Alan Hager - not off-topic exactly, just weird . . .

[uffda51]

I only bought a few cards from his auctions. Most of them failed to cross over.
I got my money back after lots of haggling.



This one now resides in an SGC Authentic holder. It was graded an ASA 8, although there were no oversize slabs at the time, so you got the card in a CardSaver sleeve, along with with a printed label. Pretty hard to tell if the card measures short when there is no slab to bounce around in. Over time, ASA's crediblity became on a par with that of PRO.

One of Hager's claims was that there are either one or two complete sets of Darby Chocolates known. Dennis Purdy offered $1000, if I recall correctly, to anyone who could produce a complete set. No takers yet.

[tbob]

Originally Posted by uffda51

One of Hager's claims was that there are either one or two complete sets of Darby Chocolates known. Dennis Purdy offered $1000, if I recall correctly, to anyone who could produce a complete set. No takers yet.

One of the problems with his book was that Hager assigned values to cards which were not known to exist. He also assigned values to cards which did not (do not) exist in the higher grade conditions.

[paul]

The basic problem is that he wrote the entire book for the purpose of inflating the value of his inventory.

[Bob Lemke]

I regret that I never kept a copy of the issue of 1980s Barron's magazine that had a lengthy Hager interview. As I recall he admitted to a number of downright fraudulent activities in the coin field. I've never even had any luck googling Hager/Barron's to try to find the article, although I haven't tried in 5+ years.

He loves to sue people, but when you win a judgement against him, good luck collecting. Krause once obtained a decent four-figure judgment against him but never saw a dime. We "caught" him at a San Francisco show and got a sheriff's deputy to try to collect the judgment out of his inventory, but he slithered out on a technicality and by the time it was cleared up, Hager was nowhere to be found.

His wife royalty? Diane Hager is only a royal pain in the ass. They are truly a match made in hell.

[bigtrain]

I believe you may be correct that he is "gotja collectibles". They are out of Sanford, Florida. Last I heard of Hager, he was in Longwood, which is just a few miles from Sanford. The name "gotja" is a bad joke.

[aaroncc]

Still have a Joe Louis from one of his Auctions. Its the same 1935 Pattreiouex Joe Louis card on the front cover of the 1997 Sixsport.

[bh3443]

Thanks for sharing this pic of the 6-sport!
The fine members of net54 are helping me fight my illness with these great threads regarding the various controversies of our beloved hobby. I enjoy the posts that mark our history.
Anyone that has Dennis Purdy's Vintage Magazine with the Hager article please post your comments or p/m me your comments.
Anyone know what Dennis Purdy's doing these days? I'd love to read his extra pages regarding the Hager article. Dennis referred to these pages as the "Paul Harvey pages!"
Now that were on a roll, anyone recall the Vermont Cards fiasco of the mid-80's? Thanks all, and have a great weekend.