Al Rosen - Mr Mint - Passes

[dchamp515]

1988 I saw my first Mr. Mint Ad buying 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan for $50.
I couldn't believe a card a year and a half old was worth that much.
I brought a 800 ct. box of pack fresh cards with 4 Jordans to a card shop and got a whopping $175 in trade. Got a bunch of off grade 75 minis.
I sure wish I never saw his Buy Ads.

[jerrys]

Known Alan since his first National setup in the 1984 NSCC in Parsippany, NJ. I never had any business dealings with Alan but once when he ran phone auctions I was on the phone to make a bid on a baseball card when a voice said "the auction is over" - an abrupt hang-up. His auctions ended at exactly midnight.
RIP
I added some other characters with a picture of Alan from 1999 - I do not recall where this show was held.

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[bobw]

Some of the photos look like they are from the old Ft Washington show

[rdixon1208]

Never knew him. I did see this video years ago (on this forum) and it kind of stuck with me. Seems like the guy was a real POS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNgJXt7cMY

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by rdixon1208

Never knew him. I did see this video years ago (on this forum) and it kind of stuck with me. Seems like the guy was a real POS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNgJXt7cMY

That is pretty tough to watch!

[Bkrum]

Not the way I would have wanted to sell my lifetime collection. I always steered clear of the guy at conventions.

[Rich Klein]

Based on the people Jerry photographed, I's day the show was the 1999 National in Atlanta. By then, that was the only show the Barnings were setting up at.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by rdixon1208

Never knew him. I did see this video years ago (on this forum) and it kind of stuck with me. Seems like the guy was a real POS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNgJXt7cMY

About the 2 minute mark he throws a game used 1950s Braves jersey on the garage floor into a bucket and the old man about has a heart attack because he uses the bucket for changing his oil. Then unbelievably he apologizes to Rosen. Notice how he flips through those albums of 1940-60s baseball/football cards like he's flipping through an album of 1987 Topps. I could not stand by if someone came into my house and was treating my stuff like that.

[Bkrum]

If some guy humiliated me by taking a picture with $100 bills draped around my neck I would walk out the door. I suppose he advanced the hobby in some odd way but never was my cup of tea.

[mightyq]

''''THE BIGGEST PIECE OF CRAP EVER""" what he done to that guy on youtube was plain robbery and manipulation, they tried to keep him at bay with humor, and stupid dry wit. Rosendouche also turns the pages like a novice, what he is trying to do is convey to paul that this isnt a big deal to him. once he blurted out the first set offer and got no resistance he was off to ripoffville. the other jerk wad's did the same. karma is a bitch, i hope they get it back 10 fold. to even put this on youtube you gotta be so full of yourself that you dont see wor care what the blow back might be.......

here is my mr. rosendouche story.......i bid in his 2001 auction, i spend $12,500.....i was buying from him since 82, spent trunk fulls of money. anyway it's october 2001, he calls me at work and tells me i was the underbidder in an auction somebody wont pay on, i tell him i do not want the item, i spent my limit. meanwhile i am whispering because we are having a moment of silence for a bunch of friends who died on 9/11, tears are rolling down my face, tell him very nicely i gotta go, he starts screaming at me, he dont give a shit about my moment of silence, i am fuc%%$g him, that i am this and that, and i am now banned from any future auction. the jerko%% even sent me a letter saying so...sorry a bad man died, so what. no legend in my mind, a bully rotten human being....so happy he lived long enough to see that 52 topps find to be worth obscene money.....what idiot doesnt sit on 10 mantles and a dozen high number runs, shows you he really didnt have a clue....