PSA 9 Namath rookie coming to auction

Ripken

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/psa-9-namath-rookie-card-hit-auction-block/

Any guesses on the final price?

Exodus

Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing. I wonder if this card will do as "poorly" as the wax box of that year did recently.

Tomi

I think there is also going to be a PSA 9 1948 leaf Stan Musial rookie in the same auction. I sure wish I bought that Namath years ago for 20K.

UFFDAH

Juicy....very Juicy.

seebelow

hmmm ill put an initial bid in but def won't place the last bid...sigh...gorgeous card, wouldn't hazard a guess

LOTSOS

@seebelow said:
hmmm ill put an initial bid in but def won't place the last bid...sigh...gorgeous card, wouldn't hazard a guess

I always wondered why people do this. Not criticizing, I'm seriously curious. For example I would never bid on a '79 OPC Gretzky in PSA 9. It's going to go in the mid $20ks or better and frankly that's not in my wheel house. So it seems like at the very least I'm wasting my time and at worst I'm potentially driving up the price of an PSA 8 which is a card I can swing at.

Kevin

mintonlypls

$250,000

prgsdw

@LOTSOS said:

@seebelow said:
hmmm ill put an initial bid in but def won't place the last bid...sigh...gorgeous card, wouldn't hazard a guess

I always wondered why people do this. Not criticizing, I'm seriously curious.

Not the OP, however I have done this from time to time. There are a few reasons: you typically get reminders, followup emails including final sale price, etc. If I don't bid, I have to remember to go get that information. I'd rather they push it to me. Also, and this happened recently, I bid in an auction with extended bidding with an expectation I'd have no chance to win. Then when I got notified that extended bidding started, the other bidders didn't show up and the item ultimately sold for a little over half of the previous high sale. I put in one extended bid and won the item. Had I not bid initially when I didn't think I'd have a chance, by the time it was clear it was going to sell for a good bit less than previously it would have been too late as the only bidders in extended bidding are typically the open session bidders.