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What kind of buyer are you?

SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
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I'm curious - when you buy cards, how would you rate your "buying personality"?

Cool Blue – Showing no bias, objective, detached, analytical

Earth Green – Still, tranquil, calm

Fiery Red – Positive, affirmative, bold, assertive

Sunshine Yellow – Cheerful, spirited, bouyant

No, I'm not a psychiatrist, I'm applying the class I'm enrolled in at work to this hobby, which is a lot more interesting than my job has been lately.

"Molon Labe"

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  • DistelrathDistelrath Posts: 206 ✭
    What color would OCD be?
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  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,260 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i didn't see "stark raving mad' on there.
  • erinstubbyerinstubby Posts: 455
    Fiery Red – Positive, affirmative, bold, assertive
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    Stark raving mad is red.

    "Molon Labe"

  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    ifi want something bad enough, ill outbid the popeimage
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    I am confused because the colors are not in order.....so maybe that makes me blue.
    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.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Cool Blue – Showing no bias, objective, detached, analytical

    Earth Green – Still, tranquil, calm

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    Those sets of attributes are sort of closely related.

    I guess I will pick the Earth Green.

    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    Storm, you as usual are right on.

    I am in fact part blue and part green. Most would like to be red or yellow I think, but I think the most admirable trait is "humble".

    In our society that usually means something terrible like wimpy. But it actually means "able to learn". A very complimentary trait if you ask me.

    "Molon Labe"

  • DeutscherGeistDeutscherGeist Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭✭
    When it comes to collectibles, OCD has to be a choice.
    "So many of our DREAMS at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we SUMMON THE WILL they soon become INEVITABLE "- Christopher Reeve

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  • leadoff4leadoff4 Posts: 2,392 ✭
    Cool Blue
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tightwad Teal
    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • StopYurWhiningStopYurWhining Posts: 719
    hmm, im the kind of buyer that actuallys pays image
  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    Under $25 = Fiery Red

    Over $25 = Cool Blue

    If it's just a few bucks and I want it, I'll blow cash all day long...but $20 pops add up quickly, so I tend to be more calculating, planned, and rigid when it comes to much more than that. Probably a holdover from my college days when I didn't have any money and I had to add to my collection on a limited basis.
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,260 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Stark raving mad is red. >>



    I like to put "fear" into the competing bidders by my bidding early and heavy, so the possible snipers and late bidders will hopefully lose interest and not bother with it, them "knowing" that they're not gonna win it anyway, and hopefully they go away.

    Sometimes, it actually seems to work, but it reality, it probably doesn't matter. LOL
  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
    Sunshine Yellow all the way. image
  • fattymacsfattymacs Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭
    All of the above.
  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
    I have that wheaties spark.
  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    Burnt Sienna.

    There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Cool Blue – Showing no bias, objective, detached, analytical


    I'm not going to start raving about a raw card I'm about to buy when the dealer can either raise the price or say he's not going to sell it to me. I've seen dealers do both.

    I've even had dealers try to pull out cards from stacks I've picked out because they think I've uncovered a gem. I've called them on it and told them I wasn't buying anything unless I got all the cards I wanted.



    RB
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • BarfvaderBarfvader Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭✭
    What color is cheapskate. image

    Jeff

    Miscut Museum

    My Mess

  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    <What color is cheapskate>
    pink with whit polkadotsimage
  • BarfvaderBarfvader Posts: 2,859 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i><What color is cheapskate>
    pink with whit polkadotsimage >>



    Geez would that make me one of these??? image

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    Jeff

    Miscut Museum

    My Mess

  • TJMACTJMAC Posts: 864 ✭✭
    I think I am fiery red. I am very focused and know what I want.
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