Don’t Let A Pimp’s Magazine Collection Go Unpurchased
What if someone told you that there was a fella who’d been given a subscription to Sports Illustrated magazine over 35 years ago and managed to collect every issue published ever since – including the 19 years worth of issues published before he started collecting, you’d be impressed, right?
What if that same guy put it up for auction and started the bidding at $2 million? You’d probably do the quick math and figure that $2 million divided by 2,500 issues equals $800 per issue, right?
And after you finished scoffing, you’d wonder why such a deal was worth a post here.
Does it change anything that nearly 2,400 of those issues are signed by the people that graced the covers?
Ah. See? I thought that’d get your attention. “But still …” you tell your humble narrator. “Deers, dogs and chicks aren’t really worth $800 each. I can’t imagine how the owner justifies a $2 million asking price.”
You’re a shrewd audience, but I like that. I like that.
See, it’s not just a lifetime’s worth of autographed magazines you could’ve purchased (the auction closed at 11 pm EST today). You’d have paid for a small posse’s lifetime of blood, sweat and hustle. Or maybe just sweat and two parts hustle.
Self-proclaimed “SI King” Scott Smith worked with numerous assistants and inside men with specific connections to people that could procure the king with his prized collection. But the whole lot of his bag men aren’t anything compared to Michelle X.
From the SI King’s team description:
Every great collector should have a good friend like Michelle X. For obvious reasons, I bring my curvy co-worker with me when crashing the best banquets.
Just look at her. Need I say more? When I can’t get Lance Armstrong, she gets two. When Roger Clemens saw her, he crumbled like a little girl and signed five in a row. Patrick Ewing didn’t stand a chance. Michelle’s lined up to do the Heisman, Baseball Assistance Team, Boys Club, College Football HOF, Mets & Yankees Welcome Home Dinners. I’ll be more than happy to lend her out to any collector that ponies up the money! She ain’t cheap and neither is my lender fee! Her services as an aggressive collector are well worth it.
This description reminds me of the high school nerd who falls into money, buys himself a trophy wife and parades her around the 10 year reunion stil trying to beat the bullies of yesteryear. Smith never calls Michelle X a prostitute, but he comes uncomfortably close, doesn’t he?
Lending out aggressive and elegant ladies in exchange for money … sounds pimp-ish to me.
I owned a pair of golf clubs that once belonged to a golfer struck by lightning while on a ninth hole in a Nevada course. But that story ain’t nothing compared to the collection of 2,500 Sports Illustrated magazines signed by 2,400 athletes, athletes’ agents and athletes’ kin.
So, dear readers, the collection is $2 million and the SI King is also offering free shipping.
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Photos courtesy of Scott Smith
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