Brandon Steiner interview today about the DJ3K items for sale

[ChiefBenderForever]

Sure Eric, or maybe get a job workingr someone like Steiner who is making millions.

[ChiefBenderForever]

80% will be paying off student loans for 15+ years $150-300k is no joke. I'm just saying give the guy some credit he sold 10 mill of dirt that's pretty impressive. How many MBAs could pull that off?

[Ejm1]

Originally Posted by ChiefBenderForever

80% will be paying off student loans for 15+ years $150-300k is no joke. I'm just saying give the guy some credit he sold 10 mill of dirt that's pretty impressive. How many MBAs could pull that off?

I give him credit for sure, no question. It just feels a little like he nows he is taking advantage of a blind audience and knows these trinkets will never be worth more than they are at this second. In 40 years will these goods be at a Robert Edwards auction getting 100,000. I think not. The way it is today even non collectors with no clue would say "Lets pay 600 now and are kids can go to college after we sell it down the road". I think just a few buyers really love Jeter and the moment and just want a momento.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Ejm1

I think just a few buyers really love Jeter and the moment and just want a momento.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this point. Most of the people buying stuff in the team store on July 9 were buying $25-$50 t-shirts and hats with DJ3K on them. Nobody was in there trying to buy investments, or thinking that they could sell a t-shirt ever again. We all wanted to have mementos. Really, on that day, there were lines around the concourses with people just trying to get something to take home to remember the event. Maybe brag to their friends that they were there. I've seen a ton of great games at Yankee Stadium, new and old, including Aaron Boone, Cone and Wells' perfectos, 2009 clinching the WS, all three 2001 WS home games, etc. And the atmosphere at the Stadium after Jeter hit No. 3000 rivaled or surpassed just about all of them.

[Ejm1]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

We'll have to agree to disagree on this point. Most of the people buying stuff in the team store on July 9 were buying $25-$50 t-shirts and hats with DJ3K on them. Nobody was in there trying to buy investments, or thinking that they could sell a t-shirt ever again. We all wanted to have mementos. Really, on that day, there were lines around the concourses with people just trying to get something to take home to remember the event. Maybe brag to their friends that they were there. I've seen a ton of great games at Yankee Stadium, new and old, including Aaron Boone, Cone and Wells' perfectos, 2009 clinching the WS, all three 2001 WS home games, etc. And the atmosphere at the Stadium after Jeter hit No. 3000 rivaled or surpassed just about all of them.

Thats fine, a shirt or pennant and I feel there is alot of Jeter love at that level, but sticking with the $600 dollar balls and pictures are those just Jeter fans or Stiener marketing victims who think these will be the greatest items in history? By the way, I live in Ohio so I don't have the Yankee vibe and outside of New York area intrest is near nill in Jeter.

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by Ejm1

Thats fine, a shirt or pennant and I feel there is alot of Jeter love at that level, but sticking with the $600 dollar balls and pictures are those just Jeter fans or Stiener marketing victims who think these will be the greatest items in history? By the way, I live in Ohio so I don't have the Yankee vibe and outside of New York area intrest is near nill in Jeter.

There are certainly some Steiner marketing victims in the group, no doubt. But there is a lot of gifting going on.

[ChiefBenderForever]

That's a sweet ticket David! Very cool, but wouldn't it even be sweeter with a pinch of quality 1939 dirt?

[Ejm1]

Originally Posted by ChiefBenderForever

Sure Eric, or maybe get a job workingr someone like Steiner who is making millions.

I bet Steiner is a college graduate. Everybody works for someone or some entity that makes millions, thats life. I plan on working with Bruce Dorskind once I graduate cleaning his toilets. It's a living and my degree will come in handy polishing his shoes.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Ejm1

I bet Steiner is a college graduate. Everybody works for someone or some entity that makes millions, thats life. I plan on working with Bruce Dorskind once I graduate cleaning his toilets. It's a living and my degree will come in handy polishing his shoes.

Now THAT's pretty funny. LOL

[T206Collector]

Check out my 3000 hits ticket that I just bought. As I mentioned before, I went to this game with my 6-year old, and it was one of the best games I ever went to. Unfortunately, our stubs had ARod on them, which are really unsuitable for framing with our photos. So I picked up this beauty. What it cost is irrelevant. Is it a good investment? Who cares?! It's going in a frame on my wall with a picture of my boy and me. And the whole thing is priceless to me.

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Check out my 3000 hits ticket that I just bought. As I mentioned before, I went to this game with my 6-year old, and it was one of the best games I ever went to. Unfortunately, our stubs had ARod on them, which are really unsuitable for framing with our photos. So I picked up this beauty. What it cost is irrelevant. Is it a good investment? Who cares?! It's going in a frame on my wall with a picture of my boy and me. And the whole thing is priceless to me.

Your point? That ticket stub is what most of us would consider to be "real" memorabilia, as opposed to manufactured garbage (e.g., plastic coins filled with "game-used" dirt.) It's no different, in principle, than, say, this ticket stub:

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

Your point? That ticket stub is what most of us would consider to be "real" memorabilia, as opposed to manufactured garbage (e.g., plastic coins filled with "game-used" dirt.) It's no different, in principle, than, say, this ticket stub:

Sorry for stepping on a soapbox here, but....

In principle yes, but in reality with regards to the desirability and the collectibilty, they are polar opposites. One ticket stub is extremely scarce, limited and has a long runway as far as true ticket collectors go.

The other is a great momento of a historic game, but has a seemingly endless supply.

The number of Yankees season ticket holder = huge
The number of MT full, season tickets because of the e-ticket phenomenon over the last 5 years= huge

[David Atkatz]

True, Scott. There exists ten or so of one, and about 55,000 of the other. That's why I said "in principle." You and I may not be interested in owning the Jeter stub, but it still is not a piece of manufactured bullshit. T ha been defending "Steinerism"; I was just pointing out that that stub is too real for Steiner to ever deal with.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Check out my 3000 hits ticket that I just bought. As I mentioned before, I went to this game with my 6-year old, and it was one of the best games I ever went to. Unfortunately, our stubs had ARod on them, which are really unsuitable for framing with our photos. So I picked up this beauty. What it cost is irrelevant. Is it a good investment? Who cares?! It's going in a frame on my wall with a picture of my boy and me. And the whole thing is priceless to me.

T206,

I genuinely do like the Jeter ticket variation and I agree that it wouldn't feel quite right to have A-Rod on the ticket that you would collect for this historic moment with your son (although they were your actual seats!).

I was actually most surprised by the fact that the Yankees have $15 season tickets...

Enjoy your DJ3K moment with your 6 year old son!

I remember my 1 year old son's 1st ML game. We were given 1st row seats at Comerica Park in 2001 for the last game of the season. Shane Halter (who?) of the Tigers played all 9 positions in 9 innings. Pretty cool!

Amazingly, my son, now 11, attended a AAA minor league game where another player (Kevin Hooper) did exactly the same thing- 9 positions in 9 innings.
FWIW, that's kind of the way it's gone with him though. He caught a no-hitter the 1st time he ever played catcher. Bizarre!

[ChiefBenderForever]

Originally Posted by Ejm1

I bet Steiner is a college graduate.

Eric your future is looking good brother ! Looks like Brandon is also an acct, from his biography page-

"Brandon earned an undergraduate degree in accounting at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management from Syracuse in 1981. Brandon still enjoys rooting for the Orange during the NCAA tournament and playing basketball with friends. Brandon played a major role in helping start the Sport Management program/major at Syracuse University. He still sits on the board for not only the Sport Managemet program, but also for the entire athletics program at Syracuse University. Brandon also helped cultivate Syracuse-Steiner, a program where Syracuse students play a part in actually running the company."

As far as his prices go, as long as orders are being placed they will stay where they are. I highly doubt anyone is thinking investment as this is purely entertainment. As far as 20 years down the road that is what people like Bernie Madoff are for and look what that got everyone. If people can't count on the government for any future social security or help and are paying them 30% of everything they make how is Steiner taking advantage of anyone ? No one is holding a gun to their head saying 'buy this dirt or else !'

[T206Collector]

Originally Posted by ChiefBenderForever

I highly doubt anyone is thinking investment as this is purely entertainment.

That's exactly right.