Until The Next Trade

I haven't been big-time trading much recently; it just feels so time consuming. Not that it isn't rewarding in the end, but it just takes time I haven't had recently.

Just look at my recent trade with blog reader Oren.

I am slacking on mailing out his end of the trade and he mailed his out almost immediately. I feel awful that I haven't been able to get it out sooner, but it's just part of life I guess. It's also why I will continue to cut back on doing more trades with others until time and energy to dig out stuff can be found.

So, for now, I will enjoy this one from Oren.

A couple of set needs. I believe I am a ways from this one still.

Then I took these announcer/media cards. I always liked these in sets. Wished Panini would include them now.

Steve Sabol card. Not sure if this is a rookie or not, but glad to have it. Always watched his football follies growing up.

I was surprised when I double checked and didn't have any of these. I would have thought with all of the "junk" I have it was sitting in there somewhere.

Mo Vaughn subset. Really nice shiny design.

Destination Stardom of Chris Carpenter from Upper Deck.

Why can't companies make great looking parallels like Ultra Gold medallions of the 90's? Because there is nothing like 90's cards.

 

Final card, another new relic for my side Curtis Martin PC. And look....another thing companies don't do much of anymore, especially for football, GAME USED!!!

Thanks again Oren for the trade! I will get yours out in the next few days if I haven't already by the time this publishes.

Thoughts on my latest trade mail day welcomed in comments.

Tradin' With Tim

As I posted awhile back, I am buried in mail days and needing to take about a million pictures. Someday I will get there, if it's only a few pictures at a time.

Today's is one of the oldest mail days I have been sitting on to show off and it's from my buddy Tim, aka, @CardpocalypseNC.

We recently pulled off a trade, well, somewhat (more on that soon) and he sent his end to me first. As for his end, I have no idea what he wants quiet yet but being the great guy he is, he is patient on his return.

For now, I will show off my end of the trade. 

Obi Toppin Rookie from Hoops.

Quickley yellow parallel from Absolute Memorabilia

Some Gmen!

Outstanding Giants sticker.

Metal Universe!! I will take all I can get.....

Especially when they are this cool!

Tim has always been great about set help chasing for me and once again helped this time with my 1995 Ultra Gold Medallion chase,

This was help for the second series. I am also chasing the first series.

A couple new Griffeys, of course I chase Griffeys with eye appeal first.

Anna K cards. Can't complain about these.

Megan Rapinoe. I didn't land her in my box break, so Tim passed one of his dupes along.

I have another card to show off, but that will wait for another day, another....blog?

Thanks again Tim for the trade and I am looking forward to the next one.

MMMB: Julie's Pockets Have Been Picked Again!

First off, Happy Birthday to my wife Jess. I hope you have an amazing day and don't worry, I won't reveal to the readers that you are still 29. ;)

Now onto the start of today's post.

Occasionally there are some Pockets to be picked and A Cracked Bat: Baseball Cards and a Hot Dog written by Julie offers such options.

This time I was a little late to the party but still picked out some pockets of goodies. Mainly what I look for is stuff for the PC especially 90's cards,

 

Rondell White Upstarts from 1995 Pinnacle

Same goes for this Roberto Kelly Upstarts

1998 Ultra Gold Medallions. Not my favorite Gold Medallion design as that title goes to 1995, but this one ranks up there.

Marty Cordova

Jeff Shaw

Hot rookie Fernando Tatis

and the last card comes from one of my favorite products, Zenith. Now it's not 90's Zenith, but when it's Zenith, does it really matter? 

 

2005 Zenith Museum Collection David Dellucci

Thanks again for Julie and letting me pick her pockets again. I gotta make sure to send ya something back if I haven't yet by the time this is posted.

My Experience On TCDB

In the past couple of weeks after seeing many bloggers hype up Trading Card Database, I decided it was time I really pushed to get an account on there and check it out.

I kept seeing post after post about successful trades, RAK's and other bloggers telling me I needed to get on there since there could be Hamptons and Collins I may need.

So I finally set up an acct as SCC which is obviously Sport Card Collectors short.

I then began exploring the forums where I figured I would spend a lot of my time especially in the trading ones. I found a guy who I think had a Rodney Hampton I needed and messaged him. No response. Messaged again nicely, no response. Gave up.

Started a thread about how I collected Rodney Hampton, Kerry Collins and Eli Manning. First response, "Is This Some Kind Of Joke?"

I wasn't feeling the warm welcome as I expected and heard about.

Then I had a few, "you have no trade bait or want lists", then a couple of great people who backed me for trades in Billy and Jasonongerman9, thanks to Billy's backing got three messages where I thought trades were going to begin but instead two backed out, then some more lecturing on my thread on how I should be using the site.

Okay, my thoughts from my thread.

1. Yes, I agree, the site is pretty cool how it's set up and keeps a database of your cards. For someone who has the time to do it right it would be a useful tool
2. I have my own database of needs already. Having to redo all of that hard work just seems like a waste of my time when it's already done. I don't get much time for the hobby so I would rather utilize my time doing other things such as sorting, blogging, etc.
3. I have soooooooooooooo much trade bait I couldn't ever get it all posted on there in my lifetime. I am much easier to work with when you tell me what you collect and I can tell you what I have
4. I felt a few of the responses were a tad rude,but others were nice. I guess it's another one of those forums like Blowout where it's hard to start out as the "new guy"
5. I was fortunate enough to find a member in sgtpppr84 who was the third one to message me and we struck a trade. 

sgtpppr84 was fine just looking at my want lists and put together a nice solid trade lot of set needs for me.

18 new 1995 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallions

Fleer Ultra inserts

1995 Summit Backfield Stars Marshall Faulk

Cris Carter hologram Pro Bowl

Sp Holoview Rod Woodson

Stadium Club Metalists

1995 Stadium Club Power Surge. Great looking foil card

1995 Topps Air Raid. Now I have two of them out of 10.

Thanks to sgtpppr84 for taking a chance on me and for being a really easy trade partner. I am hoping this is a start of future trades for us. I also hope you enjoy the return I sent you as I may have sent along a few extras :)

In the end, I don't plan on using the site to its full extent or possibly at all. If someone wants to trade with me the way I want to, I will. However, I won't be spending my extra time putting in the same info I already have done. Hopefully sgtpppr84 will do some more trades with me as well. If any of you who actually use the site to its full extent want to do some trading for me, I will trade with you to get the things I need. So if you see Hamptons or Collins or Eli's I need, just make the trade and tell me you did so we can work out a deal. I am sure I have something for you.

My plan is to start initiating more blogger trades again. Those are much more fun and less complicated. If you are a blogger and we haven't traded yet, just drop me an email!

Now I gotta know, how has been your experience with trading on the site gone?

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Golden Cardboard

A couple of weeks ago I got my very first mail day from weekly giveaway thread that @ngtcollectibles hosts on Twitter. That mail day was from @Metallicarl who is apart of the group.

I missed this past weeks entry to post on there and see what everyone else is looking for so I can send something along, but I think @Metallicarl must have taken note as he contacted me about some 1995 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallions he recently found in a collection he added since he saw on the blog I am chasing the set.

Let's check em out!

(double PC with this one have Strahan)

Whoa! I think all 12 are new but I will have to check. Right now I am a tad behind on adding set numbers to the blog I am needing. Hopefully will have time to update soon.

A thanks goes out to @Metallicarl for the mail day and set adds. I really appreciate it!

Hopefully I will be able to go onto next weeks thread and pay it forward which is the fun of the thread. Of course I wished people would post that I sent them something. Takes away some of the fun when they don't and I don't want to appear as just a claimer which I am not.

If you haven't joined in on those threads on Twitter yet, you should do so. There are some great people on those threads and nice guys like @Metallicarl

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 19

Let's talk about sets babyLet's talk about it with me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sets (1995)
Let's talk about sets (Summitt)
Let's talk about sets (Uh huh)
Let's talk about sets....

1991 song by Salt-N-Pepa was about a much different topic than I am turning it into. You see, I am staying on topic with cards. Not,well, what they were talking about. This newest segment about the 90's will focus on my set chases (the ones I have already used for a Origins Post or don't plan on using) and new additions to them along with updates on how far I have gotten.

It's time for us to sit down and have that discussion between your parents and you that you tried to avoid. You know, that conversation you have with them about the Flairs and the Pinnacles. Kids, it's time to Talk About Sets.

Today's sets talk is from my trade with @card_a_holic who I said caught my attention from having set needs for me.

So let's check out the sauciness today.

A mix of two different sets I needed help with.

1995 Fleer Aerial Assault was a great looking set. With most Fleer inserts falling 1 per pack back then, these on the other hand fell one per box. I bought TONS of 1995 Fleer and only ever pulled one with Sterling Sharpe.

Now I have a Tim Brown which is now two out six.

Then came 1995 Fleer Ultra which had the best one per pack parallels you could ever ask for. Gold Medallions completely covered the card in gold foil. But, with two series to collect, there are a lot of card needs here. Brian helped with a few.

Shannon Sharpe

Randy Simmons

Junior Seau

Well, this marks the end of the trade. A big thanks goes out for all of the set help. Hope we can do this again Brian!

More Sets Talk ahead!

Variety Of Cardboard

It doesn't take very much to catch my attention when it comes to 90's cards. Well, late 90's cards. To be quite honest, anything before 1995 in the 1990-1994 range scares me. Yes, I fear the junk wax era.

But, anything from 1995-1999 I will always keep an eye out on. When I saw someone post about about a 1995 Fleer Aerial Assault card, I started a conversation on how I am chasing the set. That's when @J1Burris sent me a DM on Twitter that he may be able to help me with that.

Even though he didn't find any of those, he did pass along some other great stuff.

Like Kerry Collins,

 

Topps, I remember this card like it was yesterday.

 Same goes for this one. bought a ton of Impact back in the day.

 Absolutely dig this one.

 I have seen lots of Crash The Games in front of me, but never Kerry. Now it's mine.

 I am building this set as well. I do have Collins, but glad now I have a copy to stick in my PC to.

One of my favorite products in 1995 was Skybox Premium. Now I can add this card towards my set and my PC

 Never argue with Stadium Club

 There was a Kerry Collins rookie in the first series of Ultra and in the second.

Like I said, I am building this set but I do have this one as well. I never mind doubles from this era though.

 One of my favorite all-time RB's, well besides Rodney and Barry, TD!!

Ike Hilliard gold medallion. Other than the 1995 Gold Medallions, this was my favorite design when it came to that popular parallel.

Tiki Barber Ultra rookie

 Strahan parallel /50

 Some more set help with two Ground Zero parallels

And a Red Siege!! Great looking McNair card.

Great thanks to @J1Burris for the cards!! I still have one more to show off but that will wait for a Rodney's Cardboard segment.