Making the cut

[BeanTown]

I just ran across a seller J.Cedeno on eBay who has over 50,000 listings. Many of the listings have been cut out of old newspapers, magazines, programs, guides, and who knows what else. Wonder how many items have been cut up.

https://www.ebay.com/str/vintagebaseballoddballs

[MCyganik]

I know nothing about the seller but they've been doing it for many years and he seems to make a nice profit on his little niche.

I imagine he picks up a lot of old guides that might be rare but with torn covers and pages and salvages what he can. Aesthetically it might not go for anything whole, but there's a market for $16 paper panels of obscure players collectors might not see anywhere else. Anything interesting of the big name players are a bonus. So if he pays $50-100 for a rare guide and cuts 100+ photos out of it and sells even 4-12 he's making some money.

Sort of like card companies buying a HOFer's game used bat, cut it into many pieces to pad their card offering sales, and then throwing the knob and/or nameplates onto a card, call it a 1/1 and often have the card go for more $$$ than the whole bat would.

[RCMcKenzie]

A while back I was trying to find some information on T206 subject, Foley White, and found an article listed by this seller that was very helpful. I did not buy or bid on the article, I right-clicked on it, and enlarged the photo to read the article. White did, after all play for Houston as an outfielder, perhaps a utility player, as shown in the T206 series with a catcher's mitt.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by MCyganik

Sort of like card companies buying a HOFer's game used bat, cut it into many pieces to pad their card offering sales, and then throwing the knob and/or nameplates onto a card, call it a 1/1 and often have the card go for more $$$ than the whole bat would.

Upper Deck is doing it with comic books too:

2019 Upper Deck Deadpool - New Mutants 98 Comic Cuts - Interiors #NM-98 - New Mutants #98
Courtesy of COMC.com

[CobbSpikedMe]

I've bought cutouts of the Jersey City Skeeter team composites so I can display them with my Jersey City collection. If they were still in the guide they came from I couldn't display them. I didn't pay much for them so I don't mind the cost for the enjoyment of having them.