by Matt | Apr 26, 2012 | Baseball
The breaks just kept on coming this month. Kyle at Juuust a Bit Outside (JABO) but together not one, not two, but three breaks this month and shipped the loot to me all at once. He busted a couple boxes of 2012 Gypsy Queens plus a metric ton of Topps Chrome from the late 90’s-early 2000’s. As I mentioned, I got all the cards at once, but I wanted to put together a separate post on Gypsy Queens, so I’ll just show off the Chrome for now. Fear not, my stunned silence on GQ will be broken with a post in the very near future.
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by Matt | Apr 26, 2012 | Baseball
A couple days ago I got the cards from this months group break from Sam over at The Daily Dimwit. He was busting boxes of Topps Gallery, Fleer, UD Vintage, Topps HD and Bazooka. Pretty much for the Gallery and HD alone I had to be in on this break. It did not disappoint.
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by Matt | Apr 17, 2012 | Baseball
Another week, another small handful of purchases I probably shouldn’t be making. I look at it like this: If I’ve given myself a monthly budget of “less than a video game” and in 3 months time I’ve only spent $50 (according to my “recent purchases” on ebay), then by all accounts I’m within budget and I’m not breaking the bank. I do have to curtail it a bit, the wife’s car decided it would be a good week to die and it’s in the shop to the tune of $800 for a new transmission coil and some A/C work. So, that kind of puts a stop to the metric ton of Gypsy Queens I had planned to buy. Oh well.
Anyway, since this is probably the last week I can splurge a little on in the foreseeable future, I’m glad I went kinda big. A few eBay items, a trip to a LCS, some cards from COMC, all sorts of goodies. Then again, my definition of “big” is a $7 card, so, you know, temper your expectations…
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by Matt | Apr 12, 2012 | Baseball
That would be the fancy way of saying that I’ve bought more cards this week than cups of morning coffee. Office (aka: terrible) coffee will have to suffice. I know, I know, it’s a terrible sacrifice to make, but these are lean times we’re in, and cards aren’t just going to buy themselves…
I’m doing this for future generations! Ok, not really, but I did get some neat cards this week. 🙂
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by Matt | Apr 10, 2012 | Baseball
Kyle from Just a Bit Outside really hit the ground running in 2012 with back-to-back-to-back group breaks and more on the way. I managed to scrape together enough to get in on breaks #4, #5 and the upcoming Gypsy Queen break (for #6). Break #5 was a really wide selection of all sorts of years and brands. 2003 Bazooka, 2005 Topps Chrome, 2008 SP Authentic and 2003 Fleer Flair. I also decided to jump in and help fill this one out by taking a second team, the Angels, in hopes of getting a Lackey or Pujols hit. Here’s how I did…
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by Matt | Apr 3, 2012 | Baseball
Another week, another smattering of little yellow bubble mailers… well… except for that jerk that charged me $3 shipping and sent me a card in a PWE with a single stamp on it. Seriously, eBay people, nothing will get you a crappy rating faster than sending things in a PWE. Now, if shipping is free, or $0.50, or something like that, sure, that’s understandable. I’m getting what I paid for. I would gladly pay you an extra dollar for a better envelope if given the option. Just don’t charge me like you’re going to send it first class in a mailer, and then put a $0.43 stamp on it. That’s not cool.
I digress.
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