What is rare about this card?

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Posted By: ty_cobb

A T206 Kling PSA6 for over $1000?? What is rare
about this card?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2792983979&category=31718

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Posted By: Marc S.

Only five graded higher by PSA....? But you look the bidding, and it's just two people going at it. You take one of them out of the equation, and the card sells for $160 or so.

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Posted By: slacks

Often there appears to be two bidders taking an auction through the ceiling. But you cannot say with certainty that if they had not been present, the card would have sold for $160.

In addition to the potential bidders who first noticed the auction when the bids were above their maximum bids, how do you know that there weren't one, two, or ten bidders with $900 snipe bids that weren't accepted?

That's not to say that this particular auction wasn't hijacked by two dueling bidders-- in this case it seems likely -- but in general, sniping has taken away the ability to objectively judge the popularity and depth of an eBay auction's other bidders.

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Posted By: leon

I put in a snipe of $400 on a card on Sunday..,..2 bidders bid $401.01.....and mine never showed at all so there was depth that was not seen.....never seen two bids like that before either....and of course the first one that placed their bid (not the last sniper) won it....

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Posted By: runscott

"Depth that was not seen".

mono-syllabic depth: 5 words, 5 syllables.

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Posted By: jay behrens

...were monosylabic from the whole line. Been trying to think of a one sylable word for 'never', but can't come up with one and too lazy to dig out the thesaurus.

Jay

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Posted By: runscott

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Posted By: Marc S.

I do agree that the card may have gone very high had there not been one of the top two bidders involved. This does happen quite frequently, as Leon so succinctly illustrated.

I was pointing out, however, that there are numerous times that two (egos, snipe hounds, set collectors) drive card prices to silly levels that would definitely not be realized without that second bidder. The best example is the 1967 Topps Don Demeter PSA 8 that just sold for $1,175. That is just silly.

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