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Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

camoseven posted:



My favorite Pirate was just traded to the Phillies for an awful pitcher. Goodnight sweet prince, I will continue to chase your rookie autos and parallels.

He's the worst Phillie at the moment. He single-handedly blew a double-play last night, and struck out swinging on a horrible pitch the next inning.

I totally see why the Phillies dealt for him, but it's been rough so far.

He should probably to make himself more valuable, though:

https://twitter.com/AH_Pod/status/1686709892499771392

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Bank
Feb 20, 2004
lmao that's custom alright

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


Bank posted:

lmao that's custom alright



lol just crudely cutting out and gluing an MLB logo to a card and calling it a one of a kind

*Tears it in half* Now it's 1/2 and both are worth the same amount!

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


*Lists a bunch of old dilapidated beat-up horrible trash cards*

"You've never seen these cards in this in this condition, 1/1 set in the world of this quality, once in a lifetime opportunity!"

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Twenty Four posted:

*Lists a bunch of old dilapidated beat-up horrible trash cards*

"You've never seen these cards in this in this condition, 1/1 set in the world of this quality, once in a lifetime opportunity!"

it's an eBay 1 of 1 !!!!!

Bank
Feb 20, 2004
The YouTube algorithm has been showing me Yoshida hitting dingers and I got intrigued enough to look at some of his auto cards:


His usual signature (right) looks super sharp, lol at the one on the left, it's like he was playing beer pong while signing.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Bank posted:

The YouTube algorithm has been showing me Yoshida hitting dingers and I got intrigued enough to look at some of his auto cards:


His usual signature (right) looks super sharp, lol at the one on the left, it's like he was playing beer pong while signing.

you ever try to sign your name 200 times in a row?

Bank
Feb 20, 2004
Yeah, I get it I just find it humorous. He's probably signed thousands of these based on how many I've seen floating around. He's got at least the /299, /199, /99, then not to mention how many non-numbered ones out.

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Shrecknet posted:

you ever try to sign your name 200 times in a row?

Those poor kids who get stuck signing even one run of Bowman cards, it's gotta be about 2000 of them per guy counting the non-numbered ones.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


mp5 posted:

Those poor kids who get stuck signing even one run of Bowman cards, it's gotta be about 2000 of them per guy counting the non-numbered ones.

Part of spring training. You sit down after BP in a room with the Bowman guy, who hands you a few pens and a stack of cards.

At least they get proofs for themselves to give out to friends and family, and I'll bet (at least the very first time) it's a pretty cool feeling, to see your face on a card.

Gorman Thomas
Jul 24, 2007
Found a match for the Flame Throwers at the Burbank show

lloyol
Jun 23, 2005

NARFZ

lloyol posted:

I just submitted another batch of Ohtani cards to PSA for grading, mostly second/third year Chrome and parallels. I saw a few 10s going for $100 a few weeks back so I thought I try my luck and see what they get.

I also submitted a 2009 Topps American Heritage card of Obama and 2008 A&G of Joey Chestnut for fun.

I just got this grade submission back. the Obama and Chestnut got 10s
Other results:
2019 Topps Chrome 35th anniversary parallel Shohei Ohtani 10
2019 Topps Chrome Sepia Refractor Shohei 9
2020 Topps Chrome 35th anniversary parallel Shohei 9
2019 Topps Chrome 35th anniversary parallel Yusei Kikuchi 10
2017 OPC Platinum Connor McDavid 9
2006 SPX Lebron James base 10
2006 UD Lebron insert 6
2020 Finest The Man Insert Juan Soto 10
2023 Kakawow Disney Moana die cut 10
2023 Kakawow Disney Moana World Stamp Insert 10
2x 2015-16 UD Connor Hellebuyck 10, 9, Canvas 10

Learning from last time, to offset the costs to grade, I threw in a few extra cards to flip and help pay off the expenses for pc cards. It also looks like they're opening an office in Canada and grading cards will be a little cheaper going forward.

Robert Facepalmer
Jan 10, 2019


LOL, goddamn, what is wrong with that Lebron that it only got a 6?

lloyol
Jun 23, 2005

NARFZ


Looking back, it might be two of the back corners showing some white spots. It could be off centred as well but I only eyeballed this card before I submitted it.

Robert Facepalmer
Jan 10, 2019


Maybe something with the surface or the foil? That getting a 6 seems way low compared to the initial impression.

joebuddah
Jan 30, 2005
On the back the right corners have some white.


Outside of that perhaps since it's a full card image with multiple pictures it's hard to give it a centering


My whatnot trip report

Games / wheel spins

There are a lot of channels who just do sell repacks/ random cards.
It's like a casino where you bet real money and can only win cards., that also has carnival barkers. I saw one channel where there were wheel spins for 5,0000 each.


Card sellers.
They also sell / action cards live. There was a good variety of cards sold, from parallels, sps to graded cards . However the starting bid is $2.00.
So those low end parallels / base cards that would sell for a quarter or so at a lcs are now "worth" 2.00.

The group break prices seemed normal or on par with others.
However how teams are assigned in ransoms is quite different and shady. Some use a deck of cards with team logos. Others use a wheel. I've seen some that do a best of 3 spins / random where you can keep or pass on your team.

Free give aways.

I actually won a couple of free give aways
Two of them were base/ parallel cards.
One was a Tyrese Haliburon PSA 10.
So these seem to be legit, from my experience. I've heard others getting a hat or wrist band with the channels logo.


Receiving cards bought/ hit

I bought one Pokemon pack, and had it opened. As well as a baseball box break.

The Pokemon shipping info was sent withib 24 hours. While the baseball was sent in days. Both orders arrived within a week.
.


Card theft.

There are quite a few reports of cards being pulled and people not receiving their cards. This is an issue with group breaking in general and not solely on the whatnot platform. But it does happen so it's worth mentioning.



joebuddah fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Sep 29, 2023

joebuddah
Jan 30, 2005
Just a heads up a guy on Reddit found the entire immaculate baseball autographed card print run in the trash, with the blank stickers pop,

https://reddit.com/r/baseballcards/s/udwKKFJQsz

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



lol that guy is a top 100 prospect

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


joebuddah posted:

Just a heads up a guy on Reddit found the entire immaculate baseball autographed card print run in the trash, with the blank stickers pop,

https://reddit.com/r/baseballcards/s/udwKKFJQsz

I'm interested to hear how this story turns out. I never check reddit and will probably forget though, but if someone sees an update I wouldn't mind hearing. It has to be one of those "this has never happened before" things.

If Jackson Merrill makes it to the majors, this is probably what I will remember him for when I see him on TV or hear his name mentioned now, lol.

IMB
Jan 8, 2005
How does an asshole like Bob get such a great kitchen?

joebuddah posted:

Just a heads up a guy on Reddit found the entire immaculate baseball autographed card print run in the trash, with the blank stickers pop,

https://reddit.com/r/baseballcards/s/udwKKFJQsz

he should sign them all with the worst signature ever and send them in

Bank
Feb 20, 2004
Looks like someone supposedly from Panini reached out to him already. If they know what's good for them they'll give the guy a bunch of cool poo poo to get it all back.

I hear they are pretty litigious though.

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002
Who knows if I'll ever see them, but I just hit two $0.99 BINs that had to have been meant for auction for a total of $4.50 shipped. A 2013 Topps Tribute dual-jersey Strasburg to 99 and a 2011 Topps Diamond Duos Ryan Howard (jersey) and Jason Heyward (bat) out of 50.

Chief McHeath fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Oct 14, 2023

Bank
Feb 20, 2004
Been seeing a bunch of mistakes like that where the sellers just balk and pretend the cards got damaged and cancel the sale.

Fingers crossed for you though! I've seen crazy things happen.

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Sent a couple of pretty expensive modern cards that I opened off to PSA for grading, since for some reason those command the most resale value and they're too pricey to keep.

Sending like 30 other cards that I like a lot more off to SGC for a lot cheaper, and will probably get them back faster.

camoseven
Dec 30, 2005

RODOLPHONE RINGIN'


If you've ever been curious what 15 cases worth of a player break looks like, here you go!! Ended up with 109 base, a gold foil, a rainbow foil, and a gold /2023. I think it was 9 hobby cases and 6 jumbo cases, but I might have those flipped. Paid like $20.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



That’s a lot of Dick



(Mountain)

Sy Borg
Sep 20, 2007




Grimey Drawer
Were you randomly assigned the player? Curious to know what you plan to do with a pile of Pirates.

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

SGC got my cards back to me a few days ago; I sent about 35 very modern cards in and got a lot of 10s back. Very pleased with their speed and cost.

camoseven
Dec 30, 2005

RODOLPHONE RINGIN'

Sy Borg posted:

Were you randomly assigned the player? Curious to know what you plan to do with a pile of Pirates.

I'm gonna do a partial rainbow and also make a dick mountain out of Dick Mountains. Papier mache might be involved.

Sunk Dunk
Apr 14, 2021
edit oops wrong thread

Lester Shy
May 1, 2002

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
Recently got my first COMC order delivered. Nothing exciting, but a lot more fun than spending the equivalent dollar amount on wax. I briefly thought Jung was gonna win ROY, so I went a little overboard there. I got the auto for $10 and it goes for about $40 now, so not too bad.









mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Shohei's one of those guys so loving cool that even his base rookie card feels cool to have in a slab

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002
Just how prevalent are bogus PSA certs? I put a Joey Votto jersey in my watchlist not intending to buy any time soon and got an offer from the seller pretty quickly. Looked up the number on the certification sticker and oops it’s nowhere in the PSA database!

Gorman Thomas
Jul 24, 2007
If it's freshly slabbed the database might not be updated yet. I saw the same thing with an Ohtani insert this week, the seller listed the card as soon as they got the scans from PSA and the database still hasn't updated.

Bank
Feb 20, 2004
So..I bought like 3k Giants cards the other day and when I got them I now have no idea what to do with them. This must be what it feels like to be the last one holding the bag.

There were some stars I grew up with like Will Clark, Matt Williams, and Bonds, but for the most part they are a bunch of no namers from the 80s.. I guess I'll be giving them away to my son's little league team come springtime.

I didn't pay much for them (1c a card after shipping) so NBD but the realization that these are worthless pieces of cardboard finally hit me I guess.

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Chief McHeath posted:

Just how prevalent are bogus PSA certs? I put a Joey Votto jersey in my watchlist not intending to buy any time soon and got an offer from the seller pretty quickly. Looked up the number on the certification sticker and oops it’s nowhere in the PSA database!

It took a little less than a week after I received a card back from PSA to see it in the POP Report.

Gorman Thomas
Jul 24, 2007
Blowout has 2021 Topps Chrome NPB hobby boxes for $99 this week. Might be worth a look if Yamamoto makes the jump this year. The set also has Roki Sasaki's Topps rookie card.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Bank posted:

So..I bought like 3k Giants cards the other day and when I got them I now have no idea what to do with them. This must be what it feels like to be the last one holding the bag.

There were some stars I grew up with like Will Clark, Matt Williams, and Bonds, but for the most part they are a bunch of no namers from the 80s.. I guess I'll be giving them away to my son's little league team come springtime.

I didn't pay much for them (1c a card after shipping) so NBD but the realization that these are worthless pieces of cardboard finally hit me I guess.

Admiring the pictures, reading the back of the card, perusing the stats is easily worth a penny a gander

lloyol
Jun 23, 2005

NARFZ
Is anyone else attending the Toronto sports card expo? I’m heading there today and tomorrow.

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Schremp Howard
Jul 18, 2010

What attitude problem?
I’ll be attending Friday and Saturday. It’s nice to go to a show of this scale where hockey is the primary focus.

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