Where are all of the prospectors? Where is all the buying trading selling action people!

gracecollector · Feb 18, 2016

Where are all the prospectors? Matt LaPorta and Stephen Strasburg killed them all in a brutal mugging. Waiting for the next crop of gamblers, I mean prospectors, to take their spot with cant-miss strategies to beat the house.

death2redemptions · Feb 18, 2016

Mighty Bombjack said:
Respect that! Didn't you have some crazy high number of posts over there?

Welcome to FCB; I don't spend much time at BO (am not a member but will read from time to time). All I can say is the overall vibe here is VERY different than it is there, but I'm sure you know that already.

lol, I had the highest post count in BO history at the time, just short of 60k posts.

phillyfan0417 · Feb 18, 2016

gracecollector said:
Where are all the prospectors? Matt LaPorta and Stephen Strasburg killed them all in a brutal mugging. Waiting for the next crop of gamblers, I mean prospectors, to take their spot with cant-miss strategies to beat the house.

Well, this board doesn't really have many prospectors so they tend not to post here very much. that's fine by me since for the most part I don't really talk very much about how I do. Although when I post nice purchases most of the time its thanks to some young guy no one will remember in 5 years...

Mighty Bombjack · Feb 18, 2016

I have never "prospected" so can't speak on the practice at all, though it is clearly a huge section of the hobby, one that keeps money moving around (for better or for worse). I think the argument that it is what is "keeping the hobby alive" only gains traction from the angle that the products that prospectors love may be the only thing keeping Topps alive as a baseball card manufacturer. Lots of profit in those Bowman (and various offshoot) cases for Topps.

I'll keep my HOF autos

200lbhockeyplayer · Feb 18, 2016

FCB...the original prospector.

Mighty Bombjack · Feb 18, 2016

death2redemptions said:
just short of 60k posts.

!!!

do you have a job?

death2redemptions · Feb 18, 2016

Mighty Bombjack said:
!!!

do you have a job?

I'm a personal assistant for my father at a St. Jude facility and I may be the least effective laziest personal assistant in the world. If I didn't work for my father there is no way I'd still have a job there. But I spend a lot of time at a computer desk or on my phone, allowing me plenty of time to waste.

AnthonyCorona · Feb 18, 2016

200lbhockeyplayer said:
FCB...the original prospector.

That guy. I had a nice auto I kept too long. I have some sweet Brandon Wood cards if you're interested in a new project

cgilmo · Feb 18, 2016

Dude! I found the 5000 count boxes of the FCB cards when I cleaned out the store. I have TONS of those.

Jaypers · Feb 18, 2016

200lbhockeyplayer said:
FCB...the original prospector.

I'll be damned. Nearly a year since you've posted. WB, Mike.

RStadlerASU22 · Feb 18, 2016

death2redemptions said:
I'm a personal assistant for my father at a St. Jude facility and I may be the least effective laziest personal assistant in the world. If I didn't work for my father there is no way I'd still have a job there. But I spend a lot of time at a computer desk or on my phone, allowing me plenty of time to waste.

My vote for most honest post ever...

Ryan

joey12508 · Feb 18, 2016

I still have 10 clean Brien Taylor "pack fresh"

Dilferules · Feb 18, 2016

Bowman stasher said:
Actually prospecting is the only thing keeping this "hobby" alive zed. Good try tho

Glad I sold my "Bowman stasher" Superfractor before this post was made!

mouschi said:
I hear you. ..I'm just speaking about those who do nothing but invest 10k in the next todd van poppel.

BTW my Todd Van Poppel collection is now on sale for $9,950 (plus $35 shipping), $5 discount if you mention FCB. http://www.dilfer.com/collection/baseballc/toddvanpoppel/

Nothing wrong with prospecting. Call it investing, flipping, playing the stock market...just don't call it what it ain't.

Bowman stasher · Feb 18, 2016

75 percent of this hobby is based on people trying to make money. Look at card shows, most of it is prospects.

Bowman stasher · Feb 18, 2016

phillyfan0417 said:
Prospecting is a small part of the hobby. when you go to the national or any of the big shows that becomes very obvious very quickly.

the money streaming through those is vintage and high end GU...

Nope

Bowman stasher · Feb 18, 2016

Dilferules said:
Glad I sold my "Bowman stasher" Superfractor before this post was made!

BTW my Todd Van Poppel collection is now on sale for $9,950 (plus $35 shipping), $5 discount if you mention FCB. http://www.dilfer.com/collection/baseballc/toddvanpoppel/

Nothing wrong with prospecting. Call it investing, flipping, playing the stock market...just don't call it what it ain't.

Don't tell me what to call something I like to do. U go collect your vintage, I go prospect.

Jaypers · Feb 18, 2016

Bowman stasher said:
Look at card shows, most of it is prospects.

I've been to half a dozen Nationals over the years; most dealers in each of them featured vintage.

phillyfan0417 · Feb 18, 2016

Bowman stasher said:
Nope

Sorry, you really aren't in tune with the actual business side of this. All you need to do is go and check out the national or any other major show. In the hundreds of tables there is normally 10-20% dedicated to prospects.

Nope is not really a response.

Bowman stasher · Feb 18, 2016

Jaypers said:
I've been to half a dozen Nationals over the years; most dealers in each of them featured vintage.

I used to go to a big card show for years. Stopped going after getting tired of seeing the same vintage that they couldn't sell for years

phillyfan0417 · Feb 18, 2016

Bowman stasher said:
I used to go to a big card show for years. Stopped going after getting tired of seeing the same vintage that they couldn't sell for years

they are selling it. Maybe since you aren't interested you don't know enough on the topic. I prospect and I still realize its a small part of the overall business.

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