My Favorite Shiffrins

I collect Mikaela Shiffrin.

I don't die hard collect her, but I collect enough of her to make it worthwhile. She is one of the very few local celebrities we have here. Even though she wasn't born here, she went to ski school here and that is only about 20 minutes from where I live which is super cool.

My last three adds were some of my favorite ones of her PC so far.

This is my first PMG. This is a red /150. Looks great.

When a relic card of hers popped up for $3, it had to be mine. Once again, another nice-looking card.

Then finally, a dream card of mine. I always wanted to own a 90's version of this kind of card, but at least I have one now and it's a PC player.

A Jambalaya!! Such a cool card!! These are also very hard to land as they are case hits I believe.

Well, there are my latest Shiffrins. Would love to add more and maybe even move up on TCDB with my collection of here. If you have any, hit me up!

A Perfect Trade

*coffee smell is throughout the kitchen this morning waking up all of the senses. goes and pours creamer in, stirs, goes and sits for today's post*

Trading has really been slow for me in 2022 so far. It's not like I don't have the pieces to trade, it's just that I can't find the right collectors for those pieces and the few I have found didn't have anything for me in return.

That changed this past week where two decent pieces I had to trade found their way to new homes.

*takes a sip*

One of those pieces found their way to @ShoffJason who is a big White Sox fan and on top of that, had pieces for me in return. That my friends is called a perfect trade.

Speaking of perfect trade, this one was easy and fast which also makes it perfect.

I will start by showing off the bonus cards that Jason threw into this trade,

Shiny Derek Jeter I didn't have, awesome.

I only have a couple 20 Years Of The Captain, so all of these are new.

Christmas and Yankee PC all in one card.

Shiny Aaron Judge for my rebuilt Judge PC.

2008 Topps Chrome Uncirculated Gold refractor /199

Those were just the freebies, now onto the trade portion which will kick off with some new Kerry Collins,

1995 Playoff Draft Pick

1995 Ultra Gold Medallion (these still look better than most parallels today)

Team Pinnacle Collins and Marino

1996 Upper Deck Silver Team Helmets

1995 Ultra Extra Gold Medallion

Phone Card from Assets.

And now the finale but first....

*takes a sip*

The trade had started when Jason noticed I was a Giants fan and had a few Saquon Barkley available,

2018 Gold Standard Newly Minted Triple Relic with some guy from Cleveland, Saquon and a solid wideout from Carolina.

And the final card......

2018 Leaf Limited autograph patch rookie Saquon Barkley.

Thanks again to Jason for the trade.

*takes a sip before finishing up today's post*

I have another big trade to post coming up soon.

Thoughts on my trade today and if you feel your trading has gone down this year so far.

Have a thankful Thursday.

*Coffee Card Blogger Out*

Christmas Card 7

Random Cardboard:1995 Fleer Ultra Power Plus Barry Bonds

Marvel At This Mail Day

For the first time, @AlexK245 and myself pulled off our first trade despite interacting and following each other for many years.

It all started when he posted that he was looking for soccer cards and I knew soccer cards were something I have been wanting to unload and have been. For a first trade, this one went so smoothly. It was a quick, short and efficient as we both got a few things we wanted.

Here was my haul from it,

Bob Clatterback that becomes the oldest NY Giants card I own now

Rueben Randle, I am sure I have one of these already in my Randle collection but I don't mind others.

DJ Hall

Victor Cruz alongside Larry Fitzgerald. Speaking of Larry, what ever happened to him?

Terrell Davis rookie. One of my favorite 90s backs but not top. That's saved for Rodney obviously.

And I had to focus on the defenders face as I am sure there was a lot of that when Davis ran the ball.

The ELIte series....

And then came some non sport goodies. Now, honestly I am not much of a Marvel guy as I am more DC with Batman who is my favorite super hero, but I don't turn these types of cards away still. I do remember watching a little bit of the Xmen series on Fox when I was younger.

(they do always say a storm is coming, I might be okay with that)

Beast is probably my favorite of the group. This wasn't all of the base from Marvel that was sent to me either. There was others but I was trying to not drag this post on any longer than I have to. Don't want to bore you guys too much.

Thanks to Alex for our first trade, maybe there will be more down the road. I still have plenty of soccer to go.

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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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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!