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Card Shops with Great Owner Still Exist!

mcolney1mcolney1 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭
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Great story about DJ's Sportcards located in a suburb of Seattle. Lived here my whole life and have never visited his shop, but I will now and I will buy some stuff to support his business and his every growing family.

Seattle Times Article

Collecting Topps, Philadelphia and Kellogg's from 1964-1989

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  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    I need to do a news story on him and his family. Sounds like a great guy.
  • SidePocketSidePocket Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭
    Wow, that is an incredible couple. I can't even imagine doing what they've done. My wife and I adopted two kids from South Korea and that was about all I could handle!

    "Molon Labe"

  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭
    If you do write about this guy, piggs, spell Down syndrome correctly. Not like this hack did.
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,495 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: SOM

    If you do write about this guy, piggs, spell Down syndrome correctly. Not like this hack did.





    It was a very nice article; I don't think referring to the writer as a "hack" is merited however



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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    Nice article, great people
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • thebaseballcardkidthebaseballcardkid Posts: 432 ✭
    Originally posted by: SOM
    If you do write about this guy, piggs, spell Down syndrome correctly. Not like this hack did.


    So that's what you got from this article? And that makes him a hack? Please expound.
  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭
    I suppose in the grand scheme of things, it's not a really big deal...not compared to the article's message, that's for sure. I agree with you, kid and IMF.

    I expected more from a Seattle Times journalist, that's all.

    Nick
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    What an AMAZING couple. Hard to believe how he can clothe and feed soon to be 19 people from the proceeds of a LCS ... even WITH all the donations and card signings. They must be a LOT more than the article leads me to believe.

    STAY HEALTHY!

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    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.
  • 49ersGuy49ersGuy Posts: 382 ✭✭
    I had a rather humorous trip to card store a few weeks back. This was the first card store I've been into since I once worked in one as a kid 20+ years ago. I read the reviews on Yelp and they pretty much stated what I was about to run into. I walk in mention an interest in vintage football so he starts handing me these old binders with cards. He definitely was very awkward to deal with but friendly enough. So as I am thumbing through the books I see a card and ask what the price is? Then he pulls out this price guide that I have never seen before(not beckett) and looks up the price and gives me some quote that is like 3 times as high as the beckett value.

    I take a look at the book and the commons are all booking in at $5 a pop for late 60's/early 70's football. As I finished the first book he realized I was going to bite on his pricing and he became more and more difficult. Basically he took the approach that if I was to look at anything else I had better start spending some cash. So one thing I noticed in this old price guide was that the prices on the 72 high cards was really low so i figured i would beat him at his little game and landed a couple of solid cards and asked him for one I was really looking for. He had one that was in horrible condition and looks like a child cuts around it with scissors and then went back and pulled another one out. It looked okay from a far but on the back of the card there was a very noticeable water stain on it. So I told him I was not interested due to the stain. He grabs the card out of my hand and proceeds to look at it. Puts on his glasses. Then states " there is no stain the card is fine. I proceed to point out the very noticeable water stain and he looks at it again and says "nope...no stain".

    On top of that the two people working there were in conversation the whole time about the fact that in order for them to stay in business people people needed to spend a lot more money in the shop(i was the only one in the shop). Basically it was some sort of way to guilt the customer into buying more.

    Very strange experience.
  • neildownneildown Posts: 183
    If there is a heaven, this man and his wife will be at the front of the line.


    And of course Hell will be home to cats and Robert Goulet.
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