Someone is going to Steal my 72 set! Auction ends Today!
BarkusD
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After watching others consign sets to auction, I finally took the plunge and consigned my 68, 72 and 74 fully graded sets to the Memory Lane auction. I haven't seen the catalog yet, but I think they did a nice job with the online advertising. Whoever buys my 72 set will be super happy. The 9s in the set are the best of the best. They are a compilation of the best 9s I bought from Andy Montero, Jim Vitale, Frank Bakka, Dave Read and other long time 72 collectors. In most cases I had 3 or more of each card and chose to keep the best for my set. The stars listed on the website are just a glimpse of the perfect centering and sharp corners. The set also includes a number of tough variations including both large and small print versions of checklist 251 in PSA 9 and a green letter variation of card 45 Glenn Beckert also in PSA 9. The set includes a PSA 10 of Rollie Fingers, a 1 of 2, not even included in Frank Bakka's great set.
My 68 and 74 sets are great as well and include lots of low pop 9s.
If you would like to view the sets, you can do so by clicking on the following links:
1968 Set
1972 Set
1974 Set
My 68 and 74 sets are great as well and include lots of low pop 9s.
If you would like to view the sets, you can do so by clicking on the following links:
1968 Set
1972 Set
1974 Set
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Good luck......
Jami
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62 Parkhurst (100%) 8.70
63 Topps (100%) 7.96
63 York WB's (50%) 8.52
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69 Topps (3%) 9.00
69 OPC (83%) 8.21
71 Topps (100%) 9.21 #1 A.T.F.
72 Topps (100%) 9.39
73 Topps (13%) 9.35
74 OPC WHA (95%) 8.57
75 Topps (50%) 9.23
77 OPC WHA (86%) 8.62 #1 A.T.F.
88 Topps (5%) 10.00
Hope that '72 set's ending price goes through the roof!
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In looking at you 68 set, there appears to be an error. Card #110 (Aaron) is shown in one scan as a PSA 9 and the other scan its an 8, while its listed twice on the auction page as an PSA 8.
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Good Luck!!
Good luck.
Forgive me if this is inappropriate, but why would you want to sell your three best sets?
If you need the money and this is the only way then pls ignore my question.
People are different and I am not trying to put my values on you but I think I would sell my living room furniture or get a second job or do almost anything before I sold my best sets that I had put incredible work into.
Jim
I know where you are coming from. It was a very tough decision, especially with respect to the 72 set because I don't think there is much of a chance that I could ever recreate it in such high grade. I still think about all the PSA 9s in that set and the hours I spent comparing my many duplicates to make sure that I only included top examples of each card in the set. Guys on the board can tell you how many of each of the low pops I bought to make sure that I had a perfectly centered example of each.
My problem is that I can never decide what I want to collect and I don't have the funds to buy everything that I like. My hope is that I will sell these sets at a profit and the extra cash will enable me to buy more cards. I would really like to finish my 60 topps and 33 goudey sets.
I have the same philosophy with cards on my website. There are cards that I have sold or traded (especially some high grade 33 Goudeys) that still stick with me, but then I find new cards that make me happy.
Right now I have 2 cards that I would hate to sell more than any others, but I have them on my website if I can get the right price. The cards are my 33 Goudey Tris Speaker in PSA 8, which is gorgeous, and my 1967 PSA 10 Eddie Matthews. I love both cards because I have never seen a better example of either one.
One day I hope to duplicate your quest for completed sets, but for now, I am happy knowing that at least for a time I have owned so many of these wonderful cards.
I hope that my explanation makes sense.
David
It must be difficult parting with such great cards.
I wish you the best.
Jim
1968- $11,484 only 81% of SMR
1972-$15,500 only 43% of SMR
1974-$3,897 only 58% of SMR
I can't believe how low the bids are. I guess people are waiting until the auctions get closer to the end to put in their bids. The 72 set especially puzzles me. There is super strong demand for 72s on ebay and the breakup fee for my set, given the number of low pops and high end examples, is at least SMR. There are a lot of "$10 common" in that set that routinely sell (when you can find them) for $200+.
Scott
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1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
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1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
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Best of luck Dave !!
<< <i>If I sold my living room furniture, I might possibly get a 74 Winfield PSA 8. >>
LOL, that's true with me too. I have a sectional that I think I paid about $100 for and a glass coffee table that I think somebody gave me for free, I don't remember paying for it.
Steve
<< <i>So far the bids are:
1968- $11,484 only 81% of SMR
1972-$15,500 only 43% of SMR
1974-$3,897 only 58% of SMR >>
Whoa - that's pretty darn good by current Ebay standards. 70's cards don't ever come anywhere near the SMR (except a few exceptions, and I sell them all the time. 1974's are among the softest). To get 81% of SMR for a 1968 set is amazing as well...you can't give PSA 9 commons from this set away for anything more than $15 a piece.
And remember, these aren't final bids yet. I'd take the above money and run.
Wow....my catalog arrived today, Saturday March 25, and the auction ends March 30. I would say Memory Lane is cutting it pretty close.
Good luck on your sets.
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The 68 set also has a number of very tough cards including some of the leader cards that sell for big premiums to SMR. I don't think the price for the 68 set is high by any means. If you look at some of the 9s I had to buy to finish that set, they sell for $100-$200 if you can find them. I believe that more than 10% of the set is PSA 9 so it should not be compared to a straight 8 set. A number of the top 10 sets in the registry don't even have some of the PSA 9s I have in that set.
I'm sure whoever gets my sets will be very happy. They all have perfect holders with no scratches or cracks (I sent the few cards I bought with slightly scratched holders to PSA for reholdering before I sent the cards to Memory Lane). The cards are also high end examples for the grade. The guys who I have bought from know the care that I have taken to put together high end sets.
why didn't you break them up. more work but i think you would have gotten more money if some of the cards are hard to find. much like selling a used car on your own or take the trade in from the dealer. it was great that you were so thoughtful about the scratched card holders but you probably will never get your money back on that in a memory lane auction.
someone chasing the set doesn't want to buy a bunch of high pops just to get a few low pops.
i hope in the end you get what you think is fair.
<< <i>I am hoping for a sale price of $35,000+ >>
I wish you luck, but I hope you are not disappointed.
Jim
<< <i>Oh Oh--with Wondo high bidder I sense a quick flip and a break-up coming. Wondo is proving himself very adept at this.
Jim >>
Jim,,
I', shocked and appalled!
The 1972 set is a great set!
this is the set I put together when I was a kid, 11-12. George Mitterwarl or Brunet, I can't remember, was all that kept me from putting together the set from packs.
I would love to own this set!!
talked with rich at memory lane on thurs... he said that NOBODY from ca had gotten their catalog & it seemed to be a state specific problem.
if you call them tomorrow you can get one sent out to you by thurs... oh yeah, that's closing day, isn't it!
btw the catalog's not very big but it's quite nice!
I feel duplicating the set (grade and time) may well be easier than you think. Primarily because the dynamics of the set and the market have changed. When I built the set for the second time, I paid $400 for my Schaal IA PSA8. At the time, there were five 8s and no 9s. Now there are 23 8s and 3 9s. While the Schaal IA is still one of the tougher cards, time has shown the Kendall and Houk to be quite a bit tougher. Since I've sold off the set for the second time, the number of 9s and 10s available have increased pretty dramatically - fueled in large part by Dave Read choosing to break his set and then there were large quantities of 9s and 10s coming out of the Wingard/Pekovich vending find. I would also argue that gradeflation has also had an impact. I know Erik Jarvi's set has sat virtually untouched for over two years. I would be very curious to see what would happen if he were to crack his 8s and resubmit them. I wonder how many 9s and 10s would result. Experience has also told me that if you want to upgrade your set, all you have to do is wait - and someone will break theirs up.
In selling off the second set, as a complete set, my experience was that people really don't much care about who assembled the set or the attention paid to each card being high-end-for-grade. In my experience, the overall GPA is all that matters. So you do have that going for you. Knowing the sources for a lot of your 9s, I'm confident they're top-flight. I've just found that people/buyers have generally adopted the attitude that a 9 is a 9 is a 9 - which I do find unfortunate.
Like I said, I hope I'm totally wrong and you exceed the $35k mark. Just my experience doesn't make me hopeful.
As for the 74 set, that's an even tougher go. I know that not that long ago, Gary Nusbaum put up his second set to eBay. It was complete, though I can't seem to recall the GPA. . .but it was listed with an extremely reasonable price and it didn't sell. At least not online anyway.
Good luck with your auctions, and I hope that in the end you're thrilled with the results.
Mike
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Thank you in advance for all your support!!
I agree.
Steve
Congrats and good luck.