Don West dies at 59

BlowoutBuzz · 12-30-2022, 02:12 PM

For those of you who remember the phenomenon of Shop-At-Home ...

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cwells52 · 12-30-2022, 02:14 PM

Bet he got to the pearly gates trying to sell them some awesome FACTORRRRRY Sets...

par578 · 12-30-2022, 02:23 PM

Really found his Shop-At-Home shtick to be entertaining back in the 90's (was even parodied on SNL). RIP.

ThoseBackPages · 12-30-2022, 02:32 PM

love him or hate him, he left his mark on the hobby

RIP

RedLabelRecords · 12-30-2022, 02:51 PM

A 1990 Donruss Factory Set. You have 6 minutes left to dial in! Don’t hate yourself tomorrow. You will regret losing out on this. I’m even gonna throw in not one, but two, gem mint tens.

scotthenrichs · 12-30-2022, 03:06 PM

That’s a Gem Mint 10! Mark McGwire gold cards! Get it on easy pay! Shaq is flying through the air!

mikejones · 12-30-2022, 03:20 PM

towerymt · 12-30-2022, 03:40 PM

You had me at '91 Donruss FACTORY SET.

EBCollectibles · 12-30-2022, 04:01 PM

Yes sir I remember Don West. He busted my ear drums a few times saying " We only have a few left ".

seanbros55 · 12-30-2022, 04:05 PM

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thenightman · 12-30-2022, 04:21 PM

Gonna be honest, I wasn't familiar with Don West the sports cards pitch man. I mostly know him from announcing for TNA Wrestling back in the day. Dude always had so much energy.

Thetruthisout · 12-30-2022, 05:27 PM

Rest In Peace, Don West. I really enjoyed watching him during the overnight and early AM hours.

Seahawks fan · 12-30-2022, 05:56 PM

Nothing better than late nights getting home from work and watching sports highlights (when ESPN actually showed them) to see who was winning the home run race between Sosa and McGwire. Then turn on Shop at home to see Don West screaming his head off about a "MARK McGWIRE ROOOOOKIE CARD" deal. I did enjoy watching him in TNA and purposely bought some of his autos back when they were in TNA sets. The guy is a legend.

Thetruthisout · 12-30-2022, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Seahawks fan

Nothing better than late nights getting home from work and watching sports highlights (when ESPN actually showed them) to see who was winning the home run race between Sosa and McGwire. Then turn on Shop at home to see Don West screaming his head off about a "MARK McGWIRE ROOOOOKIE CARD" deal. I did enjoy watching him in TNA and purposely bought some of his autos back when they were in TNA sets. The guy is a legend.

Totally agree!!!!

hairysasquatch · 12-30-2022, 06:35 PM

He's swimming in cards in heaven

awz50 · 12-30-2022, 06:56 PM

Feeewwwwwwwwwww left

scotthenrichs · 12-30-2022, 07:46 PM

I remember setting the vcr up to record shop at home from midnight to 2 am since I couldn’t stay up that long with high school the next day, haha. Felt weird recording shop at home, but it was so over the top ridiculous I had to watch, never bought a thing of course.

blackbears86 · 12-30-2022, 08:04 PM

RIP.

The ultimate salesman. He almost had me buying cases of 1989 Donruss.

dani0100 · 12-30-2022, 08:07 PM

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I'm actually kinda impressed with this deal. I thought Don West was always hawking horrible deals, but 10 bucks per factory set in 1991 was pretty dang solid. I feel like back then the 87 fleer and 87 Topps rookies, and the 89 fleer rookies were pretty hot commodities. Canseco, Bo Jackson, Will Clark, McGwire, etc., were all in pretty high demand. Maybe this video is from later and the great junk wax meltdown had already hit.

blackbears86 · 12-30-2022, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by cwells52

Bet he got to the pearly gates trying to sell them some awesome FACTORRRRRY Sets...

No doubt.

Anyone who cared/collected cards in the late 80's-early 90's knew him.

Absolute legend.

Triple B · 12-30-2022, 08:30 PM

I didn't realize he was that young...f*ck cancer.

coltsnsox07 · 12-30-2022, 08:40 PM

Yeah he looks 59 in that Pacific card from 2004. I watched and bought lots and lots of Peyton Manning autographs from Shop At Home. It's how I unwound late at night after my old hardcore band played a show earlier.

Robles Fan · 12-30-2022, 08:53 PM

I remember seeing his schtick on the Shop at Home network back in the late 90s and found him to be very good at what he was doing, even though he was doing some pretty sketchy things from time to time like trying to sell off 1989 Coca-Cola Tarheels and 1992 Topps Archives Michael Jordan cards (the ones using the 1984 Topps design) like they were "rookies." I'm curious to know how many here would actually admit to calling in and ordering any of the stuff he was trying to sell.

blackbears86 · 12-30-2022, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Robles Fan

I remember seeing his schtick on the Shop at Home network back in the late 90s and found him to be very good at what he was doing, even though he was doing some pretty sketchy things from time to time like trying to sell off 1989 Coca-Cola Tarheels and 1992 Topps Archives Michael Jordan cards (the ones using the 1984 Topps design) like they were "rookies." I'm curious to know how many here would actually admit to calling in and ordering any of the stuff he was trying to sell.

I almost did. Coming home a little buzzed up at 1 in the morning after going out to the bars and falling asleep watching him.

tconte · 12-30-2022, 09:42 PM

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I almost did. Coming home a little buzzed up at 1 in the morning after going out to the bars and falling asleep watching him.

Same here. Lol! That's funny. I thought I was the only one that did that.
I never pulled the trigger on anything.

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par578 Member Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 319	Really found his Shop-At-Home shtick to be entertaining back in the 90's (was even parodied on SNL). RIP.

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thenightman Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 6,730	Gonna be honest, I wasn't familiar with Don West the sports cards pitch man. I mostly know him from announcing for TNA Wrestling back in the day. Dude always had so much energy.

12-30-2022, 05:27 PM	#12
Thetruthisout Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 184	Rest In Peace, Don West. I really enjoyed watching him during the overnight and early AM hours.

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scotthenrichs Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,605 henrichs_1 Sah0620	I remember setting the vcr up to record shop at home from midnight to 2 am since I couldn’t stay up that long with high school the next day, haha. Felt weird recording shop at home, but it was so over the top ridiculous I had to watch, never bought a thing of course.

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12-30-2022, 08:40 PM	#22
coltsnsox07 Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 22,215	Yeah he looks 59 in that Pacific card from 2004. I watched and bought lots and lots of Peyton Manning autographs from Shop At Home. It's how I unwound late at night after my old hardcore band played a show earlier.

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Robles Fan Member Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: Northern VA Posts: 730	I remember seeing his schtick on the Shop at Home network back in the late 90s and found him to be very good at what he was doing, even though he was doing some pretty sketchy things from time to time like trying to sell off 1989 Coca-Cola Tarheels and 1992 Topps Archives Michael Jordan cards (the ones using the 1984 Topps design) like they were "rookies." I'm curious to know how many here would actually admit to calling in and ordering any of the stuff he was trying to sell.