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Posted By: barrysloate

Although not a card, I once had a rare bound volume of Henry Chadwick's Base Ball Chronicles that I was trying to sell outright for $5500, with no takers. I lowered the price to $5000, then $4500, and fared no better. I finally put it up on ebay, and by midweek the bidding was up to $4100. It sat there until the last few minutes and I assumed that would be it and I would make a small profit and move on.

I refreshed with about a half minute to go and it was still at $4100. I tried one last time at the ten second mark and the screen now read $12,888! It was to date my second biggest sale ever on ebay, but the most I ever had anything jump at the end.