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Anybody else watching this Roberto Clemente RC on eBay?
Looks to be a gorgeous card. Closes soon. Not much to say, just fascinated by the bidding. I know not everyone loves PWCC, but these bidders don't seem to care.
Wonder if it'll get to $40,000? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-Topps-...53.m1438.l2649 |
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Sure looks like it will . . . over $38K with over an hour left in the auction. Usually vintage baseball card prices are a bit down this time of year, but not this year! It makes me wonder where the prices will be this summer.
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There are a ton of PWCC graded cards going for huge prices relative to previous sales tonight. Something in the air with Clemente though...earlier tonight a 65T Clemente with writing on both the front and back went for like $38. Very strange.
Last edited by ASF123; 12-29-2020 at 08:20 PM. |
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Wow. Makes me glad I picked up as many early hall of fame player cards as I could in the seventies and early eighties. I’m also glad I collect raw cards. 🙂
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Sure is overgraded.
1) Print defect from end of signature into TE of PIRATES, making them blurry. 2) Cyan registration on front is high. 3) Stain or print defect over the O in ROBERTO at top of back. 4) Magenta and Green misaligned on back. 5) Either a missed MK or ugly black fiber next to "THROWS: RIGHT". Sure it has nice centering and corners/edges, but the other components are not worthy of the grade.
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Good points. The print defects on the front especially.
Guess there just aren't enough good examples to go around in this market. People are willing to overlook the flaws. |
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No, I think they're only looking at the flip.
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I would assume that card would be a 7, maybe a 6, by today's standards?
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But that print defect on the front is pretty bad. I can't believe it got an 8 |
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Yeah, maybe a 6 today by a grader looking for flaws.
Looks like it was graded 10 years ago.
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Well not quite $40k, but still amazing. Especially with some of the flaws pointed out by others.
I'll keep searching for this card, just at the other end of the pool. |
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Last edited by cardsagain74; 12-29-2020 at 07:56 PM. |
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Yeah, I don't buy much anymore, unless it's to flip. And since PSA banned me from submitting, I got rid of most of my graded collection.
What would you grade the card?
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Not just the pwcc auctions. Something weird in the water tonight.
I'm baffled by this one. And yeah it's football, but no one reads that forum. This set goes for $150 if it's typical raw '80s sharp. A place with bad feedback and one very fuzzy pic of the Jerry Rice (card could be any condition)....no clue what happened here https://www.ebay.com/itm/1986-Topps-...-/124493844052 |
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Yep. Greg Morris was also getting some huge bids on the raw '66s, even by Greg Morris standards.
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As for what I would grade it, hell if I know. I'm just back into the hobby after a "break" since the junk wax days, so I'm trying to catch up to modern grading practices. From what I've seen, the TPGs are so inconsistent and the differences between one grade and the next one up or down are so small/subjective/arbitrary that the whole thing seems like, er, a house of cards. I'd probably grade it as "really nice looking, would have been NM in 1989." Everyone was so much happier with the condition of their cards back then! Different times, different times. Last edited by ASF123; 12-29-2020 at 09:14 PM. |
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https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=294055 One of many. This is a short one compared to the much larger thread. https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1298306
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I was using their system to contact their users who had trimmed cards in their possession so that they could return them to either PSA or the company they bought them from. PSA doesn't like when people cost them money.
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LOL, no, I'm not that devious. And if I owned it, I'd hope I wouldn't be a seller. I'm looking for one at a much much lower price point and this caught my eye.
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