best vintage card buy you've had under $5?

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

This saga just ended yesterday. Back on Nov. 3, I won a 1910 T212 Obak that was poorly listed. I won it for the opening bid of $7.38. 10 days go by and the vendor contacts me, saying how sorry he was for not getting it in the mail sooner. He begged me to not leave him negative feedback as he was not a card vendor at all. He is a militaria seller/gunsmith. He tells me that he was listing the card for a friend. I tell him, "No problem". Fast forward 10 more days and it still hadn't left California. Again he contacts me and apologizes. He says that he would put some extra stuff in the package for the delay. He was supposed to list the stuff for his friend. Since the first card only sold for $7.38, he didn't want to mess with the rest of the things. Anyway, yesterday, the package arrived with my card. Incuded in the package was a second 1910 Obak, 2 different 1947 P.C.L. programs and a 1950 UCal/Penn St. football program. But wait......there's more....He refunded my $7.38.

omfg!

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

omfg!

Does that qualify for this thread?

[EvilKing00]

SRY but when he said the guy also refunded his money i almost fell off my chair

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

SRY but when he said the guy also refunded his money i almost fell off my chair

It shocked me also. I guess he wanted to make sure that I would leave him postive feedback. I did. The custom stuff he builds and sells coupled with the Civil War stuff he was selling was going for silly money. Are you readty for this? He sold a Radio Control belt-fed machine gun/ pellet gun on big-ass knobby tires for $2700. Everything he was selling was in the same price range. The little pile of stuff that he sent me wasn't a drop in the bucket, I guess....

[steve B]

I can't think of a whole lot I've bought for under $5 recently. There was the batch of 3 truly awful T206s I sold here a few years ago when I joined that came in a box of stuff I bought for $10.

Of course, having collected long enough there's plenty of stuff I got for under $5.

Before you get all jealous, remember that means I'm also becoming old enough to have the random aches and pains that come with age.
It also means I passed on thousands of things at under $5 that I probably should have bought.

Steve B

[Howe’s Hunter]

(like 12 years ago), I used to follow my "the devil made me do it rule" on eBay. I'd bid $6.66 on almost every T206 that was listed that didn't have a higher minimum bid that that. Over the course of two years, probably won 45 cards that way. When my wife would ask why I was spending all that money on baseball cards, I'd say "The devil made me do it."

[EvilKing00]

Thought of one more:

the 1994 Larry bird baseball card! I actually have one up now on ebay

[Paul S]

Got these for $5 each circa 1967-69 (God, I feel so old). Still ungraded:

[atx840]

The caretaker of the original owner was selling a bunch of his cards, I missed the RH but was able to get this thrown in for under $5.