Or did this buyer overbid?
I closely watched a five-card Harry Potter trading card relic lot on eBay over the past week, because it's rare to see multiple Harry Potter relic cards in a single auction. Listed below is a list of those cards, along with the average selling price for other copies of that card:
|
Card |
Serial Numbered | Average Selling Price* |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Authentic Cinema Film Card |
309/397 | $1.99 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets C2 Kenneth Branagh as Professor Gilderoy Lockhart |
186/570 | N/A |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince C8 Griffindor Students |
14/580 | $5.59 |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince C9 Dame Maggie Smith as Minerva McGonagall |
119/490 | $14.90 |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince C14 Freddie Stroma as Cormac McLaggen |
38/580 | $6.64 |
That auction started at $19.99 and sold for $26.00 (plus shipping); as a comparison, the average selling price for four of those five cards is $29.12 (plus shipping).
I suspect that all of those cards are in Excellent/Near Mint or worse condition, because none of those cards are protected with a card sleeve, and all of those cards has multiple damaged corners.
If all of those cards were protected and in better condition -- I would have sniper bid $35; as is, I couldn't see paying more than the starting bid of $19.99.
Question: What's the most you'd have paid for that auction?
*Excluding shipping charges. Based on the available sales data on eBay as of this writing.