Great times at the old Willow Grove show held at the GW
halfcentman
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NOT EVEN CLOSE, despite the fact that the show was never disappointing.
I had a guy come up to me with a fresh football deal. He had assembled very high-grade sets of 1964-1967 Philadelphia football and 1960-1963 Fleer Football. If I had to put an average grade on these sets, I would say 7.5-8. Most of the key cards were at least an 8. This guy knew what the hell what he was doing.
The sets were comtemporary as he purchased tons of material and saved nice cards. If he had handled then slightly better, they would been an average of 8.5 to 9.
I negotiated a price with the buyer with little fanfare. I had them in my case, and a RETAIL customer shows up at my table and starts looking at them. All of a sudden, I am getting mobbed as people start to realize what I have. I had not had the sets for 30 minutes.
The customer asks me "how much do you want for all of it? Anyone hear can vouch for my check, including the dealers over my shoulder!" I quote him a very high price, and in one second he says "done!" I knew the market like a book. He paid all of the money and then some at the time.
Wait, it gets better. I had purchased an extremely fresh cache of 1951 Ringsides, which I was able to make four sets out of ranging in quality from VG to NM-MT. One of the dealers bought that one intact, although the negotiations were a little more stressful.
Those were VERY good times.
Greg
I had a guy come up to me with a fresh football deal. He had assembled very high-grade sets of 1964-1967 Philadelphia football and 1960-1963 Fleer Football. If I had to put an average grade on these sets, I would say 7.5-8. Most of the key cards were at least an 8. This guy knew what the hell what he was doing.
The sets were comtemporary as he purchased tons of material and saved nice cards. If he had handled then slightly better, they would been an average of 8.5 to 9.
I negotiated a price with the buyer with little fanfare. I had them in my case, and a RETAIL customer shows up at my table and starts looking at them. All of a sudden, I am getting mobbed as people start to realize what I have. I had not had the sets for 30 minutes.
The customer asks me "how much do you want for all of it? Anyone hear can vouch for my check, including the dealers over my shoulder!" I quote him a very high price, and in one second he says "done!" I knew the market like a book. He paid all of the money and then some at the time.
Wait, it gets better. I had purchased an extremely fresh cache of 1951 Ringsides, which I was able to make four sets out of ranging in quality from VG to NM-MT. One of the dealers bought that one intact, although the negotiations were a little more stressful.
Those were VERY good times.
Greg
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Congrats.
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i remember a sweaty high school gym and being mobbed by buyers and sellers.
my first night there, i lost around 10 pounds, but earned around $200 bucks profit for every pound lost.
<< <i>If I am reading this right...you did very well.
Congrats. >>
Yeah, and I also sold a solid NM Mikan rookie to boot.
I had a table on the left side as you walked in. That place was as cramped as a sardine can. I split a 6' table most of the time.
I bought an at least 8.5, 1969 White Letters Mantle from Mr. Mint for $150.00. He woiuld not give me a discount. I bought it for a customer, and made a modest $50.00 profit.
good weekend, eh? eyebone
<< <i>I bought an at least 8.5, 1969 White Letters Mantle from Mr. Mint for $150.00. He woiuld not give me a discount. I bought it for a customer, and made a modest $50.00 profit. >>
Is this an Aprils Fools joke?? Let me guess....gas is also .25 cents a gallon?
my partner and i walk up to Al while he's shuffling Benjamins and ask him if he's interested in any Topps cut card cases (try not to laugh)......
"What years?"
"1981"
"HA! I got a warehouse fulla those! Next!"