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Interview with a vampire, err…pack searcher

So this past week, one would find me celebrating my birthday 12th 21st birthday the way I always do - with baseball cards, good food and cheesecake. During my lunch break, before going out to eat with the fam, we went to hit up a few targets and wal-marts. I normally don't buy full-priced boxes, and usually only buy full collections, but I thought I would go ahead and splurge, since you only turn 21 12 times! At target, my wife left my son and I to rummage through all the blaster boxes, and here he came: a man who was all

2012 Invisifractor Just Hit Ebay!

After not getting anything hugely awesome in my birthday baseball card box break, I decided to have some fun and post up my 2012 Bowman Prospects Bryce Harper, plus my 2012 invisifractor on ebay to see how well it would do. I've gotta admit - the attention it has already gotten was well worth it, lol! The Ebay Auction 2012 Invisifractor Discovered; More Rare than SuperfractorMay 11, 2012 from Card Mfr. Headquarters For Immediate Release After a number of excited collectors and investors have discovered in its 2012 retail product, it just doesn't hold a candle to its hobby and

Fun Mailday + Blaster Boxes!

It is a well known fact: baseball cards can make any good day, great. I figured I would let loose by cracking open a few blasters today. With wife and 2 kids in tow, we went to a few wal-marts and targets in the area. Since my birthday is coming up, and I moved virtually all the Astros find, I figured I could splurge a bit. I picked up a blaster of 2012 Gypsy Queen, 2011 Allen & Ginter and 2012 Bowman. I admit, I am not a fan of bowman, but this year, with its white borders and clean

HUGE Astros Collection Find

I decided to take a trip over an hour away to visit a guy with an Astros game used collection that was said to be one of the biggest in Texas. While I doubt that, I must say, I am very pleased with the purchase. The only bad thing that came of it was the possible malaria I contracted thanks to the thousands of mosquitos that made a buffet out of me while the seller and I were outside talking. I am sitting here watching Bryce Harper at bat in his first major league game, and going through everything. I

Easy come, easy go

My last blog spoke about how awesome my most recent haul from out of town was. Now, I am back writing about it all being gone. Yes, a dealer friend came over to take a look, and we did a deal shortly thereafter for not only them, but also for pretty much everything else I had that was good. We are talking a boat load of great stuff. When all is said and done, it probably ended up being about 40 boxes of good stuff - from jersey and autograph cards, to refractors, to serial number and inserts to base

Vacationing and Cardboard – Mammoth Purchase!

The wife and I took our son to Legoland this past weekend and stayed in a hotel. A good time was had by all! We were able to take lots of pictures, be together, and catch up with some good friends. If you are a subscriber here though, you don't want to hear about that - you want to hear about the score, so I'll get right down to it! First off, when getting lost on the way, we found a Dick's Sporting Goods. I read on the internet that they sometimes sell cards - I went in, and lo

Blogging from out of town

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

Mail Day – Lotsa Rooooookies

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

How I’m spending my Friday Night …

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

Upper Deck … You are alright by me!

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

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