I gve up. Who/what is Wossa?

[jeff_bichel]

Been reading posts mentioning Wossa for years. Who/what is the story, please?

 

[jszczech]

I have always wondered the same thing myself.

 

[Hendersonfan]

As far as I know he's a collector of very very high end items and seems to have bottomless pockets.

 

[Brewer Andy]

More specifically I believe he was spending LARGE on high end prospects several years ago. Particularly Giants prospects but certainly others as well. Bought a LOT of superfractors. The running joke was that Wossa was Robin Williams.

FYI- Wossa was a shorted version of his/her ebay username I believe (wossamattu? Or something like that). This was back when you could see bidders names

 

[matfanofold]

He is just a guy who has a good bit of disposable money and collects cards. There is nothing significant about him (as far as I know, I mean I'm sure he is a good guy in his own right), other than his buying habit(s).

 

[sneekc]

People once thought it was Robin Williams, guess that myth is officially debunked as of today.

 

[sheetskout]

Buys big prospects, and expensive ones too.

Question though. I know the Robin Williams comparisons but what led people to think this in the first place?

 

[mrniceguy1126]

Both are (were) SF Giants fans & there was a pic somewhere of Robin Williams at his cpu or something like that. I'm sure there's even more I'm forgetting. The myth has become bigger than the story at this point. This started back on BMB several years ago.

 

[nerdherd020]

He also seems to like those Topps Player Contracts.

 

[nerdherd020]

http://www.ebay.com/usr/wossamottau

 

[RStadlerASU22]

In his feedback as a seller , which he never really sold anything is an Ike Davis SuperFractor for $2500 , what's today's value ?

Ryan

 

[gt2590]

I don't know much about it, but he specialized in buying prospect Superfractors...

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

The legend became great here when the staged $25,000 purchase of the Buchholz Superfractor took place. A shocking figure for such a card owned by a member here who may or may not love Arby's, although his location should make him a fan of fine cream based chowdahs.

Marty Fromage was indeed a Giants fan after spending much of his formative years in NorCal.

Wossa...not sure where he grew up.

 

[miguelcabrera]

wossa? what is this 2008? that guy isn't relevant anymore

i was behind the clay buccholz super legend

 

[mrmopar]

It makes you think about stuff like that though. Celebs are just people and they buy crap just like the rest of us. I'm sure there are plenty on ebay living in obscurity with nondescript user IDs. Ebay user ID "I'm Rick James BITCH!" probably won't get you privacy.

I remember being excited that I had won something directly from Spook Jacobs and he sent me some bonus stuff. he was genuinely appreciative that I won his item. I think I ended up trading a card with Bump Wills at one point too. Not sure now, it was a long time ago. Of course Olbermann is on ebay. I seem to remember his ID had Merkle in it. i also thought it was cool when I won some items from Ted Taylor of Fleer back in the day.

 

[WaxPax]

Wossa is the hobby equivalent of Keyser Soze. Nobody really knows him, but we all know of him....

Been reading posts mentioning Wossa for years. Who/what is the story, please?

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[cgilmo]

wossa? what is this 2008? that guy isn't relevant anymore

i was behind the clay buccholz super legend

No... you were our pawn.