I am Joe Collector

First comment or email = person who gets the slot.  Paypal to stusigpi@hotmail.com

1 case
Must comment here or email me
31 slots $29 each.
1 slot = 1 team
BTW, the release date got pushed out to next week October 6 or so.

Atlanta Braves 1871 – John
Florida Marlins 1993 – Aaron and Dennis
New York Mets 1962
Philadelphia Phillies 1883 – Arfmax
Washington Nationals 1969 – Natscards (john, natscards got you by 8 minutes on twitter)
Chicago Cubs 1870 – Colin
Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati 1890 – Alex
Houston Astros 1962
Milwaukee Brewers 1969 – Ric Knapp
Pittsburgh Pirates 1882
St. Louis Cardinals 1882 – Red Bird
 Arizona Diamondbacks 1998
Colorado Rockies 1993
Los Angeles Dodgers 1890 – Are No
San Diego Padres 1969
San Francisco Giants 1883
Baltimore Orioles 1901
Boston Red Sox 1901
New York Yankees 1901 – Yanks and Beans
Tampa Bay Rays 1998
Toronto Blue Jays 1977
Chicago White Sox 1901
Cleveland Indians 1901 – Motherscratches
Detroit Tigers Detroit 1901 – Grand Cards
Kansas City Royals 1969
Minnesota Twins 1901
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 1961
Oakland Athletics 1901
Seattle Mariners 1977
Texas Rangers 1961 – Colin
USA – Red Bird

First comment or email = person who gets the slot.  Paypal to stusigpi@hotmail.com

1 case
Must comment here or email me
31 slots $29 each.
1 slot = 1 team
BTW, the release date got pushed out to next week October 6 or so.

Atlanta Braves 1871 – John
Florida Marlins 1993
New York Mets 1962
Philadelphia Phillies 1883 – Arfmax
Washington Nationals 1969 – Natscards (john, natscards got you by 8 minutes on twitter)
Chicago Cubs 1870 – Colin
Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati 1890 – Alex
Houston Astros 1962
Milwaukee Brewers 1969 – Ric Knapp
Pittsburgh Pirates 1882
St. Louis Cardinals 1882 – Red Bird
 Arizona Diamondbacks 1998
Colorado Rockies 1993
Los Angeles Dodgers 1890 – Are No
San Diego Padres 1969
San Francisco Giants 1883
Baltimore Orioles 1901
Boston Red Sox 1901
New York Yankees 1901 – Yanks and Beans
Tampa Bay Rays 1998
Toronto Blue Jays 1977
Chicago White Sox 1901
Cleveland Indians 1901 – Motherscratches
Detroit Tigers Detroit 1901 – Grand Cards
Kansas City Royals 1969
Minnesota Twins 1901
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 1961
Oakland Athletics 1901
Seattle Mariners 1977
Texas Rangers 1961 – Colin
USA – Red Bird

Atlanta Sports Cards is doing one here.  5 cases 130 a slot 31 slots.

I’d be willing to do a case group break with 31 slots $29 each.  I could do random teams or pick a team and be entered into a random drawing for the USA cards.  BTW, the release date got pushed out to next week October 6 or so.

Around the middle of August things were going awesome.  I had low prices locked in on Topps Football Jumbo.  I had everything ordered and ready to go.  Then things changed.

I realized, found out, that Sweet Spot was not coming out until September 15.  My Jumbo cases arrived and bam, the quality control was junk and I was stuck with 40 lbs of worthless cards.  I decided to just drop the jumbo box from the monthly break and then was talked into busting a box of Topps Platinum.

Like a responsible group breaker I immediately purchased the box of Topps Platinum in this auction.  I then start the wait for a tracking number.  It doesn’t show up.  Before I found that auction I had put in an offer on this auction and early the next morning the offer was accepted.  I emailed the seller from the first auction with no response and then notice that negative feedback is piling up.  So I filed a paypal claim.

I have received a tracking number on the second auction and hopefully those boxes will be here tomorrow or the next day.  USPS doesn’t give an estimated delivery date.  Essentially most everything that can go wrong for a group break has gone wrong, but in a short time the platinum will arrive, the box will be busted and the cards will be mailed.

Some of you will recall that a couple weeks ago I was told by Topps to package up my UPC’s and receipts and send them to Duryea.  Well I did that.  I then received a letter with replacement T-206 mini cards that told me that a supervisor would be in contact me.

Well a week past and nothing so I contacted Topps by Twitter and then by email.  It was like a brand new day in that no one knew what I seemd to be talking about.  Well Mike from the home office gave me a call today and told me that I need mail all the cards back to Topps.  This is a change from what I was originally told.  If you have ever seen 3 cases be busted you can imagine what this entailed.  Let me break it down for you: 50 cards per pack, 10 packs per box, 6 boxes per case, 3 cases = 50*10*6*3 = 9000 cards.

That is four deep and 3 wide.  All the blacks, golds, autos, jerseys, gridiron giveaway, rookie reprints and on and on.  It weighed just over 40 lbs and cost $45 to send.  Mike said that he isnt sure if he is going to be able to replace the 3 cases and I told him that I have $1500 in these cases.  I checked the cards again just to make sure I wasn’t smokin crack and yes, the corners are awful. 

Bottom line is I get sent a box of jumbo I am going to be pissed off.  I have concluded, partially because I have now sunk an extra $45 to mail this that they owe me.  Thoughts?

Why do people continue to ship cards in snap cases so they can bang around in there for 3,000 miles?  Would you ship this card that way? And yes all four corners were worse for the wear.

Philladelphia Football Case split
5 slots
$105 a person
There are 14 autos
28 Jerseys and
1 auto jumbo card
So 4 people will get 3 regular autos and 1 person will get 2 regular autos and the jumbo card auto. Everyone will get an equal allocation of base cards and SP’s

1. IAMJC
2. Darkship
3. HEB
4. Rich R.
5.

Earlier today I got an Email from King Felix:

Hey Joe Collector,

What do you think of the new 2010 Topps Triple Threads Baseball? $160
a box or more for 2 packs of cards. I know you weren’t a fan in the
past, but are you more impressed with the new stuff? They have some on
card autos now, and the new stickers are way better, don’t ya think? I
like how there are more Felix’s this year, and the All Star patches
are way cool. What say you?

Here was my Response:

I still wouldn’t buy boxes per say. It is still a singles product and their are some nice singles out there. The only way I would say to buy boxes is if you came across a sealed case and then bought 5-8 boxes to see if you could nail the case hit.

I don’t hate the product as much as Gellman does, I just think the boxes are a rip off.

J

This product on the wax level makes me sick to my stomach. Check out breaks here, here, and here and over here at Wax Pack Relapse.

Here is the problem, sure if you yank some of these cards you did pretty well but look at some of these auctions from 2009 Triple threads. Here, here, here here and maybe here

Why is that a problem?  Remember these are $162 a box and make no mistake, this is a hit product.  Serial numbered base cards are not worth anything of note.  In other words you can lose $120 a box on this stuff.  The singles are damn nice, especially for team and player collectors.

In the right hand column at the top.