I Found a $5,000 Card in a Flea Market Bargain Box!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

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[@oni-stormgaming6224]

Not a single 5k card in the video 😂

[@666Necropsy]

i hope the old man saw what he had. we all know people wouldnt have told him what it was worth and riped him off.

[@bdbing23]

When I was a kid, at a card show, I wanted to buy 2 single cards, my dad said “For $60, let’s get a whole box of cards instead”. The box of cards we got = 1987 Fleer Basketball wax (not bad), the 2 cards I wanted = 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan RCs! 😩

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ugh…if we could only go back in time.

[@cincytino9153]

It was 1991 I'm in Miami I'm from ny...I'm at a card show at the mall jordan rookie 100 bucks...I bought 100 bucks worth of Richmond Webb rookies lol offensive tackle for dolphins

[@victoriacuevas1646]

awhh this is a sweet memory

[@danwiernik1398]

In 2019, I bought a box of 2018 topps finest baseball for around $100. I pulled gold /50 ohtani autograph. Sold it for $300, Now graded, it’s a $10,000-$20,000 card

[@TheFaithfulAtheist]

Oouucchh

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Oh man. At least you still made a profit on it.

[@mikelitteris69]

Hey bud, just remember that most of us missed out on bitcoin when it was around $5

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Very true.

[@chuckmcbuckets6011]

Yep, i was TOLD to buy it in 2013 when it was 13$. I didnt listen, literally eats me away.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@ ughhhhhh….sorry man.

[@Co-ClownWorld]

​@chuckmcbuckets6011 You've just been given the chance to buy XLM! #GODWINS

[@OMGs-Life]

@@chuckmcbuckets6011 Then its another question if you would hold it 11 years :D (so many other factors come into play too).

[@BamueI_Golfs]

Passing on any rookie Brady is insane lmao

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

You are right. That damn back threw me off tremendously.

[@MattDurkee]

This is a genuine vid and respect to the hobby bro. We have all been there and have done something like that at some point in our hobby lives. But being a good and honest collector buyer/seller will always even things out. Great videos! Don’t give up bro just keep doing what you are!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thanks man! I really appreciate it.

[@anticool1380]

I second this! If it’s for sale in a thrift store, it’s fair game. Face to face with my mother in law (widow) selling her husband’s collection for pennies. I have a huge problem with that shit.

[@ryaneshelman2239]

if it makes you feel better... on dec 22nd the brady card sold for $125.50 plus shipping on feebay...still a cool find and something you don't see everyday

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

The crazy thing is when I was first editing this video that same card sold for over 5k from that seller. I’m assuming that card didn’t pass the authentication process and came back as a reprint. That same seller relisted it for sale as a reprint. Hopefully it was a reprint that I passed on and not the original card. I still wish I would of paid the $30 to find out

[@matthewpeterson8770]

I use tonset up and I was gonna buy a sealed case of the Masters collection, tiger woods rookie, 20 sets for $100. Someone brought me it, I gave it back after the show. I had a feeling. Literally the next week, they exploded and were going for $300 a set

[@Tony-ew3jp]

This wasn't a sports card but I once sold a signed copy of Treasure island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I didn't see the signature until after it sold for like 18 bucks. I shipped it. It was probably a thousand-dollar book.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Oh wow! I wonder if the buyer noticed after they received it.

[@jimmychen253]

I love that Arizona state box, big asu fan

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I will open it one day on the channel as a short.

[@grafikj1uj1tsu]

When I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s my dad would sometimes travel a few hours away from home for work, and once in a while he would take me with. One of these times we stopped by a random card shop. And there it was, the Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck rookie card. It was $8, which seemed too expensive, but my dad actually bought it for me! What a guy. A year or two later it went missing along with a bunch of my other cards. I eventually figured out who stole them from me, but I was too shy/timid to get them back. One of these days I'll replace it.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

It’s such an iconic card. I hope you get on. It will bring back great memories for you.

[@sportscardchannel7353]

People make mistakes. I washed Julien Edelman Topps platinum rookie I washed it in the washer and it was in my back pocket. I wait 5 months to let it dry. It was in a plastic then got it graded SGC came back 9.5

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

😂😂😂 it still got a 9.5? Crazy

[@cberg2731]

I really hope you go back to this guy and give him more money.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Did you not finish the video? I found the card and for some dumb reason I didn’t buy it and left it behind.

[@rebelp311]

Even if he had bought the card, he's not the one who put the price tag on it!!!

[@ericbarnes13]

Unfortunately I have completed sets of tops from. 1986-1990 but I hear those are worthless. Rookie cards are going for next to nothing. Please tell me I'm wrong??

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

If it baseball, unfortunately those sets were over produced and don’t hold much value these days. If it’s football, 1986 is a great year to have. A lot of good rookies in that set.

[@deadprezful]

Mortgage crash of 2008 I liquidated my card collection for 80k. I was heavy Jordan, Kobe, Lebron collector since basketball was cheaper when I was a kid. 2003 I was buying cases of topps chrome basketball for months on end. Definitely worth millions today.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ouch. That’s crazy.

[@sourhour5816]

I had a top chrome Kobe Bryant refractor #50 I was just geting in to cards at the time and sold it for 5 bucks it’s worth like 600 now

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I’ll chalk that one up to being new to cards at that time. There is a huge learning curve when you start out.

[@chrispan3033]

I've always got the impression that it is a faux pas at flea markets to take your phone out to check for prices. Maybe times have changed or maybe that was just something I heard that wasn't true.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

There was an old stigma about checking prices on your phone at the flea market. That has gone away over time. It's not more socially acceptable to do it. There are still a couple of vendors that look down on that. They are people that do not sale online.

[@sourcingsailor4987]

I'm old, i have been collecting since the late 70's, it used to always carry all three Beckett's(Football, Basket and Baseball) to cards shops, card shows and flea markets and i checked prices often, as well, as most dealers. Today, if you are offended by people checking prices, then don't sell! I have no issues with it, just as long as the leave the card(s) in the case, or on the table an step to the side to check. What upsets me, are these individuals, at card shows, who literally see you trying to a look at cards on the table, but will stand there and look up "Sold/Comps."

[@papagiorgio_loves_bacon]

my biggest miss was a clearance table at Ben Franklins and they had over 5 cases of 84 donruss wax packs for $10 / box

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

OMG. That would of been a crazy pickup.

[@JohnAtwood-z6t]

I bought 2 lebron autos in 2008 for 250$ total. A 05/06 ultimate collection career achievement on card/63 and 07/08 fleer tradition /5. Sold them as well as a 09 bowman platinum mike trout auto for 500$. Easily 50k today

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ouch. That’s got to haunt you to this day.

[@QuadCityKid]

Back in 2018, I pulled a gold wave Ohtani rookie # /50 from Topps Chrome... sold it for for whatever going rate was (think $400). Dude graded it and it got a PSA 10. Now it's a $7,000-12,000 card 😭🥲

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ugh…that’s a rough one. How did you find out what the grade was?

[@dougfredericks4733]

Connor McDavid ultimate set rookie /99 I bought a case of it for $2,000 sold the card for $1,900 the most recent card sold for $9,500 😎👍

[@markthompson7503]

Goes both ways. A couple years ago I went to a small card show the day before the MLB Draft. A guy had some Leaf autos for $5 each. One was a Jackson Holliday. The dealer had no clue he was about to get drafted the next day. I made a nice and quick profit.

[@smartluck100]

When I was a kid, all I bought was Topps baseball. At one time I had at least 5 of each card from 1970 and 71. Where they went, I don’t know. Still trying to complete my sets. I’m 112 cards from recovering ALL sets from that decade. It ain’t cheap

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I love that you are going back to try to complete the sets. It’s a cool story.

[@JB-dv3to]

As a kid I wouldn't trade a Bo Jackson football baseball and a Upper deck griffey for a 86 fleer Jordan. The kid had 8 Jordan's. But the corner was dinged on the one he wanted to trade me.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Using Kid logic, Bo Jackson and Ken Griffey jr cards were what every kid wanted back in the day. I can see you not wanting to trade.

[@bryank5838]

When I was a kid, I traded a a holographic bulbasaur for a holographic edition 1 Charzard that was in original Japanese. I was ecstatic as a kid, even then I knew it was a $300 car. I had it in a binder in my closet, and my mom asked me in college if it was ok to give away my pokemon cards. I regrettably agreed, but had the thought of wanting to at least keep my holographic ones. That card graded is now over $300k

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Oh my…..no words.

[@BigDieselKards]

At the 4:20ish mark, those Top 100 cards at $1 is a hell of a steal. Those are case hits or SSPs. But most tend to go for $20+ on ebay. It just depends on the name

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@BigDieselKards I had no idea. Thanks man. I just got Back into cards in the last year. I stopped collecting in 1999-2000.

[@Jtevkicksandcards]

I saw that as well its a score case hit ive pulled a few myself there not crazy valuable or anything maybe 20$

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@Jtevkicksandcards good to know

[@BigDieselKards]

@@Jtevkicksandcards guys like Mahomes & Brady can fetch $50+. Alot of the smaller guys tend be in the $20 - $30 ranger or less.

[@chadcory9690]

​@@PickingandPunchingCardslooked like you scrolled through a 1 of 1 nebula as well they have crazy pink and light blue wave lined running throughout the card

[@michaelhutchison4963]

I bought a Hank Aaron rc at my local card shop about 2000 for like $200, graded with PSA and got a 3. Sold it for $300 for some reason. Now it sells 10 to 12 times that.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ouch. At least you can say you once owned a Aaron Rookie Card. Not many people can say that.

[@geez206]

I like seeing people buy cards without pricing everything first, for me the risk as well as the hunt is where the fun is. So putting that card back was a huge sigh of relief to see there are still buyers out there still like me.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I’m just getting back into cards after taking a 20 year break. I’m a full time picker. I learned a long time ago that you can’t look up everything. Sometimes you just need to wing it and have fun. I also wasn’t getting any service here. Other than the Brady situation, not having service is a blessing sometimes. You just take chances and make it a learning situation.

[@larrysclassicsports]

You also skipped a 1975 Bobby Jones HOF RC

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thank you. That’s before my time. Good to know.

[@JAYENRAP]

I'm a huge babe ruth collector...I actually passed up on a blue and a red version of a 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth about 4 years ago...and later came to realize they were both Authentic at the time I didn't know enough about authenticating prewar cards.. but now knowing about lithography and solid borders and which card stock should should be which thickness..I missed out on potentially 12 million dollars. This is coming from a collector with over 150 original Ruth cards graded by SGC and PSA. I will have a channel soon to share my story on huge losses and gains. Your video will forever remind me of my biggest loss. Love the channel BTW! Keep grind

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thanks so much for watching. That’s a crazy story. You need to get your channel started and share that collection with the world.

[@DonaldSiddall]

That does hurt when you don't know or see something that has the potential to be a GEM. I am really sorry for your loss due to the hurricane. That hurts real bad. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family . Hope things bounce in the right direction for you.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I appreciate the kind words. We had a couple of thousand of dollars of property damage. We were very lucky. It just hurt our business for two months. We are back on track now. Thanks!

[@jaysdealzzz]

In 2016 I could have bought a giant vintage sealed box Pokemon WOTC collection for $1000 worth now well over 50,000

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

It’s crazy how that market has exploded or the past decade.

[@ivgondef4408]

I don’t something very similar with video games. I was at a Toys “R” Us and they had about 15 super paper Mario Nintendo 64 for clearance price of 5.99 apiece I bought all them but then looked them up and they were only sold for about $12-$15 new at the time so I decided to take them back as we were tight on money at the time. Today graded copies are selling for upwards of $5000 and open complete copies are selling for upwards of $1000 at times

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I have a collection of graded games. That’s crazy that you had all of those copies. If we only knew back then what we know now.

[@AdamJD503]

Broooooo Don’t let it eat at your mind, It can be a poison to think about the losses They could Of had.. I’m guilty of sittin and thinking of all the cards I should have got / sold for more Because I just didn’t know at The time!! You’re Good brother, look forward not backward!!

[@fayhou98]

THIS is EXACTLY the type of video that haunts me! I got back into the hobby during COVID and over the next few years I've accumulated 50,000 or so cards and ... I'm NOT smart enough to be able to just "leaf through them" and pull out all of the valuable ones! AND I don't have enough time to go card-by-card looking up each card! So, therein lies the thing of nightmares ... wondering what I'm missing, passing over, about to sell for one one thousandth its worth, etc., etc., etc. Sorry you missed out, but I DO appreciate the honesty!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thanks! Your best bet would be to find someone who has more knowledge than you. Have them go through and pull out anything that they know is valuable. There some card shops that will pull up comp values in front of you and offer you a % below that. You just got to find a trust worthy one.

[@jessefrank3612]

Not having enough time is a interesting statement...are you in a hurry to get rid of them? just look them up when you can,,chances are the values will go up anyway. don't sell stuff without knowing the worth because you dont feel like looking it up. some of the easiest money you will ever make.

[@sturlingobrien2996]

so.. about them cards, ill give ya about tree fiddy for em

[@sourcingsailor4987]

Quick question for the group: "if I walked up to you and offered to give you five dollars for one dollar, would you take it?" Of course you would! So, why do so many people overlook lower valued cards that are in .50 cent bins and $1.00 bins, that are easily selling for $5.00 to $10.00 on eBay? I get it trying to find that hidden gem, but I literally come across $10.00, $15.00 even $20.00 cards in $1.00 bins and $5.00, $10.00 cards in .50 cents bins. I found a 2022 Topps Chrome Update Debut Purple Refractor Bobby Witt Jr in the $1.00 bin at an antique shop, graded it, got a PSA 10 and two just sold for more than $100.00. I'm holding onto to it, until a week or so before baseball season starts up and then, I will move it.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@sourcingsailor4987 ☝🏻this right here. This is how we run our business. There is a ton of value in bargain boxes if you are willing to put the time in and dig. Nickels and Dimes make dollars!

[@BigHurt1776reborn]

A college buddy of mine told me how he went to a card shop in the late 80s and a dealer had dozens of 86-87 Fleer basketball sets for $1/box. He bought one just because it was cheap and had no idea what he had until we got to talking about it around 1993. He went back home to get it and confirmed it was what he said. He could have had 20 or box sets for $20!

[@ChrisStoecker]

I certainly believe he told you the story but that's a tad bit hard to believe. I remember going to a card show around 1990 and a guy was selling wax packs for $40 each. The idea someone at a card shop would be that clueless on the value of the complete set is beyond far fetched. If your friend said a normal civilian who wasn't in the business sold it to him for a buck and not someone who owned a shop it would still be tough to believe but at least that's somewhat realistic

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

If I’m not mistaken didn’t packs retail in 1986 for 40-50 cents a pack. $1 for complete sounds crazy. Maybe he had a going out of business sale or something.

[@regularjoe621]

Don’t worry I threw out boxes of pokey man when they first came out Really I think about it a lot Gave away packs at swap meats and yard sales Joking about it 🥳at the time I was a vinyl collector And hot wheels Oh well My parents let me play with my original hot wheels but back then that’s about half of what we had The other half was our bicycle 👍👍 Ps when I say we I mean early gen X 60-70s👍

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That’s crazy to think about. Looking back it’s crazy to think how Pokemon just took off the way that it did.

[@regularjoe621]

@ We were like What the heck are these And joked about how maybe someday they will be worth a million 😩 Lots of packs Hopefully someone is happy 👍

[@SkyCommander108]

It happens brother. Don’t beat yourself up. In the business world, we term this analysis paralysis. You were out in the field with a ton of items to analyze and buy. But you now know better and will improve on your shopping skills. Keep up the great content.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

100% thank you!

[@Robert421ify]

Had a babe Ruth card I bought and sold within a year at $1300. Needed cash . About a year later it was worth 7k

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Damn. That’s a tough one.

[@kylekampling3007]

I didn't read through the comments, but you can rest a little easier because that card was a counterfeit reprint of the original. That rookie of the year logo should have been bright reflective gold foil.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That’s good to know.

[@craighall945]

Foil did look a bit flat but not familiar with how good the counterfeits were.

[@charlesdarkly7795]

When I was a kid I used to sit on the roof of my Mom's Impala and go through my cards. I had a bunch of rookies, not worth tons of money but a cool collection. Jerry Rice, Dan Marino, John Elway, Troy Aikman, Barry Sanders and a bunch more. Plus a bunch of other Barry Sanders cards since he was my favorite player. And I got called in the house for whatever reason and completely forgot that I left my cards on the roof. My Mom left later in the day and my cards got scattered along the road for about a mile and I only recovered about half of them back. Pretty big bummer for a 12 year old.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I would have been devastated as kid. Great story, thanks for sharing.

[@charlesdarkly7795]

@PickingandPunchingCards Ya man, 30 years later and I still think about it sometimes.

[@davidthompson6020]

love the honesty. thanks!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thanks man.

[@charlescordeau2628]

2 things i want to tell you : 1- you can’t consider something you didn’t buy cause you didn’t felt it was worth much as a ‘lost’. A lost is something you actually purchased and sell for less than you bought it for. 2- you did got out of there with a pretty good deal for what you picked up. I understand how you feel but i think i can be the voice of all collectors here by saying that we all have passed on cards that thought were not worth much by going in bins. It’s all about the knowledge of the cards and it’s simply impossible to know everything since the variety is so wide if you consider you need to know about 4 major sports + everything that is not sports related.. So don’t sleep on it for too long, you’ll rebound off this.. :-)

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thank you! Great response. You are right.

[@_FJB_]

I would have still bought it and figured it out later. That was a big risk putting that back!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I’m a full time picker. The crazy thing is that’s what I do 99%. For some reason on the day. The reason is still unknown to me. I decided to put it back 🤦🏼‍♂️.

[@Jknow10]

Well its not really a sports card loss, but it is about cards, i pulled a team rocket dragonite error card when i was a kid, later on as an adult i sold my whole collection for 150 bucks and now that error card when its graded is worth 50K, still lose sleep over it.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Omg! That’s crazy. Things we do as kids…ugh

[@daveparker5541]

Biggest miss was a stack of 2011 Topps Update Mike Trouts and 2009 Bowman auto Mike Trout. The 2011s were in a stack of 15 and were $10 each. The 2009 Bowman auto was $200. Smh

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That would have been a big pay off. I just wish Trout could stay health.

[@hueyadams4064]

Back when PSA was just getting started grading I had an opportunity to get 2 52 Mantles in PSA 1 for $1,500 apiece. I hadn’t warmed up to grading at that point.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Two of them? Oh man. I bet that one still haunts you.

[@sourcingsailor4987]

My "Stories of Regret" are a bit different from most of the comments here. With me, it wasn't missed purchases, but "Bad Timing." What I mean by that, is I have been collecting, full time, since the late '70's and occasionally, I will take a break from the hobby(full time), meaning I wouldn't be going to shops, shows or flea markets, as much as I used to. I would by packs, here or there, but I wasn't doing it full time. Anyway, the times I decided to take a break from the hobby were in '03(Anthony, Wade and LeBron's rookie year) '07(Durant's rookie year) '09(Steph's rookie year) '17(Mahomes' rookie year) and '18(Josh Allen and Shohei Ohtani's rookie year). Now some of you may be asking, "How is this a regret?" It hurts, because, when I was in the hobby "full time," I mean, I was in the hobby! Spending thousands of dollars on mid-range to high-end hobby boxes and had I been in the hobby(full time) during those years, I know, due to large amount of high-end hobby products I used to regularly purchase, I know without a shadow of doubt that I would have several Caremelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Josh Allen, Shohei Ohtani and LeBron James' rookie cards, not from retail or low-end product, but mid-range to high-end product! Plus, my "Taking A Break From The Hobby" timing has to be the "All Time" worse! p.s. As much as I regret taking a break from the hobby in '03, that was during the time when i was playing Texas Hold'em poker at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa several days per week, so i made a ton of money, a TON of money playing poker, so you can kind of understand why "my" focus was not into the hobby during that year.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I stopped in the beginning of 2000. I missed out on all the Brady rookies (seems to be a pattern for me, lol). I missed out on LeBron as well. So I feel your pain there. I’m also in the Tampa area. If you ever see me out. Make sure you come say hi.

[@jrwspanstock]

great find. Card is real. Oh, you didn't get, don't feel bad sold a bunch of Bradys for a fraction of what they go for now.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I heard a bunch of his stuff had dropped in price. Sorry

[@thehouseofsilverandgold]

I bought 5k worth of Trey lance patch autos, low numbered, auto refractors. Etc. Everyone had me convinced he was going to be a generational quarterback. Maybe the biggest bust ever. 🙄🙄🙄

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ugh. I thought for sure he was going to get an opportunity or second chance when he went to Dallas. Only for him to get beat out by Cooper Rush for the backup position. I just went and looked at his stats. He has only played 8 games in four years. I really think we haven’t got an opportunity to potentially see what he can do. He is only 24 years old. I hope he gets a chance to play so you can try to recoup some of that money.

[@jimscardsandcollectibles1990]

When I first started collecting, I way overpaid for an '82 Ripken traded at a show and almost instantly had buyer's regret as it had a weird spot on the surface that I hadn't noticed until I got home. I recently got it graded and it got an 8 from SGC and I'm okay with it now, of course. Hope you have some redemption with your future buys. Best of luck.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Love this story. Glad you are happy with it.

[@waxmuseumpodcast]

You lucked out - this is actually a counterfeit copy of that card. You can tell by looking at the resolution, the feel, etc. I've looked through this exact box at Webster before. The Caitlin Clark cards that are designed to look like the popular 1998 SP rookies are not real licensed cards either.

[@rogerfederer3817]

LOL stop it.

[@blainepsteelersfan4123]

All of the Clark's are real though.

[@waxmuseumpodcast]

@@blainepsteelersfan4123 The ones that have the old 1998-99 SP Authentic design? Absolutely not. And people are distributing fake Wemby's like that, too.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That’s good to know. I feel better knowing that someone else looked at it.

[@matteogottie6772]

​@@blainepsteelersfan4123bro most where fake you can get on Etsy 100 cards for 20 bucks.people resell on eBay for like 10 bucks each.the cracker jack cards are also non-licensed.

[@jasonwest8464]

I had the no name frank in 90 traded it at the shop for a pack 90 topps.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Oh my! I was a huge Frank Thomas fan as a kid. I had always dreamed of getting it back In the day.

[@basbalking]

If it makes you feel better I would have passed on it also. My worst mistake was in 1980 when I got back into collecting. My local comic/card store owner tried like heck to talk me into buying a 1959 Bob Gibson RC for $12, I passed & have regretted it to this day! Happy ending, my son bought the card for me a few years ago.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Love a great ending!

[@thatguyronwaiters6485]

Sick card congrats 👏

[@chrisbolton6598]

Ouch that sucks. If you collect cards you have a story like this. My cousin got me for a jerry rice rookie for a Scott Erickson rookie when I was a kid. Never forgot it. And still don’t have a rice rookie.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ugh. I always wanted a Rice rookie card. I need to get one for my pc.

[@AaronxSportsCards3]

I found really good stuff at a flea market for cheap such as game worn patches and autos

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Congrats. Great pickups!

[@shivermetimber872]

Probably good for the old guy he didnt get ripped off by low baller

[@stevevash4772]

When you pay the agreed upon price, there is no low baller involved. Do you think someone showed up later, saw the card, told the old guy it's worth thousands and then gave him thousands? Nope, someone else came got it for a $1 and had a great day.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

This right here ☝🏻

[@edelmantoamendola]

A Brady rookie I am absolutely buying. His cheapest one is worth fifty, the one with him and Kevin O'Connell. No service right there is very tough though. I feel ya. Gotta brush it off.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I agree, I should have bought it. Flea markets and card shows are tough when you don’t have service.

[@jonlavezza2364]

A Tom Brady rookie with Kevin O'Connell???? 😂

[@edelmantoamendola]

@@jonlavezza2364 was Brady and Dave stachleski actually. That dual rookis goes for about $50. O’Connell backed him up shorty in 2008 for the pats though.

[@elhaxo142]

At 4:50 did he go past a Warren Sapp prizm /5?

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@elhaxo142 I went back and watched it. I don’t think so unless I missed something. 🤷‍♂️

[@johniewilliams9425]

I had a bunch of old wax that I put out for a yard sale not asking much for them but no takers so at the end of the day we just pulled everything under the car port and left it for the next day. The next morning we where moving stuff out and there where no cards some stole them all. Not a huge lost but it suck cause that was all my childhood cards.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That’s horrible. I’m sorry that happen to you.

[@Brijsports]

That Brady could be a reprint. I've seen them before in the wild and they're never legit. My biggest regret was back before his first super bowl win, my local shop had a stack of a brady playoff contenders autos for $100 each. He must have had at least 10 of them. I was in the shop looking at them the day before the Rams game and I remember the owner saying, "those are a lottery ticket. If they're losing at halftime tomorrow, I'll probably drop them to $50.. and if they're winning, I'll have them at $200 each tomorrow" I bought one and held it for years. Sold it for I think $2200 in 07 ish. Easily a $15k card now

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Wow! Thats a crazy story. You still made a big profit on it.

[@MrAnticool]

My bike (Redline RL20ii - look that up) was stolen when I parked it in front a card shop in Spokane.... ironically called "Steal of a Deal Sports Cards". I used that bike to deliver news papers in the morning before wrestling practice. I needed another bike so I sold my 86 Jordan RC for $200 to buy another bike so I could keep my paper route job as a 13 year old. The card now is maybe $4-10K and the stolen Redline $6-10K.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That’s a double hit! Sorry man.

[@chadcory9690]

I have a original dyno n.s.k. in mint condition hanging up in my garage not as valuable as that redline. But still a decent bike to have in 100 percent all original parts and perfect shape

[@anticool1380]

Yeah man, thieves need to be afraid of consequences. They weren’t back then and really aren’t now here in Washington State. Always loved GT Dyno bikes! ALWAYS love 80’s Jordan cards too!

[@jordansinger8543]

Kudos to you for sharing this painful story - I am not a card collector but you deserved that score - sorry you missed it. I have lost things as well and regretted it. Nothing that valuable... but some good finds! Liked and subscribed - hang in there!!! Picking and puinching.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thank you for your support.

[@thekernal0318]

Man that’s rough 😢 but I appreciate the clarity can’t win every time. The owner of my lcs told me he traded away a Mahomes rc auto low # and $200 cash for a Trubisky rookie auto 😬

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Now that’s rough.

[@lovelifefatty180]

Big credit for showing this

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thank you! More people in the hobby need to show their messes not just their big scorers.

[@Donrussfan]

Back in 2000 I bought a box of Playoff Contenders. Four rookie autos per box and one of those was a 6th round draft pick named Tom Brady. After he won his first Super Bowl I sold it on Ebay and went for $100. I figured that was his peak.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Any other time you would have been right with that move.

[@Donrussfan]

@PickingandPunchingCards Just prior I did the same with Kurt Warner after he won the Super Bowl and that proved to be good timing.

[@ChrisStoecker]

Wow that's brutal but at the time I can't say I wouldn't have done the same thing in your position. No way in hell even his biggest fans at the time could've imagined half of what was to come. Hell even 2 SBs later he was still looking like he was the beneficiary of a great defense and nowhere near the QB Manning or Favre were 20 yrs ago

[@Hooooooops]

That's a very common reprint card of Brady. There's no way it's the real one. You can tell by the way the gold foil looks on the front. Clear reprint.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That would make me feel better. Thanks

[@bigphatmike48059]

big like and respect for sharing the story and video

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thanks man! I try to keep it real. I always show my wins and my losses. That's how we all learn.

[@KennyWinning420]

It’s ok let me find buddy I’ll get it for ya 😝😝😆

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Sounds like a deal. Let me know when you find it.

[@eltoroloco1936]

That's regular case card is normally a $300-$500 card raw. With the prices on MJ base cards and the newer cards like Caitlan Clark, it was definitely a reprint.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That would make me feel better.

[@Opticprizm]

In 2006 local card shop had Tom Brady RC auto for 50$ and i passed on it, ugh

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Oh man!

[@Hardball247]

Always go with your first instinct

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

The worst part is, I know better. 99% of the time that’s what I do. It’s just one of those days. 🤷‍♂️

[@A00208290]

I'm 35 now but when I was in elementary I had the biggest collection of charzards out of all my friends(I had 12 of them if I remember correctly) well I traded my whole Pokémon collection for basketball cards cause I couldn't get into Pokémon. Kick myself everyday for this

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

If we only knew what we know now back then.

[@adriandolezal3961]

I traded my binder of holos for yugioh cards. I kept looking all over my parents house, then one day I remembered what I did with them. Was a bad memory lol

[@rippindickys]

Great video, thanks for showing your miss! 😢

[@thedutra1]

This reminds me of when I passed on a Mickey Mantle rookie for $18 and a Jordan rookie for $2

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Omg! That’s crazy pricing.

[@thedutra1]

@ that was in 1990

[@JunkinTheTrunkCFL]

Biggest miss I had was not pushing my mom hard enough to buy me the Nolan Ryan rookie card for $125 from the card shop attached to Baseball World batting cages in Orlando probably circa late 80's. If I were older or had a bigger allowance it would have been mine!!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

It’s such a great card. One of my biggest garage sale find ever was finding two Nolan Ryan rookie cards at a garage sale. They were low grade but still cool.

[@JunkinTheTrunkCFL]

For sure and great find(s)! Just found this channel. Subbed to other 2. Off to a great start! Happy Holidays to you and yours! ✌️🙏🎄

[@flybone100]

Sold a box of 2009 48 Bowman Basketball in 2018 or so. Got a decent price, but if I'd have waited. Thanks for sharing.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Joe Hollywood on Whatnot did a box break of 2009 48 Bowman. They pulled a mint Stephen Curry and it got a PSA 10.

[@JEFFshyda]

ive got one, before the boom i sold 2 2000 sp authentic wax boxes with the brady rookie for 150 bucks a box. a year or 2 later and they go for 4 to 6 thousand a box. and what's more , i bought a case and opened all the boxes but these 2 and i got no brady's so the odds were alot better that these two boxes may have contained a brady rookie. STUPID ME. i have a lot of stories like this. i sold my collection years ago and now i have no more bad deals stories.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

We all have stories like this in the card industry. What made you decide to sell off your last two boxes instead of opening them?

[@JEFFshyda]

@@PickingandPunchingCards i decided to sell the 2000 sp authentic boxes because i was having financial problems and needed the money. i should have held them a little longer but .... not the case. Tom Brady rookie cards had not really taken off at that time. Just bad luck i guess. thank you.

[@ChristopherGregg-c3x]

I bought a box of 2018 Obsidian and pulled a Saquon Barkley Shield/Auto 1/1 and sold it for $1,250 and I kicked myself every time i think about it. NO TELLING HOW MUCH IT IS NOW 😭😭

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

With him being on the run he is on now, it may not even hit its peak yet. At least you made some money from it.

[@ToeBlake316]

I used lots of rookie Gretzky to make my bike wheel sound funny

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@ToeBlake316 oh man! I know my dad says they did that with their Micky Mantle cards back in the day.

[@TheBargainBoxer]

$30 is the going rate for a Tom Brady Topps Promotion reprint card. I have that card, too. I think the last ebay on that card was $27.00, if memory serves. So, you did ok by putting it back.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That would be great if it was the reprint. It would help put my mind at ease.

[@TheBargainBoxer]

💯that it was a reprint. Exactly like my copy. The print is darker on the back than a real one. I look at that card everyday and wish it were real…….if only………

[@polikalepotuaileva6006]

Appreciate the story man. Seeing alot of videos with great pulls but this video shows a side of the journey we all experience but don't always share. Subscribed brother, keep it up!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Thanks man! I appreciate you watching.

[@josephpaluba628]

That sums it up, "it happens", stay strong as other opportunities will pop up.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

This is true. You can’t win them all

[@americanarbitrage]

Those Score top 100 cards are case hits :)

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@americanarbitrage I know now, lol.

[@ChrisStoecker]

That's definitely a rough one. I certainly can't top that but there's always that guy that purchased a Giannis card years ago on eBay & ended up returning it. I can't recall the exact specifics but the card had a pretty decent imperfection...I think a stain or ink mark...so he returned it and got his money back. It was a 1/1 and at the time sold for less than 10k. The seller ended up keeping it after it was returned . Years later it eventually hit 7 figures, I want to say it sold for 1.8 million. Granted that's a very different scenario but that guy that returned it couldn't possibly have ever forgiven himself

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That’s a crazy story.

[@ChrisStoecker]

@PickingandPunchingCards Sure is. I looked it up and it was Giannis' rookie patch 1/1 auto from National Treasures. It was graded a 9 by BGS. The guy paid 7 thousand and returned it because there was a light yellow stain on the back. The seller ended up not relisting it and ended up selling it a couple years ago for 1.8 million. Talk about an absolute high for one guy and the lowest of lows for the other dude

[@ChrisStoecker]

The real craziness is a card barely a decade old selling for 7 figures. I grew up in Milwaukee and love the Bucks but that's absolutely ridiculous

[@richardvarner5359]

Dont Sweat it brother keep on doing what you do!! I have over 260 Wander Franco cards with a Autograph Card numbered to 5!!!

[@jeffhowes9503]

Don't feel bad I do too now the plastic there in is worth more than the cards

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

So many people lost a ton of money on him. Sorry man.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

The plastic is def worth more now.

[@NightshadowProductions]

What happened to him? I’m not a big baseball fan but I have one of his rc.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

@@NightshadowProductions he is on trial for having sexual relations with minors.

[@louiestanley300]

When I was a kid and my dad would take us to card shows we always talked about buying the iconic Jordan 86 RC but because it was $350 it was totally too expensive lol I don’t have to finish this story so don’t feel bad man Great video!!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Ughhh. That would have been an amazing card to grab. Sorry man.

[@archieshaver9391]

We've all done it. I pulled a U.D. auto jersey card of M.J. serial numberd out of 23 back in early 2000s and sold it for $400 . Obviously a big mistake.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

That had to be an amazing pull! I would have lost my mind if I pulled that.

[@krazejeff]

When I sold cards i could have got Michael Jordan rookie for 300 trade and box of 91 upper deck 😮

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Oh man! That would have been a crazy deal.

[@Aaron-hd8ql]

Bought a 90s skateboard deck years ago at a flea market for 30 dollars because i knew of the company ended up looking how rare it was in the condition it was in posted it for sale on ebay for 200 some guy freaked out bought it immediately i was shocked on how much i got for it. Felt great finding something cool, and getting a lot of extra money out of it was nice. So i know the feeling well. Great job.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Old skateboard decks can sell great online.

[@brianharris3455]

Oh! Man that sucks about the Tom Brady. In 2000 I pulled two sweet Tom Brady rookies. The SPX and the short print Pacific numbered to 181. I traded both the same year for a Kurt Warner RC hand numbered which is not worth those Brady's. But a few years ago I picked up the Tom Brady Gold Reserve rookie cheap and still have it. My friend passed on the 1990 Topps no name Frank Thomas for $30. Great video. 🙂

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

The no name Frank Thomas! One of the most famous error cards out there. I have wanted that card since my childhood.

[@samr273]

The way you told the story was a doozy 😂 got us all hyped that you found it...then you tell us you put it back 😭 That's Tuff. Keep going back till you find it again. Even if it's long gone....keep looking...hold on to hope. There's an old jukebox out there somewhere playing Fleetwood Mac "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" just for you!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

😂😂😂. At least this made me laugh. Thanks!

[@bobbythebuyer]

those are the type of sellers who have the gems for sure...the real og's of the flea market hustling game...was that webster market? I had a similar guy who went to the tampa fun-lan drive in market before it closed and he had a storage unit full he wanted $10,000 for but we could never go and looked cause he was in assisted home...heard went to auction and someone made $100,000 just wholesailing it out, cant verify that but always wondered what was in there...was right at the 2020 card boom too and he owned store from the 90s.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

It was Webster. That sounded like a crazy collection.

[@jrobertmoore9406]

I am 72 and had a collectables b&m store from 1987 to 2017. Sports cards, comics, Hot Wheels, trains, etc. When Pokemon came out I bought a couple of cases of the first US starter decks and the booster packs. But most of my customers were older guys who had been in WWII and objected to me selling Japanese stuff. Most did not sell and I unloaded them to a couple of twenty something guys who had a comic shop I helped them start up. I shoulda coulda kept them in the back room with all the junk wax era stock. I STILL have cases of Upper Deck, Score and Topps from 1988-92 - 8 years later from retiring and closing my store. Nothing is new again. In the early 1990s, there were about 5 to 10 guys every morning waiting for Sam's Club to open for business only members. Sam's used to handle cases then and we fight over all the new releases like Upper Deck, Topps, Donruss, Fleer, etc. Made some good money on the first year of Stadium Club, which was one of the first really hot products and packs had an SRP of $1.99, but I was getting $8 a pack in the store. Toppls distributed mainly through tobacco and candy wholesalers then, and Sam's and other Clubs like Pace too. I also hit grocery stores, gas stations, and drug stores and bought them all up. Now they are still junk...

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I’m sure you had some great memories along the way. I love buying old junk wax to open up. I have so much fun with it.

[@jrobertmoore9406]

A lot of memories, but I would be a couple of hundred thousand richer than I am, IF I had hung on to the Pokemon as well as I did the 1991 Score Baseball Series 1 I had to buy to get a case of the Series 2 that have the Mantle cards. But Series 1 is total crap.😂

[@sportscastercanada]

Santa 🎅 just came down my chimney and handed me a 1952 Mantle. I handed him some milk 🥛 and cookies 🍪 but he told me he’s lactose intolerant.

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

Sounds like you are going to have a great day but Santa might be spend his in the bathroom instead of under the tree 🤷‍♂️

[@counterproof]

For me it was a 2008 Topps Gold Chrome Lebron James refractor for $850. I bought a Packard Bell computer instead😥☹

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I’m sure you got some good use out of the computer but that would have been an amazing card to have.

[@kevinmay3982]

This is why education is the best investment when it comes to flipping cards. You had the answers in your pocket with your phone and you can't get signal lol Guess it was meant to be buddy!

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

It happens a lot at flea markets and card shows. Sometimes you just do t get a signal. I should have went with my gut. Like you said, it wasn’t meant to be.

[@johnnygamecock1249]

Im starting to think , I should be a super nerd and write some notes at the flea market, for what I want to check later when I get a signal or back in my car because i just don't want to look like a tool looking everything up my phone in front of the vendor. Yesterday I saw a 1989 Fulcher Starting Lineup loose, looked it up today the day after and saw its sells for $100 to $150 new so would of been a good get, even loose, it happens to all of us, And Yes missing out of $40 to $50 bucks is not $5000, if I do that a 50 times a year, thats $2500, it adds, up, so yes I m taking a pen and paper today Hahaha

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

I have taken photo of items so I could look them up later on. I have even told vendors that I wanted to look it up before I bought it. 99% of the time they are cool with it. They just want to make their money from it.

[@secretsauce1073]

Webster, I was there not long ago and was at both those gentleman's booths. Picked up a bunch of Caitlin Clark and a few others.I collect only basketball so I'm sure I passed over this card...lol😮😮

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

You probably did. I’m sure you got some good stuff along the way though.

[@afranco31]

I was one of those that stashed mac jones rookie cards, sold a few when they were at peak value but kept the rest.... and im full of regret lol

[@PickingandPunchingCards]

lol. Hopefully you can move some right now since he has been starting for the jags.