Best/favourite auction steals?

[cygnusx1]

Thought this might be a fun topic seeing as the majority of us have spent many years on ebay and most likely have a crazy story or 2. Some I'm sure were terrible listings, others just fortunate stumbles. My personal favourites that I can recall:

- Winning a "9 card Alex Ovechkin lot" last year that had an 07-08 OPC Micromotion Black /100 in the pic. Pretty sure I got all 9 cards for $7 CAD and sold the Micro for about $80 USD

- Winning a "Mike A Leningrad" (Mika Zibanejad going through autocorrect) Cup Auto Patch for about $20 several years ago

 

[BrownBullhead]

Winning the entire 30-card set of 2002-03 ITG Parkhurst Retro Nicknames for US $316.00 and Shipping US $39.00 on an eBay listing ending at 1:00am my time.

Sniped at 1:00am and stayed awake to pay by 1:03am.

Cherry picked about 18 or 19 swatch variants I needed for my build and sold the remaining 12 or so cards and recovered about 40% of the above costs.

 

[TMLFan3]

Auston Matthews YG misspelled for $10 Canadian shipped about 5 years ago
Spelled Austin Mathew