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Dan MckeeI am writing this thread so that I will not have to constantly defend myself to people who were not around in the hobby at the time this tragic event occurred. The PSA loss of my Magie has brought this back up since the PSA cult is constantly trying to attack my reputation on a chat board.
At the 1991 National in Anaheim my father and Joe Bosley who is now deceased were set up together. Anyone who was in the pre-war hobby at the time knows Dad had 1 of the best pre-war offerings at the show and at several shows prior. The first day they opened dad had a great day! $16K in sales. The next morning they came in to open up the table and the entire showcases and contents were gone. Another couple local to CA that had Topps and Bowman stuff were also wiped out the same way overnight. I WAS NOT at the show nor hardly involved at the time with cards. I still had my collection but was chasing skirts which was more important to me in 1991.
Yes we (dad and Joe and the CA couple) sued several parties to try and recoup the loss. We were awarded $33K total which didn't even dent what dad or the CA couple lost! Dad lost retail $250,000. The CA couple I believe was well over $100,000. dad got $11K, the CA couple got $11K and the lawyers got $11K. So we did receive something though it was a joke compared to what we lost.
I do not know many more specifics but I can tell you that you can ask any major dealer there and they will vouch that we were miserably robbed! Ask Kevin Struss, Bill Mastro I don't care who but anyone there will know we were robbed.
It makes me sick that people who know nothing about an event will publically state false accusations just to attack someone. Dad never recovered from that event financially. I can recover from my $6K but it is still a major loss to me. My blood is boiling over this crap.
If anyone has any questions or wants to attack me further, please email me directly at r337man@yahoo.com because I do not have the time right now to check this board. To my friends and supporters through all of this and to the people who know that I have been negligently ripped off, I thank you.