Your Best Ebay Buy-it-Now Deals?

I haven't had a good BIN on ebay in quite a while (most of the BIN's now are waay overpriced)...but when I got started on ebay in 2001/2002 and several years after that, they seemed to be much more common. What are the best BIN's you've had on vintage cards?

For me, a few come to mind:

W514 Joe Jackson, fr/gd, $150 BIN. This was one of my first 'big' ebay purchases. It was a bit of a risk given that it was raw and I didn't know much about the issue at the time, but I took the plunge and it paid off. Was the centerpiece of my collection for a few years until I traded it off.

T213-2 Coupon Mathewson, gd, $100 BIN. Caught this one at around midnight one night, hit the BIN without hesitation. Turned out to be a really nice card and a great deal. Wish I had kept it because I'm actively seeking Coupon HOFers these days.

N172 Corcoran, Londons, g-vg, $150ish BIN. Again this was still in my early days of ebay, but I knew Corcoran was a sought after Old Judge card, and I had a feeling London was a tough team too (which is very true). I pulled the trigger, only to trade it to the well known Corcoran hoarder for what turned out to be way too little Oh well.


Your turn

My best BIN was probably a 1929 Star Player Candy Lou Gehrig for $800. I found it on ebay about 3 years ago. I sold it a week later for a lot more.

I used the profit as a down payment for the wife's engagement ring - she always seems to get the profits when i make money selling cards - how does that happen???

I can't really remember whether my earliest Ebay purchases (late 90s) were auctions or BIN...but they were very good deals by today's standards.

In recent times, I got my E92 Dockman Wagner (throwing) on a BIN within a few hours of the listing going up. I think if the bidding had started, it would have gone quite a bit (several hundred) above the BIN. It helped me that the seller had a very bad quality photo (not scan) of the card posted, so I'm sure other potential buyers did not want to risk jumping in.

the-illini wrote:My best BIN was probably a 1929 Star Player Candy Lou Gehrig for $800. I found it on ebay about 3 years ago. I sold it a week later for a lot more.

Wow that was a STEAL. You've had the magic touch with those Star Candies, haven't you Chris? Still have any left?

My best BINs were a non-baseball card. I picked up a n36 Geronimo for $200 and the Red Cloud for $10. Geronimo at $200 was a great buy but the Red Cloud was just silly. I never did ask the seller if he knew there were two versions of the cards. My guess is he was using n2 pricing.




Jay

won the Brown on a $125 bin and the Young for about $300 and the sellers did not realize the Piedmont 42