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07-09-2011, 04:16 PM #1
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07-09-2011, 05:55 PM #2
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Re: Game Used Contact - Reds
Yeah - she is very nice and welcoming. Yup, I purchased that ball for $25 plus tax. It was a steal of a price and I wish I could keep it in my collection, but since I purchased a $500 Jonny Gomes jersey at the same time (which most of us would agree isn't a steal by any means) I needed to offset that cost. It will probably sell around $100-125 and offset my cost by a mere $75.
Yes - I am worried about how to get items into my collection, just as you are, and just as the next guy is - I just happen to be pretty active and creative in how I'm building mine. I can't just go to work, earn my money, pay my bills, and then spend a ton of extra money on my collection every month without trying to make it work financially now can I?
Since you are a Reds collector and they evidentally won't listen to your ideas then you just need to adapt to accomplish what you set out to accomplish. Its what I am doing. Now is what you set out to accomplish actually building a collection or just causing trouble?- CINCINNATI REDS/JOEY VOTTO BATS
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07-09-2011, 10:17 PM #3
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Re: Game Used Contact - Reds
I'm not sure what you mean about what you think I'm setting out to accomplish. I can't accomplish anything, nor am I so disillusioned to think otherwise. Its not somebody who knows solutions who solves problems, its somebody who chooses find and execute the solutions because they strive for a certain ideal. The Reds Organization makes decisions as to what it prioritizes. I accept that and I tend to view everything as glass half full to the extent I possibly can.
What I think we can agree on is that you are doing your buying with the house's money. You'll probably bid the house's money and win the MLB auction for the Drew Stubbs in the park homerun ball. It will (in essence) be "free" to you... paid for by other items for which you bought to reprice for the end owner.
My best guess from a markets perspective is that your buy-to-reprice strategy will motive the Reds to continue raising prices on more and more items (pants, balls, name plates, etc... just as they already did with jerseys and bats). Better the $ goes to the Reds Community Fund, no?
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07-11-2011, 09:07 PM #4