Posted By:
HalleyGator
I met him once when he ran an ad in our local paper that he was in town to buy cards.
I went with my son to sell some old cards and I was gong to give my 6-year-old the money. He was pumped, and I was going to indoctrinate him into the hobby.
BUT ... my cards were PSA Graded, so Rick knew that I was not a sucker and that my cards had fairly established prices ...
so he was rude as crap and criticized the PSA grading of every card since he knew he wasn't going to "steal" anything from me.
Needless to say, my young son was crushed when Rick (short for Richard, which can also be shortened to Dick) offered about 10% of the SMR for all of my cards and I refused to sell.
I was probably the only "collector" to come in that whole day (the rest were probably kids trying to sell 2001 Metallic Upper Deck cards) and he couldn't even carry on a pleasant conversation with someone who might be BUYING from him in the future. Not smart.
Oh yeah, by the way.... I've spent hundreds of thousands on cards since then ... and I STAY AWAY from his auctions just because I don't like him. So HAH!!