No joke, my best friend at the time's mother gave away 1979 / 1980 NHL Hockey card packs to Halloween tick-or-treaters in 1980. At the time, hockey cards were worthless. She paid less for each pack of cards than the cost of candy bars. It really did happen, believe me. Vancouver, Washington 1980.
Yeah brand spanking new they were tops a quarter. A lot of times you could get a deal on last year's boxes. I could definitely see someone giving them away. I mean as kids we played with them. We bent them up. Threw them at walls gambling ect.
Yea idiot was apparently hyped up on red bulls totally prospecting no sports card knowledge at all just trying to be part of the hype outbidding the American underbidder
Put some Gretzky rookie cards in my bike spokes back in ‘79 to make motorcycle noises. In hindsight, I lost a lot of money but boy did those cards make sick sounds when attached to my bike wheels. lol.
“These cards should be in a better home, like with Gretzky, or Drake…or some girl from my 2nd grade class I haven’t spoken to in 40 years.” In all seriousness, this is total malpractice by Heritage for not prequalifying bidders.
Actually not. In November of 2024, Elise reached out to them and the rekindled their love affair. They are engaged and set to be married this summer. Just kidding. He’s still stalking her.
@@TT-fq7pl I had to stop buying cards by the early 90's when junk wax was popular because the good packs were getting way too expensive and I had just gotten married ! Never did end up with any cards that were all that valuable !
What an a-hole. He won the auction with the implicit intention of immediately selling them in arbitrage. If there were going to be 20-25 Gretzky RCs he would have been way better off just opening the packs carefully. The guy is a moron IMHO.
Yes you do. Red eyes and enlarged pupils. A friend of mine did too much coke and always had red eyes from it. He also couldn't handle brightness and burned away one side of his nostril.
LMFAO, this story is so weird! First off I would be seriously shocked if the value of those cards (once opened) came anywhere near 1 million. OPC cut these cards with wires. There is a reason there is only 1 Gretzky PSA 10 in existence. There were 2 but PSA just decertified one of them. You best hope and pray this case was from one of the first print runs and maybe get a couple 8's/9's. Second off, BBCE is the company that "Authenticated" Logan Paul's 3.5 million dollar fake Pokemon case. IDK why anyone would still use them? I wouldn't trust them to authenticate a ham sandwich. Finally, my guy... Your second grade crush just isn't that into you. It's time to get over it, like 50 years ago. Also you appear to be crushing more than redbulls, which you should probably quit, but absolutely don't go on nation fucking tv like that. End of rant.
A friend of mine was collecting OPC every year starting back in 71/72. Buying boxes every year. The year he skipped over because of his interest in girls & beer - 1979/80! lol
Growing up in London, someone always seemed to know someone that worked at O-Pee-Chee, or Lawson and Jones where they printed the cards. Use to be lots of uncut sheets of cards floating around.
I think the only way you are getting a PSA 10 out of an O-pee-chee Gretzky is if someone cut it out of a full sheet and it got by PSA on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon. I also think grading companies give grades based on size of orders. I sold a guy a PSA 10 Young Guns Thompson goalie card and it had 2 dinged corners....bought it off 4 sharp corners who give PsA a ton of business.
I mean that case has virtually no risk since you could get 20-30 Wayne's, I'm sure card collecting isn't the same anymore but when Gretzky ultimately passes you know there will be a spike of value again. He is Mr.Hockey after all, seeing a guy like Ovechkin breaking his goal totals will be something special, but his overall point total will never be beaten.
ROFL there are MILLIONS of copies of that card. It was selling for as low as 50 bucks for a beat up copy only 10 years ago. ROFL you clowns are sooo stupid! You will NEVER amount to anything because you spend your entire life savings on worthless cardboard so you can feel better in your lonely little room all by yourself 😂
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I had those rookie cards for ALL the stars from back then...going back to the end of the 60's (Born in '66 and hockey cards/comics were my first love.) Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Yagr, etc. as well as the 'All Star' card of Bobby Orr scoring the game winning goal while being tripped. Even having Borje Salming and Darryl Sittler rookie cards. My mother threw them all in the garbage when cleaning out my room after i went to college (even though i had them set aside) cause she never understood or appreciated the value of my comics or hockey cards so threw them all away cause she always said it was a waste of money. I send her clips of when they sell for millions and remind her of how she threw my retirement package in the garbage. Then i forgive her all over again...🤣😂🤣😂
There mere fact that the original seller didn't sue our fake buyer tells me he's actually penniless and it's pointless to try to get something out of him.
@francoisregis2155 I played wheelchair hockey with the entire Flames stanley cup team at the children's hospital and was gifted both cards from Joe Nieuwendyk. My favorite childhood memory.
@@fantasticvoyage262 the shade of blue, the perfect edges, the modern gloss finish to it. The perfect centering. I have a PSA 7.5 of this , it's not even close to what that reprint looks like.
Couldn't the original owners sue the auction house for the original sale price. When you sell something at auction it is put in trust from the auction to store, represent, sell, collect, pay the seller, keep their commission. The OG owner should not be out the owners would have entered a contract with the auction house they they failed to deliver. The buyer registaring has entered a contract to a purchase, pay and pick up by a certain date or storage/penalties are charged. Buyer should be paid and this deal is between the buyer and the auction house. Maybe I missed something I did slam 4 red bulls before the video started lol.
The deal is always between buyer and seller. The auction house is just an intermediary who introduces the buyer to the seller. Their commission is their only contract on completion of the sale. The seller can sue the buyer for non-payment but they declined to do this as it's a long-drawn-out process and if the buyer doesn't have the funds, it's a waste of time and money. The main thing you missed is that the cards were never worth ANYTHING until a buyer paid the selling price. The fact they were bid up to 3 million+ the first time doesn't mean they sold for or were worth that much as the value is only determined by what is paid, not what is bid.
@@carlsd8686 No he is right. The gum melts and bleeds down the side. Saw an entire 82-83 box like that once. Guy ripped it open at a show and not one card was salvageable. But that is why you would never open these boxes. Makes zero sense to open
@@chester-v6p I would open one box quietly. The centering, ink and cut will mostly likely be the same throughout and you will know if you had a good case or not.
Even if you got 30 rookies at psa 8 that’s about $300k. I could see paying $1m because unopened material is rare. But $5m seems crazy. That said it will probably be worth $10-20m in 10-20 years. Rare stuff is worth it to those with money.
I collect only baseball items and have bid on numerous baseball cards, memorabilia, statues, etc., but I never bid on a baseball card or piece of memorabilia in which I did not have the proper funds to cover the cost of the item I bought. I think criminal charges should have been brought up on Jack A. (looks like a junkie), because he bid on this once-in-a-lifetime piece of memorabilia and failed to pay. I would love to bid on highly collected and very expensive memorabilia, but I cannot. I am being responsible, but this joker was not! Even though I only collect baseball memorabilia, which I mentioned, wish I had the money to bid on this 1979-1980 OPC sealed hockey case!
I'll bet he's not anywhere near a multi-millionaire. He made up that cock and bull story to cover himself. Then pining over his "soulmate" Elise from his childhood... The guy is clearly not of sound mind.
One million dollars would have been an overpayment. Now the case is cracked the boxes are worth less to me. These "unsearched cards" are rough cuts with typical bad centering. A PSA 10 Gretsky would be highly unlikely to emerge from this case.
@@drhip-hop-anonymous535that’s a trusted method for identifying cards inside sealed collectibles products. There are actually businesses that provide that service. It’s a known method in the collectors market.
@@drhip-hop-anonymous535 Because Carl the Tard thinks a CT scanner is some kind of space-age advice that can devine one particular piece of cardboard from another in a stack.
Speaking on behalf of all hockey card collectors that own a Gretzky RC. Whoever got the box... please, never open it. Just store it for another 40 years... thanks.
It’s too bad the famous people mentioned didn’t coordinate with each other ahead of time, and then each contact that first winning bidder, all saying that they are definitely willing to pay significantly more than the $3.7 million he did. The only condition is that they want to see the box in person; in Canada. IF……. IF he actually had access to that kind of money, he would have paid the auction house with the belief that he was about to turn a tidy profit by having a few high rollers bidding for them. Then once he told them that he had the cards in Ontario, just tell him that they changed their minds now that they know that even if there are 25 Wayne Gretzky rookie cards in that box, the odds are essentially zero that any of them would rate higher than a 6-7 MAX fresh from the wrapper.
Stop caring about Gretzky? Are you on glue? He's on the verge of becoming the first Governor of Canada after President Trump annexes us and puts Emperor Justinian in Guantanamo.
speak for yourself! He had over 60 NHL records at one time! No one has ever dominated their respective sport more! And he did it all with a tremendous amount of humility!
That man is not in his right mind. Talking about a girl who you liked when you were 7 years old? What?? I think the auction house should have made sure that the bidders really have money. If you go to Bukowski or Christie's auctions, you have to prove you can buy the item. This seems very sketchy..
This video has a lot of extraneous details. It makes it difficult to get through. The creator should consider ways to edit the video to be more concise. For example; what is the relevance of listing the various price increases in the current auction? Simply stating where the auction currently stands is all that needs to be said.
yea he realized he paid a few million for carboard with dudes pictures on it. plus who knows how these grading companies operate. Pretty easy to bribe someone to grade your card a high grade.
How can he win and not pay. That auction house is terrible veting people. All the hype was gone. Why not let the lower bidder from the first auction win. Id sue the first guy 100%
Someone paid WAY too much. There won't be a PSA 10 in there. There is only one in existence. Of the 25 or so in the case, 10 will be PSA 9's and 15 more will likely be PSA 7's and 8's. So HUGE LOSS on initial investment. Prove me wrong.
Multi-million-dollar case of OPC Gretzky rookie year and they have some jabroni hand-carrying it from office to shyyttwagon SUV to other office. Couldn't even afford a hand truck. Also: this video could have been about 7 minutes long.
If he sold it 1 pack at a time it would be a little over $6500 per pack just to break even. If I had disposable income I wouldn't pay that. Maybe if the Gretzky was on the top or bottom. Maybe. I'm thinking packs are $2500 but I'm nobody.
I think a raw ungraded pack of 1979 O Pee Chee Hockey might sell for between $2,000 to $2,500 since the Wayne Gretzky rookie for O Pee Chee is now listed at $4,000.00 ungraded and NM in the Beckett Vintage price guide. It's crazy to think that just over 10 years ago you probably could get a 1979 O Pee Chee pack for between $250 to $500 I'm guessing. I remember that the 1979 Topps Hockey packs would sell for about $100 just 10 years ago.
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Yeah the bidders should have been prequalified. The Arshawsky guy is mentally ill, I think part of him thought he would flip them to a celebrity in some convoluted way. I hope he gets some help. The family went through stress, but ended up getting a nice price. Very risky, the only valuable card in that case is the Gretzky and depending how they grade it could be a huge loss...or a nice return? If I had FU money, it would be nostalgic and bring back memories to open those boxes and hunt for Wayne....
There is no big loss in this. Its called double dipping and the family that had the case had f-all into it much like the rest of the stuff they had like the 1977 opc baseball case nobody mentions 🙄
I'm sorry but how much of a fool would you need to be to invest multi millions into a box of sports cards. Anything any company can easily make more of has zero value. The sports card market is in the tank because of that fact.
Saddest of all is how few media people (and others) acknowledge with any kind of compassion the first bidder's mental illness. It's just all about the money.
There's no such thing here as selling lower than a bid that wasn't actually paid... Somethings value is what someone is willing to pay for it. It NEVER had a value of 3.2 million cuz nobody in the end was willing to pay that amount. U can offer 100k for a carvel cake but if I don't give the $ it's only worth $30 and that's it's value. The person who bought the cake for $30 didn't get a $99,970 discount 😂😅 It's worth WAS and STILL IS 2.5 million... the family never lost $... You simply can't lose what someone was never willing to pay!
No joke, my best friend at the time's mother gave away 1979 / 1980 NHL Hockey card packs to Halloween tick-or-treaters in 1980. At the time, hockey cards were worthless. She paid less for each pack of cards than the cost of candy bars. It really did happen, believe me. Vancouver, Washington 1980.
Yeah brand spanking new they were tops a quarter. A lot of times you could get a deal on last year's boxes. I could definitely see someone giving them away. I mean as kids we played with them. We bent them up. Threw them at walls gambling ect.
@@JoeKyser It says right on the box 20 cents a pack!
No disrespect, but I believe that bidder was mentally unwell and not guilty due to insanity.
Hes Canadian and a realtor so he’s not too bright to begin with
Yea idiot was apparently hyped up on red bulls totally prospecting no sports card knowledge at all just trying to be part of the hype outbidding the American underbidder
Elise frickin did it
Put some Gretzky rookie cards in my bike spokes back in ‘79 to make motorcycle noises. In hindsight, I lost a lot of money but boy did those cards make sick sounds when attached to my bike wheels. lol.
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“These cards should be in a better home, like with Gretzky, or Drake…or some girl from my 2nd grade class I haven’t spoken to in 40 years.”
In all seriousness, this is total malpractice by Heritage for not prequalifying bidders.
Does that guy in the ice-fishing vest look like he knows the first thing about protecting valuables?
Think he was doing a bit more than just Red Bull. The guy's stick definitely is not on the ice. Thanks for the follow up on the story.
This guy is kinda f-ing weird
Actually not. In November of 2024, Elise reached out to them and the rekindled their love affair. They are engaged and set to be married this summer. Just kidding. He’s still stalking her.
@@lazsupervision😂
Like everybody else who spends millions on sports memorabilia.
@@TT-fq7pl I had to stop buying cards by the early 90's when junk wax was popular because the good packs were getting way too expensive and I had just gotten married ! Never did end up with any cards that were all that valuable !
Hes jewish and confirmed pdf file. what did you expect
Thanks for the follow up on this case.
@theveggieman Thanks! I always appreciate the positive words! 👍😀🙏
I'd be worried its a case of GI Joe cards with that BBCE wrap on it
I love that case. That family also had a few boxes of 1975 wha hockey...i got one.
Nice! Congrats!
What did you do with it?
Really cool ! I have an old set of WHA cards with Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull and Jacque Plante as an Edmonton Oiler !!
What an a-hole. He won the auction with the implicit intention of immediately selling them in arbitrage. If there were going to be 20-25 Gretzky RCs he would have been way better off just opening the packs carefully. The guy is a moron IMHO.
Even just live streaming opening them. He would have made a nice sum.
all jews are
Dudes eyes are red now. He was doing coke while he was bidding.
You don't get red eyes from doing coke bro lol. You get red eyes from smoking weed lmfao
Yes you do. Red eyes and enlarged pupils. A friend of mine did too much coke and always had red eyes from it. He also couldn't handle brightness and burned away one side of his nostril.
When I think of all the cards we ground up in the spokes of our BMX bikes in the ‘80’s…. 😒
LMFAO, this story is so weird! First off I would be seriously shocked if the value of those cards (once opened) came anywhere near 1 million. OPC cut these cards with wires. There is a reason there is only 1 Gretzky PSA 10 in existence. There were 2 but PSA just decertified one of them. You best hope and pray this case was from one of the first print runs and maybe get a couple 8's/9's.
Second off, BBCE is the company that "Authenticated" Logan Paul's 3.5 million dollar fake Pokemon case. IDK why anyone would still use them? I wouldn't trust them to authenticate a ham sandwich.
Finally, my guy... Your second grade crush just isn't that into you. It's time to get over it, like 50 years ago. Also you appear to be crushing more than redbulls, which you should probably quit, but absolutely don't go on nation fucking tv like that. End of rant.
A friend of mine was collecting OPC every year starting back in 71/72. Buying boxes every year. The year he skipped over because of his interest in girls & beer - 1979/80! lol
The bidder, is not playing with a full deck.
I"d say his checklist "card" is missing....
Pills
His 🏒 Stick isn't on the Ice !
He was playing with a full 8 ball..😂
Growing up in London, someone always seemed to know someone that worked at O-Pee-Chee, or Lawson and Jones where they printed the cards. Use to be lots of uncut sheets of cards floating around.
No wonder she ditched him even at 7 years old....
🤣
heres a little bit of trivia. the brand name for the cards "O-Pee-Chee" is actually an Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa word for Robin.
Opichi
It's fairly easy to open a sealed box, it ain't that difficult to do, then reseal it and no one's the wiser.
a grown ass man still obsessed with somebody he met at the age of seven. he isn't crazy at all...
Dude def. lives by himself.
I think the only way you are getting a PSA 10 out of an O-pee-chee Gretzky is if someone cut it out of a full sheet and it got by PSA on a Monday morning or Friday afternoon.
I also think grading companies give grades based on size of orders. I sold a guy a PSA 10 Young Guns Thompson goalie card and it had 2 dinged corners....bought it off 4 sharp corners who give PsA a ton of business.
I can't even remember who was in my second grade class & i definitely don't miss them.
Why couldn't BBCE CT scan the box instead of putting their advertisement on all the boxes?
Cause they are idiots and don't understand technology and its improvements to the authentication process
We need bring back a price guide for the industry.
I mean that case has virtually no risk since you could get 20-30 Wayne's, I'm sure card collecting isn't the same anymore but when Gretzky ultimately passes you know there will be a spike of value again. He is Mr.Hockey after all, seeing a guy like Ovechkin breaking his goal totals will be something special, but his overall point total will never be beaten.
ROFL there are MILLIONS of copies of that card. It was selling for as low as 50 bucks for a beat up copy only 10 years ago. ROFL you clowns are sooo stupid! You will NEVER amount to anything because you spend your entire life savings on worthless cardboard so you can feel better in your lonely little room all by yourself 😂
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🤣🤣🤣 so true
The original bidder reminded me of SCTV skits with John Candy. Missing footage was the reunion with the 7 year old played by Andrea Martin.
This was crazy…what a slap in the face to all the crazy collectors out there. LOL The winning bidder is out to lunch ahaha
Appreciate the follow up
I had those rookie cards for ALL the stars from back then...going back to the end of the 60's (Born in '66 and hockey cards/comics were my first love.)
Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Yagr, etc. as well as the 'All Star' card of Bobby Orr scoring the game winning goal while being tripped. Even having Borje Salming and Darryl Sittler rookie cards.
My mother threw them all in the garbage when cleaning out my room after i went to college (even though i had them set aside) cause she never understood or appreciated the value of my comics or hockey cards so threw them all away cause she always said it was a waste of money.
I send her clips of when they sell for millions and remind her of how she threw my retirement package in the garbage.
Then i forgive her all over again...🤣😂🤣😂
Gold might be a better investment
I'm thinking his Uncle and Elise are both as imaginary as his winning bid. ☁😶🌫☁
the internet can't lie so it must be true
There mere fact that the original seller didn't sue our fake buyer tells me he's actually penniless and it's pointless to try to get something out of him.
I have one of his rookie cards ( bent corner, not mint lol ) and Lanny McDonald 😂 Only cards I kept from childhood.
They are still fun to have such great players
@francoisregis2155 I played wheelchair hockey with the entire Flames stanley cup team at the children's hospital and was gifted both cards from Joe Nieuwendyk. My favorite childhood memory.
Buying from Heritage Auctions is a hug red flag also, what if this guy is in on it to get a higher bidder. This guy seems guilty AF.
That " rookie " our junkie friend was holding up in the picture is pretty clearly a reprint.
How could you tell?
@@fantasticvoyage262 the shade of blue, the perfect edges, the modern gloss finish to it. The perfect centering.
I have a PSA 7.5 of this , it's not even close to what that reprint looks like.
Still a lot of money considering the average grade coming from packs of that year is PSA 5.5
Thanks for sharing
Couldn't the original owners sue the auction house for the original sale price. When you sell something at auction it is put in trust from the auction to store, represent, sell, collect, pay the seller, keep their commission. The OG owner should not be out the owners would have entered a contract with the auction house they they failed to deliver. The buyer registaring has entered a contract to a purchase, pay and pick up by a certain date or storage/penalties are charged. Buyer should be paid and this deal is between the buyer and the auction house. Maybe I missed something I did slam 4 red bulls before the video started lol.
The deal is always between buyer and seller. The auction house is just an intermediary who introduces the buyer to the seller. Their commission is their only contract on completion of the sale. The seller can sue the buyer for non-payment but they declined to do this as it's a long-drawn-out process and if the buyer doesn't have the funds, it's a waste of time and money. The main thing you missed is that the cards were never worth ANYTHING until a buyer paid the selling price. The fact they were bid up to 3 million+ the first time doesn't mean they sold for or were worth that much as the value is only determined by what is paid, not what is bid.
Dropping 25 to 30 Gretsky rookie cards in (obviously condition matters) will dilute the value because the scarcity goes down.
The gum will bleed through the cards especially since it wasn't stored right
The fum does not bleed through the cards. It stains the back of the card it sit on. Nothing out of the ordinary for a wax pack with gum in it.
@@carlsd8686 No he is right. The gum melts and bleeds down the side. Saw an entire 82-83 box like that once. Guy ripped it open at a show and not one card was salvageable. But that is why you would never open these boxes. Makes zero sense to open
@@chester-v6p I would open one box quietly. The centering, ink and cut will mostly likely be the same throughout and you will know if you had a good case or not.
If my memory serves me, the box was stored in the attic. Temps in attics can easily reach 140 F.
@ That would do it. This box was basement stored so should be ok
THAT DUDE LOOKS LIKE HE'S ON HIS DEATH BED...PROBABLY SPENT HIS LIFE SAVINGS TO GET THAT CASE.
Even if you got 30 rookies at psa 8 that’s about $300k. I could see paying $1m because unopened material is rare. But $5m seems crazy. That said it will probably be worth $10-20m in 10-20 years. Rare stuff is worth it to those with money.
once Wayne passes away, that box will double or triple overnight
I collect only baseball items and have bid on numerous baseball cards, memorabilia, statues, etc., but I never bid on a baseball card or piece of memorabilia in which I did not have the proper funds to cover the cost of the item I bought. I think criminal charges should have been brought up on Jack A. (looks like a junkie), because he bid on this once-in-a-lifetime piece of memorabilia and failed to pay. I would love to bid on highly collected and very expensive memorabilia, but I cannot. I am being responsible, but this joker was not! Even though I only collect baseball memorabilia, which I mentioned, wish I had the money to bid on this 1979-1980 OPC sealed hockey case!
Elise files restraining order 5 min after interview. What a yoyo lol. Just seems he realized he over bid and his broke ass backed out
how many rookie's were pulled?
Crazy. I knew from day one . The math is easy . Would need a Mega miracle to get money back if opened .
I think if there was 1 10!
This guy is bat shit crazy
Trying to give it to his elementary school girlfriend 50 years later? Yikes!!!
Simpin ain't easy!
Stalker alert!
The Saskatchewan family have a Time Machine. 😂
The original owner should be pursuing legal action against that Red Bull swilling multi millionaire real estate tool
I'll bet he's not anywhere near a multi-millionaire. He made up that cock and bull story to cover himself. Then pining over his "soulmate" Elise from his childhood... The guy is clearly not of sound mind.
I purchased one of these cards in 1980 in a plastic sleeve for $12.00. I almost didn't because the Orr card was cheaper. I still have it somewhere.
Original case retail value.. $153.60 🤦🤦🤦🤦
The retailer probably only paid half that! Probably $75 Canadian.
One million dollars would have been an overpayment. Now the case is cracked the boxes are worth less to me. These "unsearched cards" are rough cuts with typical bad centering. A PSA 10 Gretsky would be highly unlikely to emerge from this case.
Do they not vet their bidders?
Dang i have a bunch of sealed 80's hockey cards packs. I thought they weren't worth anything , kind of still do...
I remember this, it looks like this poor realtor who spent $5 million Canadian was bawling his eyes out about not keeping the cards !
No CT scanning occurred with this case. Nope none at all
And why would they do what? LoL
@@drhip-hop-anonymous535that’s a trusted method for identifying cards inside sealed collectibles products. There are actually businesses that provide that service. It’s a known method in the collectors market.
@@drhip-hop-anonymous535 Because Carl the Tard thinks a CT scanner is some kind of space-age advice that can devine one particular piece of cardboard from another in a stack.
Speaking on behalf of all hockey card collectors that own a Gretzky RC. Whoever got the box... please, never open it. Just store it for another 40 years... thanks.
This is incredibly hard to understand how any sane person would buy paper cards for that kind of money.
No different than paper money. Only of value if people believe in it.
If you can’t manage $100 you can’t manage $1000… after he partied off the blow he regretted that bid 😂
He bought a $5M case to impress a girl from his childhood. Epic level simping.
The problem you’re not realizing with this is your flooding the market with 25-30 more Gretzky cards. Making there values less.
Does anyone believe the rich uncle story?
🤣
No.
It’s too bad the famous people mentioned didn’t coordinate with each other ahead of time, and then each contact that first winning bidder, all saying that they are definitely willing to pay significantly more than the $3.7 million he did. The only condition is that they want to see the box in person; in Canada. IF……. IF he actually had access to that kind of money, he would have paid the auction house with the belief that he was about to turn a tidy profit by having a few high rollers bidding for them. Then once he told them that he had the cards in Ontario, just tell him that they changed their minds now that they know that even if there are 25 Wayne Gretzky rookie cards in that box, the odds are essentially zero that any of them would rate higher than a 6-7 MAX fresh from the wrapper.
NO STORY ......HE NEVER PAID FOR IT ....ALL BS !!!!!!!!!
Whoever bought it got burned. Mathematically, the max Gretzky cards in that case is 16. Further, I bet none are graded 10.
We really need to stop caring about Wayne Gretzky in Canada , he had not lived here for a long time and had never came over to accept a award he won
He will always be remembered. Ovechkin might score more goals than him across his career, but we will always remember the great one.
Stop caring about Gretzky?
Are you on glue?
He's on the verge of becoming the first Governor of Canada after President Trump annexes us and puts Emperor Justinian in Guantanamo.
speak for yourself! He had over 60 NHL records at one time! No one has ever dominated their respective sport more! And he did it all with a tremendous amount of humility!
I wish I had a rich uncle.
Why resale with same company that cant vet their buyers?
That man is not in his right mind.
Talking about a girl who you liked when you were 7 years old?
What??
I think the auction house should have made sure that the bidders really have money.
If you go to Bukowski or Christie's auctions, you have to prove you can buy the item.
This seems very sketchy..
This video has a lot of extraneous details. It makes it difficult to get through. The creator should consider ways to edit the video to be more concise. For example; what is the relevance of listing the various price increases in the current auction? Simply stating where the auction currently stands is all that needs to be said.
yea he realized he paid a few million for carboard with dudes pictures on it. plus who knows how these grading companies operate. Pretty easy to bribe someone to grade your card a high grade.
And with todays printing technologies, sounds easy to counterfeit stuff too.
How can he win and not pay. That auction house is terrible veting people. All the hype was gone. Why not let the lower bidder from the first auction win. Id sue the first guy 100%
That guy was playing hockey with a warped puck.
BBCE 😆
Bunch of clowns who authenticated a fake case of 1st edition pokemon. Whoever uses bbce as a selling point are clowns as well.
value goes down when you flood the market
You do realize that the "Wayne" from "Janet and Wayne " is "The Great One". 11:06 did AI write this?
Someone paid WAY too much. There won't be a PSA 10 in there. There is only one in existence. Of the 25 or so in the case, 10 will be PSA 9's and 15 more will likely be PSA 7's and 8's. So HUGE LOSS on initial investment. Prove me wrong.
There are 2! If the case was one of the first from the factory! It is possible it could have fairly sharp edges!
The smart thing to do would be to never open the box. You could sell it in 10 years for far more. I personally would have a hard time doing that.
Multi-million-dollar case of OPC Gretzky rookie year and they have some jabroni hand-carrying it from office to shyyttwagon SUV to other office. Couldn't even afford a hand truck. Also: this video could have been about 7 minutes long.
IT says $.20 per pack so they should be charging that amount.
drugs people, that weirdo loves his drugs
It sounds like a case of buyer's remors.
l once traded a Sandy Koufax card for a Roger Maris card. didnt have a fckin CLUE the value.
5 million is a huge sum? In what Universe? Some people make that much in less than an hour.
If he sold it 1 pack at a time it would be a little over $6500 per pack just to break even. If I had disposable income I wouldn't pay that. Maybe if the Gretzky was on the top or bottom. Maybe. I'm thinking packs are $2500 but I'm nobody.
I think a raw ungraded pack of 1979 O Pee Chee Hockey might sell for between $2,000 to $2,500 since the Wayne Gretzky rookie for O Pee Chee is now listed at $4,000.00 ungraded and NM in the Beckett Vintage price guide. It's crazy to think that just over 10 years ago you probably could get a 1979 O Pee Chee pack for between $250 to $500 I'm guessing. I remember that the 1979 Topps Hockey packs would sell for about $100 just 10 years ago.
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😮SO WHAT WAS IN IT????😮
A sales person that is full of it? No, never.
Be careful gifting something of extremely high value, the government will claim taxes.
Yeah the bidders should have been prequalified. The Arshawsky guy is mentally ill, I think part of him thought he would flip them to a celebrity in some convoluted way. I hope he gets some help. The family went through stress, but ended up getting a nice price. Very risky, the only valuable card in that case is the Gretzky and depending how they grade it could be a huge loss...or a nice return? If I had FU money, it would be nostalgic and bring back memories to open those boxes and hunt for Wayne....
He should have been sued, if I were that family I would look into that.
Why do people extend the final word of every sentence? Cringe
There is no big loss in this. Its called double dipping and the family that had the case had f-all into it much like the rest of the stuff they had like the 1977 opc baseball case nobody mentions 🙄
I'm sorry but how much of a fool would you need to be to invest multi millions into a box of sports cards. Anything any company can easily make more of has zero value. The sports card market is in the tank because of that fact.
I'm having trouble believing this buyer.
This is so sad
Saddest of all is how few media people (and others) acknowledge with any kind of compassion the first bidder's mental illness. It's just all about the money.
There's no such thing here as selling lower than a bid that wasn't actually paid...
Somethings value is what someone is willing to pay for it. It NEVER had a value of 3.2 million cuz nobody in the end was willing to pay that amount.
U can offer 100k for a carvel cake but if I don't give the $ it's only worth $30 and that's it's value. The person who bought the cake for $30 didn't get a $99,970 discount 😂😅
It's worth WAS and STILL IS 2.5 million... the family never lost $... You simply can't lose what someone was never willing to pay!
Squeezed a lot of bs out of a 2 min story
Send them to Florida