Did anyone see it coming?

Mintacular · May 31, 2009 7:09AM

I'm sure we have all dreamed of turning back the clock and buying up minty vintage cards at a fraction of their cost today. But did anyone "see into the future" and do just that when prices were still reasonably low?

I did hear from a dealer that Red Zone Sportscards (aka Shaqfu) during the 80s took all of his $ and piled it into vintage only and now has a full warehouse of these cards.

I'd be interested in hearing any of those stories.

CDsNuts · May 31, 2009 7:11AM

yes.

DALEMURPHY03 · May 31, 2009 7:26AM

All hail summerof68 for this is gonna happen with unopened wax

larryallen73 · May 31, 2009 7:30AM

Yes. I loaded up on '87 Topps, Fleer, Donruss... man, I will be rich some day with all those "can't miss hall of famers."

DALEMURPHY03 · May 31, 2009 7:31AM

Im buying up 88' Topps Sam Horn for 21 yrs now

sivotco1 · May 31, 2009 7:40AM

no

i was a dealer in 1985-1992, and the best sellers were by far the latest releases--when i went out and bought a huge collection, i would usually sell off the older cards first

to pay for the whole deal and make the money on the newer stuff

. wow--huge mistake--there were usually very few interested in the older cards vs the newer cards--i remember a show in Gardendale Al where some guy came thru pedaling 86-87 basketball sets for $10 per set--i bought none---1 year later a guy from NC was spreading word that he would pay $100.00 per set--i went out and promply rounded up 5 or 10----wow--mistake after mistake after mistake--i certainly did'nt see it coming--1 more story though i have hundreds-a guy from work comes up to me(1987?) and says a lady at his church has a bunch of old cards her husband had collected-- i go over and its an album full of 1930's play ball--i look thru it not very excited since the big money was coming from newer stuff--i pulled a Dimaggio and a couple of other players i recognized and offered hera sum i thought was fair and she thought was very fair--i go to a mall show in Chatanooga Tn the next weekend(they were dynomite) and put the 3 cards out--immediately someone comes by, stops and says, would you take $100 for the Dimaggio?--without thinking i said, sure--as he walks away, i'm thinking, wow, what a dummy---lol--turns out, i was the dummy-

Mintacular · May 31, 2009 7:41AM

By "vintage" I mean=60's and older. I know everybody and there grandmother thought it would be smart to buy 80's unopened stuff and hold onto it for years...

billwaltonsbeard · May 31, 2009 7:50AM

<< i remember a show in Gardendale Al where some guy came thru pedaling 86-87 basketball sets for $10 per set- >>

boioioioioioing

yankeeno7 · May 31, 2009 7:52AM

ba ba booey

calaban7 · May 31, 2009 7:57AM

<< Im buying up 88' Topps Sam Horn for 21 yrs now >>

I bet my Sam Horn collection is bigger than yours .

billwaltonsbeard · May 31, 2009 7:59AM

<< 

<< Im buying up 88' Topps Sam Horn for 21 yrs now >>

I bet my Sam Horn collection is bigger than yours . >>

But do you guys have stacks of Todd Benzinger and John Marzano too?

DALEMURPHY03 · May 31, 2009 8:12AM

fa fa fooey

Post25 · May 31, 2009 8:22AM

Worst. Pitch. Ever.

WinPitcher · May 31, 2009 8:30AM

yes.

Steve

Bottom9th · May 31, 2009 8:45AM

<< Worst. Pitch. Ever. >>

That pitch will live in infamy forever! Ba ba blewit!!

Post25 · May 31, 2009 8:47AM

That pitch will live in infamy forever! Ba ba blewit!! >>

And no one on the show will ever let him live it down!

TheThrill22 · May 31, 2009 8:54AM

Fla-Fla Flow-Fly Stuh, stuh, stuh, stinks! Hahaha!

calaban7 · May 31, 2009 9:06AM

<< 

<< 

<< Im buying up 88' Topps Sam Horn for 21 yrs now >>

I bet my Sam Horn collection is bigger than yours . >>

But do you guys have stacks of Todd Benzinger and John Marzano too? >>

No not stacks , but boxes galore .

smet · May 31, 2009 9:17AM

<< Worst. Pitch. Ever. >>

Not even close. I'll try to find the 1st pitch thrown by Mayor Mallory at a Reds game last year.

Edit: Here is it: Link

Nathaniel1960 · May 31, 2009 10:15AM

<< I'm sure we have all dreamed of turning back the clock and buying up minty vintage cards at a fraction of their cost today. But did anyone "see into the future" and do just that when prices were still reasonably low?

I did hear from a dealer that Red Zone Sportscards (aka Shaqfu) during the 80s took all of his $ and piled it into vintage only and now has a full warehouse of these cards.

I'd be interested in hearing any of those stories. >>

ShaqFU has a warehouse of VG-EX junk. No thanks.

Nathaniel1960 · May 31, 2009 10:16AM

<< 

<< 

<< Im buying up 88' Topps Sam Horn for 21 yrs now >>

I bet my Sam Horn collection is bigger than yours . >>

But do you guys have stacks of Todd Benzinger and John Marzano too? >>

Rolando Roomes

lsutigers1973 · May 31, 2009 10:17AM

Look at me everyone! Look at me!!

Mintacular · May 31, 2009 10:25AM

To quote Ronald Reagan: "There you go again.."--Bill drinking and being a butthead as usual, probably the 20th thread or so Bill has interjected with non-related comments. I think there's a name for those people. It's something like a gnome? Hmm, that doesn't sound quite right. Oh well.

Gonna watch the Pens game, have said my piece about Bill-o-Clown...

swartz1 · May 31, 2009 10:26AM

I didnt see that coming

lsutigers1973 · May 31, 2009 11:06AM

Anyone seen the movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray?

iamthegreatcornholio · May 31, 2009 11:07AM

I tried (and failed) to buy 52 Topps Mantles back in '01 & '02 on eBay (I kept coming in second). PSA 1's went from under 1k to 5's which were commonly 5k.

The 2 I remember most were a 7OC going for $2,900 (with the centering easily within a straight 6). I tried to "manually snipe" and my POS dial-up modem crapped out

A few months later I saw a PSA 8 for under 20k! I frantically tried to gather money to buy an 8 from a local seller for 18k, I fell a few k short trying to get enough money, which was a lot for an 18 year old kid.

calaban7 · May 31, 2009 11:15AM

<< 

<< Worst. Pitch. Ever. >>

Not even close. I'll try to find the 1st pitch thrown by Mayor Mallory at a Reds game last year.

Edit: Here is it: Link >>

I think he was showing off his pick-off move .

Thank god for you-tube.

calaban7 · May 31, 2009 11:18AM

<< Look at me everyone! Look at me!! >>

I remember that skit on SNL where Rusty would jump and say ---- " Look what I can do ? "

It was annoying back then too.

Lets all practice--- Look what Mintacular can do .------- It has a ring to it............

Mintacular · May 31, 2009 11:35AM

Here's something with a better ring: "Just like every village has its idiot, every TOWN has it's Bill-o-Clown, Bill-o-Clown.." (echo, echo)

Dboneesq · May 31, 2009 12:16PM

This was not exactly a fireball!

detroitfan2 · May 31, 2009 9:19PM

When I saw this title, I thought the thread was going to be about the Red Wings being up 2-0 on their way to their second straight thrashing of the Penguins for the Stanley Cup. My bad, carry on.

WinPitcher · June 1, 2009 12:16AM

Back in the 80's they were low only relative to today's prices.

back in 1980's dollars they were not cheap.

Of course if you bought then and sold now you made money.

How much? I dunno.

Steve

itzagoner · June 1, 2009 12:21AM

see it coming? no. i smelled it.

ploobims · June 1, 2009 12:43AM

dalemurphy03 saw it coming, he got some in his eye

thank you

fattymacs · June 1, 2009 1:00AM

nightcrawler · June 1, 2009 1:21AM

<< When I saw this title, I thought the thread was going to be about the Red Wings being up 2-0 on their way to their second straight thrashing of the Penguins for the Stanley Cup. My bad, carry on. >>

What are Red Wings anyway??? I really don't know.

CDsNuts · June 1, 2009 1:24AM

dalemurphy03 saw it coming, he got some in his eye
thank you

heh.

nightcrawler · June 1, 2009 1:36AM

I know, that was hilarious ploobims.

PowderedH2O · June 1, 2009 1:48AM

Everything is relative. Sure, I had the chance to buy in 1985 a 1952 Topps Mantle that would grade out to be a 4 for $500. I bought lots of vintage cards cheap. I traded a dealer three 1983 Fleer Wade Boggs for a complete 1973-74 Topps Basketball set since he couldn't give them away at $25. The same dealer sold me a 1981 Topps Football set for $4. I bought a stack of 31 1952 Topps High numbers from a coin dealer for $310. But honestly, it didn't seem like that big of a deal. My house cost me $59,000. That same house today sells for nearly $250,000 (and I don't own it sadly - just like I don't have the high numbers anymore). Cars were a third or half of what they are today. A pack of cards was 35 cents. I remember in the late 80's seeing a 52 Mantle go for $3000 and thinking just how ridiculous the card prices had gotten. But obviously, they have gotten far greater. Where will they be in 20 years? How do we know that RIGHT NOW isn't the best time ever to buy vintage cards? Who knows?

MiniDuff · June 1, 2009 1:50AM

What I saw then, and wish to hell I had stuck with my convictions on, was that there was no real premium being paid for truly "Mint" cards. The era of all dealer cards being called mint and all customer cards being called hurt or near mint.

I loved to collect the best possible examples, including centering (which just didn't matter then like it does now), of 60s and 70s hall of famers. I had a Ryan rookie that I guarantee is in a 9 holder somewhere now, that booked for I want to say 800 at the time. I put a 1,500 price on it and left it dead center in my showcase and took endless heat from other dealers, while drawing endless gawkers from show goers. It was a great draw and I sold a ton of other ryans as a result. One day, pre show, a fellow dealer walked up and started counting out hundreds on my showcase... very bittersweet day.

Anyway, I got tired of not seeing any premium and nice cards became harder to come across, and I lost interest in general, so I sold a whole bunch of what I am sure later graded well at book... Oh well.

pandrews · June 1, 2009 2:48AM

lawl

rbdjr1 · June 1, 2009 3:33AM

<< To quote Ronald Reagan: "There you go again.."--Bill drinking and being a butthead as usual, probably the 20th thread or so Bill has interjected with non-related comments. I think there's a name for those people. It's something like a gnome? Hmm, that doesn't sound quite right. Oh well.

Gonna watch the Pens game, have said my piece about Bill-o-Clown... >>

Wow! Bill interjected something while drinking!

rd

P.S. You think Bill was the only one "who interjected your thread with non-related comments"? Well, you better do one big reality check!

Mintacular, it looks like many here are trying to send you a message, "...if you think it is raining, it isn't. You are getting spit in the eye, not by one, but by many!..."

Talk about having a thread hijacked, my oh my!

CDsNuts: yes.

billwaltonsbeard: boioioioioioing

yankeeno7: ba ba booey

WinPitcher: yes.

TheThrill22: Fla-Fla Flow-Fly Stuh, stuh, stuh, stinks! Hahaha!

Post25: Worst. Pitch. Ever.

Bottom9th: That pitch will live in infamy forever! Ba ba blewit!!

Post25: And no one on the show will ever let him live it down!

swartz1: I didnt see that coming

calaban7:

I think he was showing off his pick-off move . Thank god for you-tube.

calaban7: I remember that skit on SNL where Rusty would jump and say, "Look what I can do?" It was annoying back then too. Lets all practice--- Look what Mintacular can do. It has a ring to it.

Dboneesq: This was not exactly a fireball!

itzagoner: see it coming? no. i smelled it.

pandrews: lawl

CDsNuts: heh.

JohnnyD: I have Sirius radio and am a big Stern fan...man they gave him hell about that pitch that monday morning after.....hilarious!!!!

fattymacs:

JohnnyD · June 1, 2009 4:10AM

<< 

<< Worst. Pitch. Ever. >>

That pitch will live in infamy forever! Ba ba blewit!! >>

I have Sirius radio and am a big Stern fan...man they gave him hell about that pitch that monday morning after.....hilarious!!!!

ploobims · June 1, 2009 4:39AM

<<Talk about having a thread hijacked, my oh my!>>

i demand a recount- i was left out

nightcrawler · June 1, 2009 4:45AM

<< <<Talk about having a thread hijacked, my oh my!>>

i demand a recount- i was left out

>>

I agree, this thing was fixed???

Mintacular · June 1, 2009 4:54AM

I think I might start collecting stamps and coins, it seems pretty chill over there

(Prediction: Somebody will, or would've written, That would be fine with me!)

ploobims · June 1, 2009 5:04AM

i looked on the stamp forum once, i think there was only 10-20 theads in the stamp forum and the stamp b/s/t/
its not a real rockin place from what i saw

calaban7 · June 1, 2009 5:11AM

<< I think I might start collecting stamps and coins, it seems pretty chill over there

(Prediction: Somebody will, or would've written, That would be fine with me!) >>

I think its even worse there .

May I suggest first changing your icon to a Yoda , then declaring your interest and absolute loyalty to either Mark McGwire or Albert Pujols.

Another possibility is to start a thread about the conspiricey (sp?) of HGH and how Bonds , Clemons , Raffy , Sosa , and all the others , were slandered and cheated out of their glory .

I noticed that you seem to make a LOT of , Wow how did that ever happen threads . If sports are getting a little tough to thread about I might suggest If anyone has ever noticed that an apple falls to the ground---- Lets discuss.

DALEMURPHY03 · June 1, 2009 7:16AM

<< i looked on the stamp forum once, i think there was only 10-20 theads in the stamp forum and the stamp b/s/t/
its not a real rockin place from what i saw

>>

when are we meeting up

ploobims · June 1, 2009 8:10AM

you'll get no hookup from us,sorry,try another board,go to sgc or beckett

DALEMURPHY03 · June 1, 2009 8:16AM

<< you'll get no hookup from me,sorry,try another board

>>

you are the clown that said to come to your house and"shut your face"....figures all talk

Did anyone see it coming?

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