Cory Lidle NYY Plane Crash
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Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was killed in a
plane crash today.
Sad circumstance.
storm
plane crash today.
Sad circumstance.
storm
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<< <i>Thats the first that I have heard of this. Was it the same plane that hit the building in NY?
Yes. Here is the story.
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<< <i>If you wanna see something morbid, check out how his sig is selling on Ebay. A signed ball that wouldn't sell for $9.99 yesterday is suddenly a $225 item (all bids pouring in in the past hour or so). >>
And they will keep being listed all night tonight!
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Very sad.
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<< <i>If you wanna see something morbid, check out how his sig is selling on Ebay. A signed ball that wouldn't sell for $9.99 yesterday is suddenly a $225 item (all bids pouring in in the past hour or so). >>
what a bunch of fools. Especially the buyers
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<< <i>Does anyone have an ebay account they dont often use so they can win these auctions and not pay ? It would be fair justice for the morbid dirtbags who are trying to make a profit off this. >>
I agree 100%. I did buy a Kirby Puckett autographed book the day after he passed away, I bought it because I knew I couldn't afford to get one later. The people buying Cory Lidle autos now just because he was killed in a plane crash are throwing away money. I don't follow baseball so I don't know if he was a star, but in a few days/weeks/months his autograph is just an autograph and probably goes back to the $10-25 range or whatever.
People who wanna ruin other peoples legitimate auctions IMO are the morbid dirtbags.
<< <i>Why do you care how people spend or make thier money? It's called publicity. That's the reason people sell because thier item is "HOT". If I had Cory Lidle stuff I would be listing it all right now. SO, if someone dies does that mean all memorbillia you own of that person is off limits until prices go down. I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense.
People who wanna ruin other peoples legitimate auctions IMO are the morbid dirtbags. >>
Sounds to me like you already do have some Lidle items up for auction.
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Edited to add: And no, officer, I don't have any Lidle pieces up for auction.
<< <i>If you want to sell something, sell it. I don't see a problem with those auctions. I'd have a problem with the internet police who seem to feel that their beliefs should be blanketed to all and deem my auctions to be deserving of sabotage.
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Edited to add: And no, officer, I don't have any Lidle pieces up for auction. >>
NO NO ARTHUR! thats not how it works.. when someone dies, you are supposed to save all those cards FOREVER or give them away for free.. how DARE anybody put Cory Lidle cards on ebay with a 99cent starting bid and let Yankees fans bid on them!
personally, until this year, i had never heard of Cory Lidle.. i dont even know if i own any of his cards.. its tragic he died, but i wasn't really a fan of his, other than the fact i'm a fan of baseball.. but if i did own any of his cards, damn right i would put them on ebay and hope they went to a buyer that wanted the cards more than i did, or to a buyer that was a bigger fan than i was..
of relevant items to market following the death of a
celebrity has been a reality.
What we have seen on EBAY during the past decade
is not a modern phenom.
B4 the internet, we could not easily see the immediate
hawking of dead-mens' items, but it was going just as
strong and fast as it is now, in the marketplace/venue
of its day.
Marilyn Monroe, Champagne Tony Lima (the Tiger Woods
of the 1960s, plane crashed ON A GOLF COURSE), Jayne
Mansfield, and slews of other famous folks were all
"exploited" immediately upon their demise.
100 years ago, most folks only had connections to their
families and a few neighbors. Their opportunity to feel
connections to celebrity was slim, yet they too sought
elements of remembrance when they "finally" learned
that a historical figure had passed.
In 1968, I had the opportunity to interview Johnny
Carson at a film festival in NYC. A topic of the chat
was Americans' "connections" to people that they
did not even know. (Carson was a shy and reclusive
guy, cast out of his element until his retirement.) He
said that our generation would have the opportunity
to live in a perpetual state of mourning because we
were all going to develop feelings of being connected
to thousands of people who would one day die. That
fact, in great part, drives the seekers of Lidle items.
It is neither evil nor new. It just is.
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As far as rediculous prices paid for his stuff: It's easy to part a fool and his money.
A tragedy that could have been worse collateral wise. Amazingly none of the debris hit any people down below. One guy was on the 11th floor talking to his girlfriend on the phone by the window and the next thing he see's is a wing falling past him on fire. RIP Cory