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A_Pharis
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First up, I've actually had this one in for a couple of weeks, but I have been lazy with scanning.
My collection has always covered 1982 - 1991 DK buybacks. The main reason I never thought of including 1992 is because of the change in style. Well, there's another reason. The highest SN# in the 1992 versions is /3. It also includes Ripken, Thomas and a few other big names. Ugh...
Well, I decided to go ahead and start it and just leave expansion room when I get my collection framed.
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Next, I got contacted by a one Mr. George Calfas a few days ago letting me know he had run across an Ozzie Smith DK Recollection auto from 82 #'d to 14 and asked if I needed it. Well, a few things were running through my mind:
(1) Yes, I'd love it.
(2) Yes, I'd want it.
(3) Calfas is a huge Cards fan (but this one pictures him as a Padre)
(4) I already owned the 87 buyback (with him as a Card) so I didn't want to skimp George on a card I knew he could make money on.
So I offered him to let me know what he needed for it, and he just said to go ahead and consider it mine -- we'll "work it out later". I didn't think much else on it, expecting him to pop in and say "I want this," and today that happened. He asked me this morning what I thought it was worth. I gave him a conservative baseline price, and he replied hoping it'd be worth more. I told him a ton of factors make these things fluctuate, and that's why my price was baseline. I also let him know that if he wanted to maximize his profit that I wouldn't expect him to cut value just for me. I asked him to put it on eBay, and I'd put in my fair bids and just hope to pick it up.
Well, I was more than slightly surprised to find this in my mailbox today:
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Now, I realize the PM this morning was to find out if I had received it, yet. Now I have this unbridled urge to return the gesture...
Thanks, George.
My collection has always covered 1982 - 1991 DK buybacks. The main reason I never thought of including 1992 is because of the change in style. Well, there's another reason. The highest SN# in the 1992 versions is /3. It also includes Ripken, Thomas and a few other big names. Ugh...
Well, I decided to go ahead and start it and just leave expansion room when I get my collection framed.
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Next, I got contacted by a one Mr. George Calfas a few days ago letting me know he had run across an Ozzie Smith DK Recollection auto from 82 #'d to 14 and asked if I needed it. Well, a few things were running through my mind:
(1) Yes, I'd love it.
(2) Yes, I'd want it.
(3) Calfas is a huge Cards fan (but this one pictures him as a Padre)
(4) I already owned the 87 buyback (with him as a Card) so I didn't want to skimp George on a card I knew he could make money on.
So I offered him to let me know what he needed for it, and he just said to go ahead and consider it mine -- we'll "work it out later". I didn't think much else on it, expecting him to pop in and say "I want this," and today that happened. He asked me this morning what I thought it was worth. I gave him a conservative baseline price, and he replied hoping it'd be worth more. I told him a ton of factors make these things fluctuate, and that's why my price was baseline. I also let him know that if he wanted to maximize his profit that I wouldn't expect him to cut value just for me. I asked him to put it on eBay, and I'd put in my fair bids and just hope to pick it up.
Well, I was more than slightly surprised to find this in my mailbox today:
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#2 /14[/center:24c89yl7]
Now, I realize the PM this morning was to find out if I had received it, yet. Now I have this unbridled urge to return the gesture...
Thanks, George.
