EBAY Miracles

[Sean]

There was that Sid Smith Brown Old Mill that was listed as just an Old Mill. Jerry bought it for around $50 back in 2013. He subsequently sold it to Johnny, and now Ryan owns it.

[bbcard1]

Not vintage, but I once saw a Micheal Payton / Eric Kresser Marshall university phone card on eBay...the early years. If only I had never seen it I would not have fruitlessly chased it all these years.

[Pat R]

This Manning Brown Lenox that was listed on ebay last year with a group of
cards and the buyer got the seller to end the auction early for $500.

Manning Brown Lenox - Copy.jpg

[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.

[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.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

Not vintage, but I once saw a Micheal Payton / Eric Kresser Marshall university phone card on eBay...the early years. If only I had never seen it I would not have fruitlessly chased it all these years.

eric kresser dominated one of his UF starts

it is interesting how many buyers complain about sellers trying to rip off people but those same buyers have no problem ripping off sellers..

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

eric kresser dominated one of his UF starts

it is interesting how many buyers complain about sellers trying to rip off people but those same buyers have no problem ripping off sellers..

That reminds me of what we used to say in the early 1990's -- dealers want all the case orders to be limited -- except for their orders which they want to receive their full allotment.

[Bpm0014]

Just last year I won a scrap missing color miscut T206 Lucky Wright for $4.70! I'm sure everyone thought that it was just really beat up...