(04-07-2009, 04:56 PM)atolentino1 Wrote: Everybody has a secret or two (or two hundred) stowed away somewhere. Luckily, most of us don’t need walk-in closets for our skeletons, but there are bound to be a few climate-controlled spaces hiding hush-hush hobby evidence.
Whether you paid an embarrassingly exorbitant price for an average card or you’ve illegally scaled an electrified fence to get an autograph from your favorite athlete, this is your chance to share your secret.
Depending on how revealing you’d like to be and how much of a “talkin’ to†you’re willing to endure, you might want to keep your responses anonymous on the <a href =http://www.blogbeckett.wordpress.com" target="_blank">blog</a>. However, if you’re willing to fess up to your collecting confession, feel free to shout it from the mountaintops here, there and everywhere.
We don’t have much experience in Hollywood style grilling and we frankly aren’t fond of rub burns, but here are a few questions to get the ball rolling:
<B>-What big items have you bought that were funded by selling your cards? How much did you sell? Have you tried to collect those cards again?
-What is the most amount of money you have ever thrown down on a single card? What was the card? Do you still have it?
-How often do you bid on online sports card auctions while working?
-What is the most money you've ever spent on a single <a href =http://www.beckettmarketplace.com" target="_blank">Beckett Marketplace</a> purchase?
-What is the most you’ve ever spent on your card hobby in one month?
-What is the craziest thing you’ve done to get a player’s autograph?</B>
Since this is an open forum, feel free to chime in with secrets and inquiries of your own.
<strong>-Andrew Tolentino</strong>
This was a great thread and I am now going to revive it. Let me begin.
What big items have you bought that were funded by selling your cards? How much did you sell? Have you tried to collect those cards again?
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What is the most amount of money you have ever thrown down on a single card? What was the card? Do you still have it?
It was $42.40 for a rare Pro Line phone card parallel that I bought a few months ago. Everything I buy is for my own personal collection, so yes, I still own it.
How often do you bid on online sports card auctions while working?
I do it very rarely. It would have to be a last second sniper bidding type of scenario for something very rare that I really want. I am an outside sales rep so it is not hard for me to do that.
What is the most money you've ever spent on a single Beckett Marketplace purchase?
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What is the most you’ve ever spent on your card hobby in one month?
Years ago I may have spent upwards of $300 or more. That was not the norm however.
I now have a disciplined way of keeping track of what I spend. I give myself $100 a month, mad money if you will, to blow on cards. So far I stayed under budget for five of the first six months this year.
What is the craziest thing you’ve done to get a player’s autograph?
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Since this is an open forum, feel free to chime in with secrets and inquiries of your own.
I have a story that may or may not entertain you.
Both I and the lady in my life were unemployed for well over a year, circa 2009. I was still spending $100 or more on cards per month during this time, although I must point out that I had a lot of liquid money saved up during my tenure from my previous employer...still.
Anyway the housing association I live in has groups of mail boxes for multiple residences, mine is a 1/2 block away and is visible from my front yard. If I had a few things on order and would anticipate a package delivery I would look for a reason to go outside (cleaning out the car, pulling weeds, etc.) to coincide when the mail truck would come. I would make every effort to get there first, pull out my non-eBay stuff, bring that mail into the house, and then sneak out of the house at night and take my delivered cards out. I had a detailed system but I will not go into further detail. Granted she knew I was ordering something here and there, and she was okay with that, but she only saw a fraction of the accumulative packages that I received in the mail. It just would not look good if she knew, it just would not.