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RipkenRipken Posts: 559 ✭✭✭
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Some of you may be aware of this, but the story is pretty interesting...Chicago Photographer's Collection Saved

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  • FabfrankFabfrank Posts: 2,312
    That was a great article. I love stories like this one.
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  • poppiepoppie Posts: 598
    Very cool !!!!
    My focus, 1970 Topps Baseball Raw and Graded, pre 1989 PSA Hockey and 1933 INDIAN GUM ! Yikes!!
  • jayhawkejayhawke Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭
    Nice article, but spliting the proceeds? Ron Mrowick could have contacted an auction auction and saved himself a lot of money. Win win for Leo. Fleecing of the elderly. I am disappointed in the buyer.
  • FabfrankFabfrank Posts: 2,312
    Nice article, but spliting the proceeds? Ron Mrowick could have contacted an auction auction and saved himself a lot of money. Win win for Leo. Fleecing of the elderly. I am disappointed in the buyer.

    I don't think that's fair. The article stated that these items were going to be thrown away. Leo could have just made him a low ball offer and anything above what the trash man would have offered would have been accepted. I feel he was honest with Mrowick and they worked out a deal that was beneficial for both parties.
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  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭


    << <i>Nice article, but spliting the proceeds? Ron Mrowick could have contacted an auction auction and saved himself a lot of money. Win win for Leo. Fleecing of the elderly. I am disappointed in the buyer. >>



    First thing I thought of when I read the article was the exact same thing. Heck, I'll scan and post along with all the "hassles" for a grand a month...........
  • jskirwinjskirwin Posts: 700 ✭✭✭
    I'm just glad his work is back in the public eye.
    Good photos deserve to be seen & remembered, not hidden and forgotten.
  • ColleSystemColleSystem Posts: 512 ✭✭
    How does this guy sleep at night taking 50% of the sales of someone's life's work. After instructing him on their worth, why not point him in the direction of maesto, sothebys, etc. and graciously accept any "bread crumbs". Sounds like the same type of person that would actually accept money from their grandmother for going to the grocery store for them. Somethings you just don't accpet out of integrity, even if they are offered. Unreal.

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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>How does this guy sleep at night taking 50% of the sales of someone's life's work. After instructing him on their worth, why not point him in the direction of maesto, sothebys, etc. and graciously accept any "bread crumbs". Sounds like the same type of person that would actually accept money from their grandmother for going to the grocery store for them. Somethings you just don't accpet out of integrity, even if they are offered. Unreal.

    Scott >>



    Sounds like you dont respect people who are smarter and more tenacious than thou. The old man seems happy. This guy is doing all the work, restoration, selection,auctions etc.

    Also, he contacted the old guy not the other way around. Win, win for all.


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