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Old 08-08-2019, 03:30 PM
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Just curious as to why people think this is much different at its core than buying stock in a company. If you believe a t206 Wagner would appreciate in value then why wouldn't you buy a portion of it if you could provided you were sure it would be a legitimate purchase you could see if/when you wanted.

In my circle of card buddies, some of us have discussed this very thing. The question always gets to who keeps it and where do you find one to even buy.
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Old 08-08-2019, 04:17 PM
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Just curious as to why people think this is much different at its core than buying stock in a company. If you believe a t206 Wagner would appreciate in value then why wouldn't you buy a portion of it if you could provided you were sure it would be a legitimate purchase you could see if/when you wanted.

In my circle of card buddies, some of us have discussed this very thing. The question always gets to who keeps it and where do you find one to even buy.
Not really seeing the comparison. When you buy a stock you own it. It's yours. You can sell it any time you want.

If you bought a piece of a Wagner, when do you get your money out of it? Who decides when to sell it? Who holds the card? How do you find yourself ever getting paid if the majority owner has no intention to sell?
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Old 08-08-2019, 06:33 PM
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Not really seeing the comparison. When you buy a stock you own it. It's yours. You can sell it any time you want.

If you bought a piece of a Wagner, when do you get your money out of it? Who decides when to sell it? Who holds the card? How do you find yourself ever getting paid if the majority owner has no intention to sell?
I suppose that you could sell your interest in the card. I can see it now: REA fall auction, featuring 5% of a Wagner, 8% of a Cobb Back, and 10% of a 1952 Mantle.
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Default The Bruces predicted this a decade ago
Once again he was ahead of the curve.
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Once again he was ahead of the curve.
He might have thought of it but I haven't seen it be successful yet.
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When I read the word "fractional" in the title of the thread, I thought it was going to be about PWCC selling off the slivers they trimmed off of valuable cards.
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When I read the word "fractional" in the title of the thread, I thought it was going to be about PWCC selling off the slivers they trimmed off of valuable cards.
I'm surprised Upper Deck never bought up a Wagner for the purpose of shaving it into tiny slices to seed into one of their "SUPER RELIC HEROIC HALL OF FAME COMMEMORATIVE SP GOLDEN ERA FOIL LIMITED" inserts or whatever.

Its only a matter of time before a card company does this.
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I'm surprised Upper Deck never bought up a Wagner for the purpose of shaving it into tiny slices to seed into one of their "SUPER RELIC HEROIC HALL OF FAME COMMEMORATIVE SP GOLDEN ERA FOIL LIMITED" inserts or whatever.

Its only a matter of time before a card company does this.
This would also be a great idea. How about an image of the Wagner card with the cut piece overlaying it’s spot on the image. It’d be ripfest madness. I’d imagine they could get about #/50 pieces
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I'm surprised Upper Deck never bought up a Wagner for the purpose of shaving it into tiny slices to seed into one of their "SUPER RELIC HEROIC HALL OF FAME COMMEMORATIVE SP GOLDEN ERA FOIL LIMITED" inserts or whatever.

Its only a matter of time before a card company does this.
If anyone is interested in this type of idea I have some slivers I saved from a 1939 Play Ball Ted Williams rookie.

I have though about making a custom card with a clear window in it with some of the slivers showing. Then on the back show a picture of the donor card before and after the trimming.

It is the rookie Williams I bought in the BST section that had almost all the borders trimmed off. I squared up the card and put new full borders on it off a donor 39 Play Ball.
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If anyone is interested in this before and after the trimming.

It is the rookie Williams I bought in the BST section that had almost all the borders trimmed off. I squared up the card and put new full borders on it off a donor 39 Play Ball.
Quick Someone call the FBI.
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Not really seeing the comparison. When you buy a stock you own it. It's yours. You can sell it any time you want.

If you bought a piece of a Wagner, when do you get your money out of it? Who decides when to sell it? Who holds the card? How do you find yourself ever getting paid if the majority owner has no intention to sell?
Not much different than acquiring a limited partnership interest in real estate or something like that. The agreement(s) would govern your questions in that scenario.
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Aquarian Sports Cards is proud to announce Time Share cards. That's right for a one time buy in and yearly maintenance fees you can spend two weeks per year with any one of several desirable cards!
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Aquarian Sports Cards is proud to announce Time Share cards. That's right for a one time buy in and yearly maintenance fees you can spend two weeks per year with any one of several desirable cards!
Any benchwarmers cards in the group?
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This is actually a cool idea
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This is actually a cool idea
As long as I'm not the guy who's in charge of making sure the cards come back on time...
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Or instead of fractional all of the time ownership how about seasonal ownership, like a condo or something?
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Or like breaking bread, you get to trim off a piece before it goes to the next "fractional" owner.
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As the former owner and builder of some fairly successful financing related companies, one factor which would add some credibility for me... would be if an investor could get a legitimate lending institutions to underwrite a loan against the asset of their fractional share.

But think about this... Can you imagine if THIS COMPANY would allow their buyers/investors to purchase cards on "margin"?... or offers other kinds of financing?
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