Is there Fire where there is Smoke on this Auction/Ebay sale ?

[Archive]

Posted By: Jeremy

Today, I was going to bid on a card that just ended on ebay (Item number: 260339631129). The card was a T210 Series 6 card of Goosetree graded by SGC Authentic. The card looked familar, so I gaggled it and it had just recently been sold at the Goodwin auction for $377 plus juice. As I was contemplating bidding on this example, I realized I had seen it before and remembered having a conversation with the seller before he pulled it from ebay months ago and gave it to Goodwin to sell. I emailed the seller (Stain-Man) and he explained that he did in fact originally own the card, then put it on ebay, only to pull it from ebay and give it to Goodwin to auction, which it sold in the fall, and now is back on ebay being sold by the very person that sold it to Goodwin. He explained that the card was in fact auctioned on goodwin, another gentlemen bought it, then this gentlemen knew him and asked him to sell it on ebay. While there is nothing wrong with doing this, I have to wonder just how a card goes full circle, sells for $400 3 months ago, and today ends on Ebay for $105. The consigner to Stain-Man owned the card for a few months and lost $300 by allowing the ebay seller, Stain-Man, to sell it when he(Stain-Man) originally owned it and auctioned it to Goodwin. So is there Fire behind this smoke ?