classic ebay write up.......but refinance the house?

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Posted By: leon

Not sure a $10 card warrants refinancing the house in order to buy...unless you live in a fairly low end house....

http://cgi.ebay.com/OMG-T206-Young-card-Amazing-with-unlimited-potential_W0QQitemZ130049047192QQihZ003QQcategoryZ 86840QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130049047192

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Posted By: Wesley

Isn't the seller a frequent contributor to this forum?

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Posted By: steve f

Classic ad!.. Got an idea for my next spoof auction. Thanks Hanksta

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Posted By: JudgeDred2

Gotta love the fact that grandpa collected all kinds of cards. I liked the Garbage Pail Kids in the Cigar box with the T206, that was a nice touch.

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Posted By: Steve M.

I was just getting ready to post this. What a riot. Board member, I'm sure.

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

I love these auctions. I do them once in a while, too.

In the spirit of good fun, I offered some advice on how to extract more money out of grandpa's house.

-Al

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Posted By: anthony

im surprised he didnt say something like "rare cy young???"

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Posted By: Rob NYC

Hmmm.... So his grandfather collected T206s AND Garbage Pail Kids thinking those would pay for a house and college???!?!?!?!?!

Garbage Pail Kids??? Just how young is this grandfather?

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Posted By: Mike

Here comes the heat? It doesn't appear that Young is ready for the pitch. Maybe he should raise his bat and get ready.......And what's with the "Blah Blah Blah"? Doesn't seem like he has a lot of respect for his grandfather...Kind of rude I think. Also kind of sad to think that someone would need to seek refinancing on the house, to buy a $20.00 card. I better br careful who I get into the next elevator with, as the seller and I live in the same town.


Edited to say, I was using sarcasism as well. Very cool e bay write up. Loved it.

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Posted By: Sean

Just a slow day at work...

But I'm really in school and could use the $$$!

WOW!
Sean BH

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Posted By: Dave

I liked the whole.....if it didn't have these problems would probably be a PSA 8 or 9 LOL

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Posted By: leon

I didn't mean to totally rain on your parade. That is a great write up though..My guess is you will get about 100x more hits on it because of this thread ..take care

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Posted By: Steve M.

its at $1.23 let's bid it up!!!

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Posted By: Sean

No rain, just cloudy here. I slept for a few hours last night and for some reason I had a dream about goofy eBay auctions.
I was timing how long it would take to be posted. Pretty quick somewhere in a hour. Also used the Young card for the extra Cy Young searches. SHOW ME YOUR HITS!

SDBH!

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Posted By: leon

I'm in......and high bidder as of now....

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

I'm now the high bidder... I wonder if he'll throw in a few Garbage Pail Kids in the envelope with the Young card.

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Posted By: Sean

This is a perfect time to pull out my Shill!

Leon if I make enough I will personally fly it down to your house for the BBQ.

Sean BH

Edited to add - I'm not crazy Fred, look for them around christmas.

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Posted By: Dave

Sorry Fred, had to bump you, no buy it now?

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Posted By: steve b

That is funny stuff man, I would have least got the garbage pail kids out of there and put in some ruffed up raw t206 card. That made my day!!!!!!!!!

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Posted By: Dave

You never know Sean, ebay is full of idiots. I'm thinking I should put up my Joe Lake ball in hand T206 in poor condition with a BIN of $1500?

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Well - "I'm back in the saddle again!"

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Posted By: Dave

Fred, too deep of pockets for me...I'd have to refinance the house and take out some equity, maybe i'll talk it over with the wife tonight...

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Posted By: steve b

REALLY now.

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Posted By: Steve M.

I now have three "unique" bids in.

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Posted By: leon

back on me....and Sean....fly on down....BBQ is tasty in Texas...

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Looks like someone has outbid you Leon.... Ok Sean, is this one of your shills?

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Posted By: Chris Ahart

for the moment. Great auction, nice laugh while I ate lunch.

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Posted By: Steve M.

that this may be considered by ebay to be "shill" bidding. There may actually be some mope-a-dope outside of our community that may want this pos.

On the other hand it is not the lister who has enlisted us to bid on his card so maybe it really isn't.

Was dengst du?

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Posted By: Griffin's

back on top. Wonder what it would take to get the cigar box as well.

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Posted By: Jeff Prizner

I'm the lucky high bidder now, and can actually use the Young card, he sadly looks exactly like a friend of mine and I want to give him the card.

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Posted By: Joe D.

and if I win the card...
I want the Garbage Pail Kids - Screwball Lew card thrown in their too!

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Posted By: Jeff Prizner

We have very similar ebay names, possible shill? Hmmmm....

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Posted By: Joe D.

look at that.

I get mine from the first two letters of my kids' names
bi-jo-em

Been thinking about changing it though (out of boredom)... the eBay name that is... not the names of my kids

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Posted By: howard

Unless I'm misreading his feedback it seems that the seller just bought that very card on ebay for about $19.

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Posted By: Steve M.

that's not the same card. Probably an upgrade from the pos now listed. The PSA 1 makes no mention of the paper loss on the front of the card.

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Posted By: Dave

he picked up two other unslabbed youngs that i saw (didnt go too far back in feedback listings), but neither was that card either. i guess just a young fan for some reason

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Posted By: howard

You're right, Steve. I guess he's upgrading his set and just having some fun in the selling process. More power to him!

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Posted By: Matt E.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200031646356

From the mailbox to grandpa's attic. I like it!

He did buy it on Ebay.

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Posted By: Dave

the bigger question is whats the deal with the numerous irv young card purchases.....waiting on him to go in the Hall perhaps and get the big payoff?

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Posted By: Bill K

I absolutely LOVE the "blah blah blah" statements about grandpa. It's so rude and sooo funny! Anyone outside this board must be thinking he's out of his mind!

Thanks for a bit of levity on a crappy Friday!

Edited to add the "here come the heat" line as one that I literally laughed out loud about...doesn't get much better than this!

Bill

My personal collection - http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f176/fkm_bky/

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Posted By: JK

lmao - my favorite line was the "if not for these problems (paperloss,etc) it would easily have been a psa 8 or 9." classic.

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Posted By: Denny

What do ya think guys? An ebay listing that'll bust your gut and the highest ending bid amount takes the "Hall of Shame" Honors! Of course the winning bidder would have to be a board member to keep things on the up & up
This was a real pissa, GrandPa would be proud of his "YOUNG" Hanksta! Maybe we could call the Shame Award the "Hanksta" in his honor of the friday Laugh party....
Happiness Is?,
Denny

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Posted By: howard

My bet is that he is a forum member and is just having fun with us.

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Posted By: Sean

Foiled!

This is waaaayyy to out of hand. I was never expecting for it to reach $9.72 (thanks kaz.com)

My recent Irv Young purchases was my brillant idea to try to capitalize on the release of the Cy Young award. My boy Mr. Johan Santana!

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Sean,

What would happen if everybody started retracting their bids? Could you imagine - that $9.72 could drop way off to a few dollars... it could ruin the auction and your good name with it.... oh my...

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Posted By: Joann

Wouldn't you know it. Just when all the recent auction activity has you financially tapped out, BOOM! Something like this pops up and you're stuck having to watch from the sidelines.

Well good luck to all of you going for this card. I just can't get into a major bidding war right now.

Joann

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Posted By: Rick

This auction has only been up for a day and it has over 400 hits on the counter. Should we have a pool for the # of hits this gets over the 10 days? We could each chip in a SCG10 T206 and the winner takes all.

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Posted By: Sean

Well, the idea was to make a fun and entertaining listing. Which I think was accomplished?

The next move is that all the proceeds from the auction (after eBay's cut) will be donated to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. The donation will be made in the buyer name and I will furnish proof.

The BB/BS is a great organization and would benefit greatly from this.

Thanks for the bids!
Sean BH

http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.diJKKYPLJvH/b.1539751/k.BDB6/Home.htm


My guess for hits - 987

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

All right, it looks like Kaz.com wants to slug it out on this one...

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Posted By: Joe D.

you deserve $100+ for that card ---
just in the entertainment value of the listing alone.

Phenomenal job!

The anticipation of opening that box... and then the BINGO of finding Garbage Pail Kids cards... and the blah blah blah.....

just great great stuff!

you da man.