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Originally Posted by Craig M
Buying up a common T206.
This (MAY) work only if you keep it to yourself and are completely smart about it. Once word gets out that you are doing it to a particular card, everyone will start asking 5 - 10x the value for that card knowing that you are trying to buy all of them up.
Has anybody suspected a certain T206 common besides the Titus example that this was being done to?
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I have heard it for Rocky Colavito rookies. I believe his family was buying them up. I think once ebay came around though, it made it so much easier to find, that a newer card like that would be impossible to hoard and drive up prices on, or would really take an extremely long time.
There is a person on the board who collects cards of his great-grandfather from the Obak set and that really drove up the price once he had a lot. Miller I believe. I'll try to find it...
Found it, the player is Frank Miller. While looking for it, I found out another player I heard about and it happens to be a t206 card. Someone has a huge Hans Lobert collection, I believe it was 50+ back in 2006. Not sure if he kept on going with it
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