Why did these mid-grade T206 go so high?

[sb1]

Certainly not the seller involved as he is a long time and well respected collector/board member.

It appears two individual merely got into a pissing match or one of them might have placed a high max, which the other one kept trying to hit. There are always a few of these bidding anomalies which usually occur with newer bidders/set collectors who have to have it now. Neither one has extremely high feedback, might want to see what they also recently purchased(I did not look) but odds are both are buying SGC T206's.

[3-2-count]

Very odd indeed. Those cards can be found for far less in many sellers stores currently on Ebay.
I wish my cards brought these prices when I sell.

[CMIZ5290]

SB- Yes, you are right about the seller.....probably right about 2 bidders getting ridiculous trying to out do one another. It's just that these 3 cards are very common cards. Why would anybody want to give away that kind of money?

[pgellis]

I saw those this morning too and thought about posting. There were other SGC T206s from this seller that went too high, but not that high. I put in 2 pretty high bids on 2 of his cards yesterday and thought I had them "in the bag".......onlly to wake up this morning and see that they went for about double of what I thought was a very high bid to begin with.

I feel like it is probably a newbie to the T206 set and since there are very few in mid-grade coming up on eBay as a true auction, the buyer must have wanted them at any cost.

But everyone so far is right, these went for 5x-6x times "normal" retail.

[T206Collector]

I think something else is at play here. Did two people, with no illicit motives, really bid over $200 for an SGC 40 Bunk Congalton?

Here's an SGC 60 for $110:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1910-T206-BU...ht_2304wt_1159

Two people cannot be this stupid.

[T206Collector]

Here's another stupid one -- SGC 40 Hoblitzell:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_613wt_1392

[pgellis]

There was also an Art Devlin, SGC50 that went for $89 and some change with a very nice Art Devlin, SGC50 for a BUY IT NOW for $79. So someone wanted it so bad that they paid $10 more for a very similar card that was on eBay for several days at a BIN for $79?