Sleeping in the bed behind me is a wife who is not happy I brought our laptop on vacation, and our son who is ecstatic to go to Legoland tomorrow. Yes, that's right - we are out of town! We are in the big D. For those of you non-Texans, that is Dallas. I get a kick out of the fact that I can work and blog from anywhere. The whole reason I am up right now is because I had to wrap up some updates for a client. While we are here though, I'm going to make the most
I'm a sucker at times, for some base rookies. Because of this, I had bought a boat load of rookies of Biggio (, Bagwell, Thomas, Jeter, Arod, Chipper and Maddux. Oh, and a Gwynn & Sandberg rookie as well. Feast your eyes on the below! 1983 Ryne Sandberg Topps1983 Tony Gwynn Topps1987 Greg Maddux Donruss x 61987 Greg Maddux Leaf x 21989 Craig Biggio Topps1989 Craig Biggio Fleer x 31989 Craig Biggio Upper Deck x 51989 Craig Biggio Donruss x 221990 Frank Thomas Score x 61990 Frank Thomas Topps x 61991 Chipper Jones Upper Deck x 141991 Jeff Bagwell Upper
My wife and son are out of town, so I decided to get a few boxes of baseball cards (2012 topps value boxes), rent a few redbox dvd's and order some pizza. Lo and behold, I've got a pretty fantastic Friday night going! I sat down and turned on the tv ... Yankees / Phillies. What? You mean I have cards to open, pizza, a baseball game on and movies for later???? Wow...this is turning out well, considering they are gone for the weekend. I just saw Pineda for the first time in pinstripes ... and he got pounced. I
I spoke of this months ago, but I busted some SPA in November, and got an expired redemption for Matt Wieters :( After doing some research, turns out that Upper Deck had been rumored to fulfill expired cards if the redemption was less than several months old. I confirmed that on the phone with someone up there, but would need to call back after the new year. I did, and they said they do NOT do that. Frustrated / upset / etc. I kept calling, asking for the higher dude up ... to which I FINALLY got through. He said
So, I basically have a stockpile of cards that are stars, rookies, inserts, refractors, parallels, minis, short prints, serial numbered, etc. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say maybe 25,000-30,000 or so. Up until recently, I hadn't done any sorting, as I sell them in bulk. I decided to have some fun, and dive in and sort out the following: All Peyton Manning - Filled a long box full of him All Favre / Brady / Romo - Another long box full Stafford / Sanchez / Bradford Rookies - about 100 of these Kobe / Lebron
"I have 60+ complete sets...many are from the 70's. I also have several thousand cards from the 50's and 60's." That is about all I needed to know in order to meet up with an older gentleman yesterday in regards to purchasing his collection. After speaking with him on the phone, I found out that his wife had died, and he was ready to sell everything, then live in an RV and get out of town. He said they were married for 40 years. He said he spent countless dollars on sports cards years and years ago at card shows
The company I run has made life very busy for me over the past month, so I have not been able to post hardly anything at all! Here is an update of the show, as well as other dealings: - All the unopened boxes I had purchased are now gone. - I purchased many cool cards (for sale - hit me up!) namely: 4,000 baseball cards from the 1950's to the 1970's, namely, a binder full of 50's-60's cards, 58 mint graded mid/late 70's hall of famers (TCMA/SSPC), a binder of 66 Topps, a binder of 67 Topps, a binder
I absolutely love the third weekend of January. It is simply wonderful. It is the time of year the big sportscard show comes into town! It is one of the very, very few times, I unman my desk during work time for a few hours and drive out of my comfort zone to a far away land known as downtown Houston, to search for cards and collectibles I can either have fun with, sell for profit or both. It is also a wonderful time that I can take my son with me. He is 9 years old and has gone
So, admittedly 2012 has not been the best to me so far just yet when it comes to work. Very many hard things to go through, that have made me pull out my hair. I just noticed that I had not made a blog posting in a very long time ... since last year, in fact! I know it has been less than 2 weeks, but that seems to be an eternity. I was just thinking about a deal I made a while back, and it stemmed from what many parents/grandparents did back in the 80s/90s. They bought their child/grandchild
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