No thefts at the National?

[Jobu]

Chris's Lash's Bitters card stole my heart. Does that count?

[Leon]

I had an old timer dealer come to our table and hang out for a while. He had a box of old cigarette packs. There were about 20 of them. He knows I have collected them so was offering them to me. He said they were a consignment of his and he was asking $7000 for all of them. He said they were in near mint shape. I would have called them Poor - VG.
After looking at them fairly carefully I told him I didn't think we would be close so I will just pass. He pressed me quite hard for valuations. (I think he was either clueless or foolish, one of the two). I told him retail on the lot was about $2500 and I am a buyer at half of that. He thanked me for my opinion. Had I bought at his asking price it might have counted as theft?

[Gmrson]

On the good news side...I left a '66 Topps Pete Rose on a table under my wantlist after buying some singles. Couldn't find it retracing my steps but it was in the Security Office lost and found the next day!

[ullmandds]

i would assume some dealers "stole" some walk ins of their merchandise!!!!

[Runscott]

Pete, in Cleveland my dealer table was so far off in the outer limits, that I saw almost no walk-up selling traffic; however, 10+ years ago I was near the train station walking toward the Chicago show and a guy had a brown paper bag full of cards. I asked him what he had and he showed me a bag full of raw mid-late '60s cards in fabulous condition, just thrown into the bag randomly. I spotted a '68 Mantle quickly. Not being my 'bag', I walked him to the show, straight to Scott Brockleman who recommended dealers for him to approach. Hopefully he went to one or two of them.

[ullmandds]

well Scott...you're a good egg! I once stood and watched a crusty dealer rip off an old lady...giving her "a crisp hundo" for her green background cobb. I was then going to buy it from him for $350 but by the time I returned with funds...it was gone.