What is your biggest ebay victory? Or other auctions

[zljones]

What was your most shocking win or BIN you ever had on ebay or any other auction, or even a buy or trade with someone that you could not believe you actually got the card for that price or even obtained the card at all? Mine was obtaining my 1963 Topps Pete Rose.
I was looking to buy a 63 rose but only had about $200 to spend, me being a beater collector of high end cards, was looking for a poor conditioned Rose, because I saw some ugly roses selling for $175-$200, that were bent up, had paper loss on the front, or had stains or holes in the card. I felt I was only good enough for a beater, I was just praying for no paperloss on the front on the faces of the four players. I came accross an auction in the midst of the nasty beaters I was looking at of a terrible picture of a Rose card. The card was not mangled but it was as if the photo was taken under a yellow lense, which looked suspicious. I kept thinking real or fake, or what the hell is this? The bidding was rather low at the moment so I decided to take a gander at the seller's feedback history since it was not 100%. I then noticed he had a negative that was less than 90 days old that was for selling a 63 Rose. I clicked on the transaction and I saw the pic, it was an authentic looking Rose that looked nice; however, the buyer was pissed off because he said the card was all bent up and he won it for $240 in auction, he felt he was deceived. I was now wondering if this was the same Rose, which looked great from what I saw. I decided to bid I won the auction for only $150!
I anxiously waited to recieve it hoping I did not get ripped off. I opened the package and it was the same exact Rose as the other guy complained about!
Before I bid I compared the yellowish pic with the pic of the complained about one, the centering was the same so was the chipping and dented corners on top. Well when I laid eyes on the beauty, it was the exact identical as the one the previous winner complained about, even though he got a $300 BV for $240. Now I had what I believe to be a VG-EX Rose for $150 when it books for $300. There was only one tiny crease on the rear of the card and some slight nail chipping on the front, well worth the $150! Even if I am wrong and this is a VG card, I still scored big.

What are some of your shocking scores?

[HANKCADDY]

i like that rose for that dollar amount, i was looking for one for a while,and because i am not a fan of the floating head... never got one due to the high cost...great card

[ALR-bishop]

1984 Topps Darryl Palmer card 801...$ 50

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

1984 Topps Darryl Palmer card 801...$ 50

Is that 1984 Topps #801 Darryl Palmer a short printed, uncataloged, pulled early from the press run card ?

[Cliff Bowman]

Okay, I get it now. It was a promo card for the movie "The Sluggers Wife". Does it have a printed back?

[Griffins]

A couple of them come to mind:
'60 Fleer #80 Martin/Grove, uncancelled. Was on vacation, saw it with no bids @ $1000. and placed a snipe. No one else bid and I was floored. It's factory cut and oversized, and one of the few I've ever seen that wasn't hand cut and/or ripped thru with the cancellation notch.


'58 Bell Brand is a small set, just 10 cards. 6 of them are really easy, 2 of them a bit tougher (Podres and Reese) and 2 are very difficult (Cimoli and Snider). Prone to staining and creases due to the distribution method, finding nice ones is virtually impossible. But this Cimoli came up raw and looked nice, I was hoping the scan didn't hide any flaws. It didn't, $588 took it. It's easily the best example I've seen.

[Cliff Bowman]

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[ALR-bishop]

The Palmer has a regular made up back. Danny Noonan from Caddy shack is the actor ( O'Keefe)

Anthony-- nice pick up. I had to pay 2 for mine . You only need 6 of them for a full "set"

[Griffins]

Al, 6?
Martin/Grove, Martin/Tinker, Martin/Collins.
I only get 3

what are the other 3?

[ALR-bishop]

Right, but each can apparently be found hand cut or with a cut out

[cardaholic]

I've gotten lots of sweet deals on modern stuff, including from sellers who didn't bother to mention in the listing that the autographed cards they were selling included manufacturer-certified autos of Hall of Famers.

My first ebay purchase ever was a '51 Connie Mack All-Star Mickey Cochrane raw for about $75. It's now in a PSA 5 holder.

I picked up a SCD 9 (red flip) '60 Lake to Lake Schoendienst for $26, and crossed it to a PSA 9.

I got a '59 Topps Dolan Nichols No Traded Line PSA 6 for under $4 - the seller didn't indicate in the auction that it was the tough variation.

I found a poorly listed '72 Candy Lid uncut (square) Gaylord Perry for about $20.

I think I paid about $50 for an uncut sheet of 9 '76 Topps Cloth stickers, which conclusively shows that Apodaca and Dyer were intermingled on the sheets.

After missing out on several from other teams, I was lucky enough to purchase an album page of '64 Topps Venezuelan Senators with 13 of the 18 cards attached for under $35.

I just made a recent purchase off-ebay after an item ended unbid that I don't want to jinx until it arrives, but will be starting a thread on this board about, because it might justify rethinking the dating of a set.

[steve B]

No big scores on modern cards, but I've found some really nice stamps that were either mislisted or had unnoticed varieties that are valuable. One is one of 5-6 originally sold, and went for about 1/4 of the catalog price of a normal version. Another catalogs about 500 but was listed from Norway with the variety not mentioned and scheduled to end at 10AM EST on Easter Sunday.

Local auctions I've done well once in a while. I missed this during the preview, I think they had it behind the table on a chair so I figured it was just someones jacket. Announced as a braves jacket belonging to Ernie Lombardi and consigned by a family that was friends with him. (Yes, Very sceptical about the player, although it is really large...)

Beat up, but I'm pretty sure it is a braves warmup late 30's-early 40's. It went for just 100. A shame what was probably a name was cut off the white leather side at one time.

Steve B

[mintacular]

I found a '57 Gene Baker Bakep error in a lot which the seller didn't note. Picked up the whole lot for like $50 and sold the error card later for around $250. I also found a T205 BL back for $20.

[Rickyy]

Won a 1968 Topps 3D Ron Fairly raw for $30.00 (came back a PSA 7) and now happily resides in my type collection.

Ricky Y

[ALR-bishop]

Good one Ricky. Is it the dugout or no dugout version. The no dugout has been going for a bigger premium recently

[Exhibitman]

Sticking to postwar BB is a tall order for me but I thought this was a score at under $50:



I thought this was an absolute steal as well, as they are rare and obscure and I did not think I'd realistically ever find one. It is a Coney Island arcade card of Lou Gehrig, made for use in the arcade at Coney Island in place of Exhibit cards:

[doug.goodman]

As a collector of scored scorecards, I was happy to pay $11 (shipped) for Pete Rose's debut game. April 8, 1963. No hit, but a run scored on a walk in his first ML plate appearance on a Frank Robinson HR (career #242).

Doug

[Rickyy]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Good one Ricky. Is it the dugout or no dugout version. The no dugout has been going for a bigger premium recently

I stand corrected...it came back a 8 ...its the dugout version...it would have been a topper if it was!

[ALR-bishop]

Neat Doug...you have his true rookie "card" for only $ 11

[hcv123]

I can't recall which auction house (might have been Mastro) - listed 2 1971 Bazooka panel sets as a single auction lot. The description didn't mention that one of them was the sickly impossible numbered variation! My eye saw it in the photo - called to confirm and ended up "stealing it" - I was pretty psyched.