2007 Bowman Sterling Group / Team Break - Status, Auction Ending

[thekramers5]

Just a quick status on the Auctions for the team break...

Auction ending times
All auctions are staggered 5 minutes after one another, beginning at 10 EST / 9 CST / 8 MST / 7 PST. Times listed are MST!! Any bid received and time stamped after the associated ending time will not be "accepted". If your computer is slow, or the website takes awhile to process - it's your loss for waiting so late!

Current Bid Status

ALL TEAMS HAVE BIDS!!

Current bid Total - $3,331


Don't forget that with 2 cases, you more than likely will not get the ol' "kick in the junk" that is possible with slot breaks.

For example, if you bid on the Blue Jays lot (currently $150) and the break is bad for Blue Jays - you'd probably still get at least 2 Snider, 2 Arencibia, & 2 Ahrens autos + several other autos & cards from the team. No, not necessarily the best return - but that doesn't include the fact you could get refractors, black refractors, etc and possibly 3 to 5 of autos of certain players. Isn't that what these breaks are about anyway - hoping for the non-regular hits? This way, you won't get a 20% return or less even in a bad break!

Anyway - links to auction site, rules & checklist:

Marty's Auction Site - Cowboycards.com - QuickAuction

Rules - 2007 Bowman Sterling Group/Team Break - Rules, etc.

Checklist - 2007 Bowman Sterling Team Break - Checklist!!

[otmack2o]

Come on TK, we are all a bunch of snipers here. lol

[thekramers5]

Great question I received about the auctions:

since the auctions aren't set up like ebay what happens in a scenario like this.

lot is at $40 but i am willing to pay $60. if i bid $60 and no one else bids do i pay $60 or $41.

the reason i ask is because there are a couple of lots that i am willing to pay a significant amout of money for but don't want to pay $100s of $s more than the next highest bidder if i don't have to.

The bid would stand at $60. The main reason is that after you placed your bid of $60, you have eliminated all possibilities between the previous bid and yours. If somebody was willing to, and actually planned to bid $50...but didn't do it before your $60 bid, they could no longer do it.

Sometimes the blatant example is best. The Yankees lot is at $400. Somebody just knows Joba is coming up big in autos & duals! They could just bid $1,000,000 and they would automatically win at $401.

Having said that, the question/premise is excellent - we need to get on Marty about bring his website into the 21st century! Just kidding, I actually thinks it adds a completely different strategy to the bidding that we're all not used to.

TK

[thekramers5]

Originally Posted by otmack2o

Come on TK, we are all a bunch of snipers here. lol

True, so true. But, as mentioned above, Marty's site makes it a bit more interesting...don't ya think??

[Cubfan86]

Originally Posted by thekramers5

True, so true. But, as mentioned above, Marty's site makes it a bit more interesting...don't ya think??

TK,
That is why I think the final amount will take care of itself. Instead of being able to snipe at the last second you get feeler bids. That is where people will bid a few bucks more to get an idea and then get ready for their final bid. I have my eye on 4 auctions but we will see.

[thekramers5]

Status updated...

[mdb92951]

One quick question -what happens if you bid on a teamand there are no cards pulled of that team? I know its a slim possibility but it's still possible especially with Topps collation recently.

[thekramers5]

Originally Posted by mdb92951

One quick question -what happens if you bid on a teamand there are no cards pulled of that team? I know its a slim possibility but it's still possible especially with Topps collation recently.

If that happened, I'd definitely pull something from my personal collection!

Having said that, with 2 cases...the only real possibility I see would be for the teams with no autos. Auto collation has been very strong, but the collation in the cases I opened for base rookies & prospects, and for relics has not been too great. Across several cases - I was fine. But each case definitely had some dupes in those 3 "areas" - rookies, prospects & relics.

TK

[upsbroker06]

damnit brianennis, quit sniping!

[eelindy]

Sniping might bite you in the butt anyway. There was someone who just missed by 12 seconds too late! lol