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re: Found one of my Holy Grails today at a garage sale, took 25 years (golf related)
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:05 pm to theantiquetiger
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:05 pm to theantiquetiger
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Any Scotty Cameron putter is rare,
Bruh
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:05 pm to OceanMan
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One of the few finds that I don’t find very cool. How is your holy grail something you immediately sell for <$200 profit?
I call things like this my “Holy Grails”, because they are rare to find at garage sales. Some of my other “Holy Grails” are Beatles’ butcher album, Newcomb College pottery (which I would keep), and any first appearance of a major comic book character (I did find a first appearance of Loki for 40¢ one time).
My quest is to find them, not keep them.
I paid $350 for the 14 golf clubs, that comes out to $25 a club. I sold the putter for $210, over 8x what I paid for it.
I’ve also sold one driver for $65, and the irons for $300. That’s a profit of $225 (before eBay fees, sold it irons in person), and I still have six more Titleist woods to sell for somewhere around $50-$75 each.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:18 pm to theantiquetiger
May be worth looking into how much they’ll charge you to refinish the putter with the oil can look. May be a good investment for resale.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:19 pm to theantiquetiger
This was my first in 25 years of hunting. That’s why it’s a Holy Grail "
Why part with it?
Why part with it?
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:38 pm to windmill
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Why part with it?
As I’ve said a few times in this thread already, the quest is finding the item.
Think of it as catch & releasing game fish. The fun is in catching them.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:32 am to BigDropper
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you can still use imgur but it's a process.
1) Upload image & copy link.
2) Paste link in browser and open image link.
3) Right click and select open image in new tab/ window.
4) Copy that image address and paste it in your TD thread.
5) ???
6) Profit
Modified - may be less cumbersome:
1) Upload image & copy link.
2) Return to TD and click the "img" icon.
3) Paste copied link into the text box.
4) Append ".jpg" or ".gif" to the end of the link.
5) Click "OK"
6) Profit
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:54 am to theantiquetiger
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I paid $350 for the 14 golf clubs, that comes out to $25 a club. I sold the putter for $210, over 8x what I paid for it. I’ve also sold one driver for $65, and the irons for $300. That’s a profit of $225 (before eBay fees, sold it irons in person), and I still have six more Titleist woods to sell for somewhere around $50-$75 each.
Yeah I hear you, I understand how profit works. I also understand that your “quest” is the hobby. I dont typically find this uncool, not at all really, I get that you have to know what is considered rare in lots of categories so you can do what you do efficiently. I get it, I don’t buy and sell things, but I appreciate the knowledge it takes to do so and enjoy developing it myself.
But I am trying to point out to you that sometimes your quest conflicts with other hobbies. I personally know plenty of people that go to garage sales to find the same exact thing so they can justify having a Scotty in their bag. It would be treasured by that person, it would be a talking point and they may trade it for another Scotty, get it refinished by Titleist, hand down their old putter etc. It’s their holy grail find.
If collectors like yourself are just buying and immediately selling, it keeps that price high on the secondary market, which keeps them as collectors items rather than golf clubs. Nothing inherently wrong with it, and I certainly don’t expect you to pass on something of value if that’s what you are there for, but at the end of the day, that’s a ton of effort to make about $200 when I can almost guarantee someone would have come along and paid asking price and put it straight in their bag. Of course, it is more likely that if you left it there, someone else like you would have it on eBay by CoB. So my point is theoretical, not meant to be critical.
I’ve never been on this soapbox, and sometimes I find it annoying, like with special edition guitars that “collectors” buy new for $3-4k and drive up prices to $10k+, people argue that “players” don’t have a chance at them. Your average player isn’t buying a $4k guitar to noodle around on - they were made to collect. The other end of that spectrum is adults trampling children to buy Pokémon cards so they can put them on eBay for 2x. They will wind up scattered in some kids room either way, but those middle men just drive up the price along the way.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:58 am to theantiquetiger
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This was my first in 25 years of hunting. That’s why it’s a Holy Grail
A $200 item is not a holy grail
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:58 am to OceanMan
My only annoyance was he showed this to a bunch of golfers AFTER he sold it. I know he can't sell stuff on here, but I feel like someone could have made something happen if they wanted it.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 8:04 am to GRTiger
I got dragged to one estate sale and wanted to kill myself
I can’t imagine enjoying that weekend after weekend
I can’t imagine enjoying that weekend after weekend
Posted on 10/22/25 at 8:20 am to GRTiger
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My only annoyance was he showed this to a bunch of golfers AFTER he sold it. I know he can't sell stuff on here, but I feel like someone could have made something happen if they wanted it.
yeah I guess I could have simplified my post a bit. This one just hit home for mePosted on 10/22/25 at 10:02 am to OceanMan
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But I am trying to point out to you that sometimes your quest conflicts with other hobbies.
I’m still not getting your point. What hobby is me buying this putter conflicting with, my golf hobby, or someone else’s?
I don’t play golf (use to 30+ years ago). Trust me, I am a much better junk man than a golfer.
Or are you saying that by me buying it, I am screwing over someone else that could have gotten it for $25 and used it?
If it’s the second one, that makes no sense. If you want a Scotty Cameron from a garage sale cheap, by all means, get out every Saturday and start looking, it only took me 25 years.
Since Covid, the thrifting hobby/career has boomed, and I laugh at many people that are doing the same thing I do, but they have tunnel vision. I’ve seen many people walk up to a garage sale and ask the same thing everytime, “You have any video games, old toys, comic books , jewelry, or vintage clothing?” If the answer is no, they turn around and leave.
Yes, there’s great money in these items, but they are missing some valuable stuff because they have blinders on.
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 10:03 am
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:42 am to theantiquetiger
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I’m still not getting your point. What hobby is me buying this putter conflicting with, my golf hobby, or someone else’s?
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I don’t play golf
Someone else’s….
You can basically not read the rest of the post, what I’m trying to tell you is that it would simply make more sense if you said it was your “holy grail” item, if you played golf and were excited to use it. Making $200 in profit on any given thing is just another day at the office, if that’s all you intended to do.
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Or are you saying that by me buying it, I am screwing over someone else that could have gotten it for $25 and used it?
I’m not saying you are screwing over anyone. I specifically said my argument was meant to be theoretical and not critical, and to discuss it’s effects on markets.
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If it’s the second one, that makes no sense. If you want a Scotty Cameron from a garage sale cheap, by all means, get out every Saturday and start looking, it only took me 25 years.
Well, they aren’t competing with golfers in search of golf products, they are competing with you. Most of them are probably playing golf at that time
You do see you are creating a transaction that doesn’t arise from actual product demand, right?
Again, not trying to be critical, just trying to help you understand my point. For certain hobbies that also have collectibles, bringing certain items to a larger market, for profit alone, bypasses the functional use of those items, makes them exclusively collectors items , ultimately driving up the price for that product.
My previous post gave two really great examples of the same thing, but they happen with new products and make it much more pronounced. They barely even sell Pokémon cards in stores now because of reseller behavior. They will knock a kid down to by a set so they can sell it for 2x the retail price to their parents. At the end of the day, the people that enjoy these things are 3rd graders. And again, I don’t bring this up to liken your behavior to these people (if I haven’t made it clear, I think you have a legitimate hobby and not trying to diminish it or say what you do is unfair), I bring it up to demonstrate the effect that resellers can have on primary markets.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:49 am to OceanMan
You don't get it. It's the thrill of the hunt, then the glory of the find.
It's like shooting a trophy animal then selling the meat.
No sense in keeping it
It's like shooting a trophy animal then selling the meat.
No sense in keeping it
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