My wife and I make a good team on these Craigslist Idiots, she sets them up and I knock em down. Here’s what $200 will buy you in Boston!
2 binders filled with random baseball cards
I have 2 fat binders filled with card sleeves both front and back of card sleeves are full with baseball cards. Asking 200 cash or b/o takes em both. *PRICE IS NEGITIONABLE
I will consider trades as well
My First Take: OK what the hell is Negitionable, I know he meant to say negotiable but it’s not even close. So here’s what I know, 2 fat binders filled with baseball cards and the he wants $200 cash. Do these people wake up in the morning and look in the closet find some shit and put a random price on it and stick it on Craigslist? Why wouldn’t you at least say when its from? Who is in it? How many cards approximately? I just don’t understand why people make it so difficult to buy something. If I wasn’t looking to make fun of someone I would have just glossed over it since the ad offers nothing as far as information. Do you think that when no one contacts them for a month, they sit around and wonder why that would be? I have to guess each binder holds about 700 cards meaning about 1400 total and that these are all from the junk wax years of 1986-1992. My offer is $20 figuring the binders are worth more than the cards to me. Also what kinds of trades do you think he’s looking for, I mean obviously no one is going to trade him more cards for the ones he has, hell he doesn’t even know what he is selling. Maybe he thinks he could get a cell phone or something. Who knows, should be fun though.
The emails:
Me: Hi, do you still have the cards? Can you give me some more information about them? (Usually I don’t do more than one question at a time, but I have a bad feeling about this one.)
CI: can u a quick bunch of info as for names of the players that will take time to list considering i do not have much time working 60+ a week. but the yrs are from 1987-2007 mainly 1987-1989 cards. your more then welcome to check out the binders and take a look at them. (I wonder what he does for a job, with grammar like that nothing important I hope, just as I suspected lots of Junk Wax!)
Me: I live fairly far away and this is for my son, can you tell me how many cards we are talking about? Any kind of info you can give me or pictures would help a lot.
CI: These were some great years for baseball cards, a ton of superstars were from that era, I think there are some Bonds Griffeys Sosas in here each of those are worth 20-50 each they are all mint cards. I fuger your looking at 400 for your 200. (Hurtsmy eyes to read this! Time to call him out)
Me: But I don’t understand, even if you had all three Topps sets from those years they only are worth $20 each at most, and that would be for nearly 3000 cards. Can we haggle the price?
CI: We can. (Oh goodie, can we really? That’s so exciting! Douchebag!)
Me: How low would you be willing to go? (I’m gonna make him give me a number)
CI: Make me a reseanable offer. (What the fuck kind of offer is that?)
Me: Let’s start at $20. Like I said it’s for my son to start him collecting cards. (The last part was to tug on his heart strings like of of these sellers try to do to buyers.)
CI: No way am I going that low, I dont do charities, up ur offr and we can talk. (This dipshit is on my shit list. Time for the bazooka)
Me: I’m not asking for a charity, I’m giving you my serious offer. I think that what you are doing is borderline criminal. You are trying to scam people, by our best judgment your cards are worth no more than $50 and that is being nice.
CI: u dont kno what u r talkin about the cards are worth a ton. (Fucking asshole!)
Me: We looked up the prices of cards from that era through both eBay and using this video: http://voiceofthecollector.blogspot.com/2008/10/long-awaited-junk-wax-how-to.html. To me it just seems like it’s only worth at most $50.
CI: ur wrong its worth alot more.
Me: I’m not wrong but just in case I am, let me know who you sold it to so I can make a mint off my crappy cards like you are trying (and will never be able) to do.
CI: Fuck Off (Wow maybe the only two words he spelled right.)
Me: Well at least you spelled two words right in these emails.
End of Emails.
My Final Take: Yet another agonizing look at the sale of junk wax that the seller is unwilling to even break down for a buyer. I wish more people understood that Craigslist is a huge garage sale and it’s all about bargaining. Also if you are trying to sell more than $20 worth of cards, be prepared to answer questions about them. No one is dropping 200 on this crap, even if it were good cards, because the guy doesn’t want to do the work to let the buyer know what he has. I think in the end though, this guy knew what he had and was just flat out trying to scam people.
I LOVE these!!! Keep them coming.
my favorite guilty pleasure. craigslist idiots rules!!!!!
LOL at the last response! God that hurt my eyes to see the English language being butchered like that. “They’re worth more” to who?
There’s no way that guy is from Boston, he’s not dropping his R’s. He’s dropping just about every other letter in the alphabet, but not his R’s.
Hey, I have an old car in my garage that I want $18,000 for. I can’t be bothered to tell you the make, model or mileage. What I can tell you is that it’s from 1986 and a lot of great cars were produced in ’86!
So much for Boston being a college town.
haha these things are awesome, I love reding them!
very entertaining blog and hits home as I run into tons of these guys on a normal basis. I’ve learned to just move on from people that are still living the in the 80′s and early 90′s collecting days. They are less scammers and more of casual collectors that think all cards go up in value as did in the pre 70′s era.
The funniest part of your posts is that most of your offers are actually very high offers for late 80′s junk. I used to buy and sell bulk commons up until about 6 months ago and was down to offering $4 for a 5000 ct box of late 80′s baseball and was actually bringing them in.