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When Should We Sell Our Sports Cards? · Sports Card Clubhouse

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In our massive country, there are card collectors throughout
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the land participating in the hobby.
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There's Mike of Junk Wax Hero and Greg of Midlife Cards, and
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while distance may separate them, here is where they come
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together to talk cards. Oh buddy, we're talking cards.
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We got holidays, we've got end of year New Year resolutions.
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How are you? I'm sore already, Greg.
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I, I went out and I snow blown 18 inches of snow.
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That's, that's a big storm for us these days. 18 inches.
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And then I had to rake the roof. I know you've probably never
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even heard of this concept of raking the roof, but you know
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your roof, you get the 18 inches of snow on it and you have the
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overhang. And if you don't get the snow
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off of that overhang, then it freezes where the red that the
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overhang freezes and turns to ice or the rest of the roof is
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warm from the inside. And that will melt.
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And if the ice on the overhang freezes, it will prevent the
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melting from going off the roof and it will end up going under
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your shingles and you get a leak in your your roof.
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So very diligent about because it happened once in our very
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first winter 18 years ago and we got a leak between our walls and
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that's no fun at all. So I rake the roof and there's
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18 inches of snow and it's, it's upper upper body work and oh,
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and it's also a lot of cardio. I'm already sore.
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Gosh, that sounds terrible. It is.
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So what does, what does it get like, like temperature wise at
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night right now? What it what is it out there?
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Oh, 10° is a pretty standard. 10 to 20 is pretty typical.
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You'll get some nights into the negatives.
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Wow, that's such a different world.
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Come for a visit, Greg. I don't know if I'd be able to
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make it. I I mean out up out here, it
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might hit the 20s at night a couple of times.
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It rarely gets below. Freezing 20s is a decent night
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here. That's like a a good night in
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December, January, February. That's wild.
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Yeah, different. Literally as the logo shows.
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I mean, if I were to change our logo here real quick, you up
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there at the top right hand corner, me left.
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I'm basically live in the desert and you live in the polar
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Arctic, as far as I can tell. We don't get as much snow as we
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used to. So it's it's this was very
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unusual. It used to be much more common
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to get an 18 inch storm. You get you used to get a
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handful of those every winter. We have had one in the last
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handful of years probably. Well, well hey, way to get your
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work out on today. Proud of you staying fit.
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OK, so I want to tell an experience that I had and then I
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want to pick your brain about it.
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Does that sound good? Because you don't know the topic
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that I want to talk about today, which I think makes it more fun
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and more authentic. It definitely feels more fun to
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me too. So so about a month ago I bought
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a Mayo cut plug football card. It's really like the first set
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of football cards, but they're, you know, there's like 35 cards
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in the set. They're all college players,
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very rare. Most of them have a total pop
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under 30 and. The most famous card is the No
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name on front, correct? Yeah.
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Is it John Dunlop? Yeah.
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And Orlando has one of them. There's like 8 of them and
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Orlando has one. His is is pretty nice looking.
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It's Miss Cut. There's one that's been on and
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off eBay for a few months in the four $500,000 range.
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But you know it, it's like they only made them of the key
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schools, you know, Yale, Harvard, Princeton.
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And then in addition to that, that they're usually some of the
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better players. So most of them were all
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Americans or captains or whatever.
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So I bought 1 and I bought 1 because I always wanted one.
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And my buddy Don, who lives in the Cleveland area, is a big
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football collector and he has most of them.
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He has like 30 of them and I, I've seen them and they're
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beautiful. And, and so I bought 1 because
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it popped up on eBay and it was an old grade.
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I mean, not we're talking like 1990s graded card leading zero
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and it got a four and it, it's probably more like a 2 1/2 and
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it popped up and they've gone way up in price recently.
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And so it, it popped up for $850 and I'm like, that's not enough.
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It's it's definitely worth more than that.
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I'm going to buy it because I've always wanted one and I know
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that I can't really lose on this deal because if I end up wanting
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to not have it, I could at least get my money back.
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But I'm going to buy it because this is a rare opportunity to
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have a pretty nice one. Usually there's major back
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damage, major creasing. A lot of them because they have
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black borders and a black back. People would fill it in with
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marker so they'd be altered. So rarely is there one even with
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a number. This one was a four.
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There was, I think it's like a pop due to higher.
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Well, I bought it for $850 and I'm just like, I have to buy
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this card. So I bought it and I was
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thrilled with it. It was a great addition.
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And then like a week, not even a week, four or five days after it
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showed up, I'm doing the, the CIA auction watch party for the
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end of the auction on 4 collectors.
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And there were two of them for sale.
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And I was bidding on one of them.
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And one of them was an SGC 3. And I was bidding on it.
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And I was like, I, I think I'm going to try, I hopefully can
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get this for under $1000 now I'll have two of them.
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I was like maybe 900 is what I'll get it for.
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And then there was a 2 1/2 SGC 2 1/2 and the, the PSA.
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No sorry the SGC 3 ended up selling for like 2800 dollars.
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Of the same player, same athlete.
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Not the same player, not the same player but the one I had
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was a Princeton athlete, 2 two time captain.
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They won the the NCAA tournament or not tournament but they won
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the championship both of those years and he was an all American
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one year. This other guy, the one that
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sold for more was it was maybe a slightly lower pop by like 3 or
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4. And he was a two time all
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American. But I mean, they, they weren't
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like there wasn't like the NFL back then.
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So none of them are like household names.
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And then the, the 2.5 sold for like 1850.
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And I'm like, I, I was literally on the watch party as we're
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looking at them and I'm, I'm, I'm pointing them out 'cause I'm
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like, I was bidding on this, but I'm out now.
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And they just were literally, we pull it up on the screen and it
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was just like up $100, up another $100, up another $100.
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I'm like, I have one of these, but I don't know if I'm going to
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have it for much longer because it got so expensive.
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I was just like, I don't know. I don't know if I don't know if
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I should keep it because it might be worth way more than I
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wanted. And the reason I'm bringing this
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story up is because there are a lot of cards we have in our
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collection that don't have sentimental attachment.
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It's not like a friend gave it, It's not like our parent gave,
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it's not like our childhood card.
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But we like having it in our collection.
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At what point should a person consider selling it?
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Because it's sort of like for us collectors, you know, in this
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collecting community, like if you buy and sell cards, you're
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like, that's like a cardinal sin.
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You can't do that. Like that's very much looked
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down upon. If you buy a card and then you
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sell the card for more money, like that's like you're doing
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something wrong. Is, is the impression that a lot
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of people get. I did a conversation one time, I
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think it was on Mike Moynihan's channel the last time he had me
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on like 3 years ago. And he he literally and and he
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said I used to look down on people who sold cards because
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literally if you sold cards, I would like look down on you.
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I was just like, you're not a real collector if you sell.
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He said that and he goes and I've since change some on that
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and there are times and because I was like, well, Mike, didn't
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you sell like a whole bunch of, you know, insert cards and auto
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cards and stuff? He did a whole video series on
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it and he's like, yeah. And I've, you know, I've kind of
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moved off of that. I know I'm taking a long time,
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but I'm setting the the premise for the question that I'm asking
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you, which is at what point is it reasonable a good idea, OK to
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sell a card that you actually like having?
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I think the answer is anytime, anytime you want to sell a card,
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you should sell that card. And let me turn this off here.
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Now, but does that include, I mean that includes cards that
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you like having like some people like, I don't care what it's
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worth, I'm not selling it. Yeah.
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But I think, I think it's crazy to judge people for selling
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cards. I think if you want to sell the
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card, you should sell it. I've heard somebody, maybe it
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was to you who recently said if you wouldn't buy it for that
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price, then you should sell it. Now let me ask you another
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question though. If someone were to sell their
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cards, who And like say you had a collection.
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Like. Who do you think you should sell
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it to? What a Segway.
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I would go to chrissewellcollectorinvestordealerinthatordersewellsportscards@gmail.com
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if I had a collection of cards to sell.
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I would go through Chris if I thought that he So I just sent a
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bunch of very, very low value cards to Com C, but those are
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low value. I, I, I kept some back, some I
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regret. I should have sent them to
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Chris. There were some higher value
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Carly Ostremsky cards. Should have sent them to Chris
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Sewell and I would have if I had really given it a lot of
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thought. Chris Sewell is the best dealer.
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He's our friend and he is the best dealer out there.
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He gives very fair prices. He'll explain to you the prices
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e-mail and his e-mail address is in the description to this
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video. I'm I'm counting on you, Greg,
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and to the podcast. And it's also found on
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sportscardclubhouse.com. You can see a picture of Chris
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and get his information. Yes, yes.
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So yeah, that's, I would go to Chris Sewell if I were, if I
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wanted to sell a big card or a collection of cards, yeah.
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The reason I went to Com C is because there were a lot of
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cards I didn't think he would be he would want to buy because
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they were low value, low liquidity cards.
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And, and I think, you know, I've had a lot of people in my Q&A's
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and in my comments over the years say I'm worried about my
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widow getting ripped off if I have a collection and they're
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not graded. Because if they're not graded,
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then it's harder to know what they are and what they're worth
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and who to trust. And that is honestly, genuinely,
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that's the sort of thing we're like the note I might leave to
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my spouse is called Chris, like literally because I trust Chris
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and Chris would, would do, would do the right thing.
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So OK, so let me finish how this played out.
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I, I went and I the card that I bought for 8:50 like a month
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ago, I see it selling for I, I see similar comps selling for
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like 1900 and 2700 or something. And I go, well, I wouldn't pay
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those numbers for this card. If if I went to a card show and
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I had $3000 in my pocket and one of those and my card was there,
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I wouldn't buy it. So at some point I believe that
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cards, the value of the card is more for somebody else than it
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is for me. And that's what happened with my
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dad's 1960 tops, Mickey Mantle and APSA 9 is he got it graded
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it, it eventually ended up in a nine holder and and then he was
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like, great, I love the card and he kept it for many, several
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years. But then the value of it climbed
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and climbed and climbed and climbed and he said it is not
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worth that much to me. So he ended up selling it and he
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actually sold it to memory Lane and, and I the, the reason I
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bring it up is because I do feel like there's this judgement from
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some about selling cards. And OK, let me ask you, let me
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ask you another question. A very well known dealer in the
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community who everyone would recognize the dealer's name.
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There's probably 5 dealers that that would you, could I narrow
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it down? Do one of them apparently bought
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a card at the last CIA auction because there was a card I was
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looking at it, I was very interested in the card and it
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got out of my stratosphere. So I didn't end up bidding on it
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anymore and I let it go and it went high.
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And then I just saw on eBay that well known dealer had that card
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marked up about $1000 over what it went for.
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And that dealer apparently is now using some auctions to
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source cards. Another dealer in the community
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that I've bought from multiple times at Strongsville, at the
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National, I will go to comp a card in a particular grade and
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when I look it up and I comp it, the last comp was that exact one
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with that exact serial number at like an Rea auction or a golden
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auction or one of these auction houses.
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It seems to me like some dealers are starting to just put out
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bids on a bunch of different cards at auctions and then if
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they buy them for whatever they feel is below their markup
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amount, they're they're sourcing cards there.
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Is that OK? Is is that cool or should
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auction houses only be for collectors?
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I think it's crazy, and I would hope that I wouldn't end up
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missing out on the original auction and then discover it
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through a dealer that has marked it up significantly since they
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bought it. But I think it's perfect if
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that's what a dealer wants to do, if that's what they need to
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do to source inventory. I don't, I don't have a problem
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with that. I wouldn't personally purchase a
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card that I knew they had just bought for, I don't know, you
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know, they just bought it at market price.
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If you're buying cards, if you're a dealer and you're
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buying cards at 70% and then selling them to me at 100% of
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comps, OK. But if you're buying it at
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auction, that is market price then and then marking it up.
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I don't love it, but if that's what they need to do and then it
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sits for months and months and months, then that's a that's a
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them problem, not a me problem. OK is with rare cards like this
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Mayo card that I bought so so I don't even know if I did I
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finish the story. So what I ended up doing is I
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said I think this card is worth more than I would buy it for,
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and if I wouldn't buy it for what I think I might be able to
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sell it for, then I'm just going to put it up for sale.
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So I literally, I put it up for sale on eBay.
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I just had bought it on eBay a month ago and I'm like, if this
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is worth a lot, I'd be willing to sell it, but I'd prefer to
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keep it but not at these amounts.
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So I put it up on eBay for $2500 and in the description I
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literally wrote I can even pull it up.
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I literally wrote I don't want to sell this card, I like this
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card, but for the right price I'd be willing to move it.
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So somebody within 24 hours offered me $2000.
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Now again, I bought this card on a buy it now on eBay the same
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platform for $850 a month ago and this guy just offered me
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$2000. I'm sure he comped it.
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I'm sure he saw it just sold for 8:50.
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But the guy was still willing to pay me 1150 over what I had just
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bought it for. And I'm like that point, I was
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like, I might buy it for 2000 but I wouldn't buy it for 2250.
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So I countered with 2250 and the guy took it.
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So I bought it for 8:50. I sold it for 2250 and part of
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me feels like I did something wrong.
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Like like the dealer example that you just gave where they
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buy something at auction and then turn around and mark it up.
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I think that's fine. It's not I, I wouldn't buy it
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from them. I wouldn't buy that, buy it from
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you unless I really, really, really needed that card.
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You know, these cards, the rare cards are going up, are
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skyrocketing in value. And in just in the second-half
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of this year, we've seen significant increases in values,
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say sold values of rare cards, of iconic cards.
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And maybe that person missed out on the $850 listing and now they
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know they saw it out there and they said, shoot, I've got to
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buy this now because I might not see this card for years.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's only 20 of them.
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I mean, that's how I felt when there were certain pirate cards.
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And I'm trying to build my set of 50 cards and there's like one
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I'd never seen for sale. And I'm like, this guy's asking
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double what I think it's worth, but there's only like 15 that
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have ever been graded so. Yeah.
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This one's double, but I may not get it and I don't know it.
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It's now. OK, let me let's continue this
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with a little bit of a turn in the in the conversation because
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the values of rare cards have gone nuts.
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Do you think if somebody was quote, UN quote, an investor,
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somebody was looking to buy cards that were going to go up
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the most? Would it be smarter to buy cards
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like a Sandy Koufax rookie and a Roberto Clemente rookie and a
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Bob Gibson rookie? Or would it be to buy a pop 20
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Mayo cut plug football card of a guy that nobody's heard of?
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Which of those types of cards, the iconic cards that aren't
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rare, or the rare cards that maybe are from an iconic set but
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not an iconic name? Which of those things do you
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think in 10 years has the most upside?
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Well, the iconic cards can become rare if you get them in a
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higher grade, if you get them autographed, things like that,
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and make them more rare, more iconic, more valuable in the
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long term. People talk about junk wax cards
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but you can get a junk wax card autographed and have it be semi
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rare and have it be worth more money.
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It's not to say many of them are worth a lot more but I think a
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Sandy Koufax rookie card you can get those for a few 100 bucks.
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500 bucks I don't know what they are now.
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I paid I think 5 or 600 for mine.
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But if you add if you get a rookie autograph, I think he
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charges like $3000 for his autograph on his rookie card.
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That card all of a sudden becomes worth many thousands of
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dollars and it's much much more rare than just his rookie card.
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Get a high grade rookie card. I don't know what high grade for
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a 55 tops would be. Probably A8, probably lower pop.
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Yeah, so the condition scarcity route of the iconic card funny
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story that you mentioned Sandy Kofax.
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So there's a collector that lives in Northern California who
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I met at some card shows and he he watches the channel and, and
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he was collecting cards and, and then he's he stumbled across
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like a it was either a Willie Mays or a Hank Aaron autographed
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card. And it like it like the light
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bulb went off sort of like it has for our buddy Tony.
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And he started going down that route of going, I'm I'm going to
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go, I'm going to go for all these.
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So he's gotten heavy into ticket stubs autographed from
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significant events. So like, he has a couple of the
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Yom Kippur games and he sent them off to get signed.
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And, and Sandy Koufax will do like a private signing.
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He's in his, he's like 91 or something.
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He'll do a private signing, but there will only be like 50
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slots. And like if it's on a rookie
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card, it's like 2 grand or something.
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If it's on a ticket, if it's on his debut ticket, it's this
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much. If it's another ticket, it's
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this much. So he got a couple of Yom Kippur
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ticket stubs signed and he had a couple of rookie cards signed,
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and one of them he bought the rookie card in like a six.
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He sent it, it got signed. He then sent it into PSA to
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because he had to crack it. It comes back where the
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autograph got a nine instead of a 10, and then the card went
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from A6 to A5. So he got like kicked in the
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nuts twice on that one because he wanted a high grade autograph
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and a high grade card obviously because the value goes up
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exponentially apparently. Which should that be?
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I don't know. But so you think you think
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iconic cards with a rarer characteristic it has is like
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what sort of what like Tony Southern collector Tony is doing
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over something like these people who are buying rare issue cards
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where there's four of them kind of thing.
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You think that that's got the better upside?
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I think so. You froze on me.
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I don't know if it's on your end or if it's on my end.
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So as we're oh, you're back. You know, my Internet never,
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ever, ever, ever goes out. But this, I think this is our
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second recording in a row, but it's gone out.
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It's fine. I I just I filled the dead.
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Air a little bit thanks. You have to be careful with
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these iconic card scarcity issues too, because if you think
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about the 1989 Upper deck Ken Griffey Junior rookie card in a
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10, the value of PSA 10 of that card has skyrocketed.
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It it went, I don't know where it is now, but it was $2000 at
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the beginning of this year. It rose up to between 5:00 and
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$6000. That's not scarce.
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Then you add an autograph to it and of course it becomes much
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more valuable. The problem is you need it in a
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10/10 to see significant improvement.
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I have a Ken Griffey junior in APSA 8 for the card, 10 for the
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autograph and that has not gone up as much as the the plain old
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10. So my autographed PSA 810 card
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has gone from 450 ish or $500 to like 550 to $600.00.
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Not much appreciation, but if you have a 910 or a 10/10,
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you've seen some pretty good gains from that.
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So the last Ken Griffey Junior Upper Deck PSA 10 at auction was
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an eBay auction yesterday, and it closed at 4425, which I think
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it might have been higher than that, yeah.
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Still more than double. It's up 120% just since the
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beginning of this year. And Adam, our partner here, Adam
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of Splendid Sports, that was one of the cards he cited when he
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said, you know what? I am taking a break from buying
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cards until this huge explosion has ended.
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And I've stepped back to, not completely, but I've started
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buying Red Sox refractors, early Red Sox refractors which I can
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get for 10 or $20 instead of going after these 45600 dollar
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cards that I really like doing. But those 45600 dollar cards
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that I was buying a year ago are now going for a thousand 1200
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dollars. Really it it, it's interesting
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how the trends go with some of this stuff.
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And like you said, the rarity with like that Griffey.
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But imagine having like a Griffey and A10 and you go, I'm
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going to crack it and get it signed.
27:37
Somebody sent me, I think it was an Instagram DM if I'm not
27:43
mistaken, it was an Yvonne Rodriguez card.
27:47
I should search for it, but it was an Yvonne Rodriguez card and
27:52
the card was in a nine and he cracked it to get it autographed
27:59
at like A at like a private signing.
28:02
It came back. So then he sent it back in for
28:05
dual grading and it got a 10/10. So he actually benefited by
28:16
cracking it and then autographing it and and then he
28:20
said that he got up charged. Gosh, where was that?
28:23
I've seen that too. Now that you're talking about
28:25
it, I don't remember. I might even have that as a
28:27
future video in my list. I have a list of like 150 future
28:32
videos. I think I have that in there.
28:35
But the risk there, Greg, is the enormous.
28:38
Enormous. Just the cracking the card out
28:40
is a risk of damaging the card in some way.
28:44
And then the putting it in a container of some sort to mail
28:48
it, putting it through the mail, having the athlete and the
28:51
athlete's handlers pulling it out, pawing at it, and then
28:55
putting it back in the mail. There is so much risk there.
28:58
And then you got to put it back in the mail to PSA or whoever,
29:01
CGC, whoever you're having authenticate it to.
29:05
To think that you can get a nine and have it come back a nine is
29:10
crazy, but haven't take a nine and have it come back a 10 is
29:13
way crazier. Here it is, I'm showing it on
29:16
the screen. It's a beautiful signature on a
29:18
beautiful card. In a great spot.
29:21
In a great spot and it's a 10/10 and it was just a nine for the
29:28
card. He did say he got an up charge
29:33
of 100 extra dollars. He said the last one at auction
29:37
sold for 13 to $1400 and he paid 190 just for the card.
29:43
So he's up, you know, he's up over $1000 from the whole
29:47
experience. Wild.
29:52
Yeah, I have a have a 91 upper deck final edition Yvonne
29:56
Rodriguez autographed and I'm really regretting my choice
29:58
because that tops one with the autograph across the chest looks
30:02
so much better. The one that I just showed you
30:05
is yeah, the Tops traded. Yeah, and it's a Tiffany.
30:10
Oh. So we got the tops, traded
30:13
Tiffany. There's more than 9 rarity
30:16
there. That card checks a lot of boxes
30:19
in the rarity factor in the condition factor.
30:22
But I mean, and that's a whole nother thing is like the fact
30:26
that it could just go from A9 to A10 is just it's just bonkers.
30:32
Back to your original question, I, I bought a card, I bought a
30:35
Caitlin Clark card back in December of 2022.
30:41
I think she was like a freshman or a sophomore at Iowa and I
30:46
thought that she's super exciting.
30:48
This is going to be great. I bought a autographed Sports
30:52
Illustrated for Kids card of her for $90.00.
30:56
She started taking off a little bit.
30:58
I sent it off to PSA, got a dual graded authentic on the card,
31:02
which was what I asked for because I didn't want it to be
31:04
graded, and then a 10 on the autograph.
31:07
And then as she blew up more and more and more and the hobby
31:10
started picking up on her, I said I love this card, but do I
31:14
love it as much as it's worth? Would I pay $2000 for it?
31:19
And ultimately the answer is no, there's no way I would spend
31:22
$2000 on that card. And so I listed on eBay for like
31:27
2500 bucks and sold it for I think 1850.
31:32
And I, I flipped that money, took that 1850 minus taxes of
31:37
course, pay your taxes folks to the National and bought 3 big
31:40
cards that I'm really really happy with.
31:43
Now I do still think about that card often and check to see if
31:46
any have sold it. Still the all time highest to
31:49
ever sell at public, sell publicly.
31:52
But you know, at some point if it sells for like $10,000, I'm
31:55
going to kick myself. Yeah, but you know, and and and
31:59
here's the other thing is again, I'm I don't want to put my
32:03
values on others or others values on me.
32:06
But there's this some people don't really have to take
32:13
advantage of those you and far between opportunities like you
32:17
did on the Caitlin Clark or I did on this mail card it.
32:22
But when you're in a different budget, you know, for me to just
32:26
pick up an extra after taxes over $1000, like just fell from
32:33
the sky. That is a massive amount of
32:37
money for my budget, a massive amount.
32:40
You know, it's probably closer like $1200 that I net out of
32:43
that deal and and I net the $1200, which then I turned
32:49
around and I bought, you know, a, a Walter Johnson T2O6
32:54
portrait card, which is like a dream car that is long since
32:58
long felt out of reach. But I just knocked $1200 off the
33:02
price. So, you know, a lot of people
33:05
will be like, oh, you know, buy what you like and don't sell it.
33:09
Hold it. That's the hobby of it.
33:11
You know, we're not flippers. And I do understand that.
33:15
But when you're in an income bracket or you're in a place
33:21
where the amount that you can budget for cards is minimal,
33:26
sometimes we have to, you know, look at the opportunity cost of
33:30
a situation and say, I think I'm going to extract the capital out
33:35
of this card that I've acquired through a a good purchase and
33:40
utilize it on this thing that I'd rather have.
33:42
And the three big cards that you got at the National, I'm
33:47
guessing you'd rather have than the Caitlin Clark card.
33:50
And so it was a good move for you, Sandy.
33:52
Koufax rookie, Wayne Gretzky, rookie.
33:55
Those are the two that really stick out.
33:56
I don't. I don't remember off the top of
33:58
my head. The third one I got, Oh Jim
34:01
Brown rookie was another one. Really.
34:03
Yeah, the 2024 National I, I got some really, really good cards.
34:09
I don't know, did you get the tops or a peachy Gretzky?
34:13
Tops. I don't.
34:15
I don't need the peachy. You don't need that.
34:17
It's the same card. Yeah.
34:20
Is it though? I mean.
34:22
For your scarcity argument, it's certainly not, but I just want
34:26
to have the card. No, I, I get it and I've gone
34:29
back and forth and it's a card I will have at some point.
34:34
But him being Edmonton Oilers, him being from Canada, I think
34:41
of I think of Canada as the hockey country of.
34:46
Course. I could.
34:48
I don't know. I would be happy with either,
34:51
but for a long time I was like I want the tops and more recently,
34:55
in fact, I saw a card the other day that it was a a really well
35:02
centered Gretzky O Peachy and it was in like a 2 or a three and
35:10
it was autographed and it was an early Gretzky autograph.
35:13
It wasn't like the the newer one that he does in all the upper
35:16
deck cards. It was like it was like a plain
35:19
days black ball, not ballpoint. It was like a black belt tip
35:25
marker, like not a high quality sharpie, but it was a nice
35:29
autograph card was worn and loved but treasured.
35:35
And I saw that card pop up and I'm like, oh man, like I'm not
35:41
going to do this because I can't.
35:43
But oh, if I had some money, that would have been just an O
35:48
peachy Gretzky, perfectly centered plain days autograph.
35:53
I was just like, man, how am I? How how do I walk away from
35:56
this? But those things just show up.
36:00
I don't know. Well, we're 3536 minutes in.
36:06
You know, we are recording this on Christmas Eve because we
36:10
don't set boundaries with our lives.
36:13
And so we're here, and my wife rolled her eyes at me as I
36:19
walked in to record. Is there anything 'cause this
36:25
is, well, I guess what we might record one more time before the
36:30
end of the year, but likely not. Is there any sort of maybe next
36:35
time we talk about New Year's resolutions with the hobby, is
36:38
that a good? Idea.
36:39
Yeah. Let's do it.
36:41
I got a few ideas of some things that I need to change about
36:44
myself in multiple facets of life.
36:50
Looking forward to it. Yes.
36:52
OK, well another one in the books, yes.
36:56
I appreciate your feedback. I feel slightly better about
37:00
flipping a card. Several friends are now calling
37:03
me Greg the Flipper, but I. Just come up with a noise like
37:08
flipper made. Yeah, yeah.
37:11
The, the, the dolphin, Yeah, yeah.
37:16
So I don't know. I, I think we're all in
37:19
different places and we can't put our own values on other
37:23
people's decisions because everybody's got a different
37:27
situation to a different story. And, and what they're trying to
37:30
work towards. And whether I keep a card for
37:33
two years before I sell it or a week and sell it.
37:37
I I don't know if one is better than the other, but I'm sure I'm
37:42
sure everyone will let us know down below in the comments of
37:45
their thoughts. Yep.
37:49
Well, Greg, and to the viewers, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,
37:53
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37:58
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