Memory Lane sold cards they didn't have per SCD

[BigfootIsReal]

Ha, why can't I BE funny? My comment was waaay more funny

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by BigfootIsReal

Ha, why can't I BE funny?

Was that a rhetorical question? And I am not asking for a friend.

[BigfootIsReal]

I have a relatively long story about the Strongsville show and Best Western. Who wants to read it (it makes me look like a moron / idiot / dummy)

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by BigfootIsReal

I have a relatively long story about the Strongsville show and Best Western. Who wants to read it (it makes me look like a moron / idiot / dummy)

Post it some of us are bored and will read most anything. Plus you would be far from the only one looking that way.

[BigfootIsReal]

Late Thurs (day of show) I leave Western Iowa and drive straight through to BW (11 hours). Arrive at BW 11:30A Friday. Go to front desk, "what time is check in"? She says 3:30 and I'm like F me I tell her been driving 11 hours.....she let me check in 3 hrs early. I go sleep for an hour, take a shower and go back to front at 2:30 and talk to lady at front about the show. She tells me she has a bunch of her Grandpa's cards from way back, I'm like jackpot! and tell her I was interested in buying them. I was figuring she was in her late 40's and assumed her Grandpa's cards would be from 30's and 40's. Before I left for the show I handed her $100 bill for letting me check in early and having the chance to buy her cards and left her my business card with cell # on back. I get up Sat A.M. run to the show real quick and pick up a 48' Leaf PSA 4 Jackie then leave for home. I knew this lady worked the following Tuesday so I waiting to call BW then. She said she didn't have the motivation to dig them out of the attic, I said "cash is a motivator". She said "give me until the weekend. I waited and didn't here back, I said to myself, F it, this is a chance of a lifetime and decided I was going to drive back on Friday of that week (I knew she worked Fri) with $1,000 for starters. Drove straight through again, walked into BW lobby and she recognized me right away. She said, "did you get my pics text"? I say "No". She says she texted them to ...and she rattled off my work #. Told her that's why I didn't get, cell # on back!!! She says "the cards aren't as old as I thought", I literally shit myself. She shows me the pics she sent......1987 Topps!! FML. I get a room, sleep for three hours and head back home feeling like a complete tool.

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by BigfootIsReal

Late Thurs (day of show) I leave Western Iowa and drive straight through to BW (11 hours). Arrive at BW 11:30A Friday. Go to front desk, "what time is check in"? She says 3:30 and I'm like F me I tell her been driving 11 hours.....she let me check in 3 hrs early. I go sleep for an hour, take a shower and go back to front at 2:30 and talk to lady at front about the show. She tells me she has a bunch of her Grandpa's cards from way back, I'm like jackpot! and tell her I was interested in buying them. I was figuring she was in her late 40's and assumed her Grandpa's cards would be from 30's and 40's. Before I left for the show I handed her $100 bill for letting me check in early and having the chance to buy her cards and left her my business card with cell # on back. I get up Sat A.M. run to the show real quick and pick up a 48' Leaf PSA 4 Jackie then leave for home. I knew this lady worked the following Tuesday so I waiting to call BW then. She said she didn't have the motivation to dig them out of the attic, I said "cash is a motivator". She said "give me until the weekend. I waited and didn't here back, I said to myself, F it, this is a chance of a lifetime and decided I was going to drive back on Friday of that week (I knew she worked Fri) with $1,000 for starters. Drove straight through again, walked into BW lobby and she recognized me right away. She said, "did you get my pics text"? I say "No". She says she texted them to ...and she rattled off my work #. Told her that's why I didn't get, cell # on back!!! She says "the cards aren't as old as I thought", I literally shit myself. She shows me the pics she sent......1987 Topps!! FML. I get a room, sleep for three hours and head back home feeling like a complete tool.

Unfortunate you filled your pants, but at least she had toilet paper for you.

[Yoda]

Just speculation, I know, but I can't help myself. Since the perp is some yob employee at GW+, and the video shows him clearly purloining the million $ card delivery, I can't help but wondering if it might have been some kind of inside job. He knew which box to grab and there must have been some kind of return address on the box showing ML or their address. It all just seemed so easy to make off with pricey cards. He must have had a good idea what was in it before he opened it. He took a hell of a chance, knowing that if he got caught he would be fired and face legal charges.

The investigation, based on the tape alone, would seem straightforward yet there has been little public information offered to date.

Just idle musings, but I want to go for a new net54 record.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Just speculation, I know, but I can't help myself. Since the perp is some yob employee at GW+, and the video shows him clearly purloining the million $ card delivery, I can't help but wondering if it might have been some kind of inside job. He knew which box to grab and there must have been some kind of return address on the box showing ML or their address. It all just seemed so easy to make off with pricey cards. He must have had a good idea what was in it before he opened it. He took a hell of a chance, knowing that if he got caught he would be fired and face legal charges.

The investigation, based on the tape alone, would seem straightforward yet there has been little public information offered to date.

Just idle musings, but I want to go for a new net54 record.

Did I miss something in this story? I thought there was video of the box being delivered to the BW+ but I didn't think there was video of the actual theft.

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Did I miss something in this story? I thought there was video of the box being delivered to the BW+ but I didn't think there was video of the actual theft.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...I said the same thing to myself when I read what he wrote. He seems to have made up his own version of the story. That did not take too long now did it? Let's stick to the facts that we know.

All that has been made available to the public is that the surveillance footage shows Fed Ex bringing in the box and someone signing for it. The FBI has been involved as well as local police. I am sure both agencies have interviewed all employees, at least once, who were working from the time the package arrived and Joe arrived to find that the package was no longer there. Far as we know, no arrests have been made and the cards have not been recovered. That is even more stunning to me than ML shipping the box to nobody in the middle of nowhere and having it sit there for 3 days. This is an Ocean's 11 type of heist at this point.