Phone Call of a Lifetime

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Earlier this week, I got a phone call from a gentleman saying he had a large collection of baseball vintage sets that he wanted to sell. He was very excited and had been saving these sets for a while. All were "vintage and in mint condition". I asked him to send me pictures of the cards. When I got the pictures, all of the cards were.....

1988 Topps Baseball

He must have had 25 1988 Topps sets in binder pages. He asked what I was willing to pay. I told him the binders and binder pages were probably worth more than the cards. He was not happy and insisted I was wrong. I then pointed out you can buy a NM 1988 baseball on ebay for $10. He hung up.

Unfortunately he was upset because he was expecting his collection to be worth a lot and was hoping to strike pay dirt in this sellers market for collectors right now.

So he was shocked that his time and/or investments was not what he hoped.

Hopefully he did not buy them from someone without researching and over invested or over hoped