Has your hobby ever been a negative?

[ls7plus]

Yeah, those were the days, Ken. If we weren't actually playing ball, we were playing Stratomatic for hours on end, picking teams from a mixture of current player cards, old time teams, and Strato's special hall-of-famers cards. We had 4 guys in my neighborhood who regularly participated, and we must have played a few hundred 50-game seasons, after which we'd have a whole new draft and restocking of players!

Great days!

Larry

[zljones]

It's disappointing when you loose your job or other issues come up and are forced to sell them to pay bills, especially when some of those bills were created from collecting .

[timn1]

When you started talking about a Canadian guy (I thought they were all so honest) ripping you off, I thought "Crazy Canuck" right away. That guy was nothing more or less than a crook and a cancer. I was really lucky to get reimbursed (in one of his above-board moments) for the $1500 he tried to stiff me on.... also about ten years ago. I wonder if the RMCP ever got him.

But that's almost the only neg I can come up with in my collecting since I resumed in 1999. Back in the 80s it truly was the wild west-- people are saints compared to those bad old days. But now I have (almost) nothing but good experiences to remember.

Tim