Now from a distance there seems to be nothing wrong with this card....but as we examine it...
Yep 4/10 and a top NFL WR...but look closer.....
Can you see them..yep..dog teeth marks. And this is not the only spot you can see them
Two Christmases ago a relative of mine asked me to email them a small list of hobby boxes I would want for Christmas. Obviously, I jumped right on it and emailed them a list A.S.A.P. One of my favorite products is Crown Royale and I found it at a great price around the season time and put that at the top of my list. They told me they will pick one from the list and surprise me. I had hoped that it would be this one but would have been happy with any. Cause lets be honest, cards are cards.
They placed the order and got it a few days before coming to my house and wrapped it. What they didn't know was that their dog thought it was for them and tore into the wrapped package...with its teeth. They came home to torn up wrapping paper and opened card wrappers everywhere. They were only supposed to see a mess like that after I had received the package.
They placed the order and got it a few days before coming to my house and wrapped it. What they didn't know was that their dog thought it was for them and tore into the wrapped package...with its teeth. They came home to torn up wrapping paper and opened card wrappers everywhere. They were only supposed to see a mess like that after I had received the package.
About 90% of the cards had bite marks or had been eaten. Only 2 cards make it through the disaster. Relic cards of Wes Welker and Dallas Clark. The big pull above did not. Teeth marks run all over the bottom corner shown above and a few other places. A couple other autograph hit and commons have bite marks as well.
I ended up keeping the cards and still have them. We use this story as a joke every year when they buy me cards now. I always say, "remember, put those way up on a shelf.". Now they do just that. I sometimes look at this card and wonder what could have been another solid piece to the collection, but instead became an animals supper. This card may have no monetary value, but it does have memories. And sometimes the memories are more important. Though this is still a Hobby Horror Story.
I must also note before ending that they did get me a replacement gift.
What is a hobby horror story you have to share? Is it something as tragic as losing a low numbered card to a dog bite? Is it a trade gone wrong? Would like to hear yours as well!
that stinks! my friend was supposed to send me a nice lincecum rc one time but his dog chewed it up as well. i think we need to train dogs that cards are not food! lol
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ReplyDeleteThat's rough!
ReplyDeleteI think mine took place not long after I got into collecting sports cards.
I was at the LCS and I was letting a fellow customer look through my hit box.
A few minutes later, I noticed a red mark on my box.
The guy had a cut on his finger, and some of his blood had dripped into the top loaders onto some of my relic cards.
All the guy did was shrug and say "Sorry, bro."
I wound up having to throw about 5 cards away, things that were worth some money at the time, but not really worth much right now.
Younger people will find this hard to relate to, but when i got in the hobby basketball cards where totally meaningless. The biggest stars, the oldest cards, were literally worth 5-cents to maybe 25-cents. I had a bunch of basketball cards that i paid virtually nothing for, old Knicks and superstars, including the big oversized cards of the late 60's or early 70's, i forget what year they were. I wound up gluing the Knicks cards onto contstruction paper to display them in my albums, and gave away the other cards. Today they would be worth really big bucks based on what i used to have. Oh well........
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