The Collector World has loss one of the Good Guys, according to his wife Ruby (Pookie), Archie Cline passed away unexpectedly on Monday. Alot of us knew him back in the day when he and Ruby would set up at J&J AllStar Fishers Show, and continued as he moved on to doing his own shows in Plainfield and Martinsville. Ruby added on Facebook that funeral arrangements will be posted in a few days and the rest of his shows will be canceled as she will not continue running those. Prayers to Ruby and the Cline family.
UPDATE – Family and Friends are invited to visit on Saturday May 11th from 2-4 in the Chapel at Charlisle-Branson Funeral Service & Crematory in Mooresville.. A Life Celebration Service will follow starting at 4 at the Funeral home.
Shipshewana Card Fest (Memorial Day Show) and The Muncie Show held that same weekend will be taking donations for the Cline family, all proceeds will be sent to Archie’s Go Fund Me. To donate click HERE
It was October 21st of 2017 when I got onto the Panini web site to enter my redemption code for a 2016-17 Panini Immaculate Patch Auto numbered to /40 of Indiana Pacers Myles Turner. Flash forward to eight years later and still no Turner card. Yes, if you check ebay there are other Panini Myles Turner sticker auto cards but not sure why the 2016-17 Immaculate card never happened. Fast forward to this week, a trip to the mail box and a replacement sitting there, a 2022-23 Panini Sparkle Pack of Donruss Optic Basketball. By the looks of things these packs are more valuable closed than open so now the question What to do?
Its time for the 43rd National Sports Collectors Convention in Rosemont, Ill from July 26th-30th. Check back this week for updates and follow us on Twitter by clicking here also be sure to check out the following links for info on the 43rd National.
We’ll start with the Good, and that goes to Dave & Adam’s Card World for the launch of their new series called “Cards Matter” According to D&A, “This initiative was created to bring positivity to hobby members dealing with adversity in some way, and to show the support that surrounds them in this great community.” Check out the first episode below which tells Jimmy Freiberg Jr story.
THE BAD
The Bad goes to the awesome dealer, that was set up last week at a local show. He had a case of cards and some singles, along with a few boxes that had signs on them that said, “All cards $2, unless marked” I spent some time going through the boxes, not much I was looking for and grabbed 2 cards that were not marked. So according to his sign, thats $4. So I show him the cards I was buying and he goes $5. So I look at the toploaders back and front just to make sure I didnt miss something and I looked at his sign again. He points to one of the cards and goes, “Thats one $3” Now mind you before the hate mail, the $1 didnt mean a thing to me, but the point of the sign does. You wanna change prices on your cards, its your table go right ahead, but dont put signs up advertising one price and then changing them when a collector goes to buy, thats complete horse shit.
THE UGLY
The value box is not for everyone, some collectors like to spend hours searching boxes looking for deals, sometimes you find some and sometimes you dont. So I’m at this guys table, and he has two four boxes set up of $1 cards and some decent stuff in it for the asking price of a $1. So I’m half way through one of the boxes and this collector, (we’ll call him that) come over looks through about half of a row in the box, calls the dealer over and goes, “I think I’m wasting my time here, did you plant any big prize cards in your boxes?” For what he had in there, alot of it was pretty good deals for $1, but I guess everybody is looking for the Big Score handed to them…
As great as this hobby is, there is a handful of just bad “collectors” “Dealers” and downright “crooks” Check out the latest video of The Hype from Mojobreak Media, as they talk about Card Scams to avoid in 2022. Dan, Doug, and C-Rad does a great job this week talking about things from fake autographs to shady retail.
National Hobby Shop Day is back again, GTS Distribution is the sponsor of this years event. NHSD was drawn up to fill the slow weeks between Black Friday and Christmas. GTS’s Rob Bertrand says 150 Hobby Shops will take part and collectors that stop by their local shop on Saturday will be treated to packs, giveaway prizes, free food, and great deals.
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