Trick Or Treat

Yes, as everyone else is posting thier "Last Great Giveaway " packages, just now getting around to posting my Trick or Treat package from Tride Cards.  That would make this post about 5 months overdue.  Better late than never.

Last year (2008) I got an awesome package of Red Sox.  This year I instead got the Trick package.  This Kiss card was one of the many musical cards I got.  The othrs were all Heavy Metal cards and I never heard of the bands so I didn't bother scanning them.

Well this is closer to a better card; there is at leaast a baseball in the picture.

This is where the trick falls of the track for David.  See I collectboxing cards and this is obviously a boxing card.  There is no fighting pictured but there is a boxing glove and that is cose enough for me.

Thanks for sending out all the cards you do and brightening maildays for so many people.  I also received my "Last Great Giveaway" package today.  It was great.  Look for a post somewhere around August.

A Reward For Your Help

Help,I screwed up!  I sent out a bunch of packages but got their contents all mixed up. So far I know I sent a Tiger collector some Brewers and an Angels collector some Reds. They are not the problem; those cards can be kept traded or whatever because they were going to be surprise packages. My problem is I had a box for Field Of Cards that is missing. It is a 400ct box and is mostly dominated by O’s cards. If I sent this package to you by mistake Please let me know and I will handsomely reward you for it.

Roll in the Red Sox

I got a surprise package from Ed the owner/operator of Roll Out The Barrel. It was filled with stuff from my want list.

08 Upper Deck Heroes Purple – Clay Buchholz 14/25: I have some black, charcoal, red, brown and green Heroes but this is my first purple one. I’m not a big fan of purple but I do like rainbows on my cards.

08 Upper Deck Heroes Black – Fisk & Yastrzemski: Ed sent a whole bunch of black parallel Hero cards. I now only need one more. I am still missing a Dice-K.

 

 

 Upper Deck Heroes of Baseball Relic – Wade Boggs Believe it or not this is my first Red Sox bat card. It is actually only my 3rd bat card of any kind. In 04 I pulled a Pujols and a Piazza bat card out of Bowman Heritage. The Pujols went to ebay long ago and the Piazza went to The Easy Life. (If not Easy Life it went to some blogging Mets collector)

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2010 Cards Your Mom Threw Out - Carl Yastrzemski:  I actually already had this card.  I have both the regular back and original back.  But I needed a third.  I need one to stick in my 1960 team set binder because Yaz actually lives in a top loader instead of the binder.  Sometimes doubles are good.

2009 Upper Deck Goodwin  & Goodwin Mini: I love mini cards. I actually had the black bordered Yaz already but still needed the regular mini. It s always nice to get a regular card and it’s parallel in the same package.

Thanks Ed

In Person Trade with Rhubarb Runner

I meet up with fellow blogger Rhubar Runner at a card show in St Louis. We exchanged pleasantries and then exchanged packages. I don’t look at what was inside until I took my kids to Chucky Cheese afterwards. I was blown away by the stuff that David had packaged up for me.

I didn’t comment by each one because I was stunned speechless to receive so many vintage cards. That isn’t all of them he sent either. I had them all scanned before I had computer problems. As soon as I scanned them I put the 74s in my binder. Then I lost all the scans and didn’t remember which ones I had from before and which came from David. I'll just say there were a ton of 74s.  Almost the whole team set.

I noticed another cool thing from his package. If you look at the return address below, it says B Snider. B Snider is none other than Play at The Plate. The actual ship to address is Woodbury MN. I can’t think of who that is but I know that I have traded cards with someone in Woodbury MN. That makes me at least the 4th blogger with this particular box. (Play at the Plate, Mystery Blogger form MN, Rhubarb and then me

Since I have a large amount of cards I need to ship to someone next week I think I will use this same box. I’m also going to write the other 3 blogs names inside the box before I mail it. (That is if I figure out the Woodbury address) Then hopefully whomever I trade it to will use it to trade with someone else and so on. Hopefully one day it will come back with a whole bunch of blog names wrote in it. (Not to mention full of Red Sox)

Thanks for the awesome cards David. I’ll find something to send you that evens us up.

(By the way, has anyone else noticed how many Card Blogging Dave/Davids there are? I can think of at least 4.)

Cards from Cards on Cards

Ok, serious now, I got a great package from Cards on Cards. It is a good thing that he collects sets along with Cardinals. If he only collected Cardinals I would never have anything to send him for all the great stuff I get from him. Cardinals go fast here in Missouri. (But Royals never do. Heck, they never go anywhere except for to the bottom of the division)

Between the package from Cardboard Junkie and this one I ended up only one card short of the 04 Finest team set. I now only need Bill Mueller to complete it. Does anyone out there have it? He is card number #14.

I also received a whole bunch of these 04 Topps First Edition. I didn’t ever even know these existed until I got this package. One of which is a newly signed Tiger. Topps tried to help Damon out by covering up the ball that is only about 10 feet from his body but crashing down to earth. I hope the cutoff man is standing about 30 yards out in the grass.

I decided to chase all the Topps insert sets this year. Usually I don’t but this year they seem to be as plentiful as base cards. Kerry helped out by sending quite a few of them.

Thanks for the great cards. I have those cards from my legendary trade bait set aside for you until I find some other stuff to go with them.

Ebay Trading

How do you trade on ebay? 

I know it isn't exactly trading but to me if you sell something and buy something else without ever cashing the money out of PayPal it is the same as trading. 

When the Colts went to the Super Bowl I listed some Manning Rookies.  With the money I got for this:

I bought this Original T205:

It is now my oldest Red Sox card by 20+ years.

How do you think I did?

I acutally list my cards under the same seller ID as a few friends of mine.  We put a seller code at the bottom of the listings to keep track of whos is whos.  All the auction listing are here.  Right now there is some pretty good stuff listed.  Right now one of the other guys has a Pujoles 4 patch 1/1 card listed right now.

Computer Problems Fixed

I am without a computer for a little while. If anyone is trying to send me an e-mail it will be a little bit before I can respond.  I know I had 3 or 4 trade in the works so hopefully you guys don't abandon them.


I have a few posts in que so you will still be able to see posts for a few days...

Problem now fixed.  I guess I jumped the gun on that a little bit.