EBAY Miracles

[botn]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Sealed Fan Craze set from a seller selling off new old stock out of a drug store in a small town in Kansas. I think Leon got it, I may be wrong. I was an underbidder.

If that was in 2004, I was the winner. I also ended up getting a second set from the guy.

Another find was the 1921 Herpolsheimer's 1 of 1s.

[steve B]

Nothing on that scale, I've gotten some good finds that went unnoticed.

Plenty of stamps, a couple cards that graded really well, but not exactly pricy stuff.

Maybe my favorite was a set of four bike "helmets" That were listed sort of wrong and I was the only bidder. The listing said they were from the 84 Olympics, but they were too short. What they were after some checking, was a set of helmets from the US team from 1983, and almost certainly from the team pursuit team. That team won gold at the Pan-Am games, went to the world championships, and had some internal struggles. So they decided no to compete. Enter the Russian team, among the best in the world at the time. They asked to borrow the helmets, and were allowed to.
So race used by two different teams,

[Baseball Rarities]

The finest known Hubel postcard of Cobb was snagged by a fellow Net54 member.

[seattlerainiers]

Poorly described and categorized: 5 bucks.

[packs]

Paid just over $200 for this rare mini:




My all time best score though was this signed Grover Alexander baseball. How much did I pay? $80:

[TUM301]

Seem to remember I guy 4 or 5 years ago posting a number of items on ebay and among them were 5 or so N 167`s in pretty good shape starting at like 9.99. Always liked that issue but $$$$$$$$$$$.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by TUM301

Seem to remember I guy 4 or 5 years ago posting a number of items on ebay and among them were 5 or so N 167`s in pretty good shape starting at like 9.99. Always liked that issue but $$$$$$$$$$$.

A number of years ago one of our members posted 3-4 N167's for his dad, Dr.James Lowe. They were listed on ebay as regular auction sales. It was quite a night when they ended and I was fortunate to walk away with the Ewing in the bunch, which another member later bought from me from our BST in the first ever Live Auction on the BST....and probably the most expensive sale on there too (50k+). Those were the days.

No doubt the Trucker Boy find was my best ebay score but this ambrotype from last year was pretty good too. And a dealer wanted it way more than I did, and bought it, but it's a great photo wherever it resides. And a type not likely to be seen again for a while (I had no idea how rare they were when I got it.)

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by seattlerainiers

Poorly described and categorized: 5 bucks.

I could definitely see that get past someone who wouldn’t recognize it as baseball.

[JeremyW]

I might be wrong, but I think there was an E135 Collins-McCarthy Ruth that sold for $8,000. (buy-it-now) on Ebay within the past year.

[The Nasty Nati]

Nothing too crazy, but I got a T213 Coupon Type 1 two years ago BINed for just $80. Seller had a ton of Type 2s and didn't know the difference.