$50,000 stolen from card shop

[jingram058]

How is it that total morons have so much money? And, how are there so many of them?

[packs]

What makes a modern card collector a moron? They like what they like. People love gambling. Ripping packs is a small extension of that thrill. At least that's where I find the fun in it. Rolling the dice.

Modern collectors might think a pre-war guy is pretty nuts for spending five figures on a Sherry Magee card just because his name is spelled wrong too.

[todeen]

Personally, this seems like something that would be akin to bicycle robbery or chop shops. Cops have bigger fish to fry, and this could be put on the back burner. Still, I hope the best for the owner.

[rsst206]

To each there own. I collect vintage but 10 years ago i bought these 2 boxes because my kids were playing baseball So i bought series 1 and 2 and by the time series 3 came out kids weren't interested in them so i
put away in there closet. I believe i was into them for $120
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303954864323
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303929995197
some may say i sold to cheap Was able to pay my Hunt auction winning of some silks i needed.

[TobaccoKing4]

The value of the cards once opened are irrelevant. The bottom line is that the boxes sell for a certain amount in the marketplace. It doesn't matter if you think it is a good buy or not, the store owner is now out tens of thousands of dollars. I'm sure there are plenty of people that think the prices of the Prewar cards that we all love are ridiculous too

[egri]

Originally Posted by todeen

Personally, this seems like something that would be akin to bicycle robbery or chop shops. Cops have bigger fish to fry, and this could be put on the back burner. Still, I hope the best for the owner.

Several years ago, my grandmother fell for a variation of the Publishers Clearing House scam. After she had sent the thieves a sum roughly equivalent to this heist, she told my dad, who alerted the police. From talking with them, the sentiment he got was that if they got any leads, they would follow them, but on their priority list, it wasn't very high up. I hope the best for this owner, but hopefully he's got insurance to cover this.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by packs

What makes a modern card collector a moron?

It's the manufactured rarity unlike the totally natural rarity of, say, the 1933 Goudey Lajoie.

[packs]

I’ll be the first to admit how exciting it is to see STL across Ray Demmit’s shirt.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Tabe

It's the manufactured rarity unlike the totally natural rarity of, say, the 1933 Goudey Lajoie.

lol

I see what you did there...

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by Eric72

lol

I see what you did there...

Or 1933 Butter Cream Ruth or 1932 U.S. Caramel Lindstrom or Maple Crispette Stengel or.....

But, but this is different because shiny cards bad!

[rdwyer]

What really sux is that the dealer will lose $25,000.

If only the crook would post how much he gained.

Really stupid if he thought he would get anything more than $1k if he was extremely lucky.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Tabe

It's the manufactured rarity unlike the totally natural rarity of, say, the 1933 Goudey Lajoie.

The Lajoie does have natural rarity. Goudey printed to demand and gave them away to everyone who requested one. Unlike today where card companies deliberately only print one of a card to make it a chase for gamblers.

[TobaccoKing4]

Originally Posted by rats60

The Lajoie does have natural rarity. Goudey printed to demand and gave them away to everyone who requested one. Unlike today where card companies deliberately only print one of a card to make it a chase for gamblers.

There were sets with manufactured scarcity back then though. Look at the R300 set for example

[darkhorse9]

What's odd is that store has a decent amount of vintage cards with a known value that would probably exceed the unknown value in the boxes.
Clearly this guy had cased the joint before. He had to walk past three cases with vintage cards and sets. Maybe even a frequent customer.
There isn't a very large collecting community in Knoxville. Shows are small and only two card shops.

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

What's odd is that store has a decent amount of vintage cards with a known value that would probably exceed the unknown value in the boxes.
Clearly this guy had cased the joint before. He had to walk past three cases with vintage cards and sets. Maybe even a frequent customer.
There isn't a very large collecting community in Knoxville. Shows are small and only two card shops.

Selling a HOF T206 or whatever vintage probably has a bigger chance of getting caught compared to rigging modern day packs and they could have anything in them and no one would know that they came from stolen items.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by TobaccoKing4

There were sets with manufactured scarcity back then though. Look at the R300 set for example

It was very infrequent, not every single set.

[packs]

I don't see much distance between chasing a refractor numbered out of whatever and chasing Carolina Brights backs. I understand the manufactured rarity angle but at the end of the day it's a parallel of a base card, which is what a rare backed T206 or T205 is at its core.

I feel like this is a my dad can beat up your dad kind of thing.

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by jingram058

How is it that total morons have so much money? And, how are there so many of them?

I know lots of people who would say that about men who collect 100 year old pieces of cardboard and willingly, even enthusiastically, fork over a king's ransom for said cardboard.

[Fballguy]

The irony of grown men talking down to each other about their baseball card collecting habits.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

The irony of grown men talking down to each other about their baseball card collecting habits.

It would be weird if we all collected pictures of young athletic men in uniforms the same way.