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

[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]

Originally Posted by Paul S

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

End of thread..you win

[tonyo]

Well, those Cobbs are an impossible act to follow, but..............

I picked up an exhibits salutation Feller and Mize for $2.75 each in June

no scans with me here at work.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by Paul S

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

yeah, but those were 1967 dollars.. (joke)

[Paul S]

Watch out, I might put them on the BST

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by tonyo

yeah, but those were 1967 dollars.. (joke)

Five bucks was my weekly allowance! For my birthday I asked for The Baseball Encyclopedia. That tome cost $20. Now I think of all the cards I could have bought instead.

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by Paul S

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

Any chance you wanna double your money?

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by novakjr

Any chance you wanna double your money?

I'll triple it for you