Apparently I collected the wrong cards

mlbfan2

From krukcards.com...

BUYING COMMONS
Buy prices are per 5,000 cards:
Football Pays $20.00
Hockey Pays $15.00
Baseball Pays $6.00
Basketball Pays $6.00
Pokemon Pays $250.00
(only 10% can be power/energy cards)
Yu-Gi-Oh Pays $50.00

Res

I could think of several better things to do with 5000 cards than sell them for 6 bucks. Why even waste your time. Using them for kindling would be better.

digicat

Yeah, but would you REALLY want to have collected Pokemon cards if you could have?

Mapleleaf

I hate to admit it, but I did collect Pokemon cards. It was a no brainer when my kids and all their friends were collecting them.
Problem is, I ended up giving them all to my kids so I wouldn't have to look at them.

Stone193

<< <i>Apparently I collected the wrong cards >>

Geez - don't think you're the only one.

Jakt

$6 for 5000 cards? That offer is so low it is insulting. Who is paying the postage on that? A box that holds 5000 cards costs around $5.

On principle, I would throw them away before selling at that price.

mountainsofcards

<< <i>$6 for 5000 cards? That offer is so low it is insulting. Who is paying the postage on that? A box that holds 5000 cards costs around $5.

On principle, I would throw them away before selling at that price. >>



Agreed, or donate them.

mlbfan2

<< <i>$6 for 5000 cards? That offer is so low it is insulting. Who is paying the postage on that?
>>



If anyone ever sold him commons at that price, I sure hope it was in-person.

miklia

at least you didn't sell dozens of these pack fresh for $20 each and think you were cleaning up. oops.

Dpeck100

I was just telling my brother about that exact auction yesterday.

Maurice

<< <i>at least you didn't sell dozens of these pack fresh for $20 each and think you were cleaning up. oops. >>


Highly unlikely story.

Dpeck100

Maurice someone pointed these cards out to me a few years ago as expensive cards.

Have they been highly sought after for a while?

miklia

i owned a few stores at the time. we sold cases. and cases. and cases of this stuff, especially when revised hit and it really took off. but thanks for the skepticism, bud.

Maurice

Dpeck, they've been $200+ since being released. And nobody had "dozens" of them.

miklia

Maurice, you might know about sports cards, but you don't know about these. you couldn't get more than $50 or so for them until well after revised was released, maybe mid to late 1995. One the tourneys got big is when they hit 200, early 1996ish.

Maurice

What I do know is a BSer when I see one.

miklia

Apology accepted.

msassin

Almost have to assume that there are year restrictions on those buy prices....No one will pay $15-20 for 5000ct FB/Hockey from the early 90s.

Maurice

<< <i>Apology accepted. >>


Another fantasy oops moment for you?

miklia

I'm sorry I once had nice things. Won't happen again.

Maurice

<< <i>Dpeck, they've been $200+ since being released. And nobody had "dozens" of them. >>


My memory was off a little. Miklia is correct that it took a few years to get to the $200 level. But I stand by my comment that nobody had dozens of them.

digicat

<< <i><< Dpeck, they've been $200+ since being released. And nobody had "dozens" of them. >> My memory was off a little. Miklia is correct that it took a few years to get to the $200 level. But I stand by my comment that nobody had dozens of them. >>



I got pretty heavy into MTG in 1994 a few months after Revised was released. One of the local card shops had an Unlimited Black Lotus in somewhat "played" condition sitting in it's display case for $195. Unfortunately, as a poor high school senior growing up in the 'hood with no income, I could only drool at it every week. It was there for about a month before it vanished.

miklia

<< <i>My memory was off a little. Miklia is correct that it took a few years to get to the $200 level. But I stand by my comment that nobody had dozens of them. >>



sigh. i don't know why I'm even bothering, but if only to knock out the other leg out of the crippled hunchback that is your argument Levi..

when we first started selling a lot of magic, unlimited was in full swing and we were holding tourneys at each of our stores, the only places in the region really doing so at the time. it brought a lot of demand, and a lot of buyers. to give an example of what it was like then, a big debate was whether using penny sleeves should be allowed or if the cards had to be shuffled and played like playing cards. you see, it was still thought of then as a game, not a collectible. while WOTC's marketization + gameplay mix was truly genius, at the time players would only pay a small premium for some of the best cards. in addition, the lotus, moxes etc hadn't even been discontinued yet and were thus not commanding insane prices.

me and my biz partner were card guys, not gamers. we saw the rips as basically chasing inserts so we were happy to sell 3-5 cards for $20 each from boxes that wholesaled at about $42 if i remember right ($90+ once they dried up before revised hit). we kept our stores well stocked with the key cards, and if i were to guess i'd say that each one sold an average of one lotus per week for a period of many months, mostly betas and unlimited (now a 3k card in the same condition), but also some alphas every now and then. 4 stores x 3/month x 4 months = at least forty sold between $15-$30, with another 3-4 dozen sold at around $70 or so once demand started increasing. some of these were of course sold, traded in and resold, and most of these got worn out through gameplay, believe it or not. the modern 'card in the bicycle spoke'.

so yeah, dozens.

mlbfan2

I stand by my comment that no one has 5,000 1977 Topps Tommy John cards.

Mapleleaf

Magic. That was another bunch of cards I couldn't stomach buying when I had the chance to buy 3 boxes for $150. At least I wouldn't have "had to open them" like I did with all almost all my vintage OPC hockey.

Maurice

<< <i>I stand by my comment that no one has 5,000 1977 Topps Tommy John cards. >>


Finding 8,000 cards of one player from the 1977 set may seem to be an enormous amount in 2013 but even as late as the mid-90's you could purchase a 300-400 count box of just about any late-70's or early-80's Topps card from several sources. There were some exceptions, such as 1977 Fidrych and 1979 Bob Horner and 1981 Fernando, but most of the cards were available in bulk. If someone wanted 8,000 1977 Topps Tommy John cards, it was possible.

Nobody had dozens of Black Lotus cards. Nobody.

You'll see that miklia has now changed his "story" to try to make his claim of dozens seem more plausible by stating "some of these were of course sold, traded in and resold". He knew he dug himself a hole and he probably stayed up all night trying to come up with that.

digicat

<< <i>Nobody had dozens of Black Lotus cards. Nobody. >>



While not "dozens", I do remember this kid who had 9 Black Lotus cards (mix of Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited) on a 9 pocket binder page. He'd prop it up on the table next to him during tournaments as part of his psychological warfare routine. Maybe he thought that it'd distract his opponent or something.

Dpeck100

That is awesome!

He was like make sure you know who you are dealing with! I have 9 Black Lotus cards! LOL

Hopefully for his sake he still has them.

digicat

<< <i>That is awesome! He was like make sure you know who you are dealing with! I have 9 Black Lotus cards! LOL >>



I'm still not sure which was more impressive, the 9 Lotuses on display, or the obnoxious fat kid who had a fairly attractive girl sitting on his lap and sucking on his face for the duration of the match. Each time it was his turn, he'd make a horny grunt as he'd dislodge his hand from the girls ass to play a card. I actually lost to that guy, so it pissed me off even more.

Maurice

<< <i>I'm still not sure which was more impressive, the 9 Lotuses on display, or the obnoxious fat kid who had a fairly attractive girl sitting on his lap and sucking on his face for the duration of the match. Each time it was his turn, he'd make a horny grunt as he'd dislodge his hand from the girls ass to play a card. I actually lost to that guy, so it pissed me off even more. >>


Was it this guy?

digicat

<< <i>Was it this guy? >>



Pff. The resemblance is there.

Dpeck100

Maybe she was impressed with his Black Lotus cards and saw $ signs.

Sounds like this guy had a great time playing. Gets to flaunt his expensive collection, handful of booty and actually wins the game.

digicat

<< <i>Maybe she was impressed with his Black Lotus cards and saw $ signs. >>



No, different guy.


The only thing the Lotus kid won was lustful stares from the other kids.

Dpeck100

That was sounding pretty awesome for a Magic The Gathering tournament.

mcadams

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<< <i>Nobody had dozens of Black Lotus cards. Nobody. >>



While not "dozens", I do remember this kid who had 9 Black Lotus cards (mix of Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited) on a 9 pocket binder page. He'd prop it up on the table next to him during tournaments as part of his psychological warfare routine. Maybe he thought that it'd distract his opponent or something. >>



MTG Tournaments? .... Intense.....I envision Mortal Kombat costumes and at least 1 contestant dressed as a Jedi knight. If there were any girls there at all, it was likely someone's older sister who drove them to the tournament (at the mall).

miklia

<< <i>You'll see that miklia has now changed his "story" to try to make his claim of dozens seem more plausible by stating "some of these were of course sold, traded in and resold". He knew he dug himself a hole and he probably stayed up all night trying to come up with that. >>



I haven't changed a thing. we sold dozens of unique lotuses (loti?). this is not at all as implausible as you seem to think it is. not sure how you think that while it's unimpeachable that a kid might have 9 lotuses, it's totally impossible to think that the biggest dealer in the area might have had some too.

you sure get testy when someone beats you in the card knowledge game, man.

miklia

our card guys hated the Magic tourneys since they filled up the stores with B.O. for hours. not teenage card collector sweat mind you, but gamer sweat. oil and water, those two. the tourneys were a blast though, especially before there were too many cards to select from.

digicat

<< <i>MTG Tournaments? .... Intense.....I envision Mortal Kombat costumes and at least 1 contestant dressed as a Jedi knight. If there were any girls there at all, it was likely someone's older sister who drove them to the tournament (at the mall). >>




Mortal Kombat costumes would have been cool. Sadly, the only cos-play that went on were dudes dressed like 16th century vampires and the occasional generic wizard. Once I saw a dude dressed up like Bobba Fett though. Awesome memories.

Maurice

miklia, you're delusional. Enjoy your 1989 UD investment and your continued fantasies of having had dozens of Black Lotus cards.

miklia

ohhh, the funny thing was that I was SO CLOSE to my dream investment, but some playa already bought up every copy of Uncle Levi's 707 Tips for How to be a Pedantic Trolling Alt, and I had to settles for the magic cards. Don't worry, the Himalayan views are more than tempering my despair.

digicat

As a result of this thread, I spent the drive to work this morning reminiscing about some of my most fun kill-moves in both tournament and non-tournament play. Had a geeky smirk on my face the whole drive in.

The memories are enough though. I'd never get back into playing MTG.

jnorlund

Some of the high grade stuff on the CCG's is getting up there. People are paying pretty high $ for the sets too. $70-130 for Unlimited.