Thursday, September 4, 2025

The story and some new Braves

 Okay, I got me some new Braves this past Saturday.





There you have 11 of the 12 Braves cards. I am missing #203. Now, I did have all of these sitting in my current Sport Lots cart, so I removed them. 

These cards are what created the story. After getting those 15 boxes (1 which only had 1 row of cards) technically there were only 14 boxes because 1 was a 5 row and 1 was a 4 row and Mike said they make the 15th box. I really wished that I had walked away now. If you recall, I said that I only bought them because they reached out and yes $25.00 is a good deal. I was hoping by doing so they would call again. When I got those boxes, they were going through a HUGE collection and had already sorted 10 dime boxes which I watched what was going in there, and that was the stuff I really wanted. 

A week plus goes by and I heard nothing, so I decided to go over and see if those boxes were there on the shelf or if they sold them to a guy named Tim. First, yep they sold them to Tim. However, when I got there Bill was running the shop again. Mike was a doing a 5th Saturday card show in St. Augustine and Kyle was in South Florida for the Notre Dame game. I didn't know that. I figured one or both of them would be there. They wasn't, so the first words out of my mouth were "what's the odds that I come over again and your here?" I immediately told him about Mike reaching out to me to buy those boxes that I 100% went through the last time I was there with Bill. I told him he charged me $25.00 a box, and that I had told Mike that I really didn't want them, but if this would kick start him calling me for other deals.  I explained to Bill my dissatisfaction with that previous purchase from Mike. I then went over and looked and the ton of baseball dime boxes that were there, Bill started complaining about all the crap they added over there, plus the ton load that was sitting by the door when he was last there (that would be those cards I wanted). I quickly browsed the boxes and seen that only 1 box had any of the cards from that wanted stash. I then pulled about 8 boxes out and sat there going through them. I found the 2025 Chrome (throwing back to the scans above). I took them all, filled 2 rows in a 3 row box that I brought in, Bill said is that your box, I said yes, NO, take the boxes they're in. I don't want empty boxes here. I usually have five 3 row boxes in my vehicle. So Basically that was too late for 1 empty box. I progressed through and found about 1 and half rows of 2025 Heritage, I took them too. I now had emptied 2 more boxes and had a bunch sitting on the table waiting to see how much Bill was going to charge me this time. I asked and he said don't worry about it. I decided to fill up the other 2 empty boxes with misc. sports and topped off the 2nd baseball box with that stuff too. AFTER 4 HOURS OF BEING AT THE SHOP I asked How much, Bill said what do want to pay? I looked at him and said 4 boxes of which I really only wanted slightly less than 2 of them, but didn't want to leave more empty boxes I told him $100.00 $25.00 a piece. He said okay. He even helped take them to my van. I said thanks and left. 

On Monday, Mike texted me raising hell....bitching out the ying yang. Basically stating that I wasn't supposed to get those boxes of cards foo $25.00. Said I told Bill that is all they charge me.  THAT is NOT how it went down. MY above description is 100% on the money on how it went down. I called him back, he didn't answer I left he a thorough voice mail explaining the above, and mention that I had only gotten 2 boxes of baseball slightly less and the rest was that soccer, UFC, etc.. stuff. I also texted him back telling him to check his VM. I never heard back. 

Needless to say...pretty sure I am done for REALS going to KnT. Meanwhile I do have lots of 2025 Chrome.


That's the story. I will post some of the inserts from that (1 box), not sure there is much other than set builds with the rest.


2 comments:

  1. Too bad you didn't get the cards you actually made the trip for. It's tough when you deal with multiple people and details get distorted. Nice Chrome Braves anyways. You spend time and money for their benefit and don't really get what a satisfied customer (you) wanted. It doesn't seem to add up. It's all good as we continue on. Enjoy the night all!

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    1. The problem is Mike. Has been for 2 years now. Besides, I have a very local LCS now and I am due a trip there soon.

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