good stories to be told! lol im just as interested as you haha

Bruh, no shite, epic story teller, no wondering, just focused, and lucid flow to his story.. .very pleasurable listening to his adventures, in Baseball card's hunting vlogs..Epic Chris..epic..👀👍

@BDH BDH Awesome!!

Tis asmr for sports nerds.

For real, a very good story teller indeed.

Me to I enjoy story time 📖 📚 😅 great video

Agree! I could listen to these everyday

98 likes ^ thats my most liked post ever. I have to say hearing about the barging an bussiness strategies is a hoot an a holler !

i had took my childhood collection to a dealer and he offered me 80$ for all my vintage cards. he wasn't interested in anything else. one of the nicest cards was a 1960 mantle. i told him the mantle was worth well more then that and he said in a condescending tone he had to make a living and they weren't in perfect shape. i just picked up my cards and walked out. left him a one star review explaining he will rob you if you let him.

You'd think a scumbag wouldn't walk away from this huge deal over several hundred dollars. My guess the dealer what either lazy or ignorant.

@@AtomicZombieAndroid or he just claimed to be a dealer and just didn't have the money.

@tom cookston Ain't worth shit tbh as I own his rookie even..

@tom cookston gl lol

He didnt know or maybe he would have.

Everybody in the world not bad... 1L💚VE 💯💪🏾

@@YasilTorvanna didn't know his entire story? Some people try to ripoff everyone regardless and upfront

@@YasilTorvanna Don't think so, he never would have offered $500 for the cards the guy wanted to give him. I thought his $6k offer was too high with the initial math he showed and only having 5k I probably would have at most started there. In any case, he made a fair profit.

Karma is real. Doubt that at your own risk.

I remember that happening to lots of people during the junk wax era of 30 some years ago which kind of course drove the industry to the doldrums it was in a few years later.

@@wormsby74 History does repeat itself.

@@Wonkzzilla Good phrase for sure... I like it

hga grading owner has a massive addiction in cards and packs

@@ozsportscardcollector4720 true...but usually someone that's dropping 7k on a gamble can afford to gamble..but I totally get what you're saying. I've collected since I was 8. I'm 45. Sadly my prizes from growing up were stolen in a move. So I had to rebuild. Lol. Since I can remember I'd buy maybe 2-5 hobby boxes a year. I'd try and hit WM or Target every so often. Now, as the market had changed my habits have changed. I still open, but having to buy secondary, it limits options. Open some blasters, a few hangers, a few cellos. Stash the rest of the unopened product and make sure to have at least 1 hobby box stashed of the product I break. So i have a nice stash of Prizm, Optic & Mosaic....unopened..I'm very choosy as well. People may be able to flip Hoops right now but if the bubble were to burst, people holding standard Hoops and brands like R&S will be lucky to get the money back that they paid for it.

I didn't even know pack addiction was a thing.

@@jeffha4057 well. Yeah. It makes sense to me. I mean. You can spend 30 bucks on a scratcher in my state with a CHANCE of breaking even, being up 20 (if it's a 50 dollar winner) or get super super lucky and hit a ticket worth 500, 1000, and higher....it's just the odds are definitely NOT in your favor to hit it big. Or even to break even. Same with busting wax. Yeah. Ya have a shot, but you're better off holding unopened product and selling several months to 2 years later. No guarantee of profit, but I like the chances.

@@ozsportscardcollector4720 tbh the only reason I'm able to not open them is because they're at my parents house an hour away from where I reside. I'm a collector. I'm no dealer or even flipper. But I know that the stuff I'm stashing is going up in value. And fast. I paid 40 per WM hanger box of Optic. There are sold listings all over ebay for 80. I bought those less than a month ago. Here's a funny story. My boy in NJ has a hookup at a distributor. He was getting Optic FB was 750. My buddy facetimed me and I guided him on what to pick up for himself....he got what I did. An optic hobby and a sealed box of Prizm Cellos. Took the boxes home and said...pick. I still have mine. He broke his in his Facebook room. Pulled a purple Burrow auto /35 (autos are 1 per box) and a Holo Herbert and base Burrow. So it made my decision real easy to keep my box sealed. My box could very well hold a case hit....then again, simply from a statistics standpoint, I doubt it. I'm guessing they came from the same case but there were 4 boxes on the shelf. I have no clue if they're from the same case or not. I learned from opening 2020 Prizm FB that this stuff is worth more closed than opened. You have to get lucky to make any money. Shoot, ya have to get lucky to break even value wise. The amount of Prizm I opened, all totaled, probably around 1200 worth (retail, secondary prices, shortly after release)...now if I'd have sat on just the amount of cellos I opened (over 2 boxes) I'd have made my money back on everything I bought. TODAY. That's how much they've gone up since Dec. And I bought all but the 2 hobby boxes of Prizm on the secondary market. The game has changed. I pulled some pretty nice stuff from what I opened. If the green Hurts I pulled gems at PSA it'll probably be a pop 3 or 4 MAX. Once Preseason rolls around, I could probably get 1200 for it...but it has to gem or I'll get maybe 300.. it's a game, a learning experience and it kinda sucks that a lot of the fun has been sucked out of it.

How do you store that many cards? My collection is smaller than that and I’m running out of room.

where do you market to find people who want to sell collections?

@@joelrooks389 you can buy a 40 foot shipping container for like 4K..store it on a empty lot or farm for nothing..

That's what I thought, I wonder if the first dealer just looked through a couple boxes of all commons and that's why his offer was so low.

@@thecatswillplay86 Yeah, that was probably the deal. Either way, $200 is still low for 400,000 cards and he still seems shady.

@@thecatswillplay86 I don't have as much fun as Chris does with sorting cards like this, I'm sure the guy also knew just how much work was ahead for himself and that played a roll as well.

Crossed my mind that maybe the person that offered $200 was the same person who sold the kid the cards initially...

@@thecardsaysmoops3 Ugh. Wouldn't that be something?

Hahahahahaahahahahah

It’s dealers like that, that are the reason a lot of people don’t want to mess with selling their cards.

@@KChiefs12 BINGO

Ha ha ha

Haha!

My bulk modern submission will be vintage by the time it comes back.

Hahaha seriously! Gather around the fire children...

@@collectorinvestordealer 😂👍

@@danielginsburg9558 lmao

Try being Canadian.

Thank you chris

@@collectorinvestordealer Hi Chris - big fan, liker, and subscriber (in that order): Two ebay perusals for your post/comment: I can send screen shots but not sure how. #1 ebay listing: has 9/10 in description, but it is the grade of an unnumbered card. #2 Lister calls a card a "Kobe Mosaic" Is there such? Is the first legit? I know a careful read clarifies - but... the second, never heard of and Kobe isn't named on card.

Thank you for the comment Rich

Wait, that might have been you. The serial numbers match LOL. If so, congrats.

Appreciate that

Yes I learned so much from this vid

Thank you John John. Hope all is going well as you get back to work

And the sad thing is there are a lot of card shops that wouldn't survive if not for an addicted "whale" or two for customers.

Very cool to hear that, thank you! And welcome back to the hobby!