POLL: WAS THIS OFFER FAIR? (PRIZES AWARDED)

[Leaf]

Was this offer fair 3 months ago considering we didnt know current sale price and condition of card ? A few freebies will be awarded regardless of vote.

 

[bigpapiMA32]

I would have said $6000, but who knows.

 

[bigpapiMA32]

I would have said $6000, but who knows.

To clarify, I mean your offer was very strong.

 

[LazerShow15]

I believe it was a low-ball offer, but anybody that offers that kind of money for cardboard has balls. Thus you have balls Brian. I figured this card would go for $15,000 since he is 17 years old and is an offensive player. The seller got some good coin for the card with $12,500 though.

 

[gvsu96]

I would of gone with $7000 to $7500 max.

 

[Dice-K Collector]

I think it was extremely strong offer. The strasburg went for 16,000 and he was doing great at the time.

 

[LazerShow15]

Lets see how many people have kind words thinking they are going to receive a prize. Just be honest, the only way to live.

 

[Jaypers]

Condition doesn't really factor into an offer for a card such as this, as it's the only one.

If the Stras Super had already sold for $16k+ before you made your offer, I believe a fair price would have been approximately 60-70% that, seeing how he's quite a ways away from reaching his potential, much more so than Strasburg.

 

[csmtampa]

$7,000 - $7,500 seems like a reasonable offer.

 

[muskiesfan]

I know my opinion will be in the minority, but I honestly feel like that is too much to offer for someone who hasn't even played an inning at the Major League level. I know people follow hype and try to extrapolate future potential, but that's a hefty price to pay for an unproven player.

True enough that on the flip side, if he had a big rookie year, it would go for much more. However, that's a big gamble for the seller to take. If it were my card, I would have gladly sold it for the offer price.

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

I thought your offer was too high, particularly for a 17yo, but 1/1s are in a different class and are too rare to have set prices anyway.

 

[Yankees1218]

I voted that is was a fair offer because if i were to have pulled that card, and recieved an offer of upwards of
$6,000 i would have taken it...

 

[ballerskrip]

My opinion is the same as most others, I thought it would have fallen in the $7500-$8000 range. With that being said, your offer was strong. On cards like this, it is truly a guessing game. Who really knows until it goes to auction?

skrip

 

[Leaf]

Not asking for kind words...

I honestly feel that that cannot be called a "lowball" offer.
Regardless, it is tasteless of the seller to say what he said (and I see Beckett has removed his statement).
BG

 

[onehrk]

Given that I feel what it eventually sold at was more than it should have gotten, I feel that your original offer was very fair, if not very strong. The seller was too caught up in the Strasburg hype to separate the two. Harper =/= Strasburg.

 

[mlbfan10]

I think it was fair, but it would be hard for me to get rid of it lol.

 

[LazerShow15]

Not asking for kind words...

I honestly feel that that cannot be called a "lowball" offer.
Regardless, it is tasteless of the seller to say what he said (and I see Beckett has removed his statement).
BG

I agree 100% that is was tasteless. Whomever mentioned this in the press, blog, paper, whatever it may be was tasteless without a doubt. I agree with the others that it wasn't a low-ball offer, even though I thought it was very low (can't think of another term right now instead of low-ball), but your a business man and you have to make money too. It only takes one guy who has crazy money to put this all out of whack. I believe as a prospector, that this card will be well worth $15,000 or more in 2012.

 

[blanning71]

Honestly, if I had owned that card, and whatwith the condition, that card would have been gone in a heartbeat. I feel that, with my current situation in the economy, I wouldn't push it and take the money....afterall, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush......I have held out before trying to maximize profit on a card and I got burned......bad.

Now, with that said, I am no prospector nor do I claim to be, so I don't know everything that prospecting entails but I would think that right now, with the market being flat, a great sale like that would be done in a quick minute. Harper hadn't signed yet and hadn't played a game in professional ball so why not take a shot and let it ride? I guess it all comes down to projection and what you perceive the value to be.

But like I said, to each his own. If it were mine, you would have had it to put into RRR. No questions asked.

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

Obviously the seller didn't think your offer was too fair......

And he got twice as much, so........

Seller Wins.

Your offer wasn't bad, how can $6500+ for a single 2010 baseball card be a bad offer? Obviously the seller wasn't in a hurry to cash in and run like others have mentioned they would have. Kudos to him, that card will never sell for that high ever again IMO. Hell, the 2011 Bowman Chrome Auto Super might only get a little more. I can see the seller with arms raised over his head, looking over the Grand Canyon, screaming, "Victory!!!"

 

[tommyfro21]

I agree that the seller should not have shared who made an offer or for what amount. It comes across that he is either name-dropping or trying to present BG in a negative light, neither of which should have been done in an article IMO.