Most $ you have made or lost in a card related transaction?

AlmostPerfect

Bad GAI 10 Mantle deal: -$450.31

nightcrawler

You didn't fall for the ol' badMantle in the tail pipe???

zep33

<< <i>Bad GAI 10 Mantle deal: -$450.31 >>



ouch

bluemarlin

+300 bucks on a 1952 Topps mathews sale.

WinPitcher

1000.00+ on a 52 Bowman Mantle.

Steve

Post25

+ $800.00 on an '87 Fleer, Topps & Donruss Bonds PSA 10 and 10 unopened 86 Topps Traded sets. Bought them all in a lot and flipped them a few weeks later.

NathanSr

This goes way back. My buddy and I went to the local card shop after work one day. He bought a box of 1993 SP Football for $90. I thought he was crazy for paying that much for a single box of cards. He opened the box right there and I thought the cards were nice looking. I ended up talking myself into buying a box. I pulled 7 Bledsoe's. Over the next week, the lady who owned the shop put the word out to her customers and I sold all 7 for $75 a piece.

I will never have a box of cards produce for me like that one did.

NathanSr

Leiascards

2005 Topps Cracker Jack Alex Rodriguez Autographed Mini #13/50 pulled from a single retail pack I paid 2.97 for sold for 450.00.

1989 Fleer Billy Ripken FF pulled from pack right after card was released traded ovr 300 dollars worth of cards for it.

bifff257

<< <i>Most $ you have made or lost in a card related transaction? >>



$400 loss on a Counterfeit 1954 Bowman Ted Williams.... I bought it raw on Ebay.....

fattymacs

Back in the 1987's I traded two 87 Fleer Kevin Seitzer rookies for two 80 Topps Rickey Henderson rookies even up. I had one graded recently SGC 88 (an 8 for the PSA crowd, which is 98% of the posters).

Sorry forgot to add I traded the othe Rickey (raw) for a 51 Bowman Warren Spahn

sayheykid54

1954 Topps Hockey Marcel Bonin card.

bought for $25.00 raw
sold for $3750.00 graded a Psa 8!!

Stone193

+1

Around 1959, I traded with my cousin Ray from Quincy, Mass - a 57T Williams for a Duke Snider.

mike

nam812

Your cousin Ray saw you coming from a mile away.

tombo

Biggest hose job was a $250 loss on a counterfeit '38 DiMaggio Heads Up I bought on Ebay.

Bright side - bought 3 raw Jordan rookies (1 Star & 2 Fleer) through the newspaper for $1500 in 1999. Grades came back as a CSA 7 on the Star, which I sold for $1300, a PSA 5 on one Jordan which I sold for $450, and the final Jordan was a PSA 8 which I kept.

nam812

In the later 90's when I got back into cards, a friend of mine had a lot of modern rookie cards (a few each of Griffey, Clemens, Jeter, Arod, etc...) and wanted $1,000 for all of them. There were plenty, and they were mostly the better issues like Jeter SP, Arod SP, Clemens Tiffany, 5 of the UD Griffey that might have booked at like $150 each back then, and so on. I remember it all being about over $2,000 (maybe $2,500) in book value, and I offered him $900 and he agreed. If the story ended there it would be a horrible deal, but I got a PSA 10 on the 1985 Topps Tiffany Clemens and sold it on eBay for $2,466.00

HighChopper

'75 Aaron RB #1 PSA 9 ... sold for almost a grand.

JeremyDie1

Just recently I paid $250 for a $20 dollar card. I put a last second snipe with a huge amount. Some other guy did the same the last second too.

Stone193

<< <i>Your cousin Ray saw you coming from a mile away. >>

Nick

As a Brooklyn fan - the Duke was "royalty" on our block.

Boston was a foreign country who hardly got a nod - we had the Yanks to hate!

Those were great times - when baseball was everything on 78th ave. in Queens.

mike

stown

All the cards, packs, boxes, cases I bought in the late 80s and early 90s.

I have no idea what the total is but know it's BIG.

HighChopper

All the cards, packs, boxes, cases I bought in the late 80s and early 90s.

Amen. I still buy these today!

dontippet

Few years ago, bought six or seven 1981 Donruss Golf packs for a buck or two each. Pulled a Ray Floyd that sold for $1,025 as a PSA 10.

jimq112

I bought some of the David Hall collection cards from a superior auction way back in the day, some of the low pop cards did pretty well. One of them cost me $15 and I sold it on ebay a few years later for $630. If I remember right 2 of the cards I bought for a total of under $50 paid for the whole auction invoice of about $2000. Still have maybe 20 or so of the other cards.

I also bought a pete rose rookie once that was a magazine page glued to a rookie of somebody else. Crappy scan, NARU seller a few days later.

I guess it evens out.

scooter729

About 15 years ago I bought a near-complete T218 high-grade Ex-Mt set (125 of the 150 cards) for about $250, or $2 per card. I sold about 50 of the high-grade cards for roughly $50 each 3-4 years ago, and thought I made a killing!

Unfortunately, most of the remaining cards which I have sent in so far have graded PSA 6's and 7's (really hard for this set), and were probably not even as nice as the ones I sold. I bet I sold a few PSA 8 quality for $50, which would go for at least $500 today.

Oh well - I used the money from selling the singles to buy a Babe Ruth signed pic, and I am trying to re-piece together a full T218 set now. So that was my best deal ever, but also had a bad part due to selling too early.

Kurtman9

<< <i>I also bought a pete rose rookie once that was a magazine page glued to a rookie of somebody else. Crappy scan, NARU seller a few days later. >>



Oh man, that sucks!

fkw

I have many good deals, but most were in eBay's early days.

Picked up 4 Ullman Postcards for $40 ea ($160 total), then sold them to 4 different collectors for about $4,000 total (now worth about $6,000).

Picked up the only known 1925 Holland Ice Cream #16 Roger Peckinpaugh for under $150 and resold it for $3,000 (VG condition).

A couple months ago I won 2 cards (1949 Sunbeam Stockton Ports) for the $2 opening bid +$3.00 SH, ($5 total with shipping), and sold both of them to fellow collectors for $400 total before I even received them in the mail.

In eBays early years is was easy to find and flip a card for 1000++% profit or more. It was usually a rare PreWar "type card" that many dont know about listed in the wrong category with a bad picture.

Stone193

We've had this discussion before....

I don't sell but one of the better pickups was this 61F #46 Baylor IA - from Rotman for 30 bucks - it graded PSA 9 - value? Not sure - 5 or 600?



mike

Carew29

Years back i won a T206 Southern leaguer from i think it was the (Harris Collection??) from Superior Sportscard Auction for the opening bid of $325 and flipped it on ebay several months later for around $800.

Bought 1913 National Game Ty Cobb from MWCards for $250 in NM/MT and sent it in to PSA for grading and it came back a 9 and then sold it a year later for $2,000

plifter

I bought a bunch of wax packs of both 86 and 87 Fleer basketball before basketball cards became hot. A year or so later basketball cards took off and I sold all of them for about $1000 to a dealer. I figure I invested about $25 in them. I sure wish I had kept at least one of the Jordan rookies though.

artistlost

Remember a few years back there was a guy named Chris Shelton? You Tiger's fans will...anyway...i read an blurb about him on a website before the season started saying he was going to be a big impact rookie. So i grabed 3 of his best autographed rookies at $10.00 each. When he started the season with something crazy like 11 HRs in the first month I sold them all for over $100.00 each. He is now washed up playing in the minors for someone.

Also read a blurb about a guy named Ryan Howard a few years back. It went something like this....big guy...can really hit...but is getting old waiting for Thome to retire. Anyway...as soon as Thome went down and they called him up I bought 2 of his Bowman's Best autographs for approx $30. Sold one for almost $500 soon after and kept the other until just a few months ago when I sold it for $300 graded a PSA 9.

mathew

perkdog

I can report from my recent sales on the BST forum...

53 Campy PSA 7 bought for $190 sold for $200
55 Hodges PSA 7 bought for $200 sold for $175
54 Robinson PSA 7 bought for $325 sold for $350
56 Snider PSA 7 bought for $100 Sold for $100
56 Gilliam PSA 7 bought for $30 Sold for $30


Earlier in the year I bought (2) Bowman Large PSA 8 Commons for $360 and sold on Ebay for $600 and change through my buddies store.

All in all I never buy to make a profit or sell, I recently sold my baseball to buy more football- the PSA 8 52 Commons were an investment.

I did buy a PSA 7 Whitey Ford- on Ebay I put in a high bid for $600 ( Drunk as a skunk) and it won for $580-

MajorDanby

stone....that baylor and your T3 bender...WOW!

I lost about $350 on a dual signed robinson/aaron/musial 63 topps card. It was a tough loss mainly because I loved the card and had to part with it for financial reasons. I believe a fellow board member got it...so i can take solace in that.

I did flip a T3 Young within a week...got a profit of around $250.

Bought a raw 54 Spic and Span Aaron for $60 two years ago. Sold it recently for a profit of $150.

I've had far too many losses than gains. That's what happens when you have an itchy trigger finger.

perkdog

<< <i>I've had far too many losses than gains. That's what happens when you have an itchy trigger finger. >>




I can relate!

BigDaddyBowman

<< <i>
I did buy a PSA 7 Whitey Ford- on Ebay I put in a high bid for $600 ( Drunk as a skunk) and it won for $580- >>





Hey Perk...at least you can use the "I was drunk card"....I don't drink, so I guess my only excuse is insanity!

thedutymon

Perk,
Besides both of us working in the same industry, (Loose terminology on that) , our E-Bay habits seem to be the same as well, Buy High, sell near the same or take a little less.
LOL
Neil

storm888

<< <i>+1

Around 1959, I traded with my cousin Ray from Quincy, Mass - a 57T Williams for a Duke Snider.

mike >>



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In Cali, that Snider card was the key to the kingdom. Very hard to get.

Also, Elgin appeared on the Groucho show, "You Bet Your Life." Groucho
did a hysterical bit about Elgin "being named after his father's prized
pocket watch."

I always try to double my money - or better - on stuff I buy. The worst
hit I have taken has been from the steroid boys. I was super-long TONS
of them, when the story first started to tank them. Several thousand down
the tubes.

AlmostPerfect

up for more!

RonBurgundy

ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS.




RON

Flintboy

PSA- 6 Chaz

JeremyDie1

<< <i>We've had this discussion before....

I don't sell but one of the better pickups was this 61F #46 Baylor IA - from Rotman for 30 bucks - it graded PSA 9 - value? Not sure - 5 or 600?



mike >>



Wow Mike! Thats a sweet lookin Baylor. Well done.

Stone193

Thanx guys!

One of my best buys in the past 2 yrs is now traded away - will find a scan later.

Here's one that goes back a while - I paid around $550 for this card. Not sure what it's worth? 2 to 3K. Of course, shown it before - but a good example of how a buy sometimes fall in ones lap.



mike

Pete14Rose

A few years back I sold 4 Yao Ming 03-04 UD Exquisite cards to a major Exquisite phanatic, with deep pockets, in PR. I paid a total of $1500 for all 4. I sold the same 4 cards for $17,000.

The guy was supposedly trying to put together the 03-04 Exquisite Master set.

The 4 cards were:

03-04 Exquisite Yao Ming auto patch 1/1

03-04 Exquisite Scripted Swatches Yao Minf 25/25

03-04 Exquisite Numbers auto patch 1/11

03-04 Exquisite Yao Ming auto patch 1/100

Stone193

OK - here's one of my most favorite raw pickups - it was from SG Gaynor - paid $500.

It came back a 6 - the only one - recently traded it for a PSA 5 and a PSA 4 Rhoades (one of the toughest in any grade in the set) - value of the two cards - about 7K.



Overpaid when Carlton was hot - $550 for his RC - it's been "colored."

So things like that happen - it's all part of the process of being in the hobby I guess.

Overall - this is great fun!

mike

Stone193

<< <i>A few years back I sold 4 Yao Ming 03-04 UD Exquisite cards to a major Exquisite phanatic, with deep pockets, in PR. I paid a total of $1500 for all 4. I sold the same 4 cards for $17,000.

The guy was supposedly trying to put together the 03-04 Exquisite Master set.

The 4 cards were:

03-04 Exquisite Yao Ming auto patch 1/1

03-04 Exquisite Scripted Swatches Yao Minf 25/25

03-04 Exquisite Numbers auto patch 1/11

03-04 Exquisite Yao Ming auto patch 1/100 >>

Absolutely incredible!

Wow - I woulda had a party!

mike

Boopotts

Hard to say. I spend $600 on a lot of 'NM/MT' '61's about two years ago, and after about a month's worth of vitriolic messages to Ebay's 'Safe Harbor' program (a name which I have since begun to interpret as a 'Safe Harbor' where penny-ante Ebay hustlers can rest their sales while being assailed by the slings and barbs launched by a wronged and outraged customer) I was still stuck with the cards. So there's that. There was also a raw Jim Brown RC that I paid $525 for at a show that ultimately didn't go in my favor.

As far as scores go, there have been a few low pop commons from various sets that I've sold for in excess of $500, but I'm sure those don't outweigh the losses. I'm a charter member of Perkdog's 'buy now, weep later' club, so I'm happy to blame myself for most of my bad deals.

BobaFett72

hmm tough call.

bought nearly 3 sets of 1964 topps standups & a near set of 57-58 topps basketball for about $900, probably sold it for 4 x's what i paid for it.

Bought 3 cases of 89' Upper Deck when it came out; factory direct...can't remember what i paid though lol. flipped those for ridiculous money!

and the WORST is buying 6 cases of 1991 score baseball, series one i still have 2 cases in my basement..ugh!

waxman2745

3 bad deals that I can think of:

1. three SEARCHED vending boxes of 1979 Topps baseball from Alan and Son Cards (Alan and David Forrest). Not a single star card among 1500 cards (not even a Jackson, Brett, or Rose). I lost $525.

2. a bunch of SEARCHED 1978 & 1979 Topps baseball vending boxes from Fusco Auctions in Willoughby, Ohio

3. jojosportsheaven fiasco (trimmed cards)

good deals:

1. I once got 3 Ripken rookies from a box of 1982 Topps baseball. One had a dinged corner but the other 2 graded PSA 8 and PSA 9!

cardbender

Best one card deal, made $6300.

Worse one card fiasco, lost $8800 ouch!

So I'm - $2500 in the hole.

mikeschmidt

Way more $$$ than I care to disclose on a 1974 OPC Schmidt BGS 9.5.....this was before BVG existed, and before it was exposed that Beckett was just grading sheet cut cards.

Nonetheless, still a very beautiful Schmidt -- but I paid a premium for the grade, that is much more than I care to think about without a wince.


Also -- probably a few thousand on trimmed 1955 Bowman cards that GAI graded as 8.5, 9.0, 9.5

Thank you Gary!