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View Poll Results: How much did you invest?
Under $500 105 33.33%
Between $500 and $5000 29 9.21%
Over $5000 10 3.17%
$0… I’m too poor/smart to buy into Wandermania. 156 49.52%
Who’s Wander? I’ve been busy flipping Stanley tumblers. 15 4.76%
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Old 01-06-2024, 11:49 PM   #1
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Default How much did you invest in Wander?

If you broke the bank, here’s your chance to comiserate.
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Old 01-06-2024, 11:51 PM   #2
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Old 01-07-2024, 12:01 AM   #3
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Hit this in a random case break. Has taught me a lesson in selling asap. Lucky the break was only cheap so don't have a big bag lost.

This has red ink. Wander likes them with red ink

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Old 01-07-2024, 12:36 AM   #4
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Down ~$93. Not quite $0, so I voted < $500.

One of these for $10: https://www.topps.com/cards-collecti...asketball.html

2019 Bowman Draft atomic refractor for $83. One just auctioned for $1.58 (https://ebay.com/itm/155945897988), guess I'll do 99 cents no reserve and see what happens.
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Old 01-07-2024, 12:46 AM   #5
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invest? nothing

spend on collecting? quite a bit indeed
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Old 01-07-2024, 01:15 AM   #6
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I spent my wad in 2019 on the closest thing to Stanley Tumblers in the card world: women's soccer cards. I have zero regrets.
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invest? nothing

spend on collecting? quite a bit indeed
Not the best word invest but covers any cards that have since been sold off, or came from wax and breaks instead of direct purchase.
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Old 01-07-2024, 01:28 AM   #8
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Why keep dwelling on this? What’s worse are the jokes.
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Old 01-07-2024, 01:46 AM   #9
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the only Wander i bought, was his true rookie....the 2021 Bowman Best card.

that's it. cost me under $20
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Old 01-07-2024, 02:08 AM   #10
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Just a teen-sie bit

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Old 01-07-2024, 02:14 AM   #11
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Why keep dwelling on this? What’s worse are the jokes.
I should have posted a pre-poll poll to gauge interest in another Wander poll before posting the actual poll. Or better yet, a pre pre-poll.
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Old 01-07-2024, 03:24 AM   #12
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Nada, I never understood the hype, Franco has all the tools to be baseball good, hobby wise it’s an entirely different story. I really feel sorry for the investors, players failing on the field is one thing but screwing up on a personal level is not something that anyone ever expected.
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Old 01-07-2024, 04:31 AM   #13
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Nothing…he never played for the Reds so I had no interest
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Nothing…he never played for the Reds so I had no interest
Enough interest to post in the thread.
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If you broke the bank, here’s your chance to comiserate.
What’s your damage at?
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Old 01-07-2024, 08:37 AM   #17
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$138 for a 2019 Bowman Mega 100 box break. Looks like I sold everything from the break for ~$1250 in 2019 and early 2020.
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bought a topps trading card day auto for like $69 sold it for $130

Bought a 3rd year purple chrome bowman prospect for $40 and sold it for $5 lol

was thinking bout buying back another auto like a panini optic for long term hold..glad i never did now
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I hit a baseball stars rookie auto Black /199 from I think Series 1 and didn’t sell it. I think it was going for like 900-1k or something like that at the time smhhhh oh well…
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Nada, I never understood the hype, Franco has all the tools to be baseball good, hobby wise it’s an entirely different story. I really feel sorry for the investors, players failing on the field is one thing but screwing up on a personal level is not something that anyone ever expected.
I agree. The only hobby good accomplishment he had was being the #1 prospect.
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I really feel sorry for the investors, players failing on the field is one thing but screwing up on a personal level is not something that anyone ever expected.
As a group, we take into consideration all risks - including a player’s potential personal self destruction ~ it’s just part of ‘the game’ we willingly play

An alternative?- switch to Vintage. For me personally, I’d quit the hobby first - not in my DNA. I need the excitement of the unknown and possibilities….
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Old 01-07-2024, 09:21 AM   #23
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Considerably over 5k. I'm not the only one even if I'm the only honest one to vote and admit it.

Profited a grand total of $998.20 in 2022 and $529 in 2023. I was up about $6800 in 2023 before the allegations, and then tax harvested a bunch of losses after the allegations.

Still have a little over $8100 in purchase price of what is left, so the losses on that will likely be around $7k in total, bringing my overall Wander loss to around $5-6k. Should be easier to show a loss on ebay sales for my 2024 taxes however!
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Let's show some compassion. This should be a thread for those who invested significant amounts.
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Old 01-07-2024, 09:38 AM   #25
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Invest. El Oh El

The amount would be between $0 and $0
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