Let the bidding frenzy begin......

[cubsfan-budman]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

i guess one other way to look at this is that some of you feel that the seller was entitled to full retail value for this card...even though he did not do due diligence in selling it.

If all transactions that occurred in this hobby occurred at full retail...there would be no hobby! Someone has to get a card/item for less money in order to resell it for a profit?

My ribbing t206 collectors is just that! I realize it's hard to detect inflection/tone on the internet...but I mean no harm.

That seems to me much less like a hobby and much more like a business.

[Bored5000]

To me, there really isn't any way of knowing how much the final price was impacted by posting the information on here. Sure, the price jumped initially when the auction was posted on here. But how many people were set to snipe the auction?

Way back on page on one or two, there was a poster that said he saw the auction before it was mentioned on here and wasn't going to let the card go cheap. I just don't believe a $10,000 card with "Babe Ruth" in the auction title is going to slip by the entire collecting community and go for a massive discount. Maybe if it was a high-dollar rarity of a more obscure player, but not Babe Ruth. I can imagine not many people search for "Slow Joe Doyle" or "Louis Lowdermilk" daily on eBay, but "Babe Ruth" is another story.

[Prof_Plum]

I'm fairly confident in saying that if all the auctions in which I bid were outed, I'd have both less money and fewer cards. Neither of which would please me.

The best way for me to compete against those with deeper pockets is to scan Ebay better than the next guy and to find the mislabeled/misspelled etc cards. The two cards I put in the February pick up thread were both obtained this way.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Shouldn't the real question be why this was a 24 hr auction and general lack of info yet was bought at a major auction house? Seller either didn't care or knew exactly what they were doing,but still, 24 hrs ??

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by ChiefBenderForever

Shouldn't the real question be why this was a 24 hr auction and general lack of info yet was bought at a major auction house? Seller either didn't care or knew exactly what they were doing,but still, 24 hrs ??

I believe he said he was moving and needed some quick cash.

[HRBAKER]

He certainly raised some.

[ChiefBenderForever]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

He certainly raised some.

And quick !! Still a bit shocking with a card like this or maybe this will become the hot new trend.