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BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
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A buddy of mine wife works with the guy who wants to sell. I am hoping that we will be able to hook up tomorrow afternoon so I can see tha cards first hand. We have talked on the phone a few times.

He sent me a spread sheet, so I thought I would post it here. He is asking $1000 for the collection. On paper it seems like a good deal (at least to me it does) however I am not sure what condition the cards are in.

He describes them as "Excellent", but I have a feeling that his idea of excellent is different from mine.

Here is a list of the cards:

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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck Bunker.

    That's a lot of stuff - price is good - condition will tell?

    I'll be watching for your report.
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    Mike
  • bakerbearbakerbear Posts: 51
    I'm sure that condition is critical on those cards, but it sure looks like a good deal- if you pass on them, tell him to let me know. LOL!
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    looks like a good deal even with so-so condition, keep the ones that you like and flip the rest at low ball price and make money
    good luck, let me know i'm lookin gfor a couple of those sets he says he has
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,876 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow, theres some good stuff in there. I hope it works out well for you. Keep us posted.

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  • magellanmagellan Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭
    Rick,
    He does state that the Ryan rookie is poor and his collection is fairly extensive so perhaps his condition estimate is close. The 70's sets alone are worth pretty much $1000. It would be hard to go wrong with this batch IMO.

    Dave
    Topps Heritage

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  • Piman58Piman58 Posts: 814 ✭✭


    << <i>He describes them as "Excellent", but I have a feeling that his idea of excellent is different from mine.
    >>



    Good luck Bunker. Hoping his idea of 'excellant' is indeed different from yours, but higher.
    If condition is great on even a couple of the key cards he listed it would be a great deal.
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    He has listed: "Conion Collection- about 200 cards+"

    I hate asking stupid questions but what is that? Is it a player or manufacture or neither? image
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    My daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 2 (2003). My son was diagnosed with Type 1 when he was 17 on December 31, 2009. We were stunned that another child of ours had been diagnosed. Please, if you don't have a favorite charity, consider giving to the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

    JDRF Donation
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Conion Collection were those vintage looking cards that came out around 1990. They wre kinda pricey at the time, likely worthless now.

    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    That is also a misspelling, it is Conlon Collection.

    Mark
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭


    << <i>That is also a misspelling, it is Conlon Collection >>



    Thank you for that! I was doing some research on some of the miscellaneous stuff I wasn't familiar with and couldn't find any info...I think I will have better luck now...lol
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    My daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 2 (2003). My son was diagnosed with Type 1 when he was 17 on December 31, 2009. We were stunned that another child of ours had been diagnosed. Please, if you don't have a favorite charity, consider giving to the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

    JDRF Donation
  • BobSBobS Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    Update?
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    Wow !!
    I'd jump on it in a minute .
    No doubt condition is critical but for anyone who collected that many sets, hgow bad could they possibly be , unless he left them in the basement and the basement got flooded and they are now dried and curled and all screwed up .
    I would tend to think anyone that collected that many , took care of their investment .
    Let us hear the good news .
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    That to me sounds like someone selling their fathers set or something . . . I'd never sell it for a G
    Just a G ??
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭


    << <i>Update? >>



    No update other than he bailed out for our Sunday meeting. I am hoping that we can try again one night this week.
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    My daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 2 (2003). My son was diagnosed with Type 1 when he was 17 on December 31, 2009. We were stunned that another child of ours had been diagnosed. Please, if you don't have a favorite charity, consider giving to the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

    JDRF Donation
  • originalisbestoriginalisbest Posts: 5,968 ✭✭✭✭
    Good luck - if the condition is overall there, sounds like a solid deal.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    Ya got his number ??
    i'll give em a call for ya . . .
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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    Well I finally had a chance to view the cards and I passed on the deal. There were no gradable cards from the 50's and only a handful from the 60's.

    I was hoping tp flip the 50's and 60's and upgrade my sets from the 70's, but most of the cards were EX or worse. I was pretty disapointed image
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    My daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 2 (2003). My son was diagnosed with Type 1 when he was 17 on December 31, 2009. We were stunned that another child of ours had been diagnosed. Please, if you don't have a favorite charity, consider giving to the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

    JDRF Donation
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,114 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, if you have to look at 50 crap collections to find the diamond, you just knocked one off the list.
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  • AtlFalconsAzDbacksAtlFalconsAzDbacks Posts: 53
    Yeah let us know how it goes, but id say go for it, but see what he actually meant by excellent.
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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Good that you passed.

    Never buy something that you cannot at least double
    your money on; you will end up broke, if you disregard
    that maxim.

    When I go to look at "collections," I always take a box
    of PSAs with me. I show the owner what a 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    really look like. The concept of "excellent," means something
    totally different to most folks than it does to us.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Sorry that it was a miss, bunker.

    However, the misses make the hits that much better image
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,624 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Really a "typical" lot of baseball cards these days for that type of presentation. The card collection has most likely already been to a number of local card dealers and they cherry picked the key cards and bought them. The dealer may have made an offer on the commons but nothing close to what the seller expected. So the seller winds up with exactly what is there - of some value of course but not nearly what the seller expects or wants.
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433


    << <i>Well, if you have to look at 50 crap collections to find the diamond, you just knocked one off the list. >>



    Good way of looking at it.


    Rick--you're going to find that diamond--just takes a little time.
    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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