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What a Coincidence.

DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
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Sold a '52 Bowman DeLock PSA 8 on eBay yesterday. I get paid from the seller and the address looked familiar. Realized that I lived on this street in Arlington, MA in 83/84 when I was going to BU Law School. Have not been back in 27 years! (I live on Long Island.)

Anybody else sell a card on eBay to someone that lives on the same street you used to?
STAY HEALTHY!

Doug

Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.

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  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    wow Doug that's crazy!
    I once sold a card to a guy in the same state, but 200 miles awayimage
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  • alifaxwa2alifaxwa2 Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭
    I made a trade on a different site and after exchanging address, we ended up living 2 miles apart.
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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Yup .. it's a small world!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • brendanb438brendanb438 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭
    I had someone win an auction of mine in December who lived less than a mile from me.

    What pissed me off is the dumb woman demanded to be able to pay me via Paypal but pickup the item in person. I told her that first off the auction says clearly no local pickup, but if we do it this way you are paying cash to me in person for the goods. She refused. So I charged her shipping and mailed the item to her to protect myself from being scammed.
  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    I bought some cards from a seller on eBay (it was an off eBay deal). He showed up at my doorstep with the cards that evening. He lived on the same street about 5 blocks down.
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  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow these stories are amazing. My closest buyer was in Deltona about 50 minutes away. My farthest have been Japan, Australia, and Canada.

  • cadets68cadets68 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭
    I sold cards on sportlots to a guy who lives a few blocks away. I saw him at the local card store a couple of weeks later. I did not say anything to him about it. Not sure if he new it was me. The shop closed last year and I have not seen or sold him anything since.

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭
    What Red Line stop, Doug? Alewife? image. I'm from south of Boston in MA but in college I lived on the evil side (the orange line at Sullivan Square)
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  • burke23burke23 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭
    I traded a card to a guy at a local show (psa lester chrome auto). I bought it back on ebay. Then I traded it to him again. We realized at that exchange what had happened.
    pete
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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭
    I won an item and when I went to pay for it, realized he was less than 20 miles from me but on my way to/from work. I picked the cards in person. Now we deal often. image


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  • CrazyMind2017CrazyMind2017 Posts: 1,205 ✭


    << <i>I traded a card to a guy at a local show (psa lester chrome auto). I bought it back on ebay. Then I traded it to him again. We realized at that exchange what had happened.
    pete >>


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  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭
    Yesterday I . . . no wait, that wasn't me.
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    I bought some cards on ebay once from a guy whose sister lived 3 houses away from me. He lived in a different state.

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  • JohnnyDJohnnyD Posts: 521 ✭✭
    Two years ago my Secret Santa from the Board gift exchange lived in my city about 2 miles away. I just dropped his gift off at his house....
  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭✭
    Was the buyers name Doug? It's a great name you know.image
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    bought a PSA graded '69 Topps Nettles from some dude who lived in the local territory, but i figured he'd just mail it.

    next day i'm raking leaves on the front lawn and the same dude pulls up my driveway on a 10-speed bike and hands me my card in a bubble mailer. image
  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    I once sold a Gorman Thomas bat to a guy whose cubicle was over the wall and down two from mine at the SCD "World Headquarters." Neither of us recognized the other's eBay handle. Today, eBay would probably ban both of us (assuming he also used his work computer for his eBay activities).

    I also once sold some Paul Molitor cards to a guy who is now living three houses down from the house in which I grew up 1951-72.
  • pdub1819pdub1819 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭✭
    I met up with a fellow board member who sold me his Clemente rookie to complete my Basic Clemente Set...he lives 10-15 miles away.

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  • hockeycrazyhockeycrazy Posts: 309 ✭✭
    I sold a card to a guy who wrote me that he would not be using paypal - he'd come by to pick the card up. I laughed and chalked it up to another non paying Ebayer. Lo and behold, the guy shows up at my work within the hour. He lived 10 minutes from me.
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Several years ago I sold a vintage college football program to the house that I lived in as a kid (35 years ago). About three years ago I bought cards from a guy locally over ebay and he ended up bringing them to my job and brought a bunch more. He made a bigger sale that way.
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  • scashaggyscashaggy Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭
    Sold a card on ebay that lived about 20 minutes North of me.
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  • scooperqprscooperqpr Posts: 438 ✭✭
    I live in Vancouver Canada and once sold some cards to a guy in England,he was my sisters next door neighbour!!
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool Doug.

    Don't sell - but if you're alluding to a 'small world' - been there.

    Worked in McDonalds in Tampa - a guy gets hired who my sister was friends with in Queens NY.

    Mantlefan - who posts here on occasion - lived a few blocks from me in the 50s - we even attended the same church.

    I was sitting in a bar in Saigon - look over and see a guy I knew when I was in high school.

    Bishop who occasionally posts here - turns out he lives about a mile from my house.

    Yes - it's a very small world.
    Mike
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