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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Dan Bretta
The Lotto? |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: MVSNYC
"Last week we met with a major auction house owner who told us about |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Rob D.
Lol |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Steve
Got nothin but bad influence in this forum. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: leon
I represent that remark .....I would say the most influential is difficult to state. And I am not sure it really matters. All that matters to me is who is bidding against me..... |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Rhett Yeakley
Dang! I just missed the $250,000 threshold last year!!! I guess I'm not as influential as I once thought! |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: JimB
I think TBob must be one of them. Whenever he starts collecting a set, the prices immediately go up. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: paulstratton
Since I'm a chinrest collector I can't even fathom spending 2.5 mil in one year on pre-war cards. That being said, I guess you have to invest your money somewhere and since everything else except oil and precious metals is tanking, it might not be the worst move in history. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Rob D.
It is kind of revealing that Bruce (and many others, to be sure) would define the most "influential" collectors as those who spend the most money. My definition would lean more toward those who have significant knowledge (and share it). |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Red
Are you sure they're not just feeding you a bunch of mumbo jumbo nonsense in order to get you to consign. Those auction houses will tell you whatever you want to hear in order to get their hooks into your stuff. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: peter spaeth
One wonders sometimes how many of these high grade rarities, like the T206 Wagner, are potentially altered. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: jeffdrum
nah, nah, nah, ..........it ain't me babe |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: boxingcardman
Influential = able to have a powerful effect on people and what they do |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
The word "influential" has two meanings in this case. I surmise that Bruces were trying to convey the other meaning, as in "being influential to the prices of cards/memorabilia by placing high bids". That certainly does have an influence on all of us (although I love Wolfie's personal feelings on the subject!). |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Alan
Is it OK that I'm one of the poorest collectors, who spends probably the least amount of money on this hobby ? Can I still collect ? Am I less of a person ? |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: leon
After Dallas QB quarteback Tony Romo signed his 60+ million dollar recent contract, he was asked about it on the news. He said, laughingly "I am a much better person now"....... |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Paul S
Tony Romo got $60+ mil? Geez, what has he ever won? And who did he ever influence? Jessica Simpson, maybe. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: T206Collector
...attempts to make celebrities out of people who spend a lot of money on baseball cards should be directed towards people that actually do something useful or entertaining with their time. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: barrysloate
Bruce- if I or anyone else knew the names of these three collectors, why would we post them on the board? I would keep their identity secret forever if I could. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Jason Carota
My thoughts are along the lines of Rob D's. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: MVSNYC
Jason- very well said. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: barrysloate
I too agree that today's grassroots collector is most important, as many of them will progress and become major collectors in the future. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Tom Nieves
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: pas
Is he "influential" or perhaps under the influence? |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: davidcycleback
A collector with a $50 budget who writes an excellent new-information hobby article for Old Cardboard can be more influential than a collector who behind-the-scenes spends $1 million. In fact, the article may greatly influence what the $1 million dollar collector purchases and how much he pays. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Steve Dawson
Jeez, I'm 45 and I haven't made anywhere near $2.5 million total in my entire life! |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: John
Bruce, |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: boxingcardman
Perhaps no one ever told you, but it is in very poor taste to constantly talk about money. Why don't you try showing us a few of the wonderous high end cards you say you have? That would buy you far more good will here than all this breathless man-love you show us for your "whales." |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
John, |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: davidcycleback
Influence on $$ means little worth talking about to me. Influence on hobby knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the material means something. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Bruce Dorskind
David |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Michael Steele
I always read Bruce(s) posts with amusement. Not sure how many Bruce(s) there are but I have to give him credit for not once has Bruce(s) used "I" in a post. That is remarkable. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Bruces just enjoy being a humorous, ingratiating thorn in the side of this message board. Take them with a grain of salt and have a good chuckle--I always have. Thanks Bruces! |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: barrysloate
Many wealthy collectors participate in my auctions but I have no sense of why they collect or how much they know. I think it would be wrong to generalize. Bruce asks interesting questions, all geared toward the monetary aspect of the hobby, but they can't be answered because each of the wealthy collecors has his own reason for buying baseball cards. Maybe it's an investment, maybe he is a baseball scholar, maybe he is looking for something to bond with his son. Who knows. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Rob D.
Bruce, |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: barrysloate
Bruce- your last post is a little creepy. I occasionally eat at McDonald's, but I sure hope they don't seize my house. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Paul
I would have to say me. I am so influencial that I now have a group. We will inform the board of our want list (world's toughest) shortly. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: jeffdrum
YAWN! I think I'll go to McDonalds now. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: pas
Barry I thought of you as a no trans fat kind of guy. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: J Levine
How about this Bruce...the three new collectors are actually completely meaningless. In the past year I talked to a person who loves baseball but had not bought a baseball card in 25 years since he was 10 years old. After talking to him and showing him some of my collection he went out and bought nearly $25,000 worth of T205s and T206s. Does that make him influential? Does it make me influential since I was the one giving him advice on what to buy? Does it make the dealer influential in selling the cards and reporting the profit? |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Rawn Hill
I have two members that are the most influencial as they have been very kind in their advice and gifts. I only have a small fraction of the above stated budget to spend on my "HOBBY", as such I am but an ameba in a sea of whales. Thanks Dan and Steve, once again, I shall be greatful to you and all those other NET54 members that have aided in my collection. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Denny Walsh
Joshua, Well said my fellow cardboard loving friend! |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: davidcycleback
It should be noted that the traditional definition of collectors does not include resellers or investors. Someone buying something so he can resell it later for a profit would not be defined as a collector. So many of the big bucks buyers would be removed from consideration as 'influential or influencing collector,' as they wouldn't be classified as collectors. |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
Daivd, |
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Who Are The Hobby's Most Influential New Collectors
Posted By: Rawn Hill
Jodi, there I tend to disagree. The collectors that I have been associated with, collect for their own entertainment and occasionally to show their collection and not to turn a profit. Guess it's the old collector vs. invester debate. |
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