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mariotownmariotown Posts: 509 ✭✭
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Billy Ripken 1989 Fleer "hole punch" error

Why would someone pay $40+ for something they can create themselves?

Perhaps I should punch a hole in the shape of a butterfly on a card using my wife's scrap booking punch. It'll be a new variation!
I collect PSA cards of the following:
Billy Ripken
Cal Ripken, Jr. 1980-2002
Cal Ripken, Sr.
Hall of Fame Rookies

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  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭✭
    Yes. People are. I'm amazed everyday.
  • celesterussellcelesterussell Posts: 354 ✭✭
    Amazing, I guess what comedian George Carlin said is correct...

    Take a look at the average American and realize that half are dumber than that...
    In the USA all men are created equal but some are more equal than others....
  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    There are so many fakes involving this card, as well as actual variations, that you could almost specialize in collecting all the real ones and examples of all the fakes and documenting them.

    The SCD Standard Catalog actually list some fakes as fakes. Two I know of are a "Topps Mini Sample" card, which involved photos from Topps Surf team books pasted to cardboard with "sample" stamped on the back. They were being sold as Topps pre samples for upcoming sets. In the 2010 edition an example was listed near the checklist for the 1960 set.

    Another involved ingots created to look like the Topps silver Gallery of Champions issues from the 80s and early 90s. The listing for both say that as fakes and that therfore they have no collectible value. But since they were in the catalog, I got a couple of each for display with my regular sets. Others may have done the same even knowing what they were

    But it's one thing to buy it as a known fake or reprint, and another to think you are getting some legitimate variation
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  • bbuckner22bbuckner22 Posts: 1,028 ✭
    I think maybe later on tonight I'll list the ultra tough invisible Billy Ripken error card and see what it goes for.
    From what I can tell, 707 is the DOLLAR STORE compared to deans_cards. For what that guy charges, if I ever bought anything from him I would expect it to be delivered to me in a frickin' limo.
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  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think maybe later on tonight I'll list the ultra tough invisible Billy Ripken error card and see what it goes for. >>


    I might be interested in this. Do you have a scan?
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  • marinermariner Posts: 2,603 ✭✭✭✭
    Bob, you are hilarious!
    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Bob,

    Buckner asked me to scan it for him. See picture below!
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    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.
  • heritageheritage Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭
    I think maybe later on tonight I'll list the ultra tough invisible Billy Ripken error card and see what it goes for.

    Was it ever graded by GIA? image
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    SCD's Standard Catalog lists the 1983 fake 1969 MLBPA pins, although many of these are more in the nature of fantasy pieces, as they have players not included in the 1969 set.

    Nick
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  • JabdulJabdul Posts: 3
    That guy got $45.00 for that!!! I'm going out to buy a hole-puncher ASAP!!! Who knows how many variations I might have!!! Ridiculous!!!
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,901 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The hole was very well centered.

    Joe
    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    NO COMMENT ON THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
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