Reminiscing about the hobby past - Teletrade
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I was scrolling through Ebay searches recently and started thinking about the good old days of Teletrade. Anybody else have fond memories of dialing an 800 number 50 times trying to "snipe" an auction? Good times.
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haha I remember it well. got pretty good punching those numbers
I still have a bunch of cards I bought still with the teletrade sticker on them. I always think back about bidding on them
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
I spent a fortune on sports phone
800-976-1313 I think
That’s a name from the past…I participated in its auctions.
I distinctly remember standing at a pay phone at a casino in Biloxi Mississippi bidding my tail off in one of the auctions.
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It was coins for me with Teletrade. I have a plastic tub with a few hundred coins in there from those good ole days. I should go thru it
I put together a good chunk of my 1968 set this way. The good old days.
Brian
Yep nice memories. I remember winning a 55 Bowman Mantle PSA 6 when you could still get one for a couple hundred bucks.
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Got my first '83 Star Co. Drexler RC throgh teletrade. Seems like lifetime ago.
I wasn't a buyer on Teletrade which advertised in SCD but was a regular with its parent company Greg Manning Auctions.
I spent a lot of time on the phone when I was stationed in NYC with Steve Novella who on 2 occasions worked for them.
I saw Steve at the National a few years back. I was intrigued that he was selling off the collection at the time of Jim Crandall who used to post on the Registry as Davalillo - for those who don't know? He had a goal of putting together 100 PSA "vintage" sets PSA 8 or better.
There's a rich and interesting history here over the years for those who remember some of the fray.
From SCD copy:
Was Jim Crandall from Connecticut?
I believe he was from NJ
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Oh man I loved the paper catalogs and bidding in Teletrade auctions. I bought an 84 star Jordan through them. Sadly sold it long ago!
Jim lives in Chatham, NJ I believe. I tried emailing him years ago but the account was closed.
He worked for Lehman Bros. before they went belly up in 2008 I believe. I wonder if that had something to do with him divesting? If I have the story correct?
That seems like a million years ago! He was upset that PSA was going to the half grade scale or was it the other way around?
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Another teletrade bidder here. Then there were all the other phone auctions every week that were listed in SCD. I'm not sure they were the good old days, but lots of good memories for sure.
The opposite IIRC. I believe PSA contacted him to make an offer he couldn’t refuse. They flew a grader to him, who went through all of his collection and picked out all of the cards that would get a .5 bump and he paid for those cards to be regraded including having the grader hand carry them back to CA. PSA wanted to make a splash on the regrade concept, and this caught some attention.
Bosox1976
Now that you say that, you are right. He threatened to go to SGC if I remember correctly.
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