A Cavalcade Of Griffey Cards XX

I decided to extend the Cavalcade series one more day, I had to finish on 20 posts so it was nice and neat closing.

Today’s card is the second card from my Most Wanted List that has made it in to the Cavalcade of Griffey Cards, the other one being the 2007 Topps Employee’s cards. The card is from the 2002 Upper Deck Authentics release and is the reverse negative parallel version. This is a card I have been hunting for over a couple of years even writing about missing out on one back in April 2014 but now my search is complete when I picked up both the base card and the reverse negative parallel for a reasonable price.

Tomorrow I will be back to my regular posts beginning with my 7^th Blog-versary contest that I mentioned on my actual blog-versary last month.

The Frustration Of A Knuckleheaded Seller

About 3 weeks ago a seller put up a 2002 Upper Deck Authentics Ken Griffey Jr (#162) reverse negative parallel as an error card and they set a reserve price. I would love to add one of these to my collection, you do not see them show up to often, and with a day left in the auction and the price sitting around $5 I put in a bid of $15.79 hoping that the reserve was like $12-15. I was bid up as the time ticked away and the auction ended with me having the final bid of $12.51. Slight problem, obviously the reserve was not less than that and the auction ended with no winner.

I watched the seller for the next 2 weeks to see if they would put up the card again. I was hoping that he would see the final price and either set a BIN or a lower reserve. No luck, the card just wasn’t showing up and I stopped checking his auctions earlier last week (he sold mostly cheap electronics and home gadgets). Which turned out to be my bad decision. I found out he eventually put the card back up, no reserve on a 3-day auction. The damn thing sold for a little over $6 with free shipping.

I know that losing out on the card was ultimately my fault for not watching the listings closer but damn, he could have easily contacted me after the first auction and I would have paid $15 and still have been happy.

Now someone got a better deal, he lost out on an additional $10 and I lost an awesome card for my collection. I am bummed about this.

/rant