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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Eric
Has anyone ever tried buying up all they can of one single card? |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Shawn Chambers
I'm having flashbacks to "Silver Spoons" where Ricky (Shroder)and his distinguished grandfather (John Houseman) tried to corner the market on Tommy Lasorda rookie cards (which all seemed to have 1983 topps backs if I remember correctly...LOL). We all know how THAT turned out! Boy Erin Gray sure was hot when I was twelve... |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Zinn
Recall a fellow named Miller is cornering the market on all of his grandfather's 1911 Obaks and Zeenuts. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: David Smith
At one time, a relative of Tommy Thevenow was doing that with his cards, especially the 1933 Goudey's. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: scott brockelman
At one time there was a collector/dealer from the Houston area who shall remain nameless unless someone guesses his name, that was convinced he could corner the T206 market. He would buy them by the 100's or thousands, singles or whatever he could get. Needless to say it did not work. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Pat
I remember a fellow with a ton of money was stopped on the NJ Turnpike by the State Police with a car full of Drakes Cakes sets. I don't think they were 1950's though. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: MVSNYC
Dan Koteles- |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: john/z28jd
I remember reading that Rocky Colavito's family bought up a bunch of his rookie cards hoping to corner the market. I got one a couple years ago just to make sure they can never do that! |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Matt
There's a board member who tried to corner the market on a certain T205 card; perhaps he will way in... |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: D. C. Markel
I too have heard that Reggie Jackson tried to corner the market on his '69 Topps rookie card. In fact a dealer friend of mine made a "find" of several '69 vending boxes from that same series in the late '80s and sold all 23 rookie cards he pulled from that find and made the deal with Reggie in person. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Jerry
Scott, I have lived in Houston all my life and can't think of a collector/dealer that was hoarding t206's. What decade was this in? Larry Diluhy & Tom Kennedy were biggest collector/dealers in the 70's & 80's in Houston. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: scott brockelman
This was 1990's early 2000's, he was not a full time dealer, but used to have a card company and website. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: SC
You'd just have to be very selective on what you chose. The item would need to have: |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Rawn Hill
I'm trying to get all of the low grade T206 Carringan's from the market, so if you should care to help with my endever, please do so. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Bob
The problem with all this is that disgruntled collectors who need a particular card to complete a set or subset are going to eventually start running up the bids against the buyer. The Miller card has been mentioned and I have seen several Obak and Zeenut Millers go much, much higher than they should because frustrated collectors have decided to make his grandson (I believe) pay through the teeth for them. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Bob
Scott- I remember who you are talking about. I think his website was T206.com and he was buying up all the 206s he could lay his hands on. He was undone by ebay, IMHO. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Andrew
I had nine 1964 Topps Stand-up Yastrzemski's...a long way from a monopoly. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Scott M.
When I was collecting as a kid in 1974 I thought I had the market cornered on Bill Russell of the Dodgers as he showed up in EVERY damn pack I bought that year. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Andy Cook
In the early 80s I corned the market on Mariano Rivera slurpe discs. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Scott Levy
Matt, |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Trae R.
It would be awesome to see all of Dan's Red Cobbs! |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Darren
In the late 80's as a high schooler I tried to corner the market on 1988 fleer Greg Jeffries because those damn 1988 donruss's were just too plentiful. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: peter ullman
I started to hord t206 g. browne...chic versions...I got to 4 or 5 of them before I lost interest in addition to realizing they were very common. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Jason L
how many red Cobbs does Dan K have?! |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Dan
I guess a good case study would be to buy up the modern serial number cards. I know I have (2) of a Greg Maddux card that was serial numbered to 25. It would be interesting to see if you had them all, what it would do to the market. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Zinn
I had 17 T206 Downey Batting at one time. Can't recall why. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: MVSNYC
i'll let Dan chime in, but from what he has said, he was going for 50, i think he had 40-something, then sold a few, i believe he has around 30 now... |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Brian
Let me start off by saying that my intention was never to drive the prices up of the particular cards that I collect, but ultimately by buying as many cards of my great-grandfather as I can find, it does create a reduced supply. Bob pretty much nailed it. You can get away with it for just so long before others that want the card realize they are going to have to bid higher to have a shot at aquiring one. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Zinn
I'm suspecting that these pictures are making a few people sick to their stomachs. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: peter ullman
especially the first one...dizzying!!! |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Brian
And I could probably name most of them. Unfortunately, you don't make many friends with this type of collecting (except with the sellers I guess). Most people at least understand why I do what I do, but I have had exchanges with some collectors that I feel were not called for. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: leon
Nice cards.....If someone wants to buy them when they come on the open market all they have to do is pay more than you....I don't see that much harm in it.. It's no different than when I/we compete for any other card, imo..... |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: peter ullman
brian...i have no issue with your collection either...collect what you like/want! It certainly must be easy to keep your focus! |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: T206Collector
I had the inclination to corner the market for signed T206 cards. In fact, most of the signed cards that came onto ebay from the Pittsburgh find were shown/offered to me before they hit ebay. Economically, it stopped making sense for me to buy the doubles, so I let them go onto ebay. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Cobby33
I tried that with the T206 New Orleans players (not truly a "corner," but wanted a good majority). Seemed somewhat conceivable judging by the population reports, but there are SO many raw examples out there, it became impossible. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Anthony S.
It's just a matter of time before the 17,300 1979 Topps Johnnie LeMaster cards I've hoarded are reflected in the marketplace. I can feel it. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Anonymous
those pictures are just amazing! |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Brian -- I think it's cool what you're doing. You're not doing anything wrong as these cards were available on the open market and you just paid more than anyone else. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Zinn
I don't think anyone is suggesting that what Brian does is wrong. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: barrysloate
As noted, all Brian does is try to be the high bidder on each individual auction. I bet there are a few that he lost too (maybe not). |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Richard Masson
Who has the only Maple Crispette Stengel? |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: boxingcardman
The family connection makes it all the more fun. I have six copies of my cousin's exhibit card and two copies of the Ring magazine he was on the cover of, and I try to win them whenever I see them. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Brian
Thanks for the comments, the majority of the collectors here are great. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Andy Cook
I think you could make the argument about not only hoarding individual cards (e.g., T212 Miller), but anyone who's hoarding cards of a tough set that they're "corning the market". There are a number of sets where the majority of all the cards are in the hands of a relatively small number of collectors and unless one of them decides to liquidate -- it's unlikely anyone else could have a legitimate shot at collecting that set. For example, I know of four large collections of T213-2 (including mine) and unless one of us decides to break it up (I'm not) -- no one else is likely to get close to this set. There are a number of examples of set collections like this. On a personal note, I hope to get a T212-2 Miller so that I can complete my set (need about 30), but if the worst thing in my life is that I have a little tougher time finding a baseball card, I'm not going to sweat it. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: cmoking
"At one time, a relative of Tommy Thevenow was doing that with his cards, especially the 1933 Goudey's." |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: James Gallo
Brian |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Andrew
Only four shown, but I had six at one point. Yes, I was probably the only one who cared. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Ken McMillan
At one time I had 23 Elmer Miller cards, does that count? |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Brian
I got my Miller. |
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Cornering the market on one card?
Posted By: Rich Klein
Who for some reason decided to corner the market on 2001 Bowman Chrome Ron Davenport Cards. I think they are limited to 500 IIRC and all signed -- but because of this collector -- this card of this player who has going into this year all of 12 spring training at-bats is cataloguing at several times the value it should be it at compared to the other commons in this set. |
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