now i know why i quit playing with baseball cards...........

SPEEDY MCCREADY

i thought it would be fun to collect some vintage cards.......

purchase them on ebay....

and maybe place some of them in a frame and give it to my father.....he is a huge fan of ernie banks and billy williams......

i thought it would be fun.....

then i found out that baseball card dealers (on ebay) are nothing but a bunch of lying thieving pieces of human garbage.....

when all is said and done i will probably be kicked off of ebay....hehehehehe

there is one dealer here who i would like to remove his spleen and staple it to his fucking elbow....

it is my own fault.....

what did i expect from a bunch of Adults who play with baseball cards and make a living selling baseball cards??

actually they make a living off of ripping off 12 year old kids....

Flagg

My boss was seeking a Bill Nicholson card for her father as a present for Christmas and ran into the same issue. The dealer was a complete jackass to her.


My son's baseball coach gives out cards as rewards for making plays during the games. I always thought that was kind of cool.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Flagg wrote:

My boss was seeking a Bill Nicholson card for her father as a present for Christmas and ran into the same issue. The dealer was a complete jackass to her.


My son's baseball coach gives out cards as rewards for making plays during the games. I always thought that was kind of cool.

i will explain a situation that i am dealing with right now (but im gonna wait until it is resolved)....

and i guarantee you will agree that i am dealing with the biggest piece of shit on planet earth.

this fucking guy is trying to rip me off of $160 in both cash and merchandise.

AND HE KNOWS DAMNED WELL....that I KNOW EXACTLY what he is trying to do....

Yet he still wont give it up.....

It just sucks that something so silly and childish...as baseball cards....

has been taken over by a bunch of thieving lying cheating adults.

milarso

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

Flagg wrote:

My boss was seeking a Bill Nicholson card for her father as a present for Christmas and ran into the same issue. The dealer was a complete jackass to her.


My son's baseball coach gives out cards as rewards for making plays during the games. I always thought that was kind of cool.

i will explain a situation that i am dealing with right now (but im gonna wait until it is resolved)....

and i guarantee you will agree that i am dealing with the biggest piece of shit on planet earth.

this fucking guy is trying to rip me off of $160 in both cash and merchandise.

AND HE KNOWS DAMNED WELL....that I KNOW EXACTLY what he is trying to do....

Yet he still wont give it up.....

It just sucks that something so silly and childish...as baseball cards....

has been taken over by a bunch of thieving lying cheating adults.

Man, that sucks Speedy.
Sorry to hear about that.
Leave it to an ebay asshole to ruin something that was so pure as baseball cards

megatron

like around 90-91 i got big into collectables..cards, comics and such
i spent every dollar at some shithole card shop in detroit
looking back the guys were scum bags that earned a living taking advantage of naive excited kids by creating their own prices
even my friends father who had a basement of mint stuff would steer my to buying from these guys..
all these people are creeps
im getting upset
o and i worked for a bar owned by people that have a sports memorabilia warehouse..
they constantly bragged about how much they overprice their gear
scumbags

SPEEDY MCCREADY

RACE THAT CANT BE WON wrote:

like around 90-91 i got big into collectables..cards, comics and such
i spent every dollar at some shithole card shop in detroit
looking back the guys were scum bags that earned a living taking advantage of naive excited kids by creating their own prices
even my friends father who had a basement of mint stuff would steer my to buying from these guys..
all these people are creeps
im getting upset
o and i worked for a bar owned by people that have a sports memorabilia warehouse..
they constantly bragged about how much they overprice their gear
scumbags

they truly are the scum of the earth....

90% of the autograph industry (sports related) are FAKES!!! 90%!!!!!!!!!!!!

xavier mcdaniel

i haven't collected since the mid-1990s. once they started making a complete set of 800 cards, series one and series two, I said the hell with it.

Flagg

Yeah, I would never pay for an autograph. If I happen to get one on my own at a signing or running into to someone or whatever, fine. But you won't catch me in a sports collectable shop shelling out cash for an autograph.

Doesn't it mean more if you actually meet the person and have them sign something? Anyone can just buy one.

Horos

I don't know if it will work for those older players but if you are looking for autographs Speedy this is what I tried in the early 90s. I sent out 10 cards to different teams asking for autographs. I got 2 back(Barry Foster and Brett Favre) and an 8 x 10 from Jerry Rice. These ebay assholes have taken all the fun out of collecting though.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Flagg wrote:

Yeah, I would never pay for an autograph. If I happen to get one on my own at a signing or running into to someone or whatever, fine. But you won't catch me in a sports collectable shop shelling out cash for an autograph.

Doesn't it mean more if you actually meet the person and have them sign something? Anyone can just buy one.

as i kid....i would get to wrigley field at 9am .......and just wait patiently for the players to show up at the games......and get their autographs....

ill never forget it....and i have a pretty fucking cool autograph collection.............

But today???? I wouldnt want any of these steroid freaks autographs..........hehehehe

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Horos wrote:

I don't know if it will work for those older players but if you are looking for autographs Speedy this is what I tried in the early 90s. I sent out 10 cards to different teams asking for autographs. I got 2 back(Barry Foster and Brett Favre) and an 8 x 10 from Jerry Rice. These ebay assholes have taken all the fun out of collecting though.

well ....

as a kid i did the same thing....only the autographs i have are...

Willie Mays
Hank Aaaron
Ernie Banks
Bobby Hull
Brooks Robinson
Frank Robinson
Lou Brock
etc
etc
etc............

i have to have autographed pictures of 30 hall of famers....(half are probably fake) hehehehehe...........

decides2dream

any item of *value* with a secondary market.....supply and demand....profits to be made.....there will always be charlatans, those just in it for $$$. i believe there are quite a few people who majorly supplement their income selling anything and everything on ebay, and hey....whatever works right? buyer beware and all that. i do really like ebay and paypal tho, lots of safeguards in place to protect both buyers and sellers, tho of course no system is perfect. i've had a lot of successful experiences with both and my husband has bought/sold a plethora of basses and other related items. it IS amazing tho, it seems everything is sold on ebay nowadays.......

blackredyellow

When I was like 14 or so, I was really into collecting cards... There was this small card shop by us where the guy was nice and would help us out finding cards, etc...A friend and I went to a couple of card shows and that basically turned us off of the whole thing... those dealers are scumbags most of the time.

And buying autographs is a joke... even the ones that aren't fake. I worked for a few years where the Pittsburgh Penguins practiced... You'd see the same homely lowlifes everyday with their boxes of 8x10's waiting in line every day after practice for autographs.

I have no problem with kids asking for autographs, or maybe even an adult getting one from a BIG name athlete, but the freakin' grownups who chase every random player around need smacked.

megatron

blackredyellow wrote:

When I was like 14 or so, I was really into collecting cards... There was this small card shop by us where the guy was nice and would help us out finding cards, etc...A friend and I went to a couple of card shows and that basically turned us off of the whole thing... those dealers are scumbags most of the time.

And buying autographs is a joke... even the ones that aren't fake. I worked for a few years where the Pittsburgh Penguins practiced... You'd see the same homely lowlifes everyday with their boxes of 8x10's waiting in line every day after practice for autographs.

I have no problem with kids asking for autographs, or maybe even an adult getting one from a BIG name athlete, but the freakin' grownups who chase every random player around need smacked.

at the ripe age of 25 i waited outside pj's tourbus with a poster to have signed for a couple hours :oops:
thats different though!

mfc2006

man---my whole childhood allowance & grass-cutting money went to baseball cards!! we would ride our bike to the cardshops. it'll be cool to pass the cards along my my kids someday, though.

i was in Target the other day & browsed the baseball cards. it's crazy---now they have all of these subsets with bat/jersey fragments & holograms and they are seriously overpriced. plus, you only get about 6-8 cards in ONE pack!! that's nuts!

blackredyellow

mfc2006 wrote:

man---my whole childhood allowance & grass-cutting money went to baseball cards!! we would ride our bike to the cardshops. it'll be cool to pass the cards along my my kids someday, though.

i was in Target the other day & browsed the baseball cards. it's crazy---now they have all of these subsets with bat/jersey fragments & holograms and they are seriously overpriced. plus, you only get about 6-8 cards in ONE pack!! that's nuts!

Yeah.. I remember my childhood days in the early 80's going to the store and buying packs of Topps for like $0.50 or whatever they were... (and loving the rock hard stale gum). I had this little index card file thing with dividers for each team, so I'd rush home and sort my cards and hoping I didn't have too many doubles.

Like you said now, there are so many brands and sets that it's probably tough to even try to start a collection for a kid... and their so expensive.

norm

i always liked the gum







speedy...are there any baseball card shops around? if there are, get a becketts baseball card book that's gives current prices (probably online now)....probably not but it's worth a shot....

SPEEDY MCCREADY

norm wrote:

i always liked the gum







speedy...are there any baseball card shops around? if there are, get a becketts baseball card book that's gives current prices (probably online now)....probably not but it's worth a shot....

I am quite familiar with pricing and the baseball card industry as a whole.....i used to be BIG in to collecting cards(30 years ago)

and Beckett is a bunch of horseshit too...IMO

Beckett can claim a card is worth $200.....but if nobody on the planet is willing to give you no more than $35....

then how much is the card truly worth???? $35.....right????

norm

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

norm wrote:

i always liked the gum







speedy...are there any baseball card shops around? if there are, get a becketts baseball card book that's gives current prices (probably online now)....probably not but it's worth a shot....

I am quite familiar with pricing and the baseball card industry as a whole.....i used to be BIG in to collecting cards(30 years ago)

and Beckett is a bunch of horseshit too...IMO

Beckett can claim a card is worth $200.....but if nobody on the planet is willing to give you no more than $35....

then how much is the card truly worth???? $35.....right????

well all that information is from when i collected....in the 80's :shock: got a 1959 mickey mantle for 5 bucks....ahh good times

mfc2006

blackredyellow wrote:

mfc2006 wrote:

man---my whole childhood allowance & grass-cutting money went to baseball cards!! we would ride our bike to the cardshops. it'll be cool to pass the cards along my my kids someday, though.

i was in Target the other day & browsed the baseball cards. it's crazy---now they have all of these subsets with bat/jersey fragments & holograms and they are seriously overpriced. plus, you only get about 6-8 cards in ONE pack!! that's nuts!

Yeah.. I remember my childhood days in the early 80's going to the store and buying packs of Topps for like $0.50 or whatever they were... (and loving the rock hard stale gum). I had this little index card file thing with dividers for each team, so I'd rush home and sort my cards and hoping I didn't have too many doubles.

Like you said now, there are so many brands and sets that it's probably tough to even try to start a collection for a kid... and their so expensive.

i did the same thing. my best friend & i would go to eachother's house & sort our cards. then we'd trade. i know that i have a lot of valuable cards, but that's not why we bought them. i wasn't trying to get the most expensive card when i bought a pack, i was trying to get the cards of my favorite players.

there was one really great card shop close to where we lived. the brothers that owned it just loved sports. jon & i could go in there & talk baseball for hours. they never overpriced anything and were really fair if we wanted to trade with them.

then there was another shop & they were dirty as hell. they would pressure you into buying this & that. the 2 shops were polar opposites. one for fun & one for greed.

mfc2006

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

and Beckett is a bunch of horseshit too...IMO

Beckett can claim a card is worth $200.....but if nobody on the planet is willing to give you no more than $35....

then how much is the card truly worth???? $35.....right????

now they have this "grading scale". if it isn't professionally graded, it isn't worth much. it's just sad in my opinion.