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Old 10-09-2013, 01:38 AM
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Patience is the toughest part of my collecting these days now that I really only need a few more cards. My biggest frustration, however, is when one of the cards finally surfaces but it is part of a large lot in an auction.

And so I wait...impatiently.


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Old 10-09-2013, 07:30 AM
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Shilling, fraud, lack of honesty from some.

People who don't buy my cards.
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While my first response is a big frustration...I ditto the sentiment that the rampant corruption is my biggest frustration in this world...which sadly encompasses this hobby!

It seems when i was a young collector...many dealers/auctioneers were just "dicks"...now they're criminals!
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It seems when i was a young collector...many dealers/auctioneers were just "dicks"...now they're criminals!
Thanks for the laugh Pete! (so true, btw. )
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Patience is the toughest part of my collecting these days now that I really only need a few more cards. My biggest frustration, however, is when one of the cards finally surfaces but it is part of a large lot in an auction.

And so I wait...impatiently.


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This is my situation with a current REA lot.
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Sometimes things I want never pop up...when I have the funds...then when I don't...they pop up

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Being offered cards at heavily inflated prices because I am collecting that particular subset.
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The continual flow of hot, sex-starved women throwing themselves at me because I collect cards.

A close second would be the lotting decisions made by the auctioneers. I have to buy so much crap in most auctions just to get the item or two I want. It is very frustrating, especially when they've mixed a truly rare item in with the rest of the stuff. If it isn't a set being sold, there is no reason to bury a rare card like that. I also cannot stand when they lump together a group of rare cards that would stand very well broken into smaller lots. I feel sorry for the consignors because you know that they are being screwed out of a large part of the value of the lot when no one except a dealer will buy it.
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...[T]he lotting decisions made by the auctioneers. I have to buy so much crap in most auctions just to get the item or two I want. It is very frustrating, especially when they've mixed a truly rare item in with the rest of the stuff. If it isn't a set being sold, there is no reason to bury a rare card like that. I also cannot stand when they lump together a group of rare cards that would stand very well broken into smaller lots. I feel sorry for the consignors because you know that they are being screwed out of a large part of the value of the lot when no one except a dealer will buy it.
+1 there. It took me YEARS longer to acquire my '56 Kahns Frank Robinson and '47 Tip Top Ralph Kiner for that very reason--two very tough (and significant) cards that the auctioneer just didn't feel were valuable enough to place in individual lots, on more than one occasion, and instead threw them in with 10-20 other cards I had no interest in.

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