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What the Eck is going on here?@!?@@?!

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Beauty of a card, but really, that much dough for it?

    Seems to be a bit steep given his place in history.
  • The population on this card in a 10 is 2. I figured it would go high, but I wouldn't have been anywhere close with a guess at that price! Maybe a few 1976 psa 10 cards will start showing up in a few of the bigger auctions when they see that kind of price.
  • 2 words:

    BIDDING WAR
  • Crazy stuff. Looks like a classic example of an eBay dick-swinging contest. Pop 1/2, but still...
  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭


    << <i>2 words:

    BIDDING WAR >>

    True, but 4 guys were willing to go over $4700 which is unreal.
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  • I'd cash the check.
  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    nice card, but im happy with my OPC psa 8..

    i'd certainly love to submit a 10 though..
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  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭✭✭
    $10 k for a card from 1976? I dont care if it was the only card made that whole year, which of course it isn't. Lets play a game. Larry Fritz decides he's had enoughof the card game and sells off his whole collection including the 50 cases of 76 OPC's. Now you buy a T206 Cobb Green portrait in PSA 7 for $10K, and your buddy has this 76. BTW a green Cobby PSA 4 is selling for near $4K at this minute. In one yaer wgich card will be worth $12K and the other worth $500. ? I believr i'll take CObbs place in history over the ECK today.
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  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>2 words:

    BIDDING WAR >>

    True, but 4 guys were willing to go over $4700 which is unreal. >>



    Testosterone will do that for you. Have to admit, I got caught up doing that one time and wounded up overpaying for a card. Wasn't thinking at the time. I'd imagine the winner work in the morning and said "What the hell did I just do?".
  • scooter729scooter729 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭
    Hope the buyer doesn't live in CA. That'd be almost another $800 in sales tax....
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Yikes.

    FWIW RBDJR was selling his OPC 9 for under a grand last nite with the BIN.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭
    My wife wants a new car. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... Big percentage of new car or "worthless" modern "garbage." I know the car depreciates, yada, yada... but I am going with the new car instead of the Eck! A better comparison was guy above who said would you want the certain Ty Cobby or this Eck. I agree 100%!
  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭
    That guy is nuts. I will bet anything that there are a ton more of Eck in unopened cases. I believe a 76' unopended case was just auctioned off in the Mastronet auction. Guy should have done more homework but maybe this is play money to him. chaz
  • onefasttalononefasttalon Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    Ya... I'd like to have one of these in a PSA 10 too... but I think I'd rather have 20 (or more) PSA 9's instead. I bet there are plenty of 9's that look just as good if not better than this 10.

    ALWAYS Looking for Chris Sabo cards!

  • If you sent in 20 9s for regrading, at least one would come back a 10
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  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>Yikes.

    FWIW RBDJR was selling his OPC 9 for under a grand last nite with the BIN.

    Steve >>



    Is he selling off his 1976 set now? No wonder he hasn't been bidding on any of my PSA 10 1/1's from this year.
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  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


    << <i>If you sent in 20 9s for regrading, at least one would come back a 10 >>



    This is almost certainly true. But the problem you run into is trying to unload all the 9's that didn't get a bump.

    This kind of play works much better with a heavily traded card for that one reason. A few years ago you could blindly resubmit cards like the 1990 Leaf Sosa or the 1986 FU Bonds and expect to do just fine, and you didn't have to worry about how to get rid of the 50 or so cards that stayed the same grade. But I can't imagine the effort and time you would have to put into slowly unloading 20 Eck RC's.
  • That seller had some other very high end cards end last night too (Murray, Ripken, Toger Woods, etc.) - a nice day's work...
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭


    << <i> Larry Fritz decides he's had enoughof the card game and sells off his whole collection including the 50 cases of 76 OPC's. >>



    Agreed with this one completely. I think last weeks Mastro auction with some of Fritsch's inventory was just a test, and it seemed to do quite well. I certainly wouldn't want to bank on any "low pops" from the '60s or 70's with all that fresh vending entering the market. Even if 95% is O/C there will still be enough to satisfy demand.

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  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Even if 95% is O/C there will still be enough to satisfy demand. >>



    Anthony: I think you hit the nail on the head here. Even if you can just say something ridiculously low, like 5% of the cards have a shot for PSA 8 or higher, that is still 600 PSA 8s or higher for every vending case he has. I think the Fritsch factor, combined with recent experience seen of depressed prices on 1970s baseball sets all have indicators that supply is outdistancing demand at least for the next few years....

    ~ms
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