Your Best Deal Ever (Going Back All The Way!)

[jcmtiger]

Originally Posted by CTDean

Joe, was that an SCD phone auction? I had four Cobb's in one of my auctions in the early 1980's and I think three went to a Fireman in Virginia. Was that you?
If your invoice says Dean, Secretary, Md. That was me.

I would have to locate the letter telling me I won the Auction. Not a fireman from Virginia though lol

[Ricky]

In 1987, I traded a bunch of Topps football cards from the 1970 and 71 sets for a 1939 Joe DiMaggio Play Ball card. Years later, I had it graded and it came back PSA 5.

[Bigdaddy]

I can't tell you how many Eric Davis, Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry RCs my dad and I traded for vintage cards, but I do remember one trade specifically.

In probably the fall/winter of 1988, we traded an unopened wax box of 1988 Fleer baseball for a nicely centered EX 1955 Ted Williams. At the time, I didn't have any Ted cards and I was thrilled with the trade.

Probably the best buy though was a hand-collated 1986 Fleer basketball set for $5.

[ullmandds]

some of my best deals have been:

t206 drum solly hofman $37 card show in silver spring md c1993

t206 red hindu m brown/hal chase $185 c1993

a few e94's in a bargain box for $3 ea c1995

bought the 4 t206 cobbs from lipset auction, sold 3 got the greenie for free 2005ish

5 blue bird babe ruths for 12000(pandemic buy)ebay 2020

my e122 ruth i bought right here on the bst many moons ago for 800 atleast 15 years ago

all gone except 1 bluebird ruth and the e122 ruth

[tkd]

Blue Bird Ruth is beautiful. The back is one of my favorites

[milkit1]

In 2015 I was preparing to go to Spacefest in Arizona and had the bright idea to make a panorama of Gene Cernan during his Gemini 9 spacewalk. One had never been made before and there was only one good picture of his fateful spacewalk that nearly killed him. Anyways I got the panorama made (2 copies) on board and paid Cernan $500 each to sign. As I was handing over $1000 cash I started feeling a little regret. However Cernan was the coolest person I have ever met. Super nice and after hearing his story about the spacewalk I was in awe. Well he died 6 months later. Flash forward to 2019. I consigned one of the two to an auction and it sold for $32,000. When I saw the final bid i refreshed my screen about 8 times because I thought it had glitched.
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[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by milkit1

In 2015 I was preparing to go to Spacefest in Arizona and had the bright idea to make a panorama of Gene Cernan during his Gemini 9 spacewalk. One had never been made before and there was only one good picture of his fateful spacewalk that nearly killed him. Anyways I got the panorama made (2 copies) on board and paid Cernan $500 each to sign. As I was handing over $1000 cash I started feeling a little regret. However Cernan was the coolest person I have ever met. Super nice and after hearing his story about the spacewalk I was in awe. Well he died 6 months later. Flash forward to 2019. I consigned one of the two to an auction and it sold for $32,000. When I saw the final bid i refreshed my screen about 8 times because I thought it had glitched.
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WOW! That's awesome!

Happy you got a good price, but those pieces are just cool as hell regardless of what one of them sold for.