You thought YOU were having a bad day...

[philliesfan]

Nothing that big. But I think of the guy who paid me $420.00 for a PSA 10 Fleer Bonds rookie.

[samosa4u]

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Todd McFarlane has a net worth of $300 Million!

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Todd McFarlane has a net worth of $300 Million!

I wonder if that was before or after COVID-19 tanked the stock market?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Todd McFarlane has a net worth of $300 Million!

Today he is worth a lot less

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Leon

Today he is worth a lot less

Like a lot of us.

[bbcard1]

I think Todd MacFarlane is awesome. When he bought the McGwire ball, it was a lot of money for him. Not so much now.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

I think Todd MacFarlane is awesome. When he bought the McGwire ball, it was a lot of money for him. Not so much now.

He gave the big speech at a graduation I attended at Eastern Washington University. Was very good and he seemed quite happy to be there (he graduated from EWU).

[scgaynor]

At the time he got 3 million in media publicity when he purchased the ball.

I had that ball, along with two other McGwire homerun balls in my possession for about 4 hours. I transported them from a museum in Washington DC where they were on temporary display to Guernsey's auction house where they were sold.

They guy that originally owned the ball was super nice. I spent a day showing him around Washington DC. He was given tickets to the game by his employer and the ball was hit into the corporate box where he was watching the game. The ball was hit so hard that everybody jumped out of the way as it came through the window. The ball bounced off the back wall and into the guys hand. Security rushed the room immediately and took the ball from him so that there could be no question that it was "the ball". The guy became a multi-millionaire by pure luck.

[Phil68]

Originally Posted by philliesfan

Nothing that big. But I think of the guy who paid me $420.00 for a PSA 10 Fleer Bonds rookie.

Now, THAT'S actually hilarious.

[Snapolit1]

No idea who this guy is and couldn't care less how much money he has now or how much he lost yesterday. But I've know a few people up his financial realm and none of them would brush off a $3 millions dollar investment/purchase that has lost nearly all of its value. Their attention to finances is usually pretty obsessive.

[drcy]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

No idea who this guy is and couldn't care less how much money he has now or how much he lost yesterday. But I've know a few people up his financial realm and none of them would brush off a $3 millions dollar investment/purchase that has lost nearly all of its value. Their attention to finances is usually pretty obsessive.

Exactly. There's a reason they became rich, and it wasn't by throwing away money or being oblivious to value.

There was a Japanese billionaire who duct-taped his shoes when they got old instead of buying a new pair. May seem bizarre for a billionaire, but it was that type of prudence and thinking that made him rich.

[Ronnie73]

I'm not a collector of autographs so to me, the baseballs would be only for bragging rights. But interestingly, this bad day post reminds me of many great days. I made a lot of money in the early 90's selling Todd McFarlane Amazing Spiderman comic books. Back then I was purchasing 100+ of many comic book issues and getting them at 40 percent off of cover price. Then I was selling them new at full cover price for the month and then 10 times that a month later. All while I was in high school lol. I went to school to make money, not learn