New high for a molitor/trammell psa 10

Zach Wheat · #1 03-27-2013, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by RedlegsFan

That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Most collectors and dealers "might" go a couple hundred for a late 70s psa 10. Ruth goudeys hardly demand that much even. But molitor-trammel? Good players, yes. I loved watching them when I was growing up, but they weren't "that" great. Looks like that ebay auction may have had some obvious dirty deeds goin on. Just my opinion.

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Part of the reason that the price for a PSA 10 went so high was because of the printers thumb print smudge that ruined this card. I am sure thus accounts for at least some of the rarity for a 10

ALR-bishop · #2 03-27-2013, 08:34 AM

Several years ago, before I began sniping all my ebay auctions, I had put in a fairly high max bid on an item and later got an out bid notice. Then I got a high bidder notice. When I looked, someone ( one bidder) had bid in increments until they passed me and then withdrew their last bid, leaving me high at my max. So I retracted the bid and became a permanent sniper

JollyElm · #3 03-27-2013, 04:10 PM

Recently, I was bidding on an expensive Mantle, when the seller suddenly added to the listing something to the effect of, "The card measures correctly to me, but I can't guarantee it has not been trimmed." I immediately retracted my bid.

the 'stache · #4 03-27-2013, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Several years ago, before I began sniping all my ebay auctions, I had put in a fairly high max bid on an item and later got an out bid notice. Then I got a high bidder notice. When I looked, someone ( one bidder) had bid in increments until they passed me and then withdrew their last bid, leaving me high at my max. So I retracted the bid and became a permanent sniper

I've seen that happen a few times in auctions I've been watching, Al, and that's one of the things I just hate about Ebay.

Based on some of the incredible pieces in your collection, I can only imagine how big of an issue that could be with you.

dodgerfanjohn · #5 03-28-2013, 04:53 PM

I quibbled with some of the people who were excited about this auction on the psa boards. The way it was explained to me is that there's whales(which we all know there are) and then there's people investing, those interested in completing a registry, etc.

My takeaway is that there's a subset of very deep pocketed collectors that vie for show pieces and them there's another set of collectors investing by attempting to corner markets and usin non expendable funds to do so(ie treating it as a true investment).

I'm still not quite sure what to make of things, but investing in miniscule markets seems to be risky business.

HRBAKER · #6 03-28-2013, 05:28 PM

Another problem with paying an insane price for this card is that there can only be more of them, not less. With the result you can be sure there are some being worked on right now.

brob28 · #7 03-29-2013, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by HRBAKER

Another problem with paying an insane price for this card is that there can only be more of them, not less. With the result you can be sure there are some being worked on right now.

So true!

steve B · #8 03-28-2013, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Part of the reason that the price for a PSA 10 went so high was because of the printers thumb print smudge that ruined this card. I am sure thus accounts for at least some of the rarity for a 10

Where is that? I'm just not seeing any big problems like that.

Steve B

esquiresports · #9 03-29-2013, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by steve B

Where is that? I'm just not seeing any big problems like that.

Steve B

It's at the bottom of the card near the middle. Often called a smudge. It appears in probably 90-95% of the Molitors I have seen. It goes from around the "K" in ROOKIE to the "O" in SHORTSTOPS. Here is an example.

steve B · #10 03-29-2013, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by esquiresports

It's at the bottom of the card near the middle. Often called a smudge. It appears in probably 90-95% of the Molitors I have seen. It goes from around the "K" in ROOKIE to the "O" in SHORTSTOPS. Here is an example.

Ah, that one. I think I misread your post to mean that the 10 had the smudge. Rereading it I don't know how I read it that way.

It's interesting that it's on so many of them. I'll have to check mine and see if it's there.

Steve B

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