Going for Number 29

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Guess this is what happens when you're a known hoarder.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=320278223601&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=011

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Posted By: Sean

Opps. My Bad.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Steve

I didn't even have to open the link to know which card you were talking about

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Posted By: barrysloate

Why does this Miller guy buy up all these cards? Doesn't he have just about all of them anyway?

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Posted By: Andy Cook

I've been the underbidder on several of these recently. I wish he would pass on some of these so these of us working on the set could complete it at a reasonable price. It's crazy to have a 1910 Obak routinely go for more than $500.

Andy

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I think $500 would buy this one....

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Posted By: Brian

Its a 1911, but point taken on the set builders. Fortunately, its a free market and the highest bid wins (unless the seller is in on the joke also, and puts an equally silly reserve)...

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Seller is obviously aware that Brian will pay any price for the Miller cards. His reserve, whatever it is, is to insure that he pays through the nose.

I suspect that most of the bids are Brian's attempt to find the reserve. Hard to tell with the use of the "private bidder".

Smart seller.

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Posted By: Brian

Luckily I got my 1911 Miller in EX already. Paid about $40 or so...

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Posted By: Anthony S.

I'm photocopying the 1911 Miller in this auction. That's gonna be the Miller in my 1911 set.

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Posted By: Steve Murray

I picked up my 1911 Zeenut Miller with a BIN of $29.99.

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Steve, that's hilarious. Where does one find that emoticon?

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Posted By: Steve Murray

http://popforum.net/posting.php?mode=smilies

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Amazing what kind of affect one collector can have in this hobby.

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Posted By: Brian

Just be glad Pinky Dorskind, catcher for SF in 1910 & 11, didn't get an Obak card...

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

If he would just let the next 4-5 Miller's go without bidding he would probably be able to pick up the next 20 for $30-40 each. I understand obsession but his is bordering on crazy. (insert smiley)
-Rhett

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Posted By: Bob

Rhett- I suggested that exact idea to him but he prefers not to do that.
tbob
P.S. I am glad I paid $35 for mine in excellent also. In fact I believe I sold Brian the first of his many Obak Miller cards when I sold off some duplicates.
P.P.S. Unless you collect Zeenuts you won't realize what a tremendous buy Steve made when buying the 1911 Zeenut Miller for a $29.99 BIN. It is next to impossible to get a 1911 Obak Miller for less than $500 on ebay. It is ABSOLUTELY impossible to get the 1911 Zeenut Miller on ebay at any price.

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Posted By: Rob D.

Pinky Dorskind.

I'm still laughing.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

As I heard it the Dorskind cards were all double prints.

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Posted By: Bob

I think the N172 Old Judge card of Pinky Dorskind features Pinky bending over and tagging another player sliding in

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

How did they all fit in the batter's box? And were they given nine strikes to the out?

I'm having nightmarish visions of a gene splice of Bruces and Pinky Tuscadero.

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Hooks Whilst fanned them 4 times in 1911 exhibition game.

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Priceless!!!!!!!!

Also pertinent to note that "Hooks" is plural. Are Hooks coming in to pitch to Bruces?

We could have an all-plural nine with Bruces at the helm!

Hooks Wiltse
Debs Garms
Boots Poffenberger
Hooks Iott
Boots Day
Brooks Robinson
Brooks Lawrence
Rogers Hornsby
Rogers McKee

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Posted By: ali_lapoint

this miller guy is a little weird.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Well...I think that's uncalled for. Miller is his grandfather so I don't find anything weird about that at all.

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Posted By: ali_lapoint

i know he has a family relation. its not the collecting his grandfather i find weird. its the obsession of having to have every single last one and not let anyone else enjoy his grandfather's card but him that i find a little weird.

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Posted By: AndyH

I just have to throw my two cents in here...

I'll start with, I understand how a few of you are just really annoyed that you can't complete your sets by picking up this card on the open auction/eBay market because of this situation. But there are other places to buy cards, and you just need to find one (or have all your friends looking for you) off the internet. It may take a while, but if it's really a common, then 29 of them has hardly depleted the market and there is a dealer out there that has it priced for you. That said, and I want to be completely clear here, I feel your pain and frustration in trying to build your set and having this hurdle to clear.

Next, I think it's just so darn cool that he's going after his grandfather's cards with such vigor. It's family. And if it were me, as much as you want to complete your set, my family would trump your set and I'd be just as ruthless as long as my pockets held out. You'd just have to outbid me is all, and some of you most definately could.

Honestly, there are so many other cards that you all want in your collections, be at peace with this one and move on. Someday, you're going to see Miller, San Francisco at the bottom of a stack of Obaks in a guy's case in the corner of a show...and he'll have a $25 tag on it. And the first thing that will go through your mind is, "I wonder how much I could flip this for?" (not smiley please)

Okay, I'm done.

Thanks,

AndyH

Thanks,

Andy

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Posted By: dstudeba

That said, and I want to be completely clear here, I feel your pain and frustration in trying to build your set and having this hurdle to clear.

This problem for set collectors is not limited to Miller. I have to deal with Black Sox collectors who want Weaver e100 and D310, or Chick Gandil T212-1. What about Jewish collectors? Just other forms of someone putting a higher price on something for a reason you don't have.