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Bowman Buyback sets

1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
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Was it Bowman that used to offer to buy back your completed sets? Any stories ?
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  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    1997 offered a $125 Buyback deal if I remember correctly. Back then I would never sell for that because that Jose Cruz Jr. was going to pay for my college.
  • Dand52261Dand52261 Posts: 180
    Yeah I thought Hideki Irabu" the fat toad" per Steinbrenner I could retire on him in the 97 set. 1996 I thought I could retire on Mike Sweeney and Mike Cameron rookies
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    I'm pretty sure the buy back on the 2000 was $150. I think they gave you two years for the buy back. I'm kicking myself because I planned on sending in a few of those redemptions but never did. I then ended up Ebaying two or three of those sets during the redemption period, getting at most $40 per
    Next MONTH? So he's saying that if he wins, the best-case scenario is that he'll be paying for it two weeks after the auction ends?

    Forget blocking him; find out where he lives and go punch him in the nuts. --WalterSobchak 9/12/12



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    Looking for Al Hrabosky and any OPC Dave Campbells (the ESPN guy)
  • sagardsagard Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭
    I'm sure Topps discontinued it. It was like free money for a couple of years. You just had to wait for it.

    The process was:

    1. Buy a pack of cards. $3.
    2. Send in the registration card along with $5.
    3. Buy the set via Ebay. $35-50.
    4. Wait until the set came due.
    5. Send in set. $5.
    6. Receive $125.

    They eventually made the registration cards 1/box so it became harder to do.
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    When the redemption was going on the sets were selling for more than the red. value. They were not $30-$40 on eBay.
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