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So, the comics are gone - a comic & toy shop in the dallas area picked them up. It took 3 hours for the whole ordeal. From printing and paying for shipping, taping up the boxes, loading them up and bringing them to the post office. On the phone, the post office was very nice. They told me to drive around the back, ring the doorbell and someone would help me out. I did that, and the woman who "helped" me was ... less than courteous. She opens the door and looks at me "Well? What do you need?" I

Friday and Saturday Pick Ups

I feel like I'm a high roller with all the money I've been putting out recently for cards!  Actually, I've been putting up record breakingly low prices for things.  I'm not sure how I keep running into these deals.  Many of them aren't super-awesome-fantastic.  They are just THERE, and they are not a risk, because I know at a minimum, I can make a small bit off of them.  Particularly, these $10-20 deals I run into that I feel confident I can have fun with, then pull $20 profit out of or so.  Friday night, I met up with a

Target Gift Cards & Blasters

A few days ago, my Target gift cards came in.  I decided to do some research, and many folks are saying I should try to sell the Target gift cards.  I found a site, Plastic Jungle, that will allow me to sell them at 90% of the value ... but only gift cards $25 or more.  2 of my cards were $10, so I decided to use them up.  On my way to grabbing dinner for my family, I ran into Target.  Interestingly enough, they had two clearance blasters at $11.99 each - 2011 Allen & Ginter, and 2011 Topps

A Nice Surprise

I was on one of my favorite sports card trading forums today, and someone was speaking about getting some cards with rewards points from their credit card.  We only have one credit card, and I only use it to pay for some biz stuff, but I logged in and found out I had 62,000+ points!  I knew we had a lot, but never did anything with them, since we just don't do anything with the card, besides pay off the balance once a month. I decided to dig in deeper, and found out I could get $313 cash.  Eh, ok. 

Paypal Me $3 & I’ll Send you a Robinson Cano Rookie TODAY!

I was fortunate enough to grab 600 Robinson Cano rookie cards, and he is ON FIRE right now, so I'm sharing the wealth :)   Paypal $3 to tanmanbaseballfan@gmail.com and a Cano Rookie is sent to you TODAY! 2 for $5, or 5 for $10. 8 down, 592 to go! As I write this, the Yankees look to be going to the post season again. Cano is ON FIRE, has hit .621 in the past 7 games, now has 31 homers, and is arguably the best 2nd baseman in the game today. We won't hold it against him that he

Garage Sale Finds!

My wife is a life-long garagesaleaholic, and goes whenever she can.  I haven't gone in years, but this past weekend, I was bitten by the bug, and decided to go.  The night before, I noticed a mini storage place was having a sale, so I said OOOH!  Lets take a look-see.  Someone posted up saying there were going to be sports autographs.  Heck, it was down the street, so why not?  We loaded up the kiddos and drove down.  When we got there, and I first walked up, I saw a face I recognized.  As it turns out, the guy

Emerging from the cardboard

What you see, is alllll cardboard! These past few months have been a real trip.  The cardshow, and some other deals I had going on really made me put my nose to the grindstone with cards.  I have found treasure after treasure.  More importantly, most of it has found a new home, so our garage isn't so cluttered anymore :)  The card show, as always, was a blast.  I spent more than I normally do, but am now in the black, and, still have TONS of stuff left over!  Among them, about 750 8x10 autographs, 23 framed autographs, 13 boxes

A note to myself when getting googly-eyed at blaster boxes

I was gonna do a video of myself addressing me of the future, but figured I'd chillax on the whole vid thang for a while.  Instead, here is a letter: Dear me of the future, You are reading this because for whatever reason, you are planning on buying boat loads of blaster and retail boxes ... heck ... even hobby boxes.   Some of the many, many boxes I picked up this past winter.  Man, was that fun!  Possible causes are: - it is your birthday or christmas - there is a monster card show in town - you have read

I’m a Greedy American

It has been an absolute blast doing these goofball auctions.  I thought it would be a good idea for half of the money I get from these auctions to go to help kids in need.  I have changed my mind.  It is not a good idea to give half.  It is a good idea to give it all.  The video explains a bit more about this.  Will you join me in doing the same?  If you do, I'd love to hear about it.  Tell me what you do so we can inspire others to help those in need. I have

Elton Brand Super Collection on Ebay + Date with Jennifer Lopez ?

I posted an auction for this at on ebay - Hopefully it will give you a good laugh.  They don't take kindly to folks saying anything about charity, but half of the proceeds for this auction will go to help children in need, so bid it up!  When the winner pays, I'll post here where the money went.  Here is the ad below.   ========= Hello, my friend. I do not believe that it is by chance that you have stumbled upon my internet page. It is fate, no? You clearly have clicked on this link to view the goodness of him