NonSports Forum

Net54baseball.com
Welcome to Net54baseball.com. These forums are devoted to both Pre- and Post- war baseball cards and vintage memorabilia, as well as other sports. There is a separate section for Buying, Selling and Trading - the B/S/T area!! If you write anything concerning a person or company your full name needs to be in your post or obtainable from it. . Contact the moderator at leon@net54baseball.com should you have any questions or concerns. When you click on links to eBay on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network. Enjoy!
Net54baseball.com
Net54baseball.com
ebay GSB
T206s on eBay
Babe Ruth Cards on eBay
t206 Ty Cobb on eBay
Ty Cobb Cards on eBay
Lou Gehrig Cards on eBay
Baseball T201-T217 on eBay
Baseball E90-E107 on eBay
T205 Cards on eBay
Baseball Postcards on eBay
Goudey Cards on eBay
Baseball Memorabilia on eBay
Baseball Exhibit Cards on eBay
Baseball Strip Cards on eBay
Baseball Baking Cards on eBay
Sporting News Cards on eBay
Play Ball Cards on eBay
Joe DiMaggio Cards on eBay
Mickey Mantle Cards on eBay
Bowman 1951-1955 on eBay
Football Cards on eBay

Go Back   Net54baseball.com Forums > Net54baseball Main Forum - WWII & Older Baseball Cards > Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #101  
Old 08-24-2006, 11:34 PM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: warshawlaw

just wanted to be #100

Reply With Quote
  #102  
Old 08-26-2006, 02:09 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: honus3415

I don't have any problem with the "Flippers", a least they are keeping items liquid within the marketplace.

It's the "Floppers", who under the guise of collectors\hobbyists feel that what's "best" for the hobby is that "OUR" hobby's little cardboard gems be hidden away in "THEIR" secret hiding spots. They selfishly amass huge caches of cardboard collectibles under the false premise of being a vintage collector whose goal is to "preserve" the hobby. How is this preserving the hobby? What kind of hobby do we have when items aren't available\shared with fellow collectors and any cost?

Don't get me wrong, imho every person has the right to "collect" how ever they want. But don't be finding faults with other people's collecting methods if you're not at least offering to share (sell or trade) the hobby's resources that have been entrusted to you with other collectors at some price. None of us received a decree from Abner Doubleday to be sole caretaker of this hobby's history. Enjoy it for a while and pass it on, keep the hobby fluid.

Most of us collected as kids. Just because I started collecting over 40 years doesn't make me any better than the newbie who just purchased his first T206. It isn't the years collecting, one's knowledge, the money spent, the size of one's collection or even the grade of those items that makes a collector\hobbyist. It's an appreciation for vintage cardboard, it's history and a willingness to physically "share" it with others that makes a hobby in which likeminded people can participate. Otherwise the hobby just becomes a library where it's members read and see pictures but never actually experience the actual joy of experience.

Sure this hobby is headed down the path where some time in the future it will no longer grow. It may be nearing that point now, when many items aren't available at any price. The point where these little worthless pieces of cardboard that fuel our egos are all hidden away and not available to anyone. Where they just become numbers in a set registry or impersonal displays on a website. When even the most beatup Ty Cobb T206 commands hundreds of dollars, yet thousands are locked away unseen for months on end, ignored in dark drawers going unappreciated except for when their owner's egos need refueling. Yes what a sad day that will be for the "hobby".

So as long as there are "flippers" or other hobbyists that are willing to share/sell this hobby's resources a some price (no matter how outlandish) I won't complain. The only problem I have is reducing my selfish greed for some of my current cardboard material possessions so that I can obtain the one I am currently lusting for.

Long live you flippers and sellers of scarce vintage cardboard, make a buck, make a hunderd because without you this hobby would come to a complete stand still. You are the fuel that keeps this hobby running. Without you we just become a competition of egos supported by the worthless cardboard that we have amassed and stored in our secret hiding places.

FYI.... EVERYTHING I own is for sale every day, unfortunatley for some it isn't at SMR. I believe in having many different things for a short time rather than have a few things forever (limited resources...my personal SMR). But I know eventually, even these items will be consumed into the belly of the beast called vintage card "collecting" never again to see the light of day or the smile of a new owner.

Reply With Quote
  #103  
Old 08-26-2006, 06:13 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: Matt E.

Those little pieces of may not see the light of day until those hoarders are no longer are seeing the light of day.

Everything is recycled and that is the cool part, it just takes time. We know some sons and daughters will not carry on the passion of collecting and sell the cards or worse yet just hand the book to someone who likes cards.

It all makes it back to the market eventually.

Think of the latest big find from board member David Levin as a perfect example.



Reply With Quote
  #104  
Old 08-26-2006, 07:22 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: jay behrens

so let me get this straight...If you aren't flipping the cards you get, then you aren't doing the hobby any good? This doesn't make any sense? Someone has to collect these cards and hold on to them. That's the whole point of collecting.

Jay

I love pinatas. You get to beat the crap of something and get rewarded with candy.

Reply With Quote
  #105  
Old 08-26-2006, 08:05 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: Chad

I plan on being shot into space with my cards where we will exist perfectly preserved until a future society can bring me back to life. Baseball, having long succumbed to the popularity of extreme foosball, will be non-existent and I will be able to buy all the cards I want for pennies.

--Chad

Reply With Quote
  #106  
Old 08-26-2006, 08:14 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: Josh K.

Ive decided to be buried with my cards just to piss Honus off

Reply With Quote
  #107  
Old 08-26-2006, 09:54 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: warshawlaw

will engage in an ancient wikken ritual by immolating my body and my cards on a bonfire of pure Jack Daniels and pizza boxes in order to free my spirit.

Did I mention the name of the ceremony: The Aristocrats!

Reply With Quote
  #108  
Old 08-26-2006, 10:48 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: J Levine

I plan to be freeze dried and then sliced really thin. I am then to have the slivers cut into small 1 centimeter squares and affixed to all my prewar cards. My relatives are then to take me to PSA and create the Mr. J insert and grade and encapsulate every card.

Joshua

PS I hope I cross-over!

Reply With Quote
  #109  
Old 08-26-2006, 11:14 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: Dan Bretta

THE ARISTOCRATS?????

I hope I'm not invited to the immolation ceremony.

Reply With Quote
  #110  
Old 08-26-2006, 11:16 AM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: Al C.risafulli

The ONLY way to make a post that mentions Wiccan rituals and bonfires of Jack Daniels and pizza boxes any funnier, would have been to end it with the phrase "The Aristocrats."

Awesome.

-Al

Reply With Quote
  #111  
Old 08-26-2006, 01:14 PM
Archive Archive is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 58,359
Default Board's opinion on BST behavior

Posted By: Josh K.

The Aristocrats - very funny. Speaking of (and getting way off topic) HBO has been running a show about the Aristocrats joke.

Reply With Quote
Reply



Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
David Rudd's message editing behavior Archive Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions 66 07-23-2008 10:15 AM
BST Plea Archive Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions 42 09-21-2007 06:51 PM
If the BST was a... Archive Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions 12 03-04-2007 09:55 AM
New BST record? Archive Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions 0 01-12-2007 02:44 PM
Is this questionable behavior by an auctioneer? Archive Net54baseball Vintage (WWII & Older) Baseball Cards & New Member Introductions 26 02-01-2006 04:39 PM


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:57 PM.


ebay GSB