One of the Largest Collections I Have Ever Been a Part of Buying: "The Grail Collection"

[@ryanfitzgerald2816]

Most anticipated "Financial Recap" video in the history of this channel is in our future...

[@NuthinFancyCollectibles]

It was nice to witness the collaboration with this collection. Glad you were a part of it, Chris.

[@johnschuller8383]

Hahaha this "fool" right here!! I love your content man keep it up.

[@simondaughtry4619]

ITs wonderful to see diehards like yourselves ~ who adore the hobby as much as you all~ benefit and find all the success the hobby has to offer. Interesting the collector chose SGC ~ I imagine it had plenty to do with the better cost and turnaround time compared to PSA for example. Looking very much forward to seeing the next one Chris.

[@richardbianco9674]

Sgc is preferred for pre war cards by the vast majority of collectors of those cards.

[@Philly_Joe]

Philly in the house! Let's Go! Thanks so much for the "teaser" and look forward to the recap video's. 3 of my favorite "hobby" folks. I enjoy seeing and the discussions around the "financials" but the fun you guys had was priceless. Thanks again and we need more veggie talk!!!!

[@marbury77]

My favorite KZbin channel 😊😊😊

[@warrendinCLE]

So great to hear! I enjoy all three of you guys! Just an amazing opportunity for you guys! Enjoyed seeing all of it!

[@spaceviking4966]

Cool card story Chris! Glad everyone was happy with the outcome. Can't wait to see all the goodies.

[@jackiechapman8189]

Excellent collection Chris..😍😮 Love that you was able to be a part of this incredible deal..🎉🤗 Take care..👍❤🔥👊

[@Johndeplume.]

A great recap of how it all went down. As always, thank you for the transparency. Hope the deal yields great profits, and some great additions to your collection (from what I have seen, it already has, which is thoroughly deserved). 👍

[@4TheGame2016]

After them drinks all day I bet the evening was great with all those amazing cards. I enjoyed watching it live

[@MickGenuine]

Congratulations on the purchase! Looks like a good haul.

[@brentwalker5726]

Wow. Absolutely beautiful cards! I'm happy for you and can't wait to see more.

[@RipFan8]

Hi Chris. I have been following this from the start (Mike's channel and the live stream) and what a great buy by you two guys. I was looking for you all weekend at the Toronto Expo, but our paths never crossed. Hopefully we can meet at the National. Thanks for sharing and I'll look forward to your recap in the near future. Talk soon pal.

[@timczifrik]

Amazing..!!! I am looking forward to seeing more videos about this buy as soon as I can..!!!! thanks for posting brother..!!! :)

[@mikethesportshistorycollec1947]

Seems like a great deal all the way around. I'd be curious to see a future video of the break down between what you paid, kept and were able to sell for.

[@scotthensley2124]

This is like watching The Avengers come together to buy a collection! Congratulations and thank you for sharing.

[@theratedrabbi]

Such an amazing story. Fun to experience it vicariously.

[@sammyhill93]

Thanks for sharing, Chris! Looking forward to more videos on this as it unfolds over the next several months and really curious about the withdrawal issue lol. Oh, and want to know what you kept for the PC… unless I totally spaced and missed it in this video, which wouldn’t be surprising.

[@squeezer24]

What a unicorn find! Congrats gents. Looks like you had a blast with this one. Can’t wait until the recap vid.

[@commentingcollector]

I’m happy for you and Mike and all others involved with the purchase. However, please don’t get me as wrong as I have respect for you , Mike and John’s integrity as people, But as far as the seller I can’t stop feeling bad for him thinking that he made a mistake excepting the 120K by either not asking for more or even with the fee going the auction house route. You, yourself said there was far too much value to pass it up at that price. Which going by some of the key cards you showed seems obvious. For that reason I can’t help feeling bad for the seller as it appeared he vastly undersold it. Especially, since it was a family collection. Again, no judgements/ just my humble opinion. Thanks for sharing 😂❤️

[@BaseballCollector]

We bought the collection from a card shop. Not the original owner of the cards.

[@commentingcollector]

@@BaseballCollector sure, I’m not faulting you guys/ in fact replacing you guys with the shop owner makes me feel even more certain that the seller made a huge mistake as he didn’t even get 120K because correct me if I’m wrong but I imagine the card shop took his cut before flipping it to you guys. Thanks for responding- I’m happy for you- empathetic for the seller that he didn’t do better for his family’s heirloom. Good Collecting👍❤️

[@matthewelliott2213]

Amazing... If only everything worked as well as this deal with this group of guys...

[@zipyaplebuns7732]

Wow, you've gotten your hands on some really impressive collections lately.

[@WinningScore-e6z]

Wow, what a haul!

[@Rebel_Scum1]

awesome story Chris! Look forward to hearing more! If you got any killebrews I might be interested!

[@NyckulasLowe]

OUTSTANDING!!! I CANNOT wait until the next video from this sale!

[@HarbDeaf]

Congrats! and Fun! I have the feeling your PC will bea true Holy Grail some day... some day

[@yorkazuna5934]

Great video. It's good to hear about great experiences

[@chrisc4264]

Amazing collection. I do however have a question. Aren't you at least tempted to negotiate to keep just one of those amazing cards for your PC? I know you PC Ripken but personally my oldest card is a 55 Koufax so I'd love to own any pre war baseball. I can't afford any of the pre war baseball greats. Thanks for sharing Chris.Mike and John are great hobby guys and to do a deal with them is great I'm sure.

[@collectorinvestordealer]

All three of us will be keeping some cards for our PC

[@Bradydog-in7ut]

Wow! Wow! Woo-woo! What else could be said?

[@ZiggyNo]

Great story. Fun to see the familiar faces.

[@liamthomas1499]

Awesome! Your like a kid in a candy store! I’m jealous

[@joeecm27]

Can’t wait to see the follow up on this!

[@8xOctober]

Nice haul and video. Thanks for posting

[@BatoMijac]

Very Cool Chris !

[@ACD1994]

Congrats Chris! If you have a few minutes to chat at the Mid Atlantic card show. I'll have some Pre-War questions that I would like to ask you. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Take care.

[@collectorinvestordealer]

Ill be there!

[@itmeyo0]

gj chris love the card stories

[@stuke1976]

Fun recap preview Chris!

[@JohnnysCards55]

Love this story! Probably can’t say but any idea what the store owner paid? I’m sure he kept that private 😀

[@BaseballCollector]

We totally know what the card owner paid and we are not going to disclose that publicly.

[@JohnnysCards55]

@@BaseballCollector ​​⁠hey no worries! I was curious but totally understand! Love the channel! Especially the collection finds purchases!

[@peterb4871]

That was one fantastic collection

[@shawnnorrell1686]

Congratulations on a great deal. What are the best types of cards to get Greg Morris to sell for you. I want to sell my entire collection. Some older items but mostly 70’s through 90’s. All sports. Some non sports????

[@collectorinvestordealer]

They are particularly good with high grade raw vintage (70s and back)

[@game7productions49]

The 2 card channels I watch are you and chasing cardboard so this was really cool. Any other channels that fit the same mold?

[@jude999]

Midlife cards, double d vintage

[@game7productions49]

@@jude999 appreciate you!

[@ACD1994]

@@game7productions49 Midlife cards, double d vintage, Mangini Collection, A collectors Dream, Sammy Thunder, Junk Wax Hero, Return To Collecting, Iconic Al, just to name a few.

[@ACD1994]

Junk Wax Hero, Mangini Collection, Sammy Thunder, A Collector's Dream, Return to Collecting. Iconic Al. Signs of the past time. Dan's Vintage Baseball PC. There's a lot of great channels, I'm blanking on a few of the others. Hope you find, though what you're looking for!

[@LifeofWalk]

What's with the $7k Caitlin Clark rookies? We need a discussion on this lol!

[@djmoonchild01]

Nice!! What's your ballpark estimate on total value?

[@heinzdelf]

💰 gets 💰

[@bodietyler519]

Trying to pull $30k cash outta of a bank is a struggle at one time. I'm a car dealer and a lot of times buying a automobile from an individual they prefer cash. I can understand your position.

[@chadtellevik5479]

Wow!

[@PedroSimoes-sp7ln]

I'm glad that everything went smooth... Especially that u never made a deal with the guy never mind not knowing him... This is one major concern that I wud have ( not saying that he wud, will, or did... But u said before u got there the seller had already met up with ur partner and gave hime most of the cards???( Or gave him some cards) Wudnt u want to be there wen the whole transaction goes down??? I mean u don't know the guy... I mean u must really have a lot of trust in people cuz idk me personally I wud no have to be there for the entire transaction... I not trying to stir up the pot I'm just curious were u not worried about that???

[@collectorinvestordealer]

That was not a concern I had.

[@ASMRPeople]

In the mid 2000s when I was dealing cards on eBay I was also playing a little online poker, needless to say for me it was the gig economy a decade early. It made me understand the idea of a bankroll. If I had a chance to buy a big collection I would not have 40k to buy, but now I have a regular this I have no need to build a bankroll. You often talk about money & time to sell. Do you have advice on managing a bankroll when you need to manage your cash to do your business. Do you keep a certain amount in your account or is jermey your bankroll so to speak?

[@nautilusshell940]

Prob just has enough saved and knows when a deal is good enough to jump on. Its not like poker where any deal could be a total loser. Deals like this are very uncommon/once in a lifetime.

[@tjornalist]

as a european the "in cash" part is absolutely crazy to me. like something out of a movie. escpecially with the european parlament just signing a new law that doesnt allow cash tanstactions above 10k euros. but it rarely happened anyway. Everything is bank transfer here. As the german saying goes: "Die spinnen, die Amis" ("The americans are crazy").

[@nautilusshell940]

Cash cant be traced. Gov's want everyone on digital so they can lock you out when you say something they dont like. Cards are another store of value outside the system.

[@CraigBrosRacing]

EVER SAW A 10FT X10FT WALL MADE OF 86 FLEER CASES....I HAVE...HEHE😮tried to get cajun cardboard to show some interest but he went with a cheaper collection...

[@imamisfit445]

No Canseco RR's?! 😅

[@sneakyquick]

Do you think the store owner you bought them from could have just given them to one of the large auction houses and made more than 120k and not had to worry about the hassle of selling them himself or was it a more prudent deal to sell them all to you guys?

[@collectorinvestordealer]

Probably not as the collection was entirely ungraded (other than 13 cards). There was lots of bulk (tens of thousands of 60s/70s commons). Most major auction houses dont accept entire collections in that manner (a few might).

[@thomascourt4935]

First! 🙂 And I love the preview video! I knew that a full recap was going to take awhile considering the wait on graded cards and then at least a few months to sell. But a nice teaser video hits the spot. I can't help but think of the Simpsons episode where Martin, Millhouse, and Bart all go in on a deal to buy Radioactive Man #1. I'm glad this deal worked out better than that one!

[@collectorinvestordealer]

We have a winner!

[@aarond23]

Would you consider this a 'sleeper' collection as this guy was totally unknown in the hobby and just walked into a card store one day?

[@collectorinvestordealer]

I dont know anything about the original owner but I guess you could call it a sleeper

[@Intensity-qz2jx]

Why did you remark booth guys as fool's? Is it a inside joke? I'm curious what cards did you keep for yourself. Was the Texas Snow Man out of the country when this awesome collection came up for sale? Any 52 Topps Mantles in the collection?

[@collectorinvestordealer]

Called them fools purely as a joke. The Snowman had his own deals in the works. No 52 Mantles in this one.

[@Setashi]

I wonder how much money the person who sold the collection to the shop got.

[@thesummerhummer]

believe they said around 120kish

[@jordanmouw878]

The private party who sold it to the card shop sold it for $30-40,000. So the shop owner made 4x on the collection. On one hand you’d hope the card shop owner would educate the person on the collection. On the other hand it’s the parties responsibility to know what they are selling..difficult to place “blame” per se, but the private party certainly sold it for way too cheap..

[@nautilusshell940]

@@jordanmouw878 Wow. Probably a widow or something. Just made the shops year with that one.

[@TheJankmaster]

Do you feel comfortable with sharing the name of the Philadelphia shop?

[@travismcgrath5430]

Feels like this LCS owner got robbed in plain daylight...

[@dsphillips16]

Mike will look out ONLY for himself. Guaranteed.

[@BaseballCollector]

Nice. You have me pegged absolutely perfectly. I mean you must know me really well. We have probably hung out a ton and spent a lot of time together. At least you guaranteed it.

[@dsphillips16]

@@BaseballCollector I’ve watched two years of your videos. I’m familiar with the way you operate.

[@BaseballCollector]

@@dsphillips16 Interesting that that is what you have taken away from two years of my videos. I guess that all of the people I have actually met and interacted with who would disagree agree with you are just naive?

[@dsphillips16]

@@BaseballCollector you think everyone you’ve met and dealt with likes you? And I’m naive? lol. I’m not going to argue with you. Good luck to you.

[@BaseballCollector]

@@dsphillips16 I guess I’m just a jerk. I appreciate you pointing it out.

[@NampaKing12]

Why didn't you just go 50/50 on this deal?

[@jbenz92]

There were three fools, err gentlemen who went in on the deal. One-third is the logical way to go.

[@skylershout]

This fool! 😂

[@jude999]

Im so confused

[@CraigBrosRacing]

GOOD COLLECTION.....BUT IF THIS IS WHAT "GRAIL" IS TO THE WORLD THEN YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO CALL MINE....BOUGHT OUT A ENTIRE CARD STORE 20YRS AGO AND ITS ALL STILL IN TEMP CONTROL STORAGE EVER SINCE....AND THTS NOT EVEN MY COLLECTION LMAO😂....SELL IT ALL?MAYBE🤔

[@collectorinvestordealer]

Feel free to email me at [e-mail] if you are looking to sell or just looking for guidance.

[@avielwilkerson6836]

I have a huge collection any time you guys have to come check my collection out I want to sale some now my grand father left me the best gift any one will be great full for the future but anyway it’s huge with 1900s to 2000s I love your video I hope we get a chance to meet one day soon thanks

[@collectorinvestordealer]

Feel free to email me at [e-mail] or contact Mike through his channel

[@CVMGAM]

Maybe the purchase should be renamed to "a really nice collection", because "grail" really needs to be reserved for the proper cards. I'm sure a profit can be had from this collection, but it's really mostly common vintage stuff. I'm assuming we've seen the best cards ? No Mantle rookie or Honus Wagner in the next video ?

[@barfyman-dm6zx]

Sorry this peasant display of inferior cardboard didn't please you, m'lord

[@CVMGAM]

@@barfyman-dm6zx Thou had not ith

[@dot2562]

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