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08-26-2014, 11:17 AM
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Never met the guy, but from reading all this, he sounds like quite the gem!
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08-26-2014, 11:49 AM
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At one time years ago he said he would be interested in buying my stuff , but would not sell me anything directly.
He is a polarizing figure in the hobby, but he did get it some big publicity in the 1990s that helped some parts of this hobby take off.
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08-26-2014, 11:56 AM
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RAUCOUS SPORTS CARD FORUM MEMBER AND MONSTER FATHER. GOOD FOR THE HOBBY AND THE FORUM WITH A VAULT IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION FILLED WITH WORTHLESS NON-FUNGIBLES 274/1000 Monster Number
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08-26-2014, 11:52 AM
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Al Rosen
I have never met or had any dealings with Mr Rosen but I remember reading about the large purchase of 52 Topps High Number cases that he made and sold. So Many High Grade Mantles and cards came from that Find. He used to advertise all the items from the Great Finds that he made. After selling off a lot of these items I am sure that his profits were Huge and it would not surprise me if he spent all those millions on other purchases.
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08-26-2014, 01:35 PM
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I used to talk to Rosen at shows and over the phone in the mid-'80s; sometimes he was very pleasant, sometimes less so. At the time I collected mostly Topps test issues, and he helped me cross quite a few toughies off my want list.
Rosen seemed to me to have a small network of backers and silent partners, and in my dealings with him he mostly played the role of broker. I would tell him what I wanted, he would track it down, I would give him a check, and then I would receive my cards in the mail from someone else (most frequently Brian Morris).
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08-27-2014, 05:28 PM
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He was rude and humorless in the couple of exchanges I had with him early on, before I started going out of my way not to get too close to him. But I doubt if he cares what anybody says about him, probably a sociopathic personality. As for all those with whose cards he's made himself rich over the years, the immortal words of Eli Wallach as the bandit Calvera in "The Magnificent Seven" come to mind: "If God hadn't intended for them to be sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep!" Assuming he didn't do anything illegal, you have to sigh and think that they should have been smarter than that. If nothing else, his manner and that of his sidekicks as described in the videos should have had the bells of suspicion ringing like crazy. So how did he do it? Cash. Piles of cash. Simple as that. Most of these people are probably thinking how they're getting over on HIM, looking at all that loot, and also about all the taxes they're not going to have to pay. Mark Twain loved to write about situations like these.
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