Need your help - What am I missing here
acowa
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I just bought a 1965 Topps PSA 10 1/1 for just over $175. Why did it go so cheap? Am I missing something?
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You just have to have the UT (untouched) qualifier to get the big bucks
Here is some history on that card you just bought.
Last summer that card was up for auciton (on Ebay) and sold in the $300's. Soon afterwards (within 2 weeks)....4 or 5 other PSA 10's showed up on eBay. At that time...each of the big 1965 players picked up one (I think Wayne may have picked up 2 or 3)....as no one was planning to build a set of PSA 10's!! Almost as a novelty.....because at the time there were were only 20-25 PSA 10 1965 in existance. After the 1st PSA 10 sold (the Kirkpatrick) the rest of them sold for less. The Kirkpatrick at the time was the first PSA 10 to show up on eBay for months!!
The card was later put on ebay about 6 months ago with a high opening bid...this was the time the that big time buyer from San Fran was paying crazy prices for cards(I forget his name). The seller (I guess) was trying to cash in. The card did not sell.
The owner then brought the card to the National and probably sold it to the Ninth Inning there....
Hopefully the collector who originally bought the card in the mid $300's sold it for more than $177.00.
Enjoy the 1965 PSA 10...half of the 10s are star or semi-star cards...so there are not that many PSA 10 commons out there (only about 16...all POP 1's).
BTW....I have never owned that card.
John
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2004 UD Legends Bake McBride autos & parallels, and 1974 Topps #601 PSA 9
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Used to working on HOF SS Baseballs--Now just '67 Sox Stickers and anything Boston related.
I just expected the card to go much higher...and I just figured I would ask if there was something I wasn't in on.
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Alan
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Unless you are Stongate...his 1963 PSA 9s are off the hook.
John
The Kirkpatrick is just a great buy. The 3 main 1965 collectors don't typically buy psa 10's. Since there are really only 3 people pursuing this set in high grade right now - that's probably why it went so cheap. If you want all of the history of the card, Brian Scantland owned it for the past year or so. I saw it at nationals and it's a very nice card.
Wayne
The history that Basilone provided is accurate. I believe I paid $360 after shipping and insurance for the card in May of 2002. I believe Wayne was the under bidder with the 3rd bidder showing in the high 200s. It was purchased from Bauerfan. I listed it 2 or 3 times on ebay, with starting bids in the $300s. Never any action. I sold it at Nationals to 9th Inning along with another card.
The centering is a touch off, otherwise its an incredible card.
As Wayne mentioned, I think that there are so few 10s in 1965, that the major registry players are happy to only go for 9s. 1965 10s for sale are so rare its difficult to make a market on them.
Brian
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all your posts are really cute.
there is another guy who still has his wheels in the ditch and makes statements like yours.
I believe this other fellow is the editor of the Krause Price Guides. His views are almost as out of touch as his price guide (although it is an excellent check list and general reference when the SMR doesn't cover an obscure set).
You guys remind me of Larry Fritsch, who in 1999 told me that whenever he gets slabbed cards in a collection buy, he smashes the holders open with the biggest hammer he can find.
Ya'll should hook-up and bust up a bunch of plastic.
OR, if you actually are a set registry participant (rather than an annoying gnat), post us with your collecting interest.
Mine are 1950's baseball regionals, and pre-war hockey what are yours??
(edited for spelling .....Scotty)
It ended in the middle of the afternoon. Maybe some people were at work, not everyone uses sniping services.
Speaking of sniping services, the biggest surprise for me was that acowa put in his bid with over two hours left in the auction. Why so early?
I'm making settlement on a townhouse in October and getting married in April. As such I have a self-imposed $300 monthly eBay budget. I have no room this week to make such a purchase. Not that I'm actively pursuing this set graded but I will pick up some from time to time and there was a time when I might have made a run at such a card.
It's a common. A reasonably authentic looking '65 Topps Maris autograph went for about the same money this afternoon. I'd be much happier with a Maris sig. than this fellow, but that's just me.
I don't what the story is for other sets, but the leader board for the '65 Topps set on the registry is cluttered with complete sets. How much is it worth upgrading to catch #1 at this point? How many collectors with complete '65 sets are now doing other sets instead.
Been discussed before, but aesthetically, what separates a 10 from a 9? I see many collectors going after straight 8 sets, and there are some very nice looking 8's out there for this set and many others. Why fork over the extra cash for the holder? Remember, buy the card, not the holder.
Just some random babbling, take it for what it's worth.
Annoying gnat? NOT with my ego!!
Wheels in the ditch?, buried up to the axles would be more accurate. The only movement that I have any interest in is my bowels, and THAT is always a cause for great celebration.
I just had a colonsocopy today. Trust me, with the preparation for that procedure, you would not feel like celebrating your many many "movements". Of course if you have the thrill of having one of these procedures performed on you, then perhaps you will have the greatest "celebration" of your entire life.
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edited to say - ouch!