u2me57
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I go almost 2 years between diffractors. Then I land 2 so far this month.
https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/201537691106
Congrats! Nice price on the Brady diffractor.
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I go almost 2 years between diffractors. Then I land 2 so far this month.
https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/201537691106
You are right about that. I asked the seller about any Thome cards in the 2 lots but haven't heard back yet. It will be interesting to see what those lots go for.
@mouschi can you post a pic of any of the 1998 Topps Tek SuperDiffractors /16 or SuperDuperDiffractors of any of the players I have seen in your collection ?
Ryan
Well, you had an obsessive middle-schooler bidding against you with 10 bids, each $1.00 and $2.00 bid increments, often within seconds of each other, and he/she still didn't win!
Rich
now wait a minute....i've been working on the set of them since i first cracked a hot box that had at least one in every pack ....currently i'm up to a little over 300 in my 8010 card set ....i also have one complete pattern 1 set and 1 complete same card number/pattern number set with set # 2 for each of these at just over 50% done.....of course i'm also on the lookout for condition upgrades for a few of them....can't pay those crazy high artificially inflated ebay prices , but i am willing to pay $2.50 each dlvd if anyone has a few extras just sitting around gathering dust
BUT , hat said , now you have me curious....you say yours is numbered to /9 and i see someone else pulled one numbered /16.....all of mine were numbered 1/1 or 01/01....have i completely overlooked yet another parallel version ? man i am sooooo out of touch with these things now....
Got beat out on a Bernie diffractor last nite geesh...
Still need card #7 patterns 1,71,77,86
Do you and kidfhof03 (Abe) know each other as he is also a Bernie Williams 98 TEK collector? Maybe you can help each other out. Last list I have of his want list show him needing Williams Pattern #s 1,32,67,71,82,86.
I dropped out of Williams diffractor bidding a little over $ 20 which is about my max limit on diffractors (I'm thrifty) with the colorado collector winning the bid . He/she seems to win most of the high bids on diffractors the RR already has. More power to him/her
I, as well as anyone else, have the right to bid on 1998 TEK diffractors too RR as I did not have any of the ones I bid on. I just stop bidding when I reach a level that is too high for me. Whats wrong with dollar increment bidding to test the price points? (nothing) Nobody has an exclusive on TEKs right? That other colorado? bidder is the one that makes you jump sky high with last second snipe bids between the two of you to get ones you want..not me...so chill. You guys are making it hard for everyone else to acquire reasonably priced diffractors but if you are willing to part with the dough for TEK diffractors more power to you and others those who do so as well. The bottom of the Diffractor market will collapse soon enough I would think. After all the set is 18 years old.
Heh, calling someone a c*** sounds like a slur. Wasn't I, though.
After my big lot sale I am almost tapped out of 98 Tek now. Although I did pick up a nearly complete run of Sosa cards that I will be selling.
Your entire theory is flawed if collectors are picking up multiple copies of these to use as trade bait, even if they already own the pattern in these specific auctions. In fact, this makes the market even stronger.
Togaman has these market crash thoughts solely because he wants diffractors to be cheaper for him to purchase. His rants generally come after a big batch of diffractors ends (like this morning) and he wins none of them because they go for "astronomical prices" well outside his comfort bid zone. And I guess that's fine for him to think that even though there's zero evidence the sales of diffractors will ever dip to less than $10 per card. Keep being a bear in a bull market Togaman.