Why Population Reports On Vintage Cards Is Misleading

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Posted By: John

Well-said Adam & Anson great points. This kind of stuff is silly and I think killing the hobby slowly IMO.


Ted, you’re right this guy can be kind of rude. Not too long ago Lee and I were bidding on some T206’s that Set builders had returned from PSA as evid of trim. There was a knockout card of Cobb Bat Off and the most amazing Lajoie Port I had ever seen the color was super trimmed or not, the dealer said they were surprised they had come back trimmed because they measured dead on. I watched the cards until it was about to end one morning. I placed my bid about 20mins before they ended and as I checked emails for work I checked my bids on the cards.

I noticed I had been outbid, I decided to place a new bid. Before I know it a bidding war had started I had my max I was willing to gamble on trimmed cards in my mind. I made a second set of bids. I then was notified by an email from T206-Holygrail-Collector. The message said “Bring It ON!” I replied who is this and what am I bringing again? I received a second email that said “Back off Wonka or bring it. If you want that Cobb come and get it!!!!” By that time I had placed my max bid, I replied to who ever this guy is and said I didn’t have time to play games and to stop bothering me. Later that day I won the Cobb and he won the Lajoie. I thought that was the end of him, then a day later I received an email that said “Well, Wonka no sense of humor, lighten up I was just having a little fun” For those of you who know me sense of humor hasn’t been a problem for me. Later that month he had the Lajoie graded by PRO and sold it for 3 times what he paid, and you guessed it failed to mention the poss. trim in the description.

To this day he has had a few cards pictured (Color Enhanced/Photoshop) for sale I would have bought. But the guy just turned me off. Weird Ebay experience.