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1971 OPC PSA 9 Checklist #111
TurbosHockey
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Well AJ has a 1971 OPC PSA 9 Checklist #111 with quite the opening price. It looks like he is not meesing around this time.Link
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TurbosHockey
Posts: 531 ✭
TurbosHockey
Posts: 531 ✭
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this was one of the toughest checklists to get.
It really is a nice checklist from a nice set.
However, the POP reports show that the 1969-70
first series checklist is the toughest one to get.
I've seen many 69 checklists and they're always off centered.
This is just my opinion and could surely be subject to debate.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see if this card gets any bids.
I'm thinking it may, but I've been wrong before.
marc
I think it still sells at the opening bid
Sure it would have been a lot more fun to watch this one with a $9.99 opener and no reserve but no one is taking any chances anymore, especially in unchartered waters such as these.
Nice to see that they took the time to provide a scan of the back as well.
Rob...
dan
Hockey set! Always looking to buy, trade or upgrade 1966 Topps to 1969 OPC.
<< <i>Gee, I could buy a nice used car......or a 1971 checklist inPSA 9! It's a no brainer!.....Really now, if it does sell for it's opening bid, then someone has too much money at the moment and needs a new hobby.
dan >>
Gee, thats like saying I could buy a 1952 Topps Mantle in PSA 10 or a really nice house. If I have to say that I shouldn't even be considering a baseball card. It's all relative.
Funny, we don't see comments like these when a low pop 60's or 70's baseball common sells for 4 figures. The card in question here is one of, if not the highest profile card in the hockey hobby from this era.
Oh yeah, it's also a 1/1.
I for one really hope it sells, auctions like these can only raise the profile of the hockey hobby as a whole.
Dan
Have you checked out some of the current prices in the Mastro auction?
Make sure you're sitting down.
Have a great day.
Rob...
I agree with both Rob and Dan.
We all know that hockey cards are the best priced little gems in the hobby.
Also, there is no comparison in availibility of cards between hockey and baseball.
It's surely much tougher to find quality and quantity in vintage opc.
There is the "old school" of hockey collectors who believe that hockey card
prices should stay the way they've been over the years.
And there are others who see the astronimical prices that vintage baseball cards
fetch and who don't understand why hockey is so cheap.
I think we should respect how "both schools" feel, and let people
collect and spend the way they want to.
I know AJ has been accused of greed, but I hold nothing against his
attempt to sell this card at that price. Agreed, if you look at mastronet,
you will clearly see that there are people out there where price is
not a problem.
I've dealt with some of these people. They are CEO's of companies that
have their companies stocks trading on wall street. They are lawyers.
They are rich.
marc
Funny how the world of money goes in a big circle....those CEO's make money off the little people when they exercise their stock options, and then they use that money to buy some vintage hockey cards. Who says I don't have a retirement savings plan!!!
Dan
Hockey set! Always looking to buy, trade or upgrade 1966 Topps to 1969 OPC.
Eventually for me, the decision came down to "Do you want to win?" If the answer is yes, then you have to have these types of cards. If you don't then your set will always be vulnerable to the guy who has it. In our case, Skinsfan is the competition. He has a better set than mine. He has more 9's and fewer problem children (7's, 8 NQ's and the like). But last year, I won based on the points earned from the set's checklists. My upgrade path is easier at this time and while I expect it to be close again, my checklists will always make it hard to overcome. I see the path for this set could be very similar down the road.
Yes it is a chunk of change but having owned mine for nearly two years now, I can't imagine trying to compete without it. If you have to have the top set. Buy it. Buy it now. You will be glad you did.
Fuzz
PS. No I was not paid for this endorsement, but he if wants to offer something.......
I've never understood the competition that goes along with setbuilding.
When I was a kid, I would buy packs and collate sets. I would also
flip cards and trade. Building the nicest set was never a priority.
Finishing a set was.
What makes the competition ridiculous in my opinion is the lack of
consistency of PSA graders. I'm not putting down the graders, just
making a known fact based on human error. They are very consistent
in my opinion, but errors do happen. My PSA 8 can be much worse
than your 7 sometimes.
I can understand wanting to build a high grade set. But I can't
understand the competition of it. That doesn't mean I'm against
it, I just can't understand it.
In my opinion, a PSA 7, 8,9, and 10 are all nice cards.
And MANY psa 8's are just as nice as 9's.
Have you ever paid big money on a PSA 9 card only to end up
realizing that your PSA 8 was just as nice ?
marc
Just the same I would love to have the coin for that one!!
R Haynes
Hockey set! Always looking to buy, trade or upgrade 1966 Topps to 1969 OPC.
Ahab and that checklist was my elusive White Whale.........Yeah, no doubt I overpaid but
to me it was a card that I simply had to have for this set............psychologically now I can
relax and take my time in getting the few cards I need in high grade from this set over the
next year or so............granted, this card has blown my budget for the next few months
or so...........but I am happy nonetheless harpooning this sucker.....
Thanks
I think the Moby Dick was the one doing the fishing.
Will you be going after the 1971 opc Bobby Orr 1/1 PSA 9 on ebay now ?
If so, I'm 99.9% sure that there will be a guy putting a 3k snipe on
it.
marc
With regards to the cards I need to complete a high grade 71/72 NHL OPC set, they come around every
now and then and I can afford to be patient..............
But at least I have got the hardest card to get in this set in high quality and that is of course the sp checklist
111...........
Thanks
I broke it out and submitted to PSA, and it came back an 8. I really thought that it had a decent shot at a 9, so I broke it out again and resubmitted it, and it came back a 9 on the second go round.
It remained in my collection until about 3 years ago when I sold it in a private sale to scerb13. At the time it was a good price at $350.
And now I am crying in my cheerios as I can see the card is going to sell for much, much more.
<< <i>I broke it out and submitted to PSA, and it came back an 8. I really thought that it had a decent shot at a 9, so I broke it out again and resubmitted it, and it came back a 9 on the second go round. >>
I agree with you completely regarding how I collected as a kid. In fact, I remained more interested in obtaining cards than the cards condition until the last several years.
I think that we agree that collecting cards and staying interested in them is all about the challenge. I my case, the competition on the registery is the challenge to collecting. I have been very fortunate so far that I have had the $ to buy the things that I really wanted. In many of the standard sets, having the cash is often the prerequsite to being finished. You can buy complete sets or even large chunks of cards, it just takes cash. In many of the registery sets that I collect, I have raw set several times over and honestly, it is not that much fun to put together a set for the tenth time. Even one you like a lot. The challenge for me is competitng against some of the friends that I have made on these boards. When you are hunting pop 2 card for an upgrade, there is a challenge. It is not a question of whether you have the $, both you and the guy your competing against have that. It is who can find it first. That has become the challenge that keeps the fire lit. Not finding it, but finding it nice.
Is it a good investment, usually not. But finding a card you need for an upgrade can make your day as much as getting it for the first time.
Maybe not a good explanation, but that is the way it is here.
Fuzz