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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Twitter Buybacks

I've been posting a bit on Twitter about buybacks and after one tweet, I was contacted by @SScards16 because he had some to get rid of.  I asked him how much, he made me an offer, I sent him the funds.  After shipping, I know he "made" nothing off the cards.  He has a great card account and I recommend following him on Twitter.

After I made payment he mentioned that he had a few more he was going to include.  I would classify it as more than "a few."  There's a reason his "name" is #CollectLove on Twitter.

I took a pic and tweeted last week when they arrived.  I'm really excited about the number of vintage!  Also, many of the buybacks are from previous years.  Until now, the only ones that I had were the 2017 "Rediscover Topps."


And for a closer look at some of my favorites.


 Future Hall of Famer buyback


Hall of Famer buyback. 


JBF (Willinghammer Rising) buyback.


Cy Young, MVP and World Series winner in same season buyback.


Goose buyback. 


Hall of Very Good Buyback.


Year before I was born buyback. 


All Star I've never heard of buyback. 


Buybach?


Dirty hippie design buyback. 


Expos buyback!


Burlap buyback.


One of my top three Topps baseball designs buyback.


Windbreaker buyback.


"Is this the same guy that plays for the Blue Jays now?" buyback.

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Bowman. Bronze. Buyback.


This is the first Russ Davis buyback that I've received in hand.  I also have purchased the silver, but on COMC.  It may be awhile before it's in-hand.  The only other buybacks I'm sure are out there are silver and bronze copies of his 1999 Topps card.  I feel there should be more.  Hopefully some will surface.  

2017 Bowman Bronze Buyback - 1993 Bowman #342 Russ Davis
Ar least now I have another "oddball" 1993 Bowman to pair with this one I bought a few years back. 


If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Thursday, May 3, 2018

2018 Trading Card Database Trade #20 - alanschwarz -or- And a Buyback In a Pear Tree...

Most of my recent trades through TCDB have involved buybacks.  My trading partner on this one only had one, but had some of those much maligned insert sets with the 1987 Topps design. 


There was one buyback.  All buybacks are loved. 

2014 Topps - 75th Anniversary Buybacks 1973 #427 Rick Auerbach
Thanks for the trade, Alan!

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I've decided to try selling on Sports Card Direct again.  Hopefully you'll take a look at my page and see if there's anything you're interested in.  I can always sell off the site and ship in a PWE if you're only looking for a card or two and don't want to pay $3 shipping.

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $150 in a year.  FREE CARDS!  I have another $40+ going into my Paypal account in the next couple weeks.

If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  You can also find me on Trading Card Database.  I love trading cards, when it makes sense.  Happy collecting!

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

2018 Trading Card Database Trade #21 - CardsThatTimeForgot -or- A Favorite Buyback

This is one of my favorite trades on TCDB so far, because of one card that I picked up. 

2017 Topps - Rediscover Topps Stamped Buybacks Bronze #366 Mark McGwire

The combination of writing this blog post and the recent sale of some Mike Trout card for $400k has me thinking about "iconic" cards and I'll probably write something about iconic cards on my other blog (Bean's Ballcard Blog).  I'll stop short of calling this an iconic card, but it's probably among my personal top 10 cards of the time I've been collecting.  The opportunity to add it as a buyback was something that I couldn't pass on.  During my first year of card collecting (1987) this was one of the cards I was always hoping to find in a pack as McGwire hit more and more homers on his way to the rookie home run record. 

2017 Topps - Rediscover Topps Stamped Buybacks Bronze #US-326 Miguel Cabrera
Meh.

2018 Topps - 1983 Topps Baseball #83-66 Daniel Murphy
I'm still not sure if I'm going to do this set. 

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I've decided to try selling on Sports Card Direct again.  Hopefully you'll take a look at my page and see if there's anything you're interested in.  I can always sell off the site and ship in a PWE if you're only looking for a card or two and don't want to pay $3 shipping.  I'm going to start listing more cards daily.  It's time to get out of a lot of my stuff.  


If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $150 in a year.  FREE CARDS!  Another $40 was depostied into my Paypal account last week.


If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  You can also find me on Trading Card Database.  I love trading cards, when it makes sense.  Happy collecting!

Monday, August 14, 2017

Mail from Breakdown Cards

I sent Gavin (@breakdowncards) of Baseball Card Breakdown a couple of cards in a PWE a week or so ago.  The quickness that he replied (and I didn't send to him expecting to get something back) tells me that it's possible he'd already set aside a few cards for me.  It wasn't long at all that I received a PWE back with set needs and a buyback.


All six A&G cards, as well as the Wil Myers 87T design were needs for my sets!  WINNING!  I've been accumulating 1987 Topps buybacks, as that was one of the first two sets (along with 1987 Donruss) that I put together myself.  Sometime down the road, I will officially begin work on an 87T buyback set.  That is many, many projects down the road, though.

Thanks for the cards, Gavin!  I do appreciate it!

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Thanks, @Just21hb

Thanks to Justin, I have four new Topps buybacks in my collection.  He reached out to me on Twitter asked for my address and nothing else in return.  Collectors like Justin are what's right in a hobby that has a lot of "wrong" associated with it.  I will have that Griffey out to you soon, Justin!


This card is definitely my favorite of the four.  I'm sure Shane would love to get it through our buyback exchanges, but this one may remain mine for awhile.  I love the old Milwaukee uniforms, have grown fond of 1990 Topps and I love fielding images.  Sorry, Shane! 


I love this one as well.  I live just minutes from where the Rangers play (and played in the early 1970s), but have never seen a palm tree in this part of Texas. 


You know it's a great group when my third favorite card is from my favorite set ever. 


You also know it's a great package when the one bringing up the rear is an All-Star card.  This envelope was full of buyback goodness.  Thanks again, Justin!  

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $150 in a year.  FREE CARDS!

If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  You can also find me on Trading Card Database.  I love trading cards, when it makes sense.  Happy collecting!

Sunday, March 18, 2018

BUYBACKS!!! Thank you, @SScards16!

I received another package of 51 buybacks from @SScards16 on Twitter.  It's an absolutely amazing package of cards.  Not one of them is from 1980 or later!

After completing my T206/T213-1 Scoops Carey rainbow, and getting married in about ten months, I have to chill on spending money.  I've mentioned on previous posts about enjoying what I have and these cards will be a great example of that.  Hopefully in the next couple of months I can get on the buyback set project.

I have to figure out a different way to go about posts than Shoebox Legends because I don't want to completely rip him off.  Hopefully he knows that in this case, he knows that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  His buyback frankenset posts are some of my favorites in all the blogosphere.

I'll have some decisions to make on what cards win out and make the set.  I've sent him some buybacks before, but I look forward to helping him even more with his set.

Anyway, on to the cards that I received in the envelope...


Most of the buybacks I have are the 2017 "Rediscover Topps" ones.  This Barry Lersch is the only one of those among the 51 cards.


A couple of my favorite designs ever (1962 and 1971) are represented here.


I will never understand the red and baby blue color scheme for the WHITE Sox.


It's an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan of the 1972 design.  However, it will take some SERIOUS star power to ever bump this 1972.  It's an Indian (long live Chief Wahoo!) and the...I don't even know the term...blurry/double vision/3D look of the photo really appeal to me.


Another theme among the cards in this package was players that went on to be coaches and managers.  There are (at least) two in this photo and more to come.


It was also a Ken Forsch hot envelope!


Quick math tells me that Sparky Anderson had to be 35 or younger when that photo was taken.  He looks OLD to me.  I am 39.

I has no more words...

The moment I saw the name "Bob Will," this is all that I could think...




I feel that with the last name "Pagliaroni," he should have been a career Yankee. 


"Big Daddy" when he was still "Medium Daddy."  That will be a tough one to keep out of the set. 


Speaking of names that sound like the player should have been a career Yankee, we have Johnny Antonelli. 


At first, I thought this Dave Adlesh was (poorly) trimmed at some point in the last 50 years.  After holding it up to another card it doesn't look to be smaller, but instead part of it appears to be slightly wider than normal. 


And from the last picture of this post, that Vic Davalillo almost has to make the set.  The 1965 design is another favorite of mine, and...Indians! 

I need to make starting to actually organize this project a high priority.  I just always feel like I have so many things I'm working on.  Fingers crossed. 

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $150 in a year.  FREE CARDS!

If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  You can also find me on Trading Card Database.  I love trading cards, when it makes sense.  Happy collecting!

Friday, September 1, 2017

Buyback Buy of Shoebox Legends Proportions!

After I finished all the tasks I needed to complete this weekend, I decided to head to the local card show/card show.  It was the first time I'd gone over since getting my Russ Davis need list together and was hoping to find a hidden gem or two in the mass of monster boxes.  While rebuffed on that attempt, I found a few other things.

While sitting and looking through one sellers' boxes, I noticed a couple of stacks of Rediscover Topps cards.  I've seen people asking $1 and up for these, but decided to ask what he wanted for them.  He stated that it depended on the card, but the commons he'd take a dime for.  I asked what he wanted for the whole lot of them and he mentioned there were probably a little more than 100 and he'd take $10 for them.  Without looking through the 25 or so I already had, I accepted.


Once I got home I counted the cards.  I ended up with 215 cards.  I paid less than five cents per card.

I'm not sure what to do with them.  At first I figured that I'd send some of them to blogging team collectors.  Then I thought "maybe I should do a frankenset of my own."  That's where I'm at.  I will just try and acquire some lots of these and then put it together down the road.  I don't want to do it right now and steal anyone's blog idea.

I do want to show some individual cards that I picked up.  These aren't necessarily the most rare, or most anything.  I don't know the color/scarcity odds.  These are just ones that I enjoy for some reason.



I was shocked to find TWO of these cards in the set.  I would love to find the one that has Chris Enochs on it to add to my Enochs collection.  Damn my luck!

Other guys I would love to get buybacks of are Paul Popovich, Steve Kline (the 1990s pitcher, not the 1970s one), Russ Davis, Will Clark, Dale Murphy, Darrell Whitmore, Jedd Gyorko, David Carpenter and Josh Judy.  I'm sure I'm leaving some out.  


TEKE!


I always loved me some Tony Gwynn.  


My first experience of having the Red Sox shoved down my throat. 


I didn't imagine there would be Topps Gold cards in there.  However, if there are going to be some Donruss and Fleer cards, why not? 


The mayor!  I loved Sean Casey as a Pirate.  


One of these guys was MUCH better than the other two. 


Vintage. 


If I don't keep it, you know where it will go.  I was a Pirates fan during the Jason Bay era. 


Vintage! 


BIG CAT!  Also, 1987 was the first year I collected cards.  That's why 1987 Topps and Donruss will forever be two of my favorite sets.  


Get over it, he should be in the Hall of Fame.  


Spanky is looking pretty svelte pre-Pirates.  It must have been too much Primanti Bros. 


A rookie card of a highly under-appreciated third baseman. I've grown to love 1988 Topps. 


More vintage traded.  


History on a buyback.  


I don't know why, but I was always fond of Lance Berkman.  


REALLY vintage. 


He will always be a Cardinal to me.  


Rickey like buybacks. 


Burlap is back in style this year, right?


This is among my favorite Topps designs.  It's probably in my top five.


I saved my favorite for last.  I will always be partial to wood-grain borders.  I also like the team cards with their cheesy sayings on them.  



If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!