Netflix baseball card documentary

Throttlesteer · #1 07-24-2019, 12:02 AM

Still waiting for the "attic find" reality show

glynparson · #2 07-24-2019, 06:31 AM

Thought it was kind of poorly done. i did feel bad for Stu hell i even felt bad for his dad at one point, though i agree if you say he doesn't deserve sympathy. But as a documentary it was scatter brained and not really accurate at times or certainly exaggerated. It clearly at times lumped the junk era and the value of those cards in with all others. I guess it was Ok, but certainly not worthy of an hour and a half of my time that i spent on it.

Pre War Starter · #3 07-24-2019, 07:31 AM

Totally agree.
A guy that was raised as a kid of one of the biggest 80�s baseball card dealers,
Thought his cards were worth thousands and when he found out they were not worth anything, then his mission was to find out why?

Don�t piss on my leg and tell me it�s raining. You know why!!

Just tell your story, like about 50 million other kids that come from broken homes.

stlcardsfan · #4 07-24-2019, 10:47 AM

I wasted an hour and 20 minutes or whatever it was I'll never get back watching this.

TanksAndSpartans · #5 07-24-2019, 02:50 PM

Kind of a commercial for why an economics class should be mandatory in high school if the producers thought it was believable that the protagonist had no tools to even come up with a theory as to why the cards weren't worth anything and that treating it as a mystery would work.

slidekellyslide · #6 07-24-2019, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TanksAndSpartans

Kind of a commercial for why an economics class should be mandatory in high school if the producers thought it was believable that the protagonist had no tools to even come up with a theory as to why the cards weren't worth anything and that treating it as a mystery would work.

I don't think this documentary was about cards at all. Clearly this guy knew his cards were worthless. This was an excuse used by his buddy to make a documentary about getting this guy back together with his estranged father. People still in the hobby today will recognize this, but I get people weekly coming in to my store wanting to sell their baseball cards (all 80s and 90s junk) thinking they've hit upon a gold mine. Anyone expecting a documentary about the 80-90s junk wax era are going to be disappointed.

Baseballcrazy62 · #7 07-24-2019, 08:16 PM

For what it�s worth I thought it sucked.

bnorth · #8 08-03-2019, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I don't think this documentary was about cards at all. Clearly this guy knew his cards were worthless. This was an excuse used by his buddy to make a documentary about getting this guy back together with his estranged father. People still in the hobby today will recognize this, but I get people weekly coming in to my store wanting to sell their baseball cards (all 80s and 90s junk) thinking they've hit upon a gold mine. Anyone expecting a documentary about the 80-90s junk wax era are going to be disappointed.

Living in a small(12,000) town I get a lot of people trying to sell me junk era cards also. I tell most of them I wouldn't even take them for free. Most are highly disappointed and some get mad.LOL

Had a really weird one a couple days ago. Had a fairly famous person email me and wanted some error cards. They said they would like to trade, I said great because i like to trade. He said we should do a couple small trades first and I agreed.

Then he said to start he wanted 2 specific cards. I emailed him back saying the cards you want are $200-$400 apiece cards. His response was I seen them listed in Beckett for $100 each so figured they really sold for around $50 each. I explained how completely worthless Beckett is and I use completed ebay listings.

Then he sent me a pic of around 40 junk era cards he wanted to trade me and said he valued them at $50. I would not have gave $5 for them so I politely said we probably could not do a trade at this time.

I would out the guy but maybe being nice will work out for me in the future with the gentleman. I will say though if you pulled one of his serial #ed cards from a pack in the last few years you would be very happy.

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