1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner PSA 5 & Interesting Auction

JackWESQ · June 26, 2004 7:05PM

Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever seen the 1909-11 T206
Honus Wagner PSA 5. The PSA population report lists this card
as the second highest graded example. If it ever came up for
sale, what do you think it would go for. If you happen to have
a picture of it, please post. I would love to see it. Thanks.

By the way, here it the link to a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 9
Auction on ebay. The seller has 100% feedback of 47. However,
the auction appears deceptive enough. The bid is currently at
$14,000 and the reserve has already been met?! For a true PSA 9?

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle PSA 9

And best of all, I came across this auction. The auction ends in
9682 days and 22 hours, entitled "OPS Test Item, Do Not Bid, Do Not
Cancel" I wonder how he manipulated the ebay system?

OPS Test Item, Do Not Bid, Do Not Cancel

Have a good one.
/s/ JackWESQ

ajw · June 26, 2004 11:46PM

Try this instead

Also, note the seller has nothing listed for feedback. No zero, no nothing. Click on his name and you see some "feedback" that appears to be from friends or something.

Interesting. It almost looks like someone has cracked eBay's code and is screwing with things.

jrdolan · June 27, 2004 2:11AM

On the 52 Mantle, only two of the feedbacks are recent enough to click on. One is an eletric shaver he sold and the other is a "pound" of commons he bought for $1.75. The high bidder with zero feedback who met the reserve is very likely his shill account. This is a scam with a capital S. There's a thread on this over in Vintage Sportscard Trading.

sagard · June 27, 2004 10:25AM

<< <i>Try this instead

Also, note the seller has nothing listed for feedback. No zero, no nothing. Click on his name and you see some "feedback" that appears to be from friends or something.

Interesting. It almost looks like someone has cracked eBay's code and is screwing with things. >>

More likely "OPS Test Item" is short for "Operations Test Item". I'm guessing it is simply what it says, at test auction from an internal ebay employee. Could be used for many different purposes such as testing network connectivity or latency to ebay. Hard to say, but I don't think anyone has "cracked" ebays auction lister.

mikeschmidt · June 28, 2004 1:25AM

The PSA 4 VG/EX Wagner was sold by SportsCards Plus to Bill Mastro, I believe, for $325,000.

Could be wrong - perhaps Mastro owns the 5 - I have my records/information elsewhere on that one. The PSA 4 definitely sold for $325,000 a few years ago, and Bill Mastro definitely owns a 4 or a 5