399.95. I'm guessing that twobrothersgames and cjmarq2345 are the same person. Maybe one is a buying account and one is a selling account. Who knows?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...7#ht_279wt_751

Anyway, the card sold within just a few days. Somebody clicked the BIN at $399.95. That's a $220 profit in less than a week. I have no problem with that (I think it's great for the seller), I'm just pointing it out. The buyer was yogiberrabasketball. Well, yogiberrabasketball had the card for about 3 weeks and turned around and listed it back on eBay, this time as a straight auction. That's when I won it for $67.

It just doesn't make sense to me (not that I'm complaining at all ) that yogiberrabasketball would buy the card for $399.95 knowing it had sold on eBay just a few days earlier for $170.39, hold it for 2 weeks, list it back on eBay and take nearly a $330+ loss.

Anyway, like I said, I am certainly not complaining as I got it for less than half my original proxy. I just don't understand buying behaviors like this though. Scratching my head.