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smallstockssmallstocks Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭✭
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I am relatively new to the EBAY game. I have noticed some very wide fluctuations in price of identically rated cards sold within a few days of each other. Could this really be explained simply due simply to the basic auction process or am I missing something? For example . . .

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Both are 1974 Winfield cards rated PSA 8. I appreciate any insight.

Mike

Late 60's and early to mid 70's non-sports

Comments

  • Dallas88Dallas88 Posts: 746 ✭
    The 2nd card's centering is not great - looks like it should have a qualifier for centering....submitter might have specified no qualifiers.

    Either way- buy the card, not the holder.

    Dal
  • eadams24eadams24 Posts: 139
    The only thing I can think of is that the $90 one is better centered. You will often times find discrepancies between the same grade usually in the centering. $50 seems like a pretty wide difference, however. Sometimes things just get bid up.
  • oaktownoaktown Posts: 366
    The seller in the first link is Legacy Sports Rarities who, historically, seem to realize great prices. It helps that they include a scan of the back and their scans are generally large.

    Hope this helps
  • smallstockssmallstocks Posts: 1,631 ✭✭✭✭
    I just went back to look at the two cards and you are correct - the cheaper card is clearly off-center. Does that mean that is would likely have been a 10 but the O/C knocked it down 2 grades or did PSA just screw up?

    Mike

    Late 60's and early to mid 70's non-sports
  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I just went back to look at the two cards and you are correct - the cheaper card is clearly off-center. Does that mean that is would likely have been a 10 but the O/C knocked it down 2 grades or did PSA just screw up?

    Mike >>



    I don't think anybody screwed up; PSA 8 allows up to 70/30 on centering and that card looks better than 70/30 - though not by much, I'll admit.
    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The seller in the first link is Legacy Sports Rarities who, historically, seem to realize great prices. It helps that they include a scan of the back and their scans are generally large.

    Hope this helps >>


    That was my first guess, but then Tony from Cooperstown Sports Cards sold the second one, he is no slouch eiher! I would say centering. Can anyone tell when the auction eneded. Maybe the second was in the middle of the night or a snow day??
  • MajorDanbyMajorDanby Posts: 1,343
    sgcbuyer has deep pockets. I have competed with him on several auctions and he has blown my bids away. I remember bidding on a ryan rookie PSA 7 for 550. He blew that away and won the auction for 700.

    Plus, centering is a lot better on the first card. As someone said earlier, buy the card and not the label on top.
    My Auctions

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