Anyone ever tried to Corner the Market on a Particular Card?

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12-08-2016, 06:42 AM

Leon

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Yeah, kind of like the Pete Rose rookie hoarding. Twenty Five million dollars later you would be screwed as you still didn't have all of them. Even authorities laughed at the idea.

I think a lot of folks, even a few board members, probably got upside down on the hype.

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Originally Posted by BosseFieldBoy

At one point I thought seriously about trying to corner the market (with another Net54 member) on 1907 and 1908 Dietsche Cobbs. We were up to 18. But then we realized it would involve buying a bunch of PSA 1s for $1200 each. That was the end of that.

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