The Leon Luckey Type Card Collection – Bidding Ends on Thursday - August 13, 2015

[tbob]

Leon's accountant is going to be busy figuring out the capital gains tax on this auction, yikes! 😱

[autograf]

The 950Kish was with the 19.5% vig added in.............I think. A nice tally. Hopefully the cap gains don't kill you too bad as there are gains on some, losses on others. A sufficient enough amount to ensure your daughter get's through school, has a nice wedding at some point, and spoil a few grandkids down the road.................and some left over for collection #2..........

[DeanH3]

Congrats Leon! Good luck on collection #2.

[e107collector]

I wanted that Schapira Bros. Ty Cobb Big Show Candy card, but got crushed!!

Great looking card!!

Tony

[jbl79]

Happy to win the one card I had my eye on in this auction...

[Griffins]

I won 2 cards. Shipping was billed at $44.85.
Seriously?

Edited to add- received an unsolicited, updated invoice with shipping cut in half. Much more reasonable.

[the-illini]

Originally Posted by Griffins

I won 2 cards. Shipping was billed at $44.85.
Seriously?

Maybe Pete Calderon, who was able to get on the board to advertise the auction in the past couple of days, can log in and explain these shipping fees.

[Jaybird]

Originally Posted by the-illini

Maybe Pete Calderon, who was able to get on the board to advertise the auction in the past couple of days, can log in and explain these shipping fees.

3 cards, $40.65. They also have a great workaround for California law. They are not allowed to charge tax on Shipping charges here so they state it as "service and handling" to avoid the law. Just to squeeze a couple more dollars out. Nice!

[Leon]

Just curious what the value of the 3 cards is? And thanks for the bids and wins too!!

Originally Posted by Jaybird

3 cards, $40.65. They also have a great workaround for California law. They are not allowed to charge tax on Shipping charges here so they state it as "service and handling" to avoid the law. Just to squeeze a couple more dollars out. Nice!

[timn1]

Also it looks like Heritage is charging sales tax even for bidders in states where they don't have offices, which is unusual in my experience for an auction house. Maybe an explanation of that would be possible...

[ZachS]

I did not get charged sales tax (LA). Shipping for my one item was $17 but I figured it would be a little more because of it being an uncut strip of cards (fairly long).

There is actually a breakdown of all shipping charges on their site - http://sports.ha.com/c/shipping.zx

My item was:

Up to $99 is $5.15 (base service)

In the item description it tells you what type of additional requirements there are to ship:

Trading Card Set or Notebook, Large is $12.10 first item + $4.85 per additional item

So mine was $5.15 (base) + $12.10 (additional) = $17.25 (exactly what I was charged for shipping)

[darwinbulldog]

Winning bids (2 lots): $510.00
Invoice total: $676.01

That works out to 33% for the buyer's premium + sales tax + shipping + handling. Mind you, I fully accept the buyer's premium and the sales tax, but they're still charging me about $35 more to ship something that I'd put in a small flat rate priority box for $5.95. The penny at the end is just adding insult to injury.

[unamuzd1]

I won one card (the Tango Eggs Jennings, which is probably now the prettiest card in my collection despite its technical grade!), and had misread the shipping information. I hadn't realized that steps 2 and 3 got added together to get to a $19.30 shipping charge for one card.

I'm still unclear why a single graded card counts as "Trading card set or notebook, large" rather than "Trading card set, medium" which would be $7.50 cheaper. The paranoid part of me thinks it's because Heritage added a free book to my order, which would make the entire package much larger than the one graded card and potentially more notebook-sized. It also makes the book not all that "free."

Congrats on the successful auction, Leon! I suspect that some of the grousing about things like shipping etc. is because your amazing collection attracted a lot of us who had bid in very few auctions outside of eBay in the past (I won my first non-eBay item earlier this month...), and just got a few little surprises on the back end. =)

Morrie