$50,000 stolen from card shop

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by packs

What makes a modern card collector a moron?

It's the manufactured rarity unlike the totally natural rarity of, say, the 1933 Goudey Lajoie.

[packs]

I’ll be the first to admit how exciting it is to see STL across Ray Demmit’s shirt.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Tabe

It's the manufactured rarity unlike the totally natural rarity of, say, the 1933 Goudey Lajoie.

lol

I see what you did there...

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by Eric72

lol

I see what you did there...

Or 1933 Butter Cream Ruth or 1932 U.S. Caramel Lindstrom or Maple Crispette Stengel or.....

But, but this is different because shiny cards bad!

[rdwyer]

What really sux is that the dealer will lose $25,000.

If only the crook would post how much he gained.

Really stupid if he thought he would get anything more than $1k if he was extremely lucky.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Tabe

It's the manufactured rarity unlike the totally natural rarity of, say, the 1933 Goudey Lajoie.

The Lajoie does have natural rarity. Goudey printed to demand and gave them away to everyone who requested one. Unlike today where card companies deliberately only print one of a card to make it a chase for gamblers.

[TobaccoKing4]

Originally Posted by rats60

The Lajoie does have natural rarity. Goudey printed to demand and gave them away to everyone who requested one. Unlike today where card companies deliberately only print one of a card to make it a chase for gamblers.

There were sets with manufactured scarcity back then though. Look at the R300 set for example

[darkhorse9]

What's odd is that store has a decent amount of vintage cards with a known value that would probably exceed the unknown value in the boxes.
Clearly this guy had cased the joint before. He had to walk past three cases with vintage cards and sets. Maybe even a frequent customer.
There isn't a very large collecting community in Knoxville. Shows are small and only two card shops.

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

What's odd is that store has a decent amount of vintage cards with a known value that would probably exceed the unknown value in the boxes.
Clearly this guy had cased the joint before. He had to walk past three cases with vintage cards and sets. Maybe even a frequent customer.
There isn't a very large collecting community in Knoxville. Shows are small and only two card shops.

Selling a HOF T206 or whatever vintage probably has a bigger chance of getting caught compared to rigging modern day packs and they could have anything in them and no one would know that they came from stolen items.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by TobaccoKing4

There were sets with manufactured scarcity back then though. Look at the R300 set for example

It was very infrequent, not every single set.

[packs]

I don't see much distance between chasing a refractor numbered out of whatever and chasing Carolina Brights backs. I understand the manufactured rarity angle but at the end of the day it's a parallel of a base card, which is what a rare backed T206 or T205 is at its core.

I feel like this is a my dad can beat up your dad kind of thing.