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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Eric Everett
Hi all, I've been lurking here for quite awhile gaining knowledge of prewar cards and have enjoyed the expertise/drama/humour here. I decided to bid on my first T-206 and just won the card, which was ungraded and also didn't have the best pictures. The Ebayer is fairly new with a negative so with all that added up one might ask why the heck I bid on the card. |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Bob
Eric I'd say it is a nice pick up of a solid card at a reasonable price. Congrats and welcome aboard! |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: jeff drum
Eric, |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Dave
Not a bad pickup Eric. I wouldn't say you got a steal of a deal but don't think you were taken either. I'd say pretty fair market price. The thing to remember with prewar like the T206's is watch when a seller says condition is excellent....even with no creases, etc, the rounded corners would kill you if you get it graded. I've had beautiful cards that had rounded corners like that and couldn't budge above a PSA 4. If your not looking to get them graded probably even better. But watch out the T206 bug will bite you. |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Eric Everett
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement everyone. It seems that commons like this go for $20-$30 or so depending on condition and/or being graded. I figured I might have paid at the high end of "market price" but would rather have a nice looking card than a 2 thats slabbed for the sake of the slab. Good advice about the dangers of sellers words...I thought the card could never be Ex based on the rounding of the corners but a solid 3 or 4 (which from the fuzzy pictures I'm hoping this is more of a 4) is good enough for this collector any day of the week! |
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Posted By: T206Collector
...that you didn't get taken, but it wasn't a steal of a deal either. After shipping -- $5.12? -- you'll be at $31.00 out of pocket for that card. You can still manage to find a wide array of SGC 40 and PSA 3's if you look hard enough for that price, thus guaranteeing that you don't have two mystery wrinkles (or worse) to make your $30 investment an overpayment. |
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Posted By: Dave
Here is the card I had graded a few months back I was referrng to....great card...but the corners kept the grade down on it. |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Eric Everett
thats a beautiful 4...and I see what you mean about the corners holding it back. I keep reading about rounded corners making a T206 look more "genuine" though and I tend to agree in a strange way. Great card! |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: joe brennan
Eric, Nice card. I would caution you to pay more attention to the sellers. This seller albeit may be all right, has little feedback, ( a neg already) and doesn't deal many vintage cards. If you are going to buy raw, stick to sellers that sell pre war. You may pay a little more, but you will receive the item and with no surprises. Other than that, welcome to the T206 mania. Good luck, Joe. |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
Considering the lower purchase price, it wasn't a great risk. I cringe at a |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: joe brennan
David I agree. But it's not a good habit to get used to. Next card maybe the one that he gets burned with. Joe |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: davidcycleback
A bidder's rule I would make is to expect the seller to provide in focus images. |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Eric Everett
Thanks again all for the advice. I agree that fuzzy images are a sign to turn and run generally but the enticement of getting a "deal" on a nice card got the best of me. This is I guess one of the reasons dishonest people would use unfocused pics, but I took a chance. $30 is not an insignificant amount of money to me but I'm a fairly experienced Ebayer and took the risk; maybe not the best of moves. Good advice on established prewar card sellers as well. Be well everyone and thanks for the responses. |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: barry arnold
Given the name of the player you won, I'd say you have quite a good omen on |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Hey Eric, |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Eric Everett
Frank, |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: Eric Everett
Both cards were made at factory 30 too, which I just noticed. Nice! |
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1st T-206 purchase: how'd I do?
Posted By: RayB
Eric, |
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