Judge 62nd HR ball - turned down $3 million; good idea or not?

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

What if Judge or someone else hits 63 or more this upcoming season or the next.

With the all or nothing approach most players take today this will be surpassed, and maybe soon.

They better sell that ball quickly.

Maybe lelands will resell it as "2022 hr record ball"

In all honesty, it is punching well above my weight to even think about a value. For a buyer 500k to 1 million seems fair for bragging rights. For the seller, I can only imagine greedy will make for a hungry puppy.

[jayshum]

1.2 million with a week to go

https://goldin.co/item/october-4-202...December_Elite

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by jayshum

1.2 million with a week to go

https://goldin.co/item/october-4-202...December_Elite

will be interesting to see where it goes.

A little surprised that there are not more bids in on it.

[jayshum]

No bids in the last 10 days so still at 1.2 million and ending tonight. It will be interesting to see if there is much action to get it anywhere near the $3 million that was supposedly offered.

[mrreality68]

I thought it would be higher going into today.

Guess not.

Hopefully for the sellers sake it has a strong day otherwise bad choice

But it is not looking good to hit the $3 mill he would have gotten

[Shoeless Moe]

Ouch!

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Ouch!

Big ouch

Only 1 more bid to bring it to $1.5 mill with BP and a lot less then the alleged offer

Either way still nice money for the seller but missed out on more

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

Maybe lelands will resell it as "2022 hr record ball"

In all honesty, it is punching well above my weight to even think about a value. For a buyer 500k to 1 million seems fair for bragging rights. For the seller, I can only imagine greedy will make for a hungry puppy.

The greed factor is awfully high.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

The greed factor is awfully high.

Yes it was and he made good money just not as much as he hoped.

But then as mentioned before the TAXES

so maybe better he sold for less so he pays less taxes on it

[PATCO]

I would think the Goldin vig of perhaps 15%, plus the Fed Tax implications will find the owner a bit disappointed. I think a private sale would have been the way to go. Maybe Goldin will ensure the min bid is $3m, seems like a very limited market to me.

Greed is a powerful thing, and it appears this is the owner's mindset. I could easily think of a lot of sweet things to have with just $1m in my pocket.

[packs]

This was a pretty high profile item. I'd be surprised if the AH charged any commission on it. Just having the ball in the auction got them a lot of free advertising.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by packs

This was a pretty high profile item. I'd be surprised if the AH charged any commission on it. Just having the ball in the auction got them a lot of free advertising.

I am sure the advertising is nice and I am sure they waived the seller commission. More likely they also added between 8% and 10% of the BP back to the seller.

But regardless the seller took a gamble and lost on what could have been

[D. Bergin]

Looks like he picked the wrong curtain/suitcase/upside down sippy cup




Still, for what he paid for that ball......I think he did pretty good.