Auction 202: 1900's Gray Pay Station Phone - Ended 02/14/16

[TelePlay]

New forum members are very welcome and encouraged to take a guess. After all, there are no wrong guesses, just one lucky one. No one knows the winning bid on any auction until it ends. However, it is important to get your guess in before someone else grabs your guess.

Just listed in a 7 day auction with no reserve and starting at $9.99 ( with thanks to Fabius for the heads up on this listing ) is an early Gray Paystation. Within the first hour of being listed, the phone received 3 bids driving the opening price up to a very high $13.49. I'm sure it will go higher. The questions are, how high will it go or better yet, what is someone willing to pay for this phone to take it home and which forum member will place a guess closest to that amount?

NOTE: we will use a $5 gap rule between guesses again to prevent crowding. As such, keep your guess at least $5 away from prior guesses for this contest.

The seller listed it as an "Early 1900's Gray Pay Station PayPhone- Works!", the item condition as "Used" and " - - - " and with the auction listing description saying

"This is a very rare and early pay phone.  As far as I know, it is all original, except for the cord to plug it in to a modular phone jack.  The phone has not been altered in any way, and it did work on my land-line, right up to the day we converted to cell phones.  It's complete, and the locks are original.  There is what appears to be a repair near the top of the back plate.  It looks like it has been epoxied or welded-- I'm not sure which.  These are very rare and very hard to find in this original working condition.  I will be selling many of my phones from my long-time phone collection, as I move towards a new interest. There is not buy-it-now price, and I do not end auctions early."

http://www.ebay.com/itm/252280402945

It's another chance to move up a rung or to get onto the CRPF -> Contest Standings <- list,

     . . . for as twocvbloke said,   ---> "You gotta be in it to win it !!!" "

If you want to see the phones of past Auction Contests, click -> HERE <-


S C O R E B O A R D

$     513.00 - compubit  ( 1 )
$     695.00 - AE_Collector  ( 15 )  -> WINNER - Final Selling Price $636.00
$     775.00 - TelePlay  ( 14 )
$     825.00 - Fabius  ( 5 )
$     850.00 - Sargeguy  ( 7 )
$     875.00 - wds  ( 13 )
$     900.00 - Russ Kirk  ( 11 )
$     999.00 - zapper  ( 3 )
$  1,100.00 - tallguy58  ( 8 )
$  1,200.00 - skyrider  ( 4 )
$  1,299.00 - Autonut  ( 9 )
$  1,320.00 - 19and41  ( 12 )
$  1,750.00 - andre_janew  ( 6 )
$  2,250.00 - Mr. Bones  ( 2 )
$  2,350.00 - HarrySmith  ( 10 )


Early Morning Auction Status

02-07-16      Listed     $       9.99
02-08-16      3 bids     $     13.49
02-09-16    17 bids     $   275.00
02-10-16    24 bids     $   321.00
02-11-16    27 bids     $   376.00
02-12-16    28 bids     $   381.00
02-13-16    30 bids     $   400.00
02-14-16    31 bids     $   405.00
02-14-16    13 bidders, 43 bids $636.00  Ended at  17:38:45 PST

[compubit]

$513

[Mr. Bones]

$2250.00 for me, please.

Best regards!

[zapper]

$999.00
Zapper

[skyrider]

1200.00 Thanks

[Fabius]

$825

[andre_janew]

$1,750

[Sargeguy]

$850

[tallguy58]

$1100

[.....]

1299.00

[HarrySmith]

$2,350.00

[Russ Kirk]

$900

[TelePlay]

With only about two days left to get your guesses in, the phone has moved up nicely to $321.00 by way of 24 bids from 8 interested buyers. Seems the phone has entered the pre-snipe period where it may stay at $321 or for a few dollars more (and no, not the Eastwood Spaghetti Western) until the final day and final minutes.

So, if interested in guessing, you have a bit more than 2 days to make a guess at the final sale price.

[19and41]

$1320.00  Please.

[wds]

$875