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  1. #101
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    Originally Posted by Deech View Post
    Great post. 15 to 20 years ago I was adamant to get each year’s baseball card of my idol, Mickey Mantle. Everything was through eBay. Back then there were no clocks on the screen. I jumped in when there was a great deal. I had to return the 1952 Mantle due to forgery and lost a few bucks, but I have 1953 - 1968.

    I do not do eBay now, for no reason, but back then it was awesome to know you could get things without having to go through a pawn shop or card dealer store.
    Every baseball fan should savor anything Mickey Mantle. I had so many rookie and other highly sought after baseball cards when I was a kid, and I flipped many of them away. One was a rookie MM. Another was a rookie Hank Aaron. Who knows where they are today.
    I traded away at least a dozen Pete Rose rookie cards. Of course, it was 1963. You know how cruel kids are. When he was a rookie we thought Rose was a punk, five feet nothing, a hundred nothing. Had no clue he would turn out as big as he did. I came home one day to find that my mother threw all my baseball cards away because she thought they were junking up the closet. Three-thousand baseball cards from the early sixties. I had all the famous players.
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  2. #102
    Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    Originally Posted by Deech View Post
    Great post. 15 to 20 years ago I was adamant to get each year’s baseball card of my idol, Mickey Mantle. Everything was through eBay. Back then there were no clocks on the screen. I jumped in when there was a great deal. I had to return the 1952 Mantle due to forgery and lost a few bucks, but I have 1953 - 1968.

    I do not do eBay now, for no reason, but back then it was awesome to know you could get things without having to go through a pawn shop or card dealer store.
    Every baseball fan should savor anything Mickey Mantle. I had so many rookie and other highly sought after baseball cards when I was a kid, and I flipped many of them away. One was a rookie MM. Another was a rookie Hank Aaron. Who knows where they are today.
    I traded away at least a dozen Pete Rose rookie cards. Of course, it was 1963. You know how cruel kids are. When he was a rookie we thought Rose was a punk, five feet nothing, a hundred nothing. Had no clue he would turn out as big as he did. I came home one day to find that my mother threw all my baseball cards away because she thought they were junking up the closet. Three-thousand baseball cards from the early sixties. I had all the famous players.
    PS: Gambling for baseball cards was my first gambling game. Started in 2nd grade. They caught onto us and banned the game out of the school.
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  3. #103
    We all had shoeboxes filled with cards that got lost. LOL

    But take some comfort in this: the collecting of coins, stamps, cards, figurines, comic books are all DYING businesses. Kids today don't care about them. Values are declining as we grow old and die.

    My case in point.

    Back in the 1970s I desperately wanted a set of Zeppelin air mail stamps, the first air mail stamps from the 1930s. A mint set went for $25,000. Today it's $3,500.

    Edited to add: oops price is lower than I thought. Under $2,000 now.

    https://www.kenmorestamp.com/the-ame...-set-of-3-save
    Last edited by Alan Mendelson; 12-07-2018 at 01:28 AM.

  4. #104
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    We all had shoeboxes filled with cards that got lost. LOL

    But take some comfort in this: the collecting of coins, stamps, cards, figurines, comic books are all DYING businesses. Kids today don't care about them. Values are declining as we grow old and die.

    My case in point.

    Back in the 1970s I desperately wanted a set of Zeppelin air mail stamps, the first air mail stamps from the 1930s. A mint set went for $25,000. Today it's $3,500.

    Edited to add: oops price is lower than I thought. Under $2,000 now.

    https://www.kenmorestamp.com/the-ame...-set-of-3-save
    Is it the same way for watches?
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  5. #105
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    We all had shoeboxes filled with cards that got lost. LOL

    But take some comfort in this: the collecting of coins, stamps, cards, figurines, comic books are all DYING businesses. Kids today don't care about them. Values are declining as we grow old and die.

    My case in point.

    Back in the 1970s I desperately wanted a set of Zeppelin air mail stamps, the first air mail stamps from the 1930s. A mint set went for $25,000. Today it's $3,500.

    Edited to add: oops price is lower than I thought. Under $2,000 now.

    https://www.kenmorestamp.com/the-ame...-set-of-3-save
    Has all of that stuff been "collected" in the past, though? Or was this a somewhat general thing? Seems like the reason why some of this stuff is valuable now (or was recently) is because it's stuff that people had when they were kids....and now (or then) when the kids grew up and got money, they were interested in getting those things back, since they have money and whatnot. Hopefully PokeMon cards make a resurgence because I have a hefty amount of them...although I don't have any rare ones, maybe a holographic Charizard and a red-cheeks Pikachu, but doubt those would be seen as "rare" if they ever take off. Who knows though.
    #FreeTyde

  6. #106
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    We all had shoeboxes filled with cards that got lost. LOL

    But take some comfort in this: the collecting of coins, stamps, cards, figurines, comic books are all DYING businesses. Kids today don't care about them. Values are declining as we grow old and die.

    My case in point.

    Back in the 1970s I desperately wanted a set of Zeppelin air mail stamps, the first air mail stamps from the 1930s. A mint set went for $25,000. Today it's $3,500.

    Edited to add: oops price is lower than I thought. Under $2,000 now.

    https://www.kenmorestamp.com/the-ame...-set-of-3-save

    Mr. Mendelson is incorrect regarding Marvel comic books. My collection, which features no single hugely valuable comic, has increased in value 10-12% a year since the first Iron Man movie came out. The recent Black Panther and Avengers movies boosted any comics with those characters (I have the first Black Panther appearance). Guardians of the Galaxy, a nondescript title before the movies, has gone up considerably in value. The entire collection went up about 12% last year.

  7. #107
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    Originally Posted by Deech View Post
    Great post. 15 to 20 years ago I was adamant to get each year’s baseball card of my idol, Mickey Mantle. Everything was through eBay. Back then there were no clocks on the screen. I jumped in when there was a great deal. I had to return the 1952 Mantle due to forgery and lost a few bucks, but I have 1953 - 1968.

    I do not do eBay now, for no reason, but back then it was awesome to know you could get things without having to go through a pawn shop or card dealer store.
    Every baseball fan should savor anything Mickey Mantle. I had so many rookie and other highly sought after baseball cards when I was a kid, and I flipped many of them away. One was a rookie MM. Another was a rookie Hank Aaron. Who knows where they are today.
    I got to witness the thrill of a lifetime. Mickey came to Marshall Lakeside CC. I watched him tee off with a long iron where all others used a driver. He absolutely CRUSHED the ball and out drove everyone. He had amazing power!

  8. #108
    I guess I should be embarrassed (but I'm not) that at one time I was involved in the production and sale of "knock-off baseball cards. We did all the old timers---Honus Wagner, Rogers Hornsby----whatever was valuable at the time. I assume now that we didn't sell to collectors who would have known they were fake, but rather our customers were novices.

  9. #109
    How many of you stayed up late and watched this scammer on Shop at Home in the 90's?


  10. #110
    All collectibles follow "the greater fool theory" which simply means their value depends on a greater fool coming along to bail you out of your mistake. You can Google it.

    Watches? What kind? My Rolex lost half its value when I walked out of the store. Would an 18 year old buy it? Hell no. They use the clock on their cell phones.

    Redietz says his Marvel comics are going up in value. But to whom? Show me the latest auction prices. Sellers/owners always value their property higher than potential buyers. Could a new Marvel movie give some comic prices a pop? Sure. But who is going to buy it down the pike.

    There is a reason the saying "cash is king" never went away.

  11. #111
    Originally Posted by monet View Post
    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    I don't see the issue here. There exists an established, burgeoning market for gift cards that has some maturity to it. The cards generally fall into specific price ranges based on the type of card, so one knows ahead of time if the likely sales discount price is 70% or 80% or 90% of face value. If I were playing a lot, I would not account the values until sold, but there's little to no risk. People are unloading gift cards all of the time, whether earned in casinos or not.
    People aren't unloading them all the time on this Las Vegas Casino Talk Forum.
    Especially the King of Aps who has all the free creams and lotions.
    Especially to a board that has a high percentage of members who do not agree or believe in Axel we Trust.

    It just seems the oddest place to try to offload a mess of Tiffany Gift Cards none the less.
    I guess these guys don't associate with WoN anymore.
    He would of been able to get rid of them with a much higher success rate.
    I am not opposed to selling your Gift Cards but the Captain Morgan of everything AP in Vegas trying to pawn them off on this site is odd.

    After that you have Maxpen constantly endorsing this plan.
    You also have a member named Boz who wants nothing to do with this site or the members but constantly posts these days.
    In this stinging humiliation of yet another misguided, emotional, corny post by redietz, along with all the other spot-on characterizations, it's obvious how clearly monet is seeing things here.

  12. #112
    My brother has mint condition Woodstock tickets for all three days , still perforated and probably going down in value in direct proportion to the number of us old hippies dying off on a daily basis.
    Take off that stupid mask you big baby.

  13. #113
    Originally Posted by quahaug View Post
    My brother has mint condition Woodstock tickets for all three days , still perforated and probably going down in value in direct proportion to the number of us old hippies dying off on a daily basis.
    Is he selling them? I went to Woodstock and completely enjoyed all 3 days of real music unlike today's putrid nonsense, being wet, hungry, and being used as a sex slave by numerous hippie honeys. Most interesting to me was that I drove my 1962 tri-powered Austin-Healey 3000 there from Boston and had to just leave it on a crowded gridlocked street almost 2 miles from the crashed entrance....and nobody touched it.

  14. #114
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    Most interesting to me was that I drove my 1962 tri-powered Austin-Healey 3000 there from Boston and had to just leave it on a crowded gridlocked street almost 2 miles from the crashed entrance....and nobody touched it.
    WASP!

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