Here is what I did with the Money from my Canseco Supercollection

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Wow! What a post. If only my Rickey Henderson collection were worth that much! Great choices in your post-Canseco collection! How did you sell your Canseco collection? To one other fanatic, via an AH, or over a period of time?

By the way, I love that you named your kid Beckett. Will your next child be named Canseco? ...Hopefully not “PSA”!

My money is on "Brent".

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

My money is on "Brent".

Good one, Frank!

[pokerplyr80]

That was certainly a one of a kind collection. I must admit I was surprised when I read you came out ahead selling it off. Glad to see you were able to acquire some nice cards with the funds. I tend to look for the same low to mid grade high eye appeal cards in prewar. Great value for the money.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by Al C.risafulli

In the middle of this trainwreck, what a pleasure it was to take a break and read something written so enthusiastically, with such love for the hobby just pouring out of the words. What a great reminder of what an amazing hobby most of us are fortunate enough to enjoy.

Also very touching to read about your father and your son; condolences over the former and congrats for the latter.

Thank you so much for sharing. What a breath of fresh air.

-Al

Thank you very much Al! As a hobby community, we have had to endure a lot of junk in the past month or so. I think it all will pass before we know it, but in the meantime, I'm happy to hear I provided some relief!

Originally Posted by BruceinGa

thanks for sharing!!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Good one, Frank!

LOL - I only recently heard of who Brent is.

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

That was certainly a one of a kind collection. I must admit I was surprised when I read you came out ahead selling it off. Glad to see you were able to acquire some nice cards with the funds. I tend to look for the same low to mid grade high eye appeal cards in prewar. Great value for the money.

Yes! I think they are some of the best buys out there.

[orly57]

Can i ask how/where you sold the Cansecos? Did you do it slowly? There are hundreds of items in the collection. I was curious how you did it without flooding the Market. Seems like a lot of work to sell of that many items of one player, especially the more obscure and esoteric stuff. And congrats on the new collection. You chose some great cards.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by orly57

Can i ask how/where you sold the Cansecos? Did you do it slowly? There are hundreds of items in the collection. I was curious how you did it without flooding the Market. Seems like a lot of work to sell of that many items of one player, especially the more esoteric stuff. And congrats on the new collection. You chose some great cards.

Post #14 give a general description. I own one of Tanners former Canseco cards. He did get it from me originally and then when he decided to sell I had to get it back for my collection.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by orly57

Can i ask how/where you sold the Cansecos? Did you do it slowly? There are hundreds of items in the collection. I was curious how you did it without flooding the Market. Seems like a lot of work to sell of that many items of one player, especially the more obscure and esoteric stuff. And congrats on the new collection. You chose some great cards.

As mentioned below, here is what I said: "Thanks! I actually wrote a book that talks about how I did it - Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict. But here is the rundown: I hit the supercollectors, then the resellers, then the public. That is a way, way, way dumb downed version, but that's how it happened. "

BUT ... to go more into it, I think it took inside of 6 months to turn a profit. It did take a lot of work, but it was fun trying to "tackle the beast". I had a TON of people saying I would never make my money back, was foolish, etc. so I had a vendetta to prove them wrong It goes to show you if you can sell the world's #1 collection of quite possibly the most hated player in baseball history, you can sell anything

Originally Posted by bnorth

Post #14 give a general description. I own one of Tanners former Canseco cards. He did get it from me originally and then when he decided to sell I had to get it back for my collection.

DUDE! I was just thinking about that card, actually. I am not sure if you have been following along on ebay, but 1990 Fleer base cards pop up for sale all the time for stupid amounts of money. I don't think they ever sell, really, but what a strange thing they are doing, targeting that card!