Craigslist Idiot – SLC edition

This one was sent to me by Joe of Reds Cards:

316 1987 Topps baseball cards, EXCELLENT CONDITION – $30

I have a lot of cards, baseball, football, basketball. All are for sale. I have different makes, years, and sports. This particular lot consists of 316 Topps cards. The cards are in very good, near mint condition. I have included a picture. The picture shows the actual cards. Feel free to ask about a particular card or come and inspect the cards in this lot, or any lot or sale I have listed. Some of the cards, researched randomly with “prices” attached are:

mint bill gullickson 489, $1
luis aguayo mint 755, $1 to $1.50
steve crawford 589, $1
george frazier 207, $1
danny gladden 46, $1
john franco 305, $1 to $2
tippy martinez 728, $1
pete o’brien 17, $1
juan berenguer 303, $1, white back
george bell 612, $1
juan berenguer 5T, $1.39 to $4
tony fernandez 485, $1
jeff reardon 165, $1
jim rice 610, $1
keith hernandez 595, $1
roberto clemente 313, $ to $3
vida blue 260, $.60
tom seaver 425, $1
terry harper 42t, $.25 white back
dan quisenberry 714, $1.39
george bell 681, $1
roger clemens 340, $1.50 to $4
orel hershiser 385, $1
otis nixon 486, $1
ryne sandberg 680, $.30 to $2
gary carter 20, $1 to $1.50
teddy higuera 615, $1 to $2.50
denny matinez 252, $.30 to $1
rance mulliniks 537, $1 to $3
tim raines 30, $.30 to $1
mike schmidt 597, $1 to $3
tony pena 60, $1 to $4
bret saberhagen 140, $.30 to $1
jim deshaies 2jim deshaies 2
jim deshaies 2, $1 to $2
mariners leaders 156, $.78 to $1
twins leaders 206, $1 to $3
a’s leaders 456, $1
whitesox leaders 356, 41 to $3
reds leaders 281, $1
orioles leaders 506, $1 to $3.49
pirates leaders 131, $1 to $3
tigers leaders 631, $1 to $3

My First Take: It’s not that this one is expensive or even grossly over priced, it’s that he is trying to mislead people into believing that he is giving them a deal. His “researched prices” are buy it nows on eBay which I believe has set its minimum to $1. Clearly there aren’t any cards in this lot worth more than 50 cents, including the Clemens and Ripken. Plus the ones he has white back listed are cards he cut out of the box. This lot may be worth about $2, and I would consider that a fair price. I mean the set is only worth only about $6 on eBay and this isn’t even half the set. Don’t you love that he values the leaders cards at anywhere from $1 – $3.49?

The emails:

Me: Sweet collection, are the cards still available?

Craigslist Idiot (CI): yes they are. Are you interested in a few cards or the whole lot?

Me: I guess a few of the cards. How much would you want for the Gladden, O’Brien, Beurenger, Higuera, Mullniks, Pena, Deshaise and White Sox Leader cards?

CI: Well as you can see in my ad, there worth anywhere between 1 to 4 dollars on eBay. So how about a dollar a card for $8. The Berenguer is worth the most but I would give it to you for a dollar.

Me: That seems a bit steep for those guys, I mean we aren’t talking Hall of Fame players, plus like the Leaders card is a common isn’t it?

CI: What do you mean common?

Me: It’s considered a worthless card. I’m looking in my price guide and cards like these are priced at a penny each.

CI: Go on eBay and enter any one of these cards I’m sure you’ll see that they run about a dollar each. So would you like to come over? Cash only of course.

Me: I went on eBay and I found that I could get the whole set of cards for $6 <link>, since you don’t even have half the set, why don’t I just offer $3 for the entire lot of cards since you know on eBay, that’s about what they are worth.

CI: I’m not selling these as a set, it’s a lot of cards, So if you want this lot I can go as low as $25. Interested?

Me: But I just showed you that I can get the entire set for $6 which would include all the cards in your lot plus over 400 more. Why would I pay $25 for something I can get for $6? Plus I get more cards. What if I up my offer to $3.25 would we have a deal?

CI: Listen buddy, I don’t know what you are trying to pull here, but if you are trying to rip someone off, you should look elsewhere, I have had a lot of interest in these cards and I’m not about to let it go for that cheap.

Me: You are trying to scam people by having them believe these cards are worth more because he found Buy It Now prices of a dollar on eBay for them. Forget the fact that a dollar is now the minimum Buy It Now price. Believe me if the minimum price was a penny these cards would all be at a penny, you should be ashamed of tryting to con people.

CI: The only thing I am ashamed of is trying to sell you the cards and wasting my time. You clearly are just looking to harass people.

Me: No I am clearly trying to educate you on just how worthless these cards are, if you don’t believe me, watch this video illustrating it’s worth <link>.

CI: You really are a worthless piece of garbage. Quit wasting my time.

Me: I will if you quit trying to con people.

End Of Emails.

Final Take: Another one of the “You don’t understand how good of a deal this is” guys. Please, if I gave him a penny a card it would be generous. People just don’t understand how worthless 1987 Topps really is, I mean I can even get the Bonds rookie for under a buck if I wanted to. What a con artist huh? Thanks again to Joe from Reds Cards for this one.