Were you by any chance the one with the 65 Palmer team issue? I saw that the listing was converted from BIN to an auction.
Definitely interested in that one. The price was just a tad too steep for me, even now the lowered auction price. Great issue nonetheless.
I definitely make offers on listings that i am interested in that have the BO option and the asking price is somewhat in my ballpark. On the whole, I have had success, and I do not low ball. I will throw out an offer that is 10-15% off the asking price. If the listing price is way over comps, I will generally refrain from making an offer (I do not want to insult the seller).
With oddball cards/issues, older pre-war cards, my sense is that there just isn't as much interest (could be due to a lack of knowledge about the player and/or issue), unless you are talking about the super stars (Aaron, Mays, Mantle, Gehrig, Foxx, etc.) and the asking price is competitive.
Just as an example, there is a lovely 1947 Cleveland Indians Photo Pack listed on Ebay for $249. It's missing the Doby but it has the Lemon "rookie," along with Feller, Boudreau, Gordon. It looks to be in pretty decent shape, mid-grade. I have been watching it for about a month. When you check the sales for the 1949 Bowman Lemon "rookie," there have been plenty of sales in May, and even a number of sales in June. But the 47 pack is just sitting, and it has an issue of Lemon that predates the Bowman by two years. Could be that your average collector does not realize that that is a Lemon "rookie," or they just don't care for oddball issues.
There was a 1940 Red Sox Photo Pack Ted Williams in an SGC 2.5 that was just sitting and sitting (it finally appears to have sold), and the asking price was not bad (I think it had a BO). During the time that this Ted sat, there were plenty of the 1940 PBs that sold....and we are talking about Ted Williams, one of the greats, and the photo pack is more scarce than the PB.
I think if you deal in more oddball, unique, scarce items, they are more likely to sit and not garner as much interest unless, again, they are cards/issues of the hobby darlings, priced competitively. And, sometimes even with the greats (Ted above), they will sit and sit because folks either do not know enough about the particular issue or only collect Topps/mainstream sets.
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