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What is the biggest "You Suck" awarded on the boards?
commoncents05
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Just curious who has received the biggest "You Suck" for the biggest score here on the boards. Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're just the... bug.
Russ' PrDCAM '64 kinky hair Kennedys deserved a BIG YS.
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
My vote for biggest "You Suck" is SUMADORA's hoard of 11,000 godless Washington $1s, sold for upwards of $800,000 if I remember right. It's going to be HARD to top that one in terms of dollar profit, although it's "only" (!) an 80x score in terms of ratio.
Earlier thread on the subject
Someone who buys a coin for $4,000,000 and flips it for $5,500,000 may make $1,500,000. But they don't get a YOU SUCK!
<< <i>Sumorada's, hands down. >>
I think he made close to 7 figures from that.
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<< <i>Sumorada's, hands down. >>
Was his the box full of plain edge Washington dollars?
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<< <i>Don't think I've ever had a you suck. Hm, oh well. >>
Maybe not awarded, but deserved, cladiator. If I was the "bug" in that deal I posted in my last reply, you were the windshield!
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<< <i>Don't think I've ever had a you suck. Hm, oh well. >>
Maybe not awarded, but deserved, cladiator. If I was the "bug" in that deal I posted in my last reply, you were the windshield!
Yeah but I thought "you suck" had to be where you knew the item was valuable. In our case neither of us knew what we had. With the O.129 the person that deserved the You Suck would have been my buyer, David Hatfield. He got a 30Kish coin for 2K knowing full well what he was buying.
What happened to the 'You Suck - Hall of Fame' that was on your website??
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<< <i>Connecticoin's memory is exaggerating things a bit. The 1860-O dime was part of group that sold for $408, and it's worth $10,000 or so.
My vote for biggest "You Suck" is SUMADORA's hoard of 11,000 godless Washington $1s, sold for upwards of $800,000 if I remember right. It's going to be HARD to top that one in terms of dollar profit, although it's "only" (!) an 80x score in terms of ratio.
Earlier thread on the subject >>
Sorry, these get to be fish stories after a couple years.
Holy crap $800k?? I did not catch that -- I thought he "only" had a few hundred.
<< <i>When the "YOU SUCK!" was set up, it was based on the amount you paid for the coin, and the amount is sold for (or was worth). While 80X is a great score, it's not real YOU SUCK! material. ... A true YOU SUCK! is a 1000X or better ratio. >>
I don't think I can agree with that. You're pretty much saying that a YOU SUCK! can't be awarded if you pay much above face value. It's really really really hard to make 100x on something bought for more than face value, let alone 1000x.
In that old "homerun" thread, the highest ratio reported was "only" 240x, for a 1962 50c MS66FBL paid $7 raw, sold $12,000. Gotta include grading fees when figuring the ratio!
<< <i>Sumorada's, hands down. >>
at least twice
<< <i>I am proud of mine, but it pales in comparison to some of the ones mentioned above. I think the Sumodora takes the You Suck cake.......... >>
I agree... I take pride in the few that I've received, but they've never been more than several thousand dollars. How can someone compare with high 6-figures?
Marty........YOU SUCK!
<< <i>I feel for you lordmarcovan, that sucks, carrying around a 30k coin for 3 years, who knew? >>
Well, I certainly didn't, nor did Cladiator, to whom I sold it.
I look at it this way: there was a 99.8% I would have never discovered what I had, anyway. I'm simply not very interested by die varieties. Had I not sold the coin and had it not been discovered later, I wouldn't have been the wiser.
So while yeah, it stings to think about a $30K coin slipping through one's unknowing grasp that way, I can take it philosophically and enjoy being part of the tale. Which is more than I would have gotten if the coin had changed hands a few more times before it was discovered.
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<< <i>I got one for a 62 Frankie I bought for $7, graded a MS66FBL >>
That one came to mind ahead of that certain 93-S from the pawn shop?
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I remember a few doozies from Marty's Hal of Fame page, like the forum member who pulled around 18 gem 1949-D/S nickels from an OBW. And jonathan, it may not be your most profitable pick, but to me nothing will top the 1970-S DDO you bought raw on eBay from a blurry obverse picture. That pick took more stones than all of mine put together.
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<< <i>I got one for a 62 Frankie I bought for $7, graded a MS66FBL >>
That one came to mind ahead of that certain 93-S from the pawn shop?
Don't forget the book of error coins that happened to include a Kennedy Half indented by a smaller denomination planchet, or the 1938 proof set. He's sucked so often we finally had to make him a trophy:
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"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
<< <i>When the "YOU SUCK!" was set up, it was based on the amount you paid for the coin, and the amount is sold for (or was worth). While 80X is a great score, it's not real YOU SUCK! material. If I remember the 1st official YOU SUCK! was given to Don Heath. Who scored a 1965 SMS 50C in MS68DCAM out of a $10 SMS set. A true YOU SUCK! is a 1000X or better ratio.
Someone who buys a coin for $4,000,000 and flips it for $5,500,000 may make $1,500,000. But they don't get a YOU SUCK! >>
So my IKE Prototype Coin which is a one of a Kind, which I bought for less than $10 would qualify right?
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<< <i>When the "YOU SUCK!" was set up, it was based on the amount you paid for the coin, and the amount is sold for (or was worth). While 80X is a great score, it's not real YOU SUCK! material. If I remember the 1st official YOU SUCK! was given to Don Heath. Who scored a 1965 SMS 50C in MS68DCAM out of a $10 SMS set. A true YOU SUCK! is a 1000X or better ratio.
Someone who buys a coin for $4,000,000 and flips it for $5,500,000 may make $1,500,000. But they don't get a YOU SUCK! >>
Marty, I will have to disagree as well. If only one of these coins was found, then yes, no YOU SUCK for only an $80 score. But finding a hoard of these that could fund a luxury home or early retirement is definitely a YOU SUCK!
<< <i>Such a term of endearment.
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