Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith has turned over some items from his personal collection to eBay for a special auction. It’s part of a partnership between the online sales giant and Smith’s authentication company, PROVA Group. Among the items up for bid are a pair of game balls including the one Smith carried across the goal line for the third touchdown … [Read more...]
COMC Releases Details on eBay Auction Consignment Service
COMC will open its eBay consignment service next month, with its first batch of auctions set to launch at the end of the year. Earlier this month, the company announced it was planning to supplement its online consignment store with an auction option. The new platform will allow users to shuttle their current COMC inventory to eBay auctions or submit new items to … [Read more...]
eBay Offering 10% Off $200 Through January 16
Didn't get what you wanted under the tree last month? Looking for a discount on an expensive card you've been eyeing? You're in luck. From now through Monday, January 16, eBay is offering a 10% discount promotion for one sports-related purchase of $200 or more. The discount will be capped at a value of $100. It's only good one time per … [Read more...]
Rare, Classic Baseball Photos at Auction
Some rare and never before seen photographs of baseball stars like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle are among the 206 items offered in the final 2015 auction by vintage photo specialist Henry Yee. The classic baseball photos are originals, with some taken by well-known lensmen like George Grantham Bain. Some are transparencies and negatives. Others are … [Read more...]
Family Helping Family: Large Graded Collection in Market
Companies that deal in collectibles and graded sports cards have to remain dispassionate. After all, this is a business. What might knock over the average collector has to be treated as an investment by a company. Handling a graded Honus Wagner T-206 card would make an ordinary collector tremble -- a friend got to hold one at last year's National, and he confessed that his … [Read more...]
Collection of Vintage Autographed Cards at Auction
A huge collection of nearly 500 individual autographed trading cards, all encapsulated and authenticated by PSA/DNA, is up for auction card-by-card. Dating from the late 1930s through the recent past, the cards are being offered by New Jersey-based Just Collect. “We started assembling them back in the summer and early fall, when we bought two very large autograph … [Read more...]
Editor’s Blog: 10 Interesting Items and Observations from a Day on eBay
It's like clicking to watch a YouTube video. You're done viewing and inevitably something else pops up along side it that looks intriguing. You click on that video and watch it too. Then another one even more interesting reveals itself. Pretty soon you've killed an hour watching 1980's music videos or old baseball commercials that you never intended to. eBay can be a giant … [Read more...]
MnM Auction Includes Ruth Advertising Piece, Dozens of Signed Baseballs
MnM Sportscards launches its next auction this Saturday with items available from nearly every decade of 20th century professional baseball. Included are a collection of 30 high-grade team signed baseballs, many from from the 1950’s and 60’s, a Babe Ruth Lee overalls advertising piece,a 1914 Lord Lonsdale Middleweight Championship Belt awarded to Champion Tommy Mullen, a … [Read more...]
New Autograph Price Guide Promises Better Info
A new online autograph price guide has launched, offering value data based on recent sales from eBay and major hobby auction houses. New Jersey-based SigPrices.com uses many of the same concepts as the graded sports card price guides that have been developed for online use over the past four to five years, but it geared toward sports autographs. For a daily, monthly, … [Read more...]