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Posted By: Bob

Lots of great people and dedicated collectors make this board very informative, fun, interesting and provide very few dull moments. I have to mention though that an incident on ebay has me shaking my head. The topic of trying to get a seller to close an auction early is a subkect that regularly comes up on this board. It appears that there are some who feel it is ok to ask a seller to end an auction early if there have been no bids and a smaller group which feels it is ok anytime, anywhere to ask a seller to close an auction regardless of bids. There is also a 3rd group which believes that it is not right or proper to ask a seller to close an auction under any circumstance once an auction has commenced. There are a number of sellers who feel this way and risk the possibility of less money but staunchly believe in not shutting down an auction.
Now that brings me to my tale. There were several cards posted on ebay in the minor league section which I found doing asearch for Obaks. They included several extremely nice 150 Series cards which would have been very nice upgrades and a bunch of nice E99s and E100s. The Obaks stayed around for about 6 days and were coming to the end. I had rather large snipe bids on all as did Joshua (as I found out later). All of a sudden the cards which had about 4 or 5 bids each and were rather low at that time in value, disappeared. The E99s and E100s went poof also.
The odd thing was that I heard through the grapevine that the guy who bought these cards and caused the auctions to close down is one of the biggest advocates on this board of "it is very unethical and just plain wrong" to have sellers end auctions early. I am just curious if the guy who ended up with these cards will be willing to admit what he did and justify his position. If it is the same person who had been so sanctimonious about attempts to end auctions, I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in listening to why these transactions somehow didn't apply and don't count...