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08-04-2002, 01:46 PM
Posted By: <b>Bob</b><p>The new catalogue is out and I feel like a 6 year old kid getting the Sears Christmas catalogue back in the 50's. The one thing driving me nuts is that, as usual, a couple of cards I really need are lumped in a huge lot of vintage cards.<BR>PETE!!! Drop me an email, otherwise we will kill each other running up one of the lots and you know which one!
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08-04-2002, 05:59 PM
Posted By: <b>Brian H</b><p>These catalogues always blow me away. In addition to many cards I have been looking for and would love to own the Mastro auctions almost never cease to amaze me by presenting cool items that I didn't even know existed. If only the stock market hadn't tanked...<BR><BR>My one gripe (besides not having Bill Gates money to spend) is that some of the items I would like are part of larger lots (probably not the same ones that T-Bob wants).
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08-04-2002, 07:38 PM
Posted By: <b>scott (runscott)</b><p>I paid somewhere around $100 for the priviledge of receiving the last one - I assumed after that, and after spending about $1,400 with them, that I would get the next one without asking, but I'm sort of new at this, and don't want to screw up and have to bid blind like last time.<br><br>--------------------------------------------<BR> no disclaimer - temporarily taking responsibility for my actions
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08-04-2002, 07:59 PM
Posted By: <b>Andy Baran</b><p>..... and I live only a few miles from the Mastro office. I'm sure they are on their way.
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08-04-2002, 08:51 PM
Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>...
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08-04-2002, 08:58 PM
Posted By: <b>David</b><p>I haven't received mine yet, but assume it should come early next week. In the past, I have always received mine a few days after the auction started online, so was surprised others had received theirs this early.
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08-04-2002, 09:07 PM
Posted By: <b>Dr.Koos</b><p>...AGAIN!!! Of course, the fact that I've never bid in a Mastro Auction MAY have something to do with that!
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08-04-2002, 11:52 PM
Posted By: <b>Harry</b><p>I was told that when I paid for my subscription that I would receive catalogs for a year and if I bid in their auctions, would continue to receive them indefinitely. <BR><BR>From what I recall, I usually get mine 3 or 4 days after the first sighting.<BR><BR>They are always a pleasure to look at and in conjunction with a list of the prices realized make for a very valuable reference tool.<BR><BR>
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08-05-2002, 12:10 AM
Posted By: <b>MW</b><p>The last time I consigned some items to Mastro, I received a free auction catalog. Since then, nothing. I bet Steve Verkman gets one <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14> Maybe I'm on their "blacklist."
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08-05-2002, 12:16 AM
Posted By: <b>B C Daniels</b><p>It's stuck to the roll! hee hee hee<BR><BR><BR>Pete, send me the list too or you guys will cost me coin as well!
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08-05-2002, 08:36 AM
Posted By: <b>Harry</b><p>I was just told that if I was an active bidder then I would continue to receive the catalogs.
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08-05-2002, 09:46 AM
Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>It was at my igloo, front doorstep this morning. Fedex. Let's see now....if I mortgage the house (again), lie to my wife (ag...shhhh), take out BOTH dollars I still have left in the stock market, cash out my 401k, and steal from my little girl's piggy bank (not really), I still won't have enough money.....darn it.....what a great catalogue of stuff though...and all the Old Judges and several Kalamazoo's, E cards, D cards, T cards, Cabinets, W600's ......drool, drool.....oh well.......see a lot of ya'll in a few days <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> ...can't wait, but till then ..best regards
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08-05-2002, 10:32 AM
Posted By: <b>Jaime Leiderman</b><p>The 1874 Boston Team Cabinet is a BEAUTY!<BR><BR>But again... Don't have that kind of money.<BR>Hope someone from the board wins it and share closer scans for all of us.<img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>
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08-05-2002, 06:57 PM
Posted By: <b>David Vargha</b><p>to CA a few days after the auction starts. I keep all of the old ones on the book shelf. They are a great pictorial resource. It never ceases to amaze me that they get such awesome stuff every auction. I've won a few things and have consigned once. I got a pretty nice 1951 Bowman box (empty) two auctions ago. <br><br>DavidVargha@hotmail.com
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08-05-2002, 08:48 PM
Posted By: <b>Marc S.</b><p>But the entire catalog should be online tomorrow -- so that should help out any of you who don't yet have the hard copy.
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08-05-2002, 10:53 PM
Posted By: <b>TBob</b><p>Maybe because I am a past consignor, maybe because I am an active bidder, but probably because I lose but end up bidding up so many lots <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>
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08-05-2002, 11:18 PM
Posted By: <b>David</b><p>Mine come like clockwork too. The problem is that watch I ordered from L.L. Bean hasn't come either.<BR><BR>Actually, I do most of my auction browsing on computer (I have a laptop that works just as good from the couch as from the desk), but have kept all the past catalogs and find them useful as references.
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08-06-2002, 04:02 PM
Posted By: <b>Julie Vognar</b><p>You can't bid unless you subscribe to the catalogue (or are getting one because of recent past bids). I just talked to Mastro (no, I don't mean Bill Gates with a nasal voice), and, having gotten Mastros catalogues free for years and years, was told to fork over $75 for the sports catalogues, because I hadn't bid in the last 7 auctions--they keep track of that sort of thing. <BR><BR>The nice lady said they'd gotten so big ("especially since we acquired Americana"...?) that they just can't affrord to send free catalogues to people who don't bid regularly.<BR><BR>When did I get that little Ppicture of Gandil...and where?