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You never know, he could have a stack of 93 SP Authentic Jeter rookies or a 90 Topps Frank Thomas misprint!  Haha that would rule. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Boinks fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Feb 7, 2012 |
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Feb 7, 2012 22:35
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Boinks posted:You never know, he could have a stack of 93 SP Authentic Jeter rookies or a 90 Topps Frank Thomas misprint! I did a search for that Thomas card and came across this thread where they discover some kind of printing malfunction (involving water and the press I guess) that screwed up a handful of 1990 Topps cards. I haven't actually read the whole thread yet (I'm on page 14) but it's fun to see the discoveries as they happen in the thread. http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=11&threadid=709331&STARTPAGE=1
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Feb 8, 2012 04:25
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OctoberBlues posted:I did a search for that Thomas card and came across this thread where they discover some kind of printing malfunction (involving water and the press I guess) that screwed up a handful of 1990 Topps cards. I haven't actually read the whole thread yet (I'm on page 14) but it's fun to see the discoveries as they happen in the thread. I'm confused why on ebay sometimes this card goes for $1000+ and sometimes it is $20. What's the difference?
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Feb 8, 2012 05:18
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Bigass Moth posted:I'm confused why on ebay sometimes this card goes for $1000+ and sometimes it is $20. What's the difference? The $20 ones might be the 2010 reprint that is usually intentionally confusingly listed.
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Feb 8, 2012 05:19
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As someone who basically quit collecting about 15 years ago and doesn't know much of the story about what happened with Upper Deck other than what little I see here, I'd like to know more. Anyone have any links to a semi-concise and somewhat-truthful version of the story?
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Feb 12, 2012 04:21
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theacox posted:As someone who basically quit collecting about 15 years ago and doesn't know much of the story about what happened with Upper Deck other than what little I see here, I'd like to know more. Anyone have any links to a semi-concise and somewhat-truthful version of the story? Then there was a massive suit over the company counterfeiting Yu-Gi-Oh cards, which pissed off Konami, and there was some kind of out of court settlement where it sounds like UD had to pay a substantial sum. I see there was, on top of all of that, a suit by Topps alleging that UD stole their card designs from the 1970s for a 2009 product of some kind. Haven't seen much about that though. Overall, they just got hammered with significant lawsuits due to really shady dealings by former executives, and the company's barely hanging on these days. I believe they only have an NHL license now. http://www.aolnews.com/2010/02/02/mlb-files-trademark-infringement-lawsuit-against-upper-deck/
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Feb 12, 2012 05:00
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FlamingLiberal posted:They got hit with several big blows at once. First MLB dropped them from having a baseball card license anymore a couple of years ago, and actually sued them for copyright infringement when they used some logos in some of the last UD baseball cards produced with them. How did they counterfiet Yu-Gi-Oh cards? To me that seems like the most interesting story.
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Bigass Moth posted:How did they counterfiet Yu-Gi-Oh cards? To me that seems like the most interesting story. http://ud.upperdeck.com/fraud/fraud_news.aspx It's a bunch of press releases talking about how in the early 2000s UD was trying to stop counterfeiting of Yu-Gi-Oh cards. So I guess they were just eliminating their competition in this racket? Here, I found a good article about UD's problems with this case, as well as the problem they've had for years with putting forgeries of rare autographs in card sets and calling them authentic. It specifically says that UD was having these Yu-Gi-Oh cards printed in China and then putting them into packs of other, real cards (since they were just printing the good ones). What a mess. It does make mention of reports that UD was counterfeiting Canadian Hockey cards back in the early '90s as well, so this isn't new. http://www.examiner.com/internation...eral-court-says
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Feb 12, 2012 21:17
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Anyone know when the Topps Golden Giveaway site is set to open?
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Feb 13, 2012 03:27
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theacox posted:Anyone know when the Topps Golden Giveaway site is set to open? Supposedly mid month (any day now), but Topps is notorious for having web site issues with their promotions, so it could be a lot later. Hopefully it will be better than last year's Diamond Giveaway crap. Trading virtual rings? Old vintage cards in bad condition? Bah...I think they could have done better.
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Feb 13, 2012 19:58
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Spork Heidelberg posted:Supposedly mid month (any day now), but Topps is notorious for having web site issues with their promotions, so it could be a lot later.
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Feb 14, 2012 01:44
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Yeah I had my cards delivered a few weeks ago and half of them where damaged. I should have just traded them for the die-cuts. One of them even had glue on the back like it was glued to a scrapbook at one time.
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Feb 14, 2012 02:22
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My diamond giveaway stuff was in good shape, though I didn't get anything too cool. Best I got was a '61 Dave Wickersham and a '95 (I think) Trevor Hoffman, which isn't that cool except that card is the last number 7 made by Topps that isn't a Mantle. An old Mel Queen too, not sure what year. And I got them for free, so I really can't complain. Anyone going to try the Museum set that's going to come out? It's 170-200 for 1 on-card Autograph, 1 Autographed Relic card, 1 Jumbo Relic card, and 1 Quad Relic card. I might be tempted. Though I should probably finish off last year's Bowman baseball. So many of the topps 100 missing.
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Feb 14, 2012 09:40
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Antifreeze Head posted:Anyone going to try the Museum set that's going to come out? It's 170-200 for 1 on-card Autograph, 1 Autographed Relic card, 1 Jumbo Relic card, and 1 Quad Relic card. I might be tempted. Looking over the checklist (that they've released), I'll probably just get an Elvis Andrus auto off ebay.
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Feb 14, 2012 10:06
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theacox posted:Anyone know when the Topps Golden Giveaway site is set to open? The Topps Golden Giveaway is now live.
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Feb 14, 2012 22:16
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I can't decide if I want to sell my codes this year. Anyone know the odds for getting a card?
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Feb 14, 2012 22:25
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I don't know the odds, but I got a card (Ryan Howard) with my third code. I only had four codes to redeem and I got one of each type of coin and the Howard card.
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Feb 14, 2012 22:53
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Boinks posted:I can't decide if I want to sell my codes this year. Anyone know the odds for getting a card? If you have, say, a couple of cases worth, I'd seriously consider entering them. On the other hand if I had just a few boxes worth or a half case or whatever, I'd probably just sell them.
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Feb 14, 2012 23:07
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I got about 10 codes. I'll have to check if there's a Dave Winfield card this year, if so I'll try and unlock a card to trade for it. edit--> Entered 15 codes and didn't get a single card, gently caress this promotion. Boinks fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Feb 15, 2012 |
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Feb 14, 2012 23:17
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Whenever I feel like buying a high-end product I end up going here: http://www.youtube.com/user/chri5784 and watching a few breaks. which clears it right up. I just know the one pack of Tier One (for example) I could afford would be the one I just saw get opened where he gets autos of Dillon Gee and Brandon Beachy
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Feb 16, 2012 09:57
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Buying high end product is most often similar to flushing money down the toilet. But hey, it's fun, and you can't win if you don't play, right? But, yeah, that's one of the reasons Topps Chrome is always one of my favorite products. Cards always look spiffy, the price is pretty cheap, and you're going to get two rookie autos per box. No, it isn't the greatest "investment" opportunity when it comes to cards, but that isn't why I'm a collector.
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JohnWilkesGoonth posted:Whenever I feel like buying a high-end product I end up going here: http://www.youtube.com/user/chri5784 and watching a few breaks. which clears it right up. Asking as someone that hasn't collected or bought a pack of cards since 1989, what did that box of cards run that guy?
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Feb 17, 2012 02:11
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:Asking as someone that hasn't collected or bought a pack of cards since 1989, what did that box of cards run that guy? MSRP on that looks like it was around $100.
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Chief McHeath posted:But, yeah, that's one of the reasons Topps Chrome is always one of my favorite products. Cards always look spiffy, the price is pretty cheap, and you're going to get two rookie autos per box. No, it isn't the greatest "investment" opportunity when it comes to cards, but that isn't why I'm a collector. I bought 2011 Topps Chrome last year for the first time and was really disappointed about how many cards came out with vertical scratches on them, from the manufacturing process. Perhaps people look past that kind of damage on these cards when calling them near mint, but I can't. I'll never buy any of the Chrome products again.
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This thread brings back a lot of good memories. I started collecting cards around 1988. It was a fun hobby that I shared with my dad since he has been collecting cards since the mid 1950's. He always tells me of 5 cent packs and ripping up his doubles since he had no use for them. He still kicks himself for it 60 years later. I have real fond memories of going to the card shows with him and buying cheap packs and going through the 1 cent baskets. Card collecting became harder for me around 1994 as the prices of packs kept rising and I remember you just didn't get the same value out of the packs as you used to. Smaller packs and gimmick cards all drove me from the hobby although I still am trying to get a complete set of Topps cards from 1980-1989. I think I just need 1980-1983. What ever happened to Score? How about Topps Stadium Club? These two were my favorite even though Stadium Club didn’t have the complete career stats on the backs.
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Feb 18, 2012 02:54
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Panini owns the Score name brand now, they have made Score hockey sets the past two seasons.
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Topps put out Stadium Club sets until 2003. They tried to bring it back in 2008 by making it 'premium' with an autograph per pack and a chunk of the set numbered to 999 but it only lasted one year.
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Boinks posted:Topps put out Stadium Club sets until 2003. They tried to bring it back in 2008 by making it 'premium' with an autograph per pack and a chunk of the set numbered to 999 but it only lasted one year. Some of those Stadium Club First Day Issue cards from the 90s can still net a fair price. But my favorite 90s inserts were these:  Pinnacle Museum Collection, hell yes.
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Ran into something cool at a dumpy thrift store today Tagged as "1940's Richmond Colts" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Colts) cap, trying to find a image of any kind of similar cap worn by the team though. Almost all the Richmond team pictures I can find, which aren't many, feature a R on the cap. It would be great if anyone could identify a team. streetlamp fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Feb 19, 2012 |
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I've been out of this for a long time. What's the general opinion on the Ebay box break team thing?
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Feb 21, 2012 03:05
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That NNOF Thomas thread is awesome. Wow.
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theacox posted:I've been out of this for a long time. What's the general opinion on the Ebay box break team thing? Just want to second this as I am also curious. I just got back into collecting recently too.
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You'd be better off checking one of the many sports card forums like BlowoutCards and FreedomCardBoard.com and join a group break there.
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theacox posted:I've been out of this for a long time. What's the general opinion on the Ebay box break team thing? We're doing some hockey box breaks in the hockey thread! If you wanted, I could get one going here too.
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AsInHowe posted:We're doing some hockey box breaks in the hockey thread! I'd be down for this.
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AsInHowe posted:We're doing some hockey box breaks in the hockey thread! I like me some hockey, at least peripherally. But I'm really retarded for baseball. If anyone wants to do a goon baseball box break, I'd be interested.
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theacox posted:I've been out of this for a long time. What's the general opinion on the Ebay box break team thing? I've done a couple and didn't get burned, it was a fine experience. Just do a bit of research first. AsInHowe posted:We're doing some hockey box breaks in the hockey thread! Hell yes as long as it's not strictly high end stuff! Assembling a team set from heritage and anything else with short prints is a total pain in the rear end if you don't get in on a break.
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I need some help. My wife's grandfather died in 2010. He left his three grandchildren all of his baseball memorabilia collection. This is no typical collection. We've only scratched the surface of this stuff. I can't tell you how far back his card collection goes, but we found a signed 90s David Justice card and this Pete Rose card signed. He has thousands upon thousands of cards. At least 30 - 40 binders filled with baseball cards. Maybe more. I know we're dealing with a lot of valueless cards. We're definitely not going into this thinking we're going to make a fortune, but we would love to get rid of these cards and make some kind of money off of them. After all, no one in our family actually enjoys baseball enough to collect/keep these cards. My wife and I have been put in charge of this going through this massive collection. Where and how the hell do we start? Technowrite fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Feb 28, 2012 |
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