Anyone buy from greatlakesauctionhouse?

[Taxman]

This looks suspicious....card bought on 10/25 by michigan_mice as a Psa2...Now it is for sale by greatlakesauctionhouse. Notice the red lines at the top appear to be faded in the current auction.

10/25 auction


Today's auction

[Bridwell]

It's not my card but it's not a bad strategy by the seller. PSA will mark a card down to a PSA 2 if it has a little glue residue on the back. The seller may have tried to soak it to reduce the residue. Sometimes a card will sell better as a raw card if it has good eye appeal.

[Taxman]

I think the paperless is the reason it was a 2.

[Bridwell]

What I've seen from PSA is tiny paperloss drives it down 1-2 grades perhaps but glue residue is almost always dropped to a PSA 2, even for a super nice looking card.

[Anthony S.]

Hmm. He bought a PSA 2 T206 Cobb Red portrait on 10/25/11 for a $650 best offer. That listing included large photos and clearly stated "back has some minor paper loss" in the description.

He cracked out the card and relisted it with much smaller photos, threw in adjectives like vibrant, **incredible**, phenomenal, and dismissed the paper loss on the back as "surface wear." Sold for $1525.

Before:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110763683402

After:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1909-T206-ba...item2c60610131

[Taxman]

Check out his other purchases under michigan_mice...which very simaliar cards are sold under greatlakesauctionhouse.

[bobbyw8469]

Great racket - would suck it you got burned by it!