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ChasHawk
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...and wonder why in the hell it even exists?
I had this experience today.
Walked into this place...
...not because they bother to make it known that they sell sports cards, but because I happened to hear that they did.
I saw the "50% off sports cards" sign in the window as I walked in. (more on that later)
What I saw inside looked like an episode of Hoarders. Boxes everywhere, everything covered in dust. Crap stacked on top of crap.
A very weird and shady looking man & woman on the Coin and Stamp and We Buy Gold side of the store, and nobody on the card side.
The shop was split right down the middle between the two different areas, and truthfully had more cards then my full-on hobby shop here in town.
That didn't matter however, as I was barely able to look at any of them. Everything was either in a case, that the male employee
grudgingly came over and took a box out of for me, or piled up with a bunch of other dusty ratty boxes.
Nothing was seperated. There were a couple of boxes that said Cubs and White Sox, but everything else was just thrown together.
Not organized by year, by player, by team, or even by sport. No sleeves, no toploaders, no dividers. Just boxes of mixed cards.
Random helmets and SLUs with the plastic all yellowed, binders and 500 count boxes full of 80s junk at laughable prices.
I was suprised they had wax as well, from 2006 up to 2012 Series 1. 2007 Bowman packs were $5. 2008 BC packs were $4.75... ::facepalm:: :lol:
And the "50% sports cards" was one case with about 30 cards in it, some that the auto had faded off the stickers... ::facepalm:: ::facepalm::
So I spent 30 minutes or so, sorting through the dusty ass boxes I could get to (my hands were gray) and pulled a stack of some random pacific/pinnacle promos, including a couple Gwynns, and a Griffey platinum gold, and ask the guy to grudgingly walk over again (in between screwing people out of their gold and silver and coins), to see what he wants for them.
He looks through the stack three times and says...$20 bucks. Thrown in a random box, no sleeves, no toploaders, and I had to find these, since I'm guessing he'd never even seen them...$20 bucks.
I asked if he'd take $10. "Nope, I have to get $20." "I could probably get $10 just for that Griffey."
I put them down, turned around, and walked out. I was probably the first person in 5 years to even look at that box of cards.
Needless to say, I have no reason to ever go there again.
The thing I don't understand is, why the F are they even there?
I had this experience today.
Walked into this place...
...not because they bother to make it known that they sell sports cards, but because I happened to hear that they did.
I saw the "50% off sports cards" sign in the window as I walked in. (more on that later)
What I saw inside looked like an episode of Hoarders. Boxes everywhere, everything covered in dust. Crap stacked on top of crap.
A very weird and shady looking man & woman on the Coin and Stamp and We Buy Gold side of the store, and nobody on the card side.
The shop was split right down the middle between the two different areas, and truthfully had more cards then my full-on hobby shop here in town.
That didn't matter however, as I was barely able to look at any of them. Everything was either in a case, that the male employee
grudgingly came over and took a box out of for me, or piled up with a bunch of other dusty ratty boxes.
Nothing was seperated. There were a couple of boxes that said Cubs and White Sox, but everything else was just thrown together.
Not organized by year, by player, by team, or even by sport. No sleeves, no toploaders, no dividers. Just boxes of mixed cards.
Random helmets and SLUs with the plastic all yellowed, binders and 500 count boxes full of 80s junk at laughable prices.
I was suprised they had wax as well, from 2006 up to 2012 Series 1. 2007 Bowman packs were $5. 2008 BC packs were $4.75... ::facepalm:: :lol:
And the "50% sports cards" was one case with about 30 cards in it, some that the auto had faded off the stickers... ::facepalm:: ::facepalm::
So I spent 30 minutes or so, sorting through the dusty ass boxes I could get to (my hands were gray) and pulled a stack of some random pacific/pinnacle promos, including a couple Gwynns, and a Griffey platinum gold, and ask the guy to grudgingly walk over again (in between screwing people out of their gold and silver and coins), to see what he wants for them.
He looks through the stack three times and says...$20 bucks. Thrown in a random box, no sleeves, no toploaders, and I had to find these, since I'm guessing he'd never even seen them...$20 bucks.
I asked if he'd take $10. "Nope, I have to get $20." "I could probably get $10 just for that Griffey."
I put them down, turned around, and walked out. I was probably the first person in 5 years to even look at that box of cards.
Needless to say, I have no reason to ever go there again.
The thing I don't understand is, why the F are they even there?
