eBay 1 Cent Sale - Final Results - Vintage Hockey Cards Report

The 1 Cent eBay sale is over and some collectors nabbed some excellent deals!

To my bafflement, the 1959-60 Parkhurst ‘Canadiens on Guard’ hockey card went for just $5.55 when the book value from Beckett was $150. There was plenty of interest with several watchers and a healthy volume of page views.

Equally baffling was the 1974-75 Philadelphia Flyers Team Leaders card going for $17.50 when the Beckett book value was $2.00. I personally call this the Jerry Korab Effect. I once had a 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee Korab card listed on eBay. The card was in mediocre condition with centering issues and corner wear. Yet, there was a bidding war and the card went for three times its value. When someone wants a card – someone wants a card. There was a long time on eBay when no one could successfully win a Don Lever hockey card, no matter what they bid. There was someone out there cornering the market on this Vancouver Canucks great.

Check out the final results of these ten cards that started with an opening bid of just $.01:

Player	Company	Year	Card #	BV	Final
Canadiens on Guard	Parkhurst	1959-60	1	$150.00	$5.55
Harry Watson	Parkhurst	1954-55	17	$40.00	$5.50
Stan Mikita	Upper Deck	2001-02	PH-SM	$20.00	$4.88
Wayne Gretzky	Topps	1981-82	16	$20.00	$3.25
Tom Johnson	Topps	1963-64	4	$12.00	$1.25
Charlie Burns	Topps	1963-64	9	$10.00	$1.00
Bryan Trottier	Topps	1976-77	67	$8.00	$1.95
Darryl Sittler	Topps	1976-77	207	$3.00	$0.37
Flyers Leaders	Topps	1974-75	154	$2.00	$17.50
Bobby Clarke	Dad’s	1970-71	15	?	$2.25

With the Toronto Maple Leafs entering the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in a long, long time, I’m surprised there wasn’t more interest in the Sittler card. Once again, plenty of views and watchers but nobody wanted it. Of course, if you look back at our 2012-13 NHL season simulator that we ran during the lockout, the dice did pick the Maple Leafs to take the Cup! However, their opponent, the Phoenix Coyotes, failed to make the real world post season.

I would like to thank all the bidders, watchers and those who simply stopped by to take a look. Events like these are fun for me and it’s not about the money (obviously, looking at some of the final bids!). It’s a chance to put out some great content on this site (see article list below) and it might even bring some hockey fans to this site that haven’t stopped by before.

There will be more! In the meantime, there are always cards listed by us at eBay. Check ’em out here: eBay Hockey Cards