Anybody Have Guilts About Game-Used Collecting

[JasonBanz]

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Guilt? As long as I can afford it and the wife is happy and has enough money for her scrapbooking stuff, no guilt!

[both-teams-played-hard]

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I feel guilty because of a purchase I made on the "Shop at Home" channel a few years ago. I bought a 1987 Bellingham Mariners team set for $199. It's worth at least five thousand dollars. I consider it an investment. If those folks were foolish enough to sell it at such a bargain...then, that's their own fault. By the way, it's factory sealed. Yes, I said factory sealed! PRISTINE condition! This mp3 link is from that magical night:
billingham.mp3
This is one of the greatest deals ever offered on "Shop at Home". Factory sealed!

[chakes89]

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Why is that?

Because he never panned out like he was supposed to with the Reds and I only got $25 when I sold it

[godwulf]

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I know EXACTLY what you're talking about, godwulf.

I'll give you $60.00 bucks for it!???

Nah...it's the only Murphy bat I own, and I try to get at least one for every coach who comes through the organization. I even managed to find one of Buck Showalter's, from back in his minor league playing days.

[suicide_squeeze]

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So far, most of the guilt feelings discussed have related to money - whether you could be doing something "more worthwhile", whether for yourself or someone else, with the bucks you spend on the hobby...but another "guilt feelings" aspect just occurred to me.

A number of years ago, I bought an old game-used Dwayne Murphy gamer from a guy in the media who knew all the DBacks bat boys at the time, and was always getting bats from them to put on eBay or sell directly to me; Murphy was a DBacks coach at the time. The bat was obviously from Murphy's playing days, and I was told that the bat boy had "asked him for one of his old bats", and Murphy had brought this bat from home, presumably from his own collection, and given it to the bat boy...who immediately sold it to me for fifty bucks.

Now, I suspect that Murphy would not have been quite so eager to give away one of his old gamers to the kid, if he'd known that the kid was just going to turn around and sell it - is that fair to say? So, even though I don't think that I necessarily did anything wrong in the situation...I still felt somewhat funny about it, and still do. It's not like I recruited the bat boy to get one of Murphy's bats, or anything like that; still, I have to admit to feeling a little guilty about the bat coming to me the way it did. Do you know what I mean?

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about, godwulf.



I'll give you $60.00 bucks for it!???

[godwulf]

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I regret paying $95 for a Felipe Lopez bat back in 2002

Why is that?

[chakes89]

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I regret paying $95 for a Felipe Lopez bat back in 2002

[Vintagedeputy]

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So far, most of the guilt feelings discussed have related to money - whether you could be doing something "more worthwhile", whether for yourself or someone else, with the bucks you spend on the hobby...but another "guilt feelings" aspect just occurred to me.

A number of years ago, I bought an old game-used Dwayne Murphy gamer from a guy in the media who knew all the DBacks bat boys at the time, and was always getting bats from them to put on eBay or sell directly to me; Murphy was a DBacks coach at the time. The bat was obviously from Murphy's playing days, and I was told that the bat boy had "asked him for one of his old bats", and Murphy had brought this bat from home, presumably from his own collection, and given it to the bat boy...who immediately sold it to me for fifty bucks.

Now, I suspect that Murphy would not have been quite so eager to give away one of his old gamers to the kid, if he'd known that the kid was just going to turn around and sell it - is that fair to say? So, even though I don't think that I necessarily did anything wrong in the situation...I still felt somewhat funny about it, and still do. It's not like I recruited the bat boy to get one of Murphy's bats, or anything like that; still, I have to admit to feeling a little guilty about the bat coming to me the way it did. Do you know what I mean?

I understand what you are saying, and I dont think that in that case you should feel guilty.

I have a gorgeous Mark Grace gamer from his last season as a D-Back. He gave bat to former pitcher/teammate Scott Service as a momento of his career. Service ended up giving the bat to a police officer and the officer put it up on ebay where I bought it.

I'm sure that Gracie didnt intend for the bat to take that route, but it did through no fault of his and I bought it through no fault of mine. No guilt, no worries. Grace was always a favorite of mine and its a treasured piece of my collection.

[godwulf]

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So far, most of the guilt feelings discussed have related to money - whether you could be doing something "more worthwhile", whether for yourself or someone else, with the bucks you spend on the hobby...but another "guilt feelings" aspect just occurred to me.

A number of years ago, I bought an old game-used Dwayne Murphy gamer from a guy in the media who knew all the DBacks bat boys at the time, and was always getting bats from them to put on eBay or sell directly to me; Murphy was a DBacks coach at the time. The bat was obviously from Murphy's playing days, and I was told that the bat boy had "asked him for one of his old bats", and Murphy had brought this bat from home, presumably from his own collection, and given it to the bat boy...who immediately sold it to me for fifty bucks.

Now, I suspect that Murphy would not have been quite so eager to give away one of his old gamers to the kid, if he'd known that the kid was just going to turn around and sell it - is that fair to say? So, even though I don't think that I necessarily did anything wrong in the situation...I still felt somewhat funny about it, and still do. It's not like I recruited the bat boy to get one of Murphy's bats, or anything like that; still, I have to admit to feeling a little guilty about the bat coming to me the way it did. Do you know what I mean?

[suicide_squeeze]

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In any case, this is way off base now.

Getting back to the theme of the thread, I have another related comment.

Guilt is most likely associated with second-guessing what you just bought. Someone mentioned (in an earlier post) buyer's remorse......it's a definite close sister. If you start to worry about what you are "paying" for while going after something you want in your collection, then you are already paying too much. There is another force in your conscious trying to tell you something.

I'm guessing that Frikativ is most likely second guessing what she would do if her elaborate Jeff Bagwell collection has to face the music if his name comes up in the "steroid" stuff. It obviously would lose some "steam" in the collecting world if it does. And that simply would be an undesireable sitch to be in, even if she still "loves" the guy. We have to be honest with ourselves......Yes, most of what we buy for our collections, we buy because we are passionate about it. But the stuff has significant value, too. To see the value take a serious hit.......sucks huge.

Frik, if you are in ANY way worried about such an event, then I would suggest you start to unload some of his stuff and maybe look to diversify into a few other players.

We have all heard about the warning in the financial world "Putting all your eggs in one basket". The same goes for almost anything.....including game used items.

[suicide_squeeze]

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Huh??

You need clarification, kudo?

They have Animal Regulation people that can tranquilize the animal and safely relocate them to their natural habitat. Shooting and killing the animal is usually what a stupid police officer will do before the proper authorities are called in to take care of the situation properly.

[kudu]

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Hey, relax Fnazxc0114, you are way too uptight brother!!

It effected me to the point that I swore to myself I would never hurt another unsuspecting sweet animal that wasn't posing a threat to another human.....

....When I see new footage of an ignorant cop shooting a beautiful mountain lion who strayed too far down the hillside and into a neighborhood becasue the poor thing was starving due to a recent forrest fire that wiped out it's food sources.......my blood boils.


....

Huh??

[suicide_squeeze]

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vintage thats pretty funny. godwuld if you would like to prevent this thread from getting derailed any more why dont we discuss this via pm. or we can just agree to disagree. i guess i wont brink up hunting any more and you can go and hang out at the peta website. for everything you say bad about hunting i can say something good about it and this post could go on and on.

Hey, relax Fnazxc0114, you are way too uptight brother!!

All I'm saying is......Hunting isn't for everybody. I once shot a hummingbird at 60 yards with an air rifle.....had just put a scope on it, fine tuned it, and the beautiful little ruby-throated guy appeared and landed way up high to take a breather. I took his beak completely off......one shot, killed him instantly. It's really none of your or anybody elses business how sick and sad and remorseful that event made me feel, but I'm sharing it just to calm you down. It effected me to the point that I swore to myself I would never hurt another unsuspecting sweet animal that wasn't posing a threat to another human.

I say that because it's the way I felt. It's NOT what my BRAIN told me, it was a physical reaction to what I had just done. So, to me, it's a sick thing to see others do something that, in my natural reaction, tells me is so wrong.

So it's all good. I know where my steaks come from too, and I love a good steak. All I'm saying is it won't be me shooting the animal.

To this day, when I see footage of a bull goring a matador who "misstepped".........I smile.

When I see new footage of an ignorant cop shooting a beautiful mountain lion who strayed too far down the hillside and into a neighborhood becasue the poor thing was starving due to a recent forrest fire that wiped out it's food sources.......my blood boils.

I hope you understand. And from your comments, I believe it's not the hunting stuff that really upset you.

I really believe I hit a nerve with the "interbreeding" stuff.


Happy hunting, Uncle JEB. (I think I hear that banjo in the background again........)

[xpress34]

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Now Xpress you know I support you on the whole wearing game worns thing but ya look like Fred Durst in this picture Is it true Lip Bizkit is getting back together? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Gingi -

Funny stuff... I've been given the Fred Durst thing a LOT for sometime... before the wife and I met, it actually worked pretty well meeting the ladies at clubs while Limp Bizkit was still popular...

[ndevlin]

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I dont really care about hunting. Sure, its kinda sad....but whatever you want.

But, hunting does help the population of certain animals. Like deer, its actually an ok thing to hunt them, to control the population. Otherwise we'd hit them every day on the highway. Now, just once a month.

Ok there. Back to game used.