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Whose card have you taken the biggest bath on?

lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
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Of all the cards that you have hoarded for "investment" sake, what has been your biggest loss? It could be a player who never panned out (i.e. Todd Van Poppel, Ryan Leaf) or someone who did but ran into trouble (i.e AROD, Clemens, Bonds etc)

For me, I had over 100 Clemens rookies at one time including several high grade PSA cards. Not a complete loss, but didn't pan out as it could have.
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  • DonDraperDonDraper Posts: 22
    The Valentine's Day card I gave to my ex wife.
  • pjb103183pjb103183 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭
    mark mcgwire 1985 topps...1998-99 era...$250 each ungraded....holy sh**!
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    I am waiting for the first person who says Joe Charboneau!!
  • lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
    The Valentine's Day card I gave to my ex wife

    Well played
  • lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
    I also remember trading sheets of Gwynn, Boggs and Sandberg rookies for 1985 Topps/Donruss Gooden's.
  • airjoedanairjoedan Posts: 776 ✭✭✭
    I did and still do have one of the nicest Ryan Leaf rookie card collections on the planet.
  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096
    Probably either Shaquille O'Neal or Grady Sizemore.
    'Sir, I realize it's been difficult for you to sleep at night without your EX/MT 1977 Topps Tom Seaver, but I swear to you that you'll get it safe and sound.'
    -CDs Nuts, 1/20/14

    *1956 Topps baseball- 97.4% complete, 7.24 GPA
    *Clemente basic set: 85.0% complete, 7.89 GPA
  • epatmythesepatmythes Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭
    Mark Prior

    I went in pretty heavy on him in 2001 & 2002

    Haven't put any money into a young pitcher since... and probably never will again.
  • creecree Posts: 393 ✭✭
    Greg Oden was a bust!
  • halosfanhalosfan Posts: 2,644 ✭✭✭✭
    I still need a bunch of AROD cards ... This master set is a bear
    Looking for a Glen Rice Inkredible and Alex Rodriguez cards
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    never took a bath, but i've been showered with the very best of a Sammy or Shaq hoard o' slabs.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    LOL

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    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.
  • hookemhookem Posts: 971 ✭✭


    << <i>Of all the cards that you have hoarded for "investment" sake, what has been your biggest loss? It could be a player who never panned out (i.e. Todd Van Poppel, Ryan Leaf) or someone who did but ran into trouble (i.e AROD, Clemens, Bonds etc)

    For me, I had over 100 Clemens rookies at one time including several high grade PSA cards. Not a complete loss, but didn't pan out as it could have. >>



    Awesome that you mentioned 2 of my main 3. I was in high school and lost the little bit of money I earned on Van Poppel and Leaf buying their Gold Leaf rookies! (my 3rd card was Andujar Cedeno the Astros). I am sure I have lost much more real dollars on cards the past few years but when you are in high school every dollar counts!
    Hook'em
  • bziddybziddy Posts: 710 ✭✭✭
    Derek Lilliquist -- I bought 50 of his RCs. Think I paid $25 + shipping back in the day. Was a lot for me.

    I have one player I collect which I take a bath on pretty much every time I buy one of his cards.
  • MintMoondogMintMoondog Posts: 969 ✭
    Jeff Weaver. His first 6 games were amazing and his breaking ball moved like no other I have seen before or since. I have the world's greatest Weaver collection if anyone is interested+
    75 Minis - GET IN MY BELLY!
  • MrSnuffleupagusMrSnuffleupagus Posts: 689
    Took a bath on this pack. It has Elmur Fudd on the back facing out! It was a FAKE! Go figure! Damn pack fabricators! Anyone else take a bath on any unopened material?

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  • vols1vols1 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭
    Ken Griffey Jr.
    I thought he was a can't-miss player; he went to Cincy and missed!

    https://kennerstartinglineup.blogspot.com/

  • calaban7calaban7 Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Took a bath on this pack. It has Elmur Fudd on the back facing out! It was a FAKE! Go figure! Damn pack fabricators! Anyone else take a bath on any unopened material?

    image >>



    There was a guy that used to be on these boards that could supply all the gum and wrappers that your heart might desire . I wonder if the seller of this fine pack knew the bubblegumgirl ? ---- Sonny
    " In a time of universal deceit , telling the truth is a revolutionary act " --- George Orwell
  • pjb103183pjb103183 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭
    kerry wood...ouch
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Not a bath, per se, but never panned out quite like I had planned when I loaded up on more than 25K of 1991 Marc Newfield. Saw him in a CA HS All-Star game and he had incredible bat speed and raw power. Sadly, he had problems with any pitch that had a wrinkle in it once he turned pro.

    One positive from buying bulk lots in that era was going back in '99 to find my brick of Steve Karsay 1992 Bowman RC's and finding I had more than 100 Mariano Rivera RCs.
  • milbrocomilbroco Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭✭
    I never really bought in bulk of any particular player. I did once pay $0.25 each for 25 Mark McGwire rookies. I sold a few for $15.00 to $25.00 each and the rest for an average of $125.00 each which included 6 that would grade a PSA 6. Boy, those were the days.
    Robert
    ebay seller name milbroco
    email bcmiller7@comcast.net
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127


    << <i>The Valentine's Day card I gave to my ex wife. >>



    Ha!!! I can relate.

    Von Hayes...anything Von Hayes.
  • lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
    Probably either Shaquille O'Neal or Grady Sizemore.

    I dont really follow basketball cards. Why is the O'Neal a bust? Over production and just bought at the wrong time?
  • dtkk49adtkk49a Posts: 2,490 ✭✭✭
    Randy Moss and Sam Bradford
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    They call me "Pack the Ripper"
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Jeff Weaver. His first 6 games were amazing and his breaking ball moved like no other I have seen before or since. I have the world's greatest Weaver collection if anyone is interested+ >>



    Are you from the Detroit area??
  • Baez578Baez578 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭
    Ugh... Bonilla, Sheffield, vizquel, Kelsko, Maas, Jeffries. Ill stop there but there's more. Oh yeah...there's more
  • Mdube16Mdube16 Posts: 744 ✭✭
    I have a lot of graded Mark Mulder cards. Sigh
  • TheCARDKidTheCARDKid Posts: 1,496 ✭
    On a percentage basis, probably 1990/91 french upper deck hockey, lol. Does anyone remember when packs were $20 or $30 each? I think I bought 2 or 3 packs, haha.

    I remember the Fedorov was $250 or $300.There were a lot of cards in 1990 and 91 that could get a kid in trouble. Like the 89 Santa Claus pro set promo. Cody Risen error for $40.

    -Largest dollar amount I took a bath on, probably 83-86 star in 1993 and 94. I remember paying $500 cash for a ewing rookie bag at a show, lol. Sold it years later for $50. I probably had $2,000 or $2,500 worth of star cards, later sold for maybe $500.
  • MintMoondogMintMoondog Posts: 969 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Jeff Weaver. His first 6 games were amazing and his breaking ball moved like no other I have seen before or since. I have the world's greatest Weaver collection if anyone is interested+ >>



    Are you from the Detroit area?? >>



    Grew up in Woodhaven south on I-75, parents now live in Romeo - are you from Detroit? Everytime I look at the mass of Weaver rookies I just laugh.
    75 Minis - GET IN MY BELLY!
  • wronglegwrongleg Posts: 441 ✭✭
    150 Joe Magrane Rookies for $75.
  • MiniDuffMiniDuff Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭
    JD Drew collection second to none. Adam Dunn the same. Yeouch.

    Back in the day, had several thousand Greg Swindell rookies.

    On the plus side, the Swindell buy came out of a University of Texas bug which had be buy literally hundreds of 85 topps and donruss roger Clemens for .10-.25 per and dozens of 84 fleers from folks who broke em for the Goodens. Had a hundred of so Cal Shiraldis that didn't work out quite so well from that team.
    1975 Mini Collector
    ebay id Duffs_Dugout
    My Ebay Auctions
  • bziddybziddy Posts: 710 ✭✭✭
    I'm changing my vote to an Anfernee Hardaway finest refractor. Bought in the mid-90s for $350 or so.
  • addicted2ebayaddicted2ebay Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭✭
    Trimmed t206 cards.image
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Jeff Weaver. His first 6 games were amazing and his breaking ball moved like no other I have seen before or since. I have the world's greatest Weaver collection if anyone is interested+ >>



    Are you from the Detroit area?? >>



    Grew up in Woodhaven south on I-75, parents now live in Romeo - are you from Detroit? Everytime I look at the mass of Weaver rookies I just laugh. >>



    Grew up in Waterford, now up in Grand Blanc.
  • jfkheatjfkheat Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Greg Jefferies and Walt Weiss.
    James
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Marquis Grissom
    Who is the Golf Card Guy?
  • SouthsiderSouthsider Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
    I started buying rookies of Chicago Bears first round draft picks starting in 2001. This is the wonderful selection of high-grade autographed, serial numbered rookies that I ended up with before abandoning the endeavor after 2005:

    2001 David Terrell
    2002 Marc Colombo
    2003 Michael Haynes
    2003 Rex Grossman
    2004 Tommie Harris
    2005 Cedric Benson

  • BobHBobH Posts: 206 ✭✭


    << <i>Ugh... Bonilla, Sheffield, vizquel, Kelsko, Maas, Jeffries. Ill stop there but there's more. Oh yeah...there's more[/q

    Yeah there's more
    Back in the mid 90's I bought quite a few of the steroid group's cards. Sosa (90 Leaf) Magwire, Bonds,Clemens,Canseco. Sold them all on Teletrade and didn't do to well
    Just made a little investment in Bowman/Topps/Chrome YASIEL PUIG cards/auto's. Hopefully history doesn't repeat itself
    Interested in 60's and 70's psa and raw star and hof cards
  • UnwoundSageUnwoundSage Posts: 496
    In the early days, 1984 Donruss Brad Komminsk. Can't believe the Braves actually called him the next Mickey Mantle. Turn of the century, Joe Thurston. Guy was a stud in the minors and hit almost .500 in his first brief stint with the Dodgers.
  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    A few guys not mentioned that I held too long include Albert Belle, Juan Gonzalez and Andruw Jones. In the late '90s, I thought all three of these guys had 700 HR potential. I think I paid $100 for an Andruw Jones 10 in regular Bowman. Still have it somewhere.
    Always buying 1971 OPC Baseball packs.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The Valentine's Day card I gave to my ex wife. >>



    the new guy hits it out of the park on his 3rd at bat.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    When I got back into the hobby in my adult years, I was swallowing up baseball HOF RCs and flipping them with great success. At one point I bought the key Ivan Rodriguez BGS 10 pop 1 at its absolute peak value. I don't remember exactly how much but it was over a grand and, frankly, I've tried my best to forget this debacle. A couple years later, gemmint population explosion, and a couple steroid allegations and my monster card dropped to about $60 resale value with what felt like lightning speed. I dumped it on someone for $350 on the way down and felt like I got lucky to get that much. Lesson learned and then some.

    My second biggest ever loss was buying a Nolan Ryan RC for $525, grading it, and reselling for $400. I've bought and sold thousands of cards/boxes in the last decade...so things have been relatively fantastic when viewing this as a lifetime of decisions.

    The memories I have about selling cards at their peak and making the buyer take a bath are way more common and enjoyable. Where is that thread?! :-)
  • calgarycollectorcalgarycollector Posts: 356
    Gretzky OPC rookie. On re-entering the hobby in 2012 I had to have the card I always lusted over as a kid. Unfortunatley I came into things with more money then knowledge.

    Passed over a blazer PSA 9 for a KSA 9.5. Cracked it out for crossover and ended up with a $3000 lesson in grading quite quickly.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,229 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Grew up in Woodhaven south on I-75, parents now live in Romeo - are you from Detroit? Everytime I look at the mass of Weaver rookies I just laugh. >>


    My dad is from Romeo. I was born and raised in Pontiac myself.
  • lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
    Passed over a blazer PSA 9 for a KSA 9.5. Cracked it out for crossover and ended up with a $3000 lesson in grading quite quickly.

    It was a fake? If so, did you ever approach the seller?
  • cardbendercardbender Posts: 1,831 ✭✭
    '54 Bowman Ted Williams. Lost $8800 on that card.
  • kimo75kimo75 Posts: 263 ✭✭
    Back in the late 80s and early 90s I got caught up huge in the rookie card craze. I sold a 1956-73 Clemente run in about EX for store credit that turned out to be Gooden, Canseco, Mattingly and Eric Davis rookie cards. Still hurts.
  • AlbertdiditAlbertdidit Posts: 560 ✭✭✭
    In 1999 at age 24 Fernando Tatis hit .298 34 HR 107 RBI - He also hit 2 grand slams in 1 inning! I decided to take a shot and go heavy on his Bowman Chrome RC. They were $15 each. I bought them in the off season. If he did good again the next year the chromes would jump fast and they easily could hit $40

    I bought about 60 of them @$15...$900 (most i ever invested in a RC)

    By the end of April 2000 Tatis was hitting .375 6 HR 28 RBI..Its looking like a 2nd season of 300/30/100 all by age 25. I was on my way! I made a score..im going to at least double my $$!!
    He then got hurt and when he came back her never approached the stats he put up before. Ya that one really did/does hurt. Flushed 900 down the drain.

  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭
    thousands of $'s on Jordan & Bonds. chaz
  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    The 1999 Quarterbacks - Tim Couch , Akilli Smith , Cade McNown , Daunte Culpepper , and Donovan McNabb . The 1996 SPX . I bought boxes of it. I ended up selling sets for like $50 that cost me like $450 to build . Luckily I sold the Marino autograph record breaker at $175 .
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