View Full Version : Flipper flops...(and other disasters)
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08-23-2006, 07:37 PM
Posted By: <b>edacra</b><p>In the spirit of that BST thread, I was wondering...What was your worst attempt at flipping pre-war cards for profit ? <br /><br />Trade bait, "break up potential", and impulse purchases you thought were total steals can count too. As long as you took a dive in the end!<br /><br />I'm just really curious what cards you acquired with the intention of getting rid of it, that um...didn't work out the way you expected.<br />
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08-23-2006, 07:43 PM
Posted By: <b>jackgoodman</b><p>I'm just assuming you don't expect Mr. Cobb and Mr. Edwards to chime in....................
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08-23-2006, 08:36 PM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>circa 2000, I bought the ex-Jim Copeland/Sotheby's 1873 Boston Bostons Team Cabinet (Al Spalding, both Wrights, etc) for $3,000 and resold it through MastroNet for $1,500. I assume it's worth quite a bit more than $3,000 today.<br /><br />Honestly, I don't have hard feelings over the transactions as things sell more and less than you expect and it will usually about even out.
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08-23-2006, 09:50 PM
Posted By: <b>Al C.risafulli</b><p>I bought a cheap Wagner reprint, soaked it in coffee, and then sold it to some knucklehead for $1800 a few years ago...<br /><br />-Al
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08-23-2006, 10:11 PM
Posted By: <b>honus3415</b><p>I bought a cheap T206 Wagner a couple years ago for $1800 only to find some knucklehead had soaked a cheap reprint in coffee. Wait.....AL!!!!!!!!!
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08-23-2006, 10:22 PM
Posted By: <b>peter ullman</b><p>I'm and always have been more of a collector than a flipper...and I must say I've never lost money on a flip...and there have been few. I bought my t4 melchoir obak as a flip...and this green cobb....and this matty for a flip...but I fell in love with them and couldn't do it.<br /><br />I'm a flipper failure.<br /><br />Pete Ullman<br /><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/ullmandds/scan0001-1.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/ullmandds/scan0009.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/ullmandds/scan0001-2.jpg"><br /><br /><br /> <br />
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08-23-2006, 10:26 PM
Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I dropped a reprint Wagner in a cup of coffee. Ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee.<br />If it had been Starbuck's latte I would have been out $3. <br /><br />I think Tully's and Starbucks use those plastics tops to prevent all those <br />errants reprints from flying into the coffee. All you have to do is look at eBay to see<br />it's a serious problem.