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Crazy offer at the National Show!!!!!

JohnnyDJohnnyD Posts: 521 ✭✭
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I bought my VIP package for the Cleveland National show last week and then received this email today. Anyone have a spare $1,000 laying around????

Dear 28th National VIP:

We are less than one week away from the National and we have an exciting announcement from The Topps Company plus a checklist with some of the things you’ll need to know to make your National experience a great one.

First the announcement from Topps:

The Topps Company is proud to bring you a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet the #1 pick in the NBA Draft in person! Topps Exclusive Spokesman Greg Oden is coming back to Ohio and is looking forward to meeting 100 of his biggest fans for a special evening in Cleveland!

Here are the details for the special unforgettable event:

Have your picture taken with the future NBA Superstar!
Be one of only 100 to receive a special autographed Greg Oden limited edition Allen & Ginter card!
Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served.
Specifics Below:

When: Friday, August 3rd

6:30-8:30PM

Where: Fahrenheit

2417 Professor Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44113

(216) 781-8858
Price: $1000 per person

Only 100 tickets will be sold and only 2 per credit card!

Get your tickets exclusively only at www.topps.com! Beginning Wednesday, July 25 at 1PM EDT.



Comments

  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Maybe the drinks will be 1961 Chateau Margaux.
  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭
    The REALLY sad part is that all of the tickets will be sold.....
  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    mayb greg odon will be giving out free reach-arounds,

    or at least a really manly hug where his boobs rub against yours.

    j
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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe the drinks will be 1961 Chateau Margaux. >>





    I dunno about the year, but I saw the Chateau for 1600$ a bottle in Vegas image
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    You can probably ebay the card for $600 and I guess he will sign while you are there. I would do it if I had $1,000.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,631 ✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't pay $1,000 to meet anyone. It's really sad that it's come to this.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I agree with Allen, eBay the card and then go Kobayashi on the hors d’oeuvres.

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    Cory @iamfur72 https://twitter.com/iamfur72

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  • jrinckjrinck Posts: 1,321 ✭✭
    I only paid $350 to meet and hang with William Shatner for two days, and $250 of that went directly to one of his charities, with the other $100 going towards meals and transportation.
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    go Kobayashi...... on the hors d’oeuvres

    I think you just made a new saying image


    I can think of a few celeb's I would like to meet for a 1,000. Only to try and seal a future deal though image
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    oops sorry about that one. I agree $1000 to meet a guy who hasnt played one day in the NBA is crazy. I will be attending the national and will think the $119 VIP isnt all its all cracked up to be with the exception that if you go all 5 days at general admission would cost $75. Also viewing the rates at which some players sign an autograph is crazy. Barry Sanders is off the charts, for a photo opp its around $150. What happed to the days when you could get a picture with an athlete for free!. I love the National and all it represents (Celebration of collecting and what not) but how can people afford to pay for the autographs. Are people flipping these and selling them?
    Cory @iamfur72 https://twitter.com/iamfur72

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  • JohnnyDJohnnyD Posts: 521 ✭✭
    Auto prices are out of this world. Brady Quinn is taking a beating around here for signing autographs at a business opening, I heard at $75 to start (for a flat), and up from there. I can see if someone is coming in with 10 items and they want autos. Obviously they are selling them and making a profit on your sig. But $75 for an unsigned football player who has not thrown a pass in the NFL.....how about the first auto for free and a fee for any additional autos? John
  • JohnnyDJohnnyD Posts: 521 ✭✭
    Also, I agree about the VIP package fee. The food at the wednesday meet and great better be fantastic!! Getting the free cards helps a little, but the package does not even include free parking! I am going two or three of the days, I will give the pass to my mom to go one day at least....it will be used every day at that cost.
  • ProspectorKingProspectorKing Posts: 22
    Do not know what the food will be @ the National VIP party this year, but last year (when the pkg was $20 or so less), it was pretty much coke and pizza. Was not that impressed, but the freebies more than paid for the cost of the VIP pass- at least last year.
  • jradke4jradke4 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭
    who all is signing at the national this year.
    Packers Fan for Life
    Collecting:
    Brett Favre Master Set
    Favre Ticket Stubs
    Favre TD Reciever Autos
    Football HOF Player/etc. Auto Set
    Football HOF Rc's
  • lostdart58lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭


    << <i>who all is signing at the national this year. >>



    National schedule of signers
    Collector of:Baseball
    1955 Bowman Raw complete with 90% Ex-NR or better

    Now seeking 1949 Eureka Sportstamps...NM condition
    Working on '78 Autographed set now 99.9% complete -
    Working on '89 Topps autoed set now complete


  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    <i wouldnt pay 1,000 to meet anyone>
    me either unless it was michael joradan and he signed for me for 24 hours straight lol-what a gyp!
    randy
  • chaz43chaz43 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭
    Like the old saying goes: There is a SUCKER born every second.... chaz
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    This is strange, some prices have dropped. I know this because I planned my spending budget. I know Paul Kraus was $29 and not $20 and Bob Turley too. Whats up with that?

    Cory
    Cory @iamfur72 https://twitter.com/iamfur72

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  • tedh111tedh111 Posts: 258 ✭
    I think the VIp packages are pretty nice. If you are not happy with the cards you are given, i will gladly take them all for $40. That leaves you with admission as well as the free autographs each day.
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  • PasadenaMudSlidePasadenaMudSlide Posts: 732
    A grand to hang out with a twenty-year-old kid?

    I would do a number on the chow, though.

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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>I only paid $350 to meet and hang with William Shatner for two days, and $250 of that went directly to one of his charities, with the other $100 going towards meals and transportation. >>



    The Shat definitely knows how to eat!!
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