OT? Californiasportscards on Auction Hunters Tues 12/14

[Griffins]

Originally Posted by mintacular

According to the owner of that CA card shop that raw Ex o/c 1960 Yaz RC is worth = $200--pull ur ass out the 1980s and put down your beckett

Which is why I don't find it worth the time to go the 6 blocks to that shop. Grossly overgraded and grossly overpriced for the overgrade, let alone the actual one.

[E93]

Originally Posted by Griffins

Which is why I don't find it worth the time to go the 6 blocks to that shop. Grossly overgraded and grossly overpriced for the overgrade, let alone the actual one.

Hi Anthony,
I have actually found Matt's grading to be quite conservative. I bought a raw '59 Topps Gibson rookie there last year that he graded vg/ex to ex. I submitted it to PSA and it came back a PSA 6.
JimB

[cardaholic]

Matt runs Beverly Hills Baseball Cards. Griffins was talking about California Sports Cards.

[E93]

I have known Matt and the shop for close to twenty years. I have done dozens of deals with him over the years, both buying and selling, and consider him to be good guy, an honest person in a hobby/business with a lot of thieves, and a friend. Sure his prices are occasionally high (i.e. retail), but I have also gotten very good deals from him too. And I don't know a full-time dealer who doesn't shoot for the higher price on the right items now and then. It must be getting tougher for dealers these days. They used to be able to get material at 30-60% of book. Now with ebay and big auction houses for higher end items, private sellers want 80-90% of retail routinely. That lowers the profit tremendously. Just adding my .02.
JimB
P.S. He is quite knowledgeable and unlike your average brick and mortar store, he has a lot vintage (pre-WWII) material.

[Wite3]

Just so you all understand...these are recreations of buys that they found. They do not find stuff like this every week and I would certainly venture to say that they have day jobs. These shows are showing highlights of their finds over the years not weekly buys. Very misleading television...

Joshua

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Wite3

Just so you all understand...these are recreations of buys that they found. They do not find stuff like this every week and I would certainly venture to say that they have day jobs. These shows are showing highlights of their finds over the years not weekly buys. Very misleading television...

Joshua

I don't know. On "Storage Wars" they seem to be recreating a lot of awful buys made by that guy Jarred and his Wife. LOL!!!

[Jayjones82]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I don't know. On "Storage Wars" they seem to be recreating a lot of awful buys made by that guy Jarred and his Wife. LOL!!!

Have you seen his wife? I'd want to show her, too, if I was one of the show's producers

[2dueces]

All these so called reality shows are staged one way or another. Even the arguements. People wouldn't watch long if it were everyday life. I don't watch any TV unless it's history or sports. But I do remember reading about one episode of Pawn Stars where they bought a coke machine and after it was "restored.", it wasn't even the same model. It was like the kid trying to pass off fake cards in front of this board. I took 2 seconds for coke machine experts to catch them. It's like most of the bad movies they make today, if people keep watching them, they will keep making them.