Seller sues dealer/buyer for a high flip

[ALBB]

Yea, the Ryan rookie card story,..I recall young kid working behind the counter of a card shop misread the price $1200...as $12.00, the buyer an adult Im sure knew it should have been 1200..but didnt say anything.

I think a judge ruled in the case -

[Directly]

Topps recently announced they had doubled up some Superfractor 1/1 inserted cards by error.
A seller had sold one for $2,000 shipped USPS then Topps announced a buy back program of $25,000 bounty for that particular card --the seller contacted USPS and had the delivery stopped for return--(who owns the card??)

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by Directly

Topps recently announced they had doubled up some Superfractor 1/1 inserted cards by error.
A seller had sold one for $2,000 shipped USPS then Topps announced a buy back program of $25,000 bounty for that particular card --the seller contacted USPS and had the delivery stopped for return--(who owns the card??)

Just read the tale on Beckett. 2023 Bowman packs sales are pretty brisk for some reason.

[lumberjack]

Here's some ancient history.

Back in the mid 1970s, a sharpie wrote an article about buying Crackerjacks at a show from an old guy walk-in.

He gave the man one dollar each for the cards....And was bragging about it.

Crackerjacks were selling for 15 or 20 times that amount in those days; people hadn't caught on as to what they possessed.

At that time, a number of the more savvy dealers were advertising in newspaper sports sections. The hustle went something like this: "We will be at the Holliday Inn on Route 35 all weekend. There is cash in your closet."

And people would bring in their shoebox Topps and Bowmans (receive dimes on the dollar) and think they were stealing the money.

Beware, my friends. Man's inhumanity to his fellow man in nothing new.

lumberjack

[steve B]

I read the article about the mask a couple days ago.

Articles usually leave a lot out, especially these days when they apparently save money by not having editors.

Anyway,

The guy who bought it took it to two other auction places that estimated it at well under 1000 euros. Then he took it to the specialist auction.

I suspect the gardener was one of those "hey, this isn't trash, I know a guy who would probably buy it. "
I just got electronics from a house clear out that was the same deal, handyman recommended a pushy real estate guy.

I suspect the specialized auction place was the one pushing the age/originality testing.

To me when I was going to yard sales and flea markets a lot there was a big difference between me asking a price which I usually paid if it was a deal, and me offering a price for something.
If someone underprices something, I'm ok with paying what they ask. (and even big dealers underprice things. )
Making an offer is easy if it's a well known thing, but much more complex if it's a bunch of stuff. What it might sell for, how much time the sorting and pricing will take. If I actually need some of it for my collection or if it's just extras....

[jlehma13]

A huge story from my neighborhood card shop during the heyday of my childhood collecting (we were all jealous). It was a kid in the know who bought it and a woman filling in for the owner for a short time who had no clue. As far as I remember, the card ended up being signed by Nolan and auctioned off for charity. The card shop got publicity and a charity got the proceeds. We also got a kick out of it because it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...

Originally Posted by ALBB

Yea, the Ryan rookie card story,..I recall young kid working behind the counter of a card shop misread the price $1200...as $12.00, the buyer an adult Im sure knew it should have been 1200..but didnt say anything.

I think a judge ruled in the case -