Look, I believe people are entitled to do what they want with their money, but at the same time, paying that much for paper is absurd. Just think of all the ways that money could be used to help others.
Also, obligatory fuck Heritage Auctions.
The article needs to learn/use the correct terms.
A pallet/crate is (honestly, I don’t know hockey cards. Other cards is 200 cases)
A case is 16 boxes
A box is 48 packs
A pack is 14 cardsLast month, they unearthed a crate of 1979 O-Pee-Chee brand hockey cards. The company selling the box, Heritage Auctions, estimates there could be more than two dozen Wayne Gretzky rookie cards inside.
Last month, they unearthed a crate of 1979 O-Pee-Chee brand hockey cards. The company selling the box, Heritage Auctions, estimates there could be more than two dozen Wayne Gretzky rookie cards inside.
Heritage Auctions… So the prices are probably crazy inflated, and the speculation likely is as well. That company needs to get fucked already
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The bidding on a box of unopened hockey cards recently discovered by a Regina family has topped $2 million.
Rich Mueller of the Indiana-based website Sports Collectors Daily said the family’s discoveries are similar to holding a winning lottery ticket.
The company selling the box, Heritage Auctions, estimates there could be more than two dozen Wayne Gretzky rookie cards inside.
In mint condition, Gretzky rookie cards can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
With the 20 per cent “buyer’s premium” added by the auctioneer, the winning bidder’s total payment would be $2,010,000 US ($2,711,188 Cdn).
You would have thought that maybe somewhere along the line that one of these cases would have come out of a long time collector or dealer’s warehouse or basement," Mueller said.
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