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Originally Posted by rand1com
Worst case I have ever seen was this year at a mid sized show (200 tables)in NC. Old couple comes in and shops their grouping of hundreds of 1933 Goudeys at the first table through the door. I'm talking many Ruths and Gehrigs in the collection. Dealer one offers $2K for the lot. They go to the second dealer in the line and he offers $8K and they sell.
Word quickly spreads throughout the show to dealers and a friend of mine goes to look through the collection. He offers $100K to the dealer who just bought it for $8K and he declines the offer. My friend figured the deal was worth at least $250K.
I absolutely hate to see crooked dealers take advantage of unsuspecting owners of cards.
But, I guess it is seller beware. They were probably celebrating all the way home thinking they had hoodwinked the dealer with their pieces of cardboard.
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Holy Crap! Wow what a story. Because the 1st dealer's offer was so ridiculously low, the 2nd dealer's offer looked like a windfall to the seller. Interesting moral dilemma...what's the correct amount to offer? Like Adam said it's not his job to offer top dollar and educate them to help get them the best price. But $8k for a collection that's worth over $100k?? Are you ripping them off when $8k probably looked like a great deal to them?
Couple years ago I was set up at the National and a kid and his Dad brought in a scrap book that was his Grandfather's filled with old tobacco cards. I tried to get them to consign it with Al and Love of the Game to maximize their windfall but they wanted to sell that day. Never found out what happened or how much they got.