Week 3: Friday brings a busy trade week to a close

     Good evening friends, and happy Friday to you all! Up to Wednesday I was $8.51 in the hole, I then completed a trade with Eric over at Manupatches and Chrome Scratches.  I was able to send him a couple of patches he didn't own, along with some mustache cards ( I think that is one of the coolest topical sets I've come across in a long time) and some Royals cards as well.  The postage on that was $1.88 putting me down $10.39....  until....I paid a long overdue visit to a card store that is near my work.  I hadn't bought any packs in a couple of weeks, and since I hadn't been there in quite a while, I figured I'd go check it out.  Limited on cash, I however was able to find a deal on 2009 Topps Heritage high number packs, 4 for $10.  Since I had never purchased any '09 Heritage, I figured what the hell, give it a shot....I normally don't do a full rundown, but this time I will because I feel I did all right today.  I also got a bit of a surprise when I opened the packs because I was unaware that they contained 6 Heritage cards along with 2 Topps Update cards...

Pack 1:

645. Mike Sweeney
667. Willy Taveras
597. Jason Vargas
517. Michael Saunders
578. Gerardo Parra
UH 89 Phil Hughes
UH 92 Edwin Encarnacion (Jays, another one to add to the collection)
, and finally....

 CHR 160 Ken Griffey Jr. 0861/1960.


In all the different years I bought Heritage, I had the worst luck pulling Chrome cards, so pulling this was pretty cool.









Pack 2:

620. Kenshin Kawakami
648. Trevor Crowe
677. Ryan Sadowski
631. Laynce Nix
639. Scott Kazmir
UH 98 Hanley Ramirez NL All star
UH 142 Jorge Posada season highlights

And, as you can see from the scan on the right, another chrome card...
CHR133 David Huff 0358/1960

This pack was all right as well, 3 rookies and another chrome card...wow, maybe luck is changing for me!!

Pack 3:

527. Brandon Wood 
678. Ryan Spilborghs
539. Chris Perez
660. Ramiro Pena
669. Rocco Baldelli
UH29 Rich Hill
UH316 Hunter Pence/Ryan Braun

and finally, shown in the scan,  RP-13...Rookie Performers Ricky Romero, another Blue Jay to add to the collection! 

Pack 4:

526. Brandon Lyon
562. Diory Hernandez
579. George Sherrill
604. Joe Crede
UH 281 Kevin Youkilis

Then two more Blue Jays!!
536. Mark Rzepczynski (I always have trouble with that name)
UH 297 Brett Cecil

Finally, today was my lucky day, a third chrome card in 4 packs

CHR128 Vin Mazzaro 0532/1960




I took a look at the seeding for the Chromes, the wrapper said 1:3, and I hit 3 of them.  Then again, the wrapper also said short prints were seeded 1:3, but I was unlucky there and failed to pull one.

Honestly, I like these cards, the regular cards have 2 photos of the player on the front which is pretty cool.  The multicolored lettering is different, kind of freaky if you ask me, but it's something you really don't see at all.  The backs of the cards have some variety as well, some have "season highlights", where the card lists 4 different dates of the season, and what that particular played accomplished on those days.  The other type of backs have a 7-8 line "biography" of the player (as much of a career recap one can fit in the limited space).

The $10 I spent on the 4 packs for me was well worth it, and brings the running total to $20.39 in the hole to end week 3.  Week 4 starts tomorrow, have a few trades started with fellow bloggers, and it's time to start cleaning up all these monster boxes of cards (ugh!).

Robert

Week 3 Thursday...2 more trades sent out

I sent out 2 more completed trades on Wednesday, thank you to both Colbey at cardboard collections and Chris at Nachos Grande for helping me out this week.  Another $3.93 in postage spent today adds to the $4.58 I was in the red previously for a running total of $8.51. 

With another completed trade going in the mail tomorrow, and 3 others currently in the works, my fellow bloggers are keeping me hopping, to which I say thank you!

If you see anything that I have on my want list, don't hesitate to send me an email at rmitchell6700ATyahooDOTcom.

Robert

Week 3: trades continue to happen, and continue to arrive at my door

Good morning all, my apologies for not posting yesterday, wasn't feeling totally up to par physically, thus really having no inspiration to post.

However, one of the trades that I completed Friday night was in my mailbox when I got home yesterday.  It was from Ryan over at "O" no not another Orioles blog, and I will say that this is definitely the quickest I've ever received cards in a trade.  I will not subject everyone to several scans of this years Topps set (you've seen them all already), however Ryan did include a diamond parallel for me of Ryan Spilborghs.

I also completed and mailed another trade yesterday with Captain Canuck over at the Waxaholic blog. This cost me $2.76 to mail, so now I'm up to $4.58 in the red.  It's worth it though, Ryan knocked off about 90 cards from my want lists (thanks Ryan, I'll be keeping an eye out for Orioles cards for you!), and the Captain is also putting a dent in my 2008 UD football want list as well.








If any of you out there have Blue Jays cards, I do have a list of the ones I have on the LTP Blue Jays tab.  Take a look if you have a moment or 3, as you can see my goal is to have 250 unique cards by the end of the year.  Any offers can be sent to rmitchell6700ATyahooDOTcom.

Thanks for reading!

Week 3 start...2 trades completed

Completed two trades at the Bench today and mailed them off this morning.  Both will help my baseball want lists(2010 Topps Baseball and 2011 A&G)...$3.42 in postage means we're at $1.82 in the hole, not too bad so far. 

Have added a page as well for my Hockey Want List, it will be under construction for quite a while as I start adding sets that were partially completed over the years.   But for now, any Maple Leafs cards you may have, base/relic/auto, I'll do my best to trade for them.  I also collect Joe Sakic, that will be another page in the future that I have to put up with all the cards that I do have.

Thanks for stopping by....(11 followers now, thanks to Captain Canuck for stopping by and getting on board).