Cardsaver Failed Me

Gr8Beldini · #1 12-08-2021, 09:09 AM

Ya know... if you have a stack of cards in card savers and they were in your shirt pocket, I think it would take a significant shot to cause damage like that... and only one card was damaged and not the others? I'd bet that the crease was there when you bought it and you didn't notice it until later. You check the card for creases and the front shows nothing, very likely the lighting was inadequate and you glanced at the back quick, saw that there was no wax stain, and assumed all was well.

profholt82 · #2 12-08-2021, 04:20 PM

@Gr8Beldini

You know, that has crossed my mind. The store was dimly lit, and the crease is difficult to see on the front. No big shots that I can remember, but I did turn and reach for something in the back seat while at a red light or something. And I really stretched for it. That would have dug the seat belt into it. And I assumed it was the outside card, so it took the force of it. But I guess now that I think of it, it is possible that the card was already creased, and I didn't look close enough in the store. They were really busy, and I studied the front, but the lighting was poor. I can't say that I studied the back beyond glancing at it. Perhaps I just overpaid for a creased card. Hahaha

What are you gonna do? I think my seatbelt issue was the likely culprit, but maybe not. I really appreciate everyone's comments. And I feel bad for some of the accidents you guys have had over the years as well. They really are fragile collectibles. What a hobby.

jchcollins · #3 12-08-2021, 05:05 PM

Don't be too hard on yourself. We've all done it.

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Originally Posted by profholt82

@Gr8Beldini

You know, that has crossed my mind. The store was dimly lit, and the crease is difficult to see on the front. No big shots that I can remember, but I did turn and reach for something in the back seat while at a red light or something. And I really stretched for it. That would have dug the seat belt into it. And I assumed it was the outside card, so it took the force of it. But I guess now that I think of it, it is possible that the card was already creased, and I didn't look close enough in the store. They were really busy, and I studied the front, but the lighting was poor. I can't say that I studied the back beyond glancing at it. Perhaps I just overpaid for a creased card. Hahaha

What are you gonna do? I think my seatbelt issue was the likely culprit, but maybe not. I really appreciate everyone's comments. And I feel bad for some of the accidents you guys have had over the years as well. They really are fragile collectibles. What a hobby.

sb1 · #4 12-08-2021, 05:59 PM

I believe that is a natural stock wrinkle and was probably there when you bought the card and just did not see it. It would have had to have really been bent in your pocket to create that.

mmcgruff · #5 12-11-2021, 02:23 PM

Oh I�m sorry to hear about your mishap. Such a shame. An Al Kaline too.

Zach Wheat · #6 12-11-2021, 02:40 PM

Don't feel bad. I bought a nice T206 Cy Young and somehow managed to throw it away with the packaging it came in. Existed for a hundred years before me, but put it in my hands for no more than a minute........

Volod · #7 12-11-2021, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Don't feel bad. I bought a nice T206 Cy Young and somehow managed to throw it away with the packaging it came in. Existed for a hundred years before me, but put it in my hands for no more than a minute........

Did the same with a '54 B Mays card that I paid a few hundred bucks for. About a week after removing it from the mailer, I wanted to look at it again and could not find it in the box where it should have been. Horrified, I tried to mentally reconstruct everything I had done after opening the package and could only come to the conclusion that I must have absent-mindedly misplaced the card in with the wrapping that I had tossed out. I spent a week searching all through everything I could imagine touching in my den before giving up. Several times during the search I passed over an old folder on my desk because I thought I hadn't touched it in years. Wouldn't you know, just happened to open it one day months later, and there was Willie, grinning goofily at me, as if he had really put one over.

egri · #8 12-11-2021, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Don't feel bad. I bought a nice T206 Cy Young and somehow managed to throw it away with the packaging it came in. Existed for a hundred years before me, but put it in my hands for no more than a minute........

Oof.

Kevin · #9 12-11-2021, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Don't feel bad. I bought a nice T206 Cy Young and somehow managed to throw it away with the packaging it came in. Existed for a hundred years before me, but put it in my hands for no more than a minute........

Pained reading this

Gary Dunaier · #10 12-11-2021, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Don't feel bad. I bought a nice T206 Cy Young and somehow managed to throw it away with the packaging it came in.

The same thing happened to Barry Halper.

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