Do You Believe in (Gretzky) Miracles? YES!
shagrotn77
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Gretzky PSA 9
Fellow Boarders,
Just wanted to share the story of how I acquired a beautiful 1979 OPC Wayne Gretzky RC PSA 9 NQ for an absolute song. Before I go on, I need to say that this would not have been possible without the help of Yawie99 and Raym8, both of whom I now owe a kidney to. Anyway, I had been feverishly searching for this card for what seemed like forever until it finally popped up on eBay about 2 weeks ago. The auction, however, looked more than a little suspicious. There was no scan, the seller had low feedback and no transactions in well over a year and there was only a Buy it Now WELL below market value. Anyway, Raym8, who knew well of my burning desire to own this card, alerted me to the auction early in the morning after it was posted, and suggested that if I bought it, I contact Yawie99, who lives in the same area the card was being sold in. I won't go on forever (although I'd like to), so to make a long story short, Yawie99 picked the card up from the seller for me, about 30 minutes from his residence, and overnighted it. Raym8 and Yawie99, two people I have neither met or even conversed with over the phone, went way out of their way for me. Ray by passing on buying the card for himself and Steve by picking it up, packaging it so carefully and shipping it off to me. So this story has two happy endings:
1. This is proof positive that there are some phenomenal people in this hobby
2. I got the deal of the century
Thanks for letting me share guys. Happy collecting.
Shag
Fellow Boarders,
Just wanted to share the story of how I acquired a beautiful 1979 OPC Wayne Gretzky RC PSA 9 NQ for an absolute song. Before I go on, I need to say that this would not have been possible without the help of Yawie99 and Raym8, both of whom I now owe a kidney to. Anyway, I had been feverishly searching for this card for what seemed like forever until it finally popped up on eBay about 2 weeks ago. The auction, however, looked more than a little suspicious. There was no scan, the seller had low feedback and no transactions in well over a year and there was only a Buy it Now WELL below market value. Anyway, Raym8, who knew well of my burning desire to own this card, alerted me to the auction early in the morning after it was posted, and suggested that if I bought it, I contact Yawie99, who lives in the same area the card was being sold in. I won't go on forever (although I'd like to), so to make a long story short, Yawie99 picked the card up from the seller for me, about 30 minutes from his residence, and overnighted it. Raym8 and Yawie99, two people I have neither met or even conversed with over the phone, went way out of their way for me. Ray by passing on buying the card for himself and Steve by picking it up, packaging it so carefully and shipping it off to me. So this story has two happy endings:
1. This is proof positive that there are some phenomenal people in this hobby
2. I got the deal of the century
Thanks for letting me share guys. Happy collecting.
Shag
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
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congrats.
Put a scan up if you can.
Very cool story...I know youve been looking for that card for quite awhile. Kudos to Raym8 and Yawie !!
I have to say, though, that it's a bit of miracle the card made it to you. Not that I thought of absconding with it and fleeing to Europe or anything, but I couldn't take my eyes off of it on my drive back home. Seriously, I might as well have been in a drunken stupor. Driving with a beautiful, highly coveted sportscard is about that hazardous.
Dave
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
Great, great story by the way.
Reminds me of a time I sold a T206 Huggins Portrait PSA 8 to a buyer in NYC. I was actually heading out there on business/vacation the next week and hand delivered the card (I was staying about 10 blocks away and figured it'd be cheaper than paying for all the insurance, etc.) The buyer was quite impressed and it was cool to actually hand deliver a card to someone 3000 miles away from my house.
Anyways, if anyone ever needs courier services in San Diego, let me know!
1961 Topps FB PSA 8
1970 Topps FB PSA 9
Great to hear that you now have the card in your possession and everything worked out perfectly.
As I told Steve earlier this week, the hockey card collecting communitiy is a fairly small group,
and it is always a nice feeling to be able to help out another collector.
And while I'm on the subject, I want to send a 'Thank you' to aro13. I was in the market for a OPC PSA 8
Gilbert Perreault rookie. Albie alerted me to a seller who was selling a complete set with the Perreault
already graded a PSA 8. I wasn't interested in the set, but I did e-mail the winning bidder after the auction,
and ended up buying the card from him directly. The point being that if he did not alert me to this auction
I never would have even known about it since the seller was auctioning the set and the individual card would
not come up in your standard ebay search.
Best,
Ray
Congrats on the Gretzky PSA 9!!!! I too have dealt with Ray and Steve and both are class acts. I've dealt with many hockey collector on this board and have always had great results. Its always nice to help out fellow collectors.
Cheers,
Tom
Steve, will you take a trip out to CA for me?
JR
shill bidding id is the winner of your own auction......
I'm near L.A. and have a 6'4" 350 lb. (or so) heavily tattooed process server who is very reliable.
Nick
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it is not a qualified 9 it is a straight 9. The card is in a package and I really dont feel like opening the package and re packing it.
Need I say any more gentlemen???
shagrotn - did you save that email message? If so, I'd like a copy forwarded to me (with complete headers). Please send it, if you can, to raiders@snooty.net.
Nick
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I own one graded KSA 7, it means a lot to me.
I forwarded that e-mail to you. I have zero confidence that this auction is legit, so I'd stay away if I were you.
Shag
I'm confident that his auction is not legit. I want to make his life miserable. He is not getting any money from me unless I am getting the card at the same time (with a bodyguard). Unfortunately, ebay hasn't sent me his contact info yet.
Nick
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And what's the deal with this one??????
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