Words I hate to hear in our hobby.......

[Brian Van Horn]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say or do can and will be held against you in a court of law.
You have the right to an attorney.
If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided one for you.
Do you understand these rights I have just read to you?

Priceless!

[prewarsports]

Non collector friends saying anything like..............................

"You collect baseball cards right", "I have some I'd like you to take a look at"

In 20+ years I have been told this about 1000 times and it has NEVER been anything but Griffey rookies and 1987 topps or other worthless items like this and I HAVE TO BE THE ONE to tell them they are not worth anything and to save them for their kids!

[GoldenAge50s]

Asking a dealer about a card on your Want List:

"I've been bringing that card to this show for over 10 yrs and I just sold it 5 minutes ago".

[hangman62]

Oh yea, I had all those when I was a kid....

[wolf441]

PSA 10 GEM MINT......on a T206 Wagner reprint.

and an off topic one that kills me: When I tell someone that I'm running a marathon and they ask "Oh, how many miles is that one?".

[CW]

"Please keep an eye out for my stolen collection..." or anything pertaining to stolen collections. These types of posts made me move the majority of my collection into the bank, and it always sucks to hear about a collector having his cards stolen.

[4k6]

"PSA ready"

[yanksfan09]

"I'll give em to ya for half of book" (brooklyn accent)

[cardinalcollector]

"I can't sell it for that, I have too much in it"

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

Non collector friends saying anything like..............................

"You collect baseball cards right", "I have some I'd like you to take a look at"

In 20+ years I have been told this about 1000 times and it has NEVER been anything but Griffey rookies and 1987 topps or other worthless items like this and I HAVE TO BE THE ONE to tell them they are not worth anything and to save them for their kids!

Yeah and the look on their face is somewhere between 'are you sure' and 'I think I gotta take a shit' - oh well, I dumped 20k cards from that era...