This is the exact frigging reason you use a sniper!

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Posted By: Bob

I sat down and figured out exactly when the E97 blank backs were going off tonight on ebay and timed it around the Twins game on ESPN2 and the Florida-OSU game. What I forgot was that all day long for some stupid reason all the computer clocks were jumping ahead an hour and we had to manually set them back, then 40 minutes later, they would do it again, etc. Not just mine, all of them in the office. Never have done this before. Anyway, I go up around 9:30 to get ready for the auctions thinking I will buy 3 or 4 at around 10:00 pm and they went off at 9. ARRRRGGGGHHHHH! That stupid clock at work threw me off an hour in computing the time. Sheesh! So Alan, Gary, Steve and the rest of you guys, you got a break. Frigging computers!!!

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Posted By: Steve M.

why you stopped. Sorry Bud.

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Posted By: Bruce MacPherson

After missing out on most, I was able to grab one 97 and a couple of 93s. I haven't seen the 97s before. Anyone know if these were recycled or were they cut from a recently sold sheet? If I'm not mistaken there was an uncut 97 sheet in a recent auction.

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Posted By: Gary Nuchereno

My son had a hockey game tonight so I had to use a sniper for
the e97. I thought they went really low,now I know why.

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Posted By: Ken W.

Yesterday was the traditional Daylight Savings Day start. Congress passed a one month increase for this year in an attempt (some would say misguided) to save energy. The increase is 3 weeks in the spring, 1 extra week this fall. Many computer clocks, as well as other gadgets' clocks are all preprogrammed for the old switchover dates. So be prepared for this confusion again around Nov. 4th.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

This might be a reason to never snipe, and to bid seriously a day or two before the auction ends.

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Posted By: Anonymous

yeah i forgot about these too, but there will always be plenty of cards to drop my limited budget on

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Posted By: Bob

Frank the problem is that no matter how seriously and strong you bid, someone will always snipe you. The best 10 cards I have bought in the last couple of months were 5 bought on the BST or from 54 posters, and 5 were snipes. I was 0 for ebay on posting strong bids and trying to hold on.
tbob

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Dude, don't even come near my wing of the hotel in Cleveland.

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Posted By: Joann

Why did these go so low - was it because of the time change or b/c blank back? I just don't really care for blank backs for some reason, and seemed to think I remembered an uncut sheet selling at recent auction as well. So although they didn't interest me, I still thought they'd go for more than they did.

And Bob - I'm about to cave and sign up with gavelsnipe. Don't know why I don't want to or seem averse to it, but some of the arguments made here in favor of sniping are starting to convince me.

J

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Posted By: Dave F

I thought a couple of the cards looked trimmed to me. Especially like the E93 Cy Young which is the one I was interested...just a wavy border. Anybody keep from going higher because of that?

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Posted By: Brian McQueen

Well, with these blank backed e97s and e93s, the thing about them is they are all handcut. So wavy and/or uneven borders are to be expected. It's funny, I remembered to bid on the e97s, but totally forgot about the e93s. I'm not sure how I managed that. I believe I placed a bid on all the e97s that were there but Gary and Bruce and everyone else gave me a sound beating for sure and I came away empty handed. That e93 Cy Young went waaaaay low I thought.

It seems that e93s come up quite a bit nowadays. I see at least one or two on Ebay a month now. e97s are tougher to come across. I won a large group of 18 of these from Mastro last summer that included Cy Young, Kelley and Keeler. A couple months later, a smaller group of 6-8 was also auctioned off on Mastro. I haven't seen any offered since then and I think the group that ended last night was a part of the second lot Mastro offered.

Someone remind me, I know we've discussed this before, however there are only 3-4 e98 blank backs in existance and no one has ever seen any blank backed e94s correct?

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Posted By: Dave F

What did the cards all go for? With them not being graded no way for me to look up on them...

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Posted By: Steve M.

Go to ebay advanced search. Put in e97. Completed items only. They are all there with the prices.

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Posted By: Bob

Adam- Don't worry, my plane will probably land in Cleveland, Mississippi by mistake for National

I have never seen a blank backed E94, am confident they don't exist or one would have crawled out of the woodwork by now.

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Posted By: Lance

I am glad to see some of you feel as I do about the way these auctions ended. I never have placed any reserve on any of my auctions and don't plan on starting. Although, this group has left a bad taste in my mouth. As most of us do, I count on the snipe bids to elevate final prices. They generally come through. I have a large group of T206 raw/graded HOF's, SL's, and variation cards running right now. I hope I can respond to this thread with a little joy next week. Please feel free to go ahead and just bid on this group. I will thank you all in advance. Happy Easter Everybody!

Lance Galloway

edited out ebay auction link...per the board rules

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Posted By: leon

Welcome to our board. I wish you well in your auctions. Per the board rules we don't let folks put ebay auctions on this main page, unless it's something extraordinary and we decide to let it go. You may post your auctions in the correct category on the Buy/Sell/Trade pages, the link at the top of the page is where you will find those places....and please post in moderation. You might read the forum rules if you haven't. Once again, nothing personal and welcome to the board....

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Posted By: George Dreher

Glad that you aren't placing a reserve on your lots. When I see a reserve, I skip right over an auction. They usually end higher when starting low with no reserve, no matter what the value of the lot.