“Blue Chip” Cards

[raulus]

Originally Posted by 3-2-count

I'm going to play devils advocate here on the trio of 1914 CJ's which ended last night on Ebay.

Since Ebay does not charge a buyers premium, if factoring in the 20% juice that would have been added on top of these prices if sold through an AH these actually weren't that far off.

The Psa 5 Jax from last night if a 20% BP were added would have been $126,120.00

The last Psa 5 Jax which sold for $240,000.00 was far superior to this example and was centered which many pay way up for these days. Now we can debate if it was $100K+ nicer, but it was nicer nonetheless. Prior to this $240K spike the last sell for a Psa 5 Jax was $116,400 on 8/8/21.

The Psa 4 Cobb from last night if a 20% BP were added would have been $59,721.60.

The last Psa 4 Cobb which sold (this exact card actually) ended at $58,800.00 on 8/15/21.

The Sgc 2 Matty from last night if a 20% BP were added would have been $61,920.00.

The last Sgc 2 Matty which sold (this exact card actually) ended at $64,156.40 on 8/28/21.

Just my two cents

Are you suggesting bidders ignore the juice??!!

We just got done arguing this very point to death a month or two ago.

While I tend to agree with you, and your analysis here generally supports that theory, not everyone seems to concur with this math.

[3-2-count]

Originally Posted by raulus

Are you suggesting bidders ignore the juice??!!

We just got done arguing this very point to death a month or two ago.

While I tend to agree with you, and your analysis here generally supports that theory, not everyone seems to concur with this math.

I wasn't insinuating or stating that bidders ignore the AH juice. I simply implied that the ending price here on these 3 cards last night which did not include a BP since they were sold on Ebay's platform but would have if they'd been sold at auction through an AH, that price is the one that would have been captured on VCP, not the price from Ebay last night.

The difference is substantial.