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bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
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Hello all....I have never bought cards off of Cragislist......how does this ad sound?

Due to my pending divorce, I am forced to sell off the few remaining cards from my high-end vintage baseball card collection. These cards are all PSA graded and all are from 1909 - 1952. Included are Joe Jackson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and others. I want to make it clear that these cards are all higher dollar cards.

This past summer I sold all of my lesser value cards ($200 - $2,500) here on Craigslist with great success. I am a very fair seller and I expect buyers to be as well. As a result of my success, I decided to sell my remaining higher-end cards here on Craigslist first before I contact one of the large national dealers. I know most of these dealers try and lowball so hopefully I can get a little more here on Craigslist from die-hard collectors. I am willing to let these cards go for below market but I will not give them away.

Please respond to this ad ASAP with a telephone number where I can reach you and I promise I will get back to you within the hour. I am off work this entire week so I am completely open to show the cards at a public location only. My court date is January 27th so I absolutely have to have the cards sold by then. Thank you.

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  • mrmint23mrmint23 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭
    How long did it take your wife to write that ad?
  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    This is sort of irrelevant, but the local paper reported a few days ago that someone had been using Craigslist to set up robberies.

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    Collecting Tony Conigliaro
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    As long as you know how to authenticate the cards yourself and meet at a safe public place, the only thing you have to lose is your time.

    Might turn out to be a deal and might turn out to be a fraud, but if you can authenticate you should be fine. If you don't want them to have your telephone number or true identity, then use a "burner" cell phone, a fake name, pay in cash, meet at a shopping mall food court, bring an extra change of clothes in a knapsack, park at a different entrance, make sure you lose them in the maill, enter a restroom, change clothes, and be aware that you aren't being followed back out to your car so they can't get your license plate #. image Really pretty simple, LOL.


    Mike
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    Article from my local Newspaper

    I don't like Craigslist, I won't use it.
  • Mdube16Mdube16 Posts: 744 ✭✭
    Fishy, but I have gotten some nice items through Craigslist. Please be safe.
  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    are you kidding to even post this ??? totally ridiculous
    always looking for 1969 graded basketball
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    He had me until the stated the urgency of selling items by a certain deadline, only a week away. The paragraph before though, he stated that he is wanting to sell things cheaply, but he doesn't want to give things away, and is willing to take his cards on a national level. You and I both know, that selling cards under at the National, you aren't going to get them sold within a week....
  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    Am I seriously the only one who's done good on craigslist? I picked up a 62 set not too long ago... Flipped it for double.
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Who knows? My ex-girlfriend used to own a bead shop that went out of business. She ran a craigslist ad and met a lady at a local restaurant (Panera). She ended up selling her entire inventory to the lady for about 30% of the value. Everything was smooth and safe.
    Successful dealings with shootybabitt, LarryP, Doctor K, thedutymon, billsgridirongreats, fattymacs, shagrotn77, pclpads, JMDVM, gumbyfan, itzagoner, rexvos, al032184, gregm13, californiacards3, mccardguy1, BigDaddyBowman, bigreddog, bobbyw8469, burke23, detroitfan2, drewsef, jeff8877, markmac, Goldlabels, swartz1, blee1, EarlsWorld, gseaman25, kcballboy, jimrad, leadoff4, weinhold, Mphilking, milbroco, msassin, meteoriteguy, rbeaton and gameusedhoop.
  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    i have a nice craigslist story .....i bought a 1988 donruss baseball set on craigslist...I sent the entire set to psa for grading.....every card graded a 2-4.5......going to one of the big auction houses for sale..so there people, more than one good story for craigslist finds....
    always looking for 1969 graded basketball
  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>are you kidding to even post this ??? totally ridiculous >>



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