I guess this is a good place to post this since Bruins fans will care most.
I went to New England Picture in the South Shore Plaza today, dead set on getting the flying Bobby Orr picture autographed. It's something I think every Bruins fan should own and with the excitement of NHL hockey starting back up, I figured now was as good a time as any for me to own one! I found it, knew they'd have it, and was trying to see what they can do for a better price, the "sale" price was $400 and "original" price was $600. I use quotes on those because they're always on "sale" if you take those prices seriously.
I got an 8"x10" of Johnny Bucyk for $40, figured it was too important part of Bruins history to let one of the greats autograph go for just $40 so that was the first thing I picked up. I asked if there's a discount if you buy more, she knocked the Bobby Orr picture down from $400 to $300. Cool, save myself a $100! I was going in ready to spend $400 based on their website. I called my brother to see if he wanted one, she said if I got two, I could take each for $275. Even better! I picked one up for my brother. The frame itself is 23"x27" and the picture is 13"x19.5", so these aren't some small pictures, they're big to be the focal point of any man cave.
As I was looking around to see what else they had, something struck my eye. Something that holds a huge importance to Bruins history but isn't talked about as much as Bobby Orr, Cam Neely, etc, I'm sure most people outside of Boston that were too young when it happened or not even born yet never even heard of the incident. And that is a framed autographed picture of Terry O'Reilly climbing into the stands to beat up some fans at MSG. I saw it and knew I had to have it. It was marked at $150, since I was already buying 3 other autographs, she marks it down to $90. Which is about how much I saved on the Bobby Orr picture anyway. I took a picture of the O'Reilly one here:
Excuse the terrible quality and size, I'm quite a bit outdated when it comes to cell phones. I can get pictures of the Orr one too but figured everyone knows what that'll look like.
Lesson of the day, when at a sports memorabilia store, haggle prices! Never thought they were going to drop prices as much as they did and will be big welcome to remodeling my room.