The problem is that it's a lot easier to screw up a bid. I recently did this for the Matt Sauer 2018 Bowman Chrome autograph pictured above. At the time, most were selling in the $2-$3 range. So I put in a very low bid of $1.75 to see if I'd win. However, my less than agile thumb hit the 7 twice. So my bid was actually $1,775. Oy!
Upon a google search, I saw that I could visit eBay's website and go through a process to retract my bid. But I don't like it when I've had people retract bids on me. Plus I didn't want to go to the website versus the app. I also knew that this card wasn't going to skyrocket, so I was pretty safe winning it for a decent prize. I let it ride out, and ended up winning the card for $7.50 plus shipping. It's more than I would have paid on it's own and I probably could have gotten one in the $4 range, but oh well. I'm happy to have it and it's a fun story.
And remember to double-check your bids before pressing "submit"!
So basically (price wise) this is the equivalent of you buying a single 10-card hobby pack at a card shop and getting an autograph inside of it. Nice.
ReplyDelete^ that frames it up quite nicely.
ReplyDeleteI refuse to install the eBay app on my phone, mostly because I'm afraid I'll do something like this.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it is a fun story and even better that you made okay with the names on the free cards. Arenado, Lindor, Strasburg, Moncada, Rizzo... quite nice.
ReplyDeleteEbay came pre-loaded on my tablet, but I'm afraid to log in for fear of doing something just like that...especially as I am usually looking for reference material on ebay Motors!
ReplyDeleteWhew, good thing no one else had sticky fingers, and punched in too much also, then you'd been in trouble. Blessing all around.
ReplyDeleteWow. Good thing Ebay auctions now-days aren't as bid-war heavy as they were some 10-15 years ago. Man some of those team logos on that design are difficult to make out in small viewing sizes. Still not sure what the Indians logo really is there. If I hadn't seen Chief Wahoo on the shoulder patch I wouldn't know which team that guy was on. Oh nevermind it is the Cleveland "C" took me way way too long and a x2 magnification to notice. It looked like some kind of blurry arrow. It is that lens flare light glare effect on the logo that does that.
ReplyDeleteUh, honey, I won another auction today on ebay.
ReplyDeleteYou don't mind if we hold off on the mortgage this month, right?
Oh man... that would have sucked if someone else really wanted that card. Good thing it sold for a reasonable price.
ReplyDeleteRobert - Awesome comment! I started cracking up in front of my class.