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When you are rare set collecting, you have to stay on your toes.

Items Ordered
Image ItemID Set Name Card# Description Price
2008 UD Masterpieces Framed Blue 50 76 Steve Slaton/50 $2.00
2008 UD Masterpieces Framed Brown 99 46 Joe Montana/99 $5.00
2008 UD Masterpieces Framed Burgundy 48 John David Booty/25 $7.99
2008 UD Masterpieces Framed Green 50 25 Kevin O’Connell/50 $1.50
2008 UD Masterpieces Framed Green 50 104 Jake Long/50 $2.50
The jake long is actually a blue. At least the pic is of a blue /50. Good thing too, its the one I need for my set. Funny story about this card. There was one on ebay about 3 months ago and it was .99 opening bid and 3.99 BIN. I bid on it expecting to get it for $1.50…It went for $7.50. I was really pissed at myself for that. You have to remember thought that I would buy singles in volume for .50 especially football even in auction format. Now, cards are all over the place as far as pricing goes.
2008 UD Masterpieces Framed Green 75 29 Early Doucet/75 $1.50

It’s been ordered, should be here Saturday. 9 and 10 will be ordered Wednesday of next week.

Find it here.

Some analysis.  Obviously there is an issue here but on the good side, this case at least had 1 patch in it where as my Early Doucet case had none.  I have run across a few cases like this in the last few months.

First, I saw all the Montana parallels.  They showed up on ebay a couple weeks ago.  Moses got a box with a bunch of Hester /50 Metallics and the same seller of the Montanas had a 5 of the same.  I now have 10-12 of those things.  Another case was a Hornung/Peyton Manning case.  Additonally, no less than 6 brown /99 Jamaal Charles’ showed up from the same seller.

These seem to be localized at DA Cardworld which would make sense. 

Up until a few weeks ago, DA had the cheapest Masterpieces football around.  This leads me to believe that DA but the leftovers from Upper Deck. These leftovers could have been what was unsold or Upper Deck blew the collations, knew it, and then sold them cheap to DA.  Must be why I can’t seem to find and Barry Sanders o#5 or Tyree/Manning #3.

BTW, if you have lots of mid late 90′s inserts and inserts from the 2000′s whether they be jerseys, autos, or just your plain old inserts and you want to sell them, let me know. 

Anyway,  Slette began collecting masterpieces Patches and Parallel sets like me.  When he told me he was making the attempt, I cringed knowing the difficulty in building these sets.  After amassing 24 or so /50 patches and a number of /50 and /25 parallels, Slette asked me whether I would be interested….of course.

Here is what I picked up:
First a couple autos:

/50 blue

/50 Metallics

/25 Burgundy and /10

/50 patches

Call your neighbors, dogs, neighbor’s dogs, LCS, and your old room mate. I am so close to pulling this off that I am frankly really surprised. I’ll do the math for you. I need 94 of 630 for all 7 of 07 Masterpieces numbered parallel sets.

Serious Black /99 need 8
2,12,29,30,35,42,55,68

Black Linen /99 need 6
26,42,58,71,82,86

Blue Linen /75 need 9
2,6,10,25,31,42,53,68,87

Pinot /75 need 9
8,27,29,33,45,46,49,53,72

Hades /50 15
1,6,8,22,25,26,30,35,40,47,49,55,74,78,85

Blue Steel /50 21
2,8,10,12,22,23,29,32,35,36,38,39,49,55,58,61,69,70,79,83,87

Rusted /50 26
1,4,10,13,19,22,23,26,27,29,30,40,49,54,55,59,62,67,68,69,72,76,82,83,87,88

while you are hunting, I need the following 08 FB and BB too.
Football
Green /75 need 2
of 105
3 – David Tyree
5 – Barry Sanders

Light Blue /50 need 28
2,4,9,10,13,16,19,24,32,34,44,50,58,60, 62,69,76,78,79,80,83,86,91,93,96,102,104,110

green /50 need 21
1,3,5,10,21,37,39,44,48,50,63,78,80,81,88,93,95,99,103,108,109

Burgundy /25 need 38
4,5,6,8,9,10,13,14,15,19,21,22,26,27,31,35,37,39,42,44,46,48,49,51,61,67,68,72,73,76,80,81,82,83,86,87,88,90

and 2008 Baseball
Green /75 117 of 120
52 – Ken Griffey
67 – Eric Chavez
81 – IChiro

Blue /50 need 34
2,3,4,7,8,11,12,16,19,32,39,41,45,46,48,49,52,54,56,62,64,66,70,83,94,96,97,98,100,105,106,107,108,115

and some fake autos never go away.  Something tells me the seller doesn’t know any better, his other stuff looks legit. Here is the original post i did on the Blowout Forums.  And yes, we are still doing this.

Sorry for the dirty HTML, I wanted to capture this:

Last night I found this auction:
I questioned the seller because we all know, well maybe not all of us, that the 1/1 07 masterpieces jerseys have bronze borders:

Dear beantown116,
Can I get a scan of the back to show the 1/1?
- iamjoecollector

Dear iamjoecollector,
Hi there!
I just uploaded the back of the card to the auction page.
Thanks, Mike
- beantown116

Dear beantown116,
Mike
Is the frame on the front black or bronze in color? It looks black in the scan. The reason why I ask>

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120712053762&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Jeff
- iamjoecollector

Dear iamjoecollector,
Hi again,
I believe it is black. I am color blind, but it seems more black than ‘bronze’. It isn’t dark black by any standards. I bet the glare from the card protector is giving a different color.
Thanks
- beantown116

Then tonight this auction shows up.

BTW, I know Guru to have busted 3 cases of Masterpieces and his reputation is good. Now I am not accusing Beantown of anything. Is it possible he was sold a fake stamped card?

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Original

Boston Red Sox

Single

David Ortiz

Modern (1981-Now)

Upper Deck

2007

Piece of Authentic, Serial Numbered, Jersey

Original/Reprint:	Team:
Product:	Player:
Era:	Card Manufacturer:
Year:	Card Attributes:
League:	Major Leagues

 

2007 UD Masterpieces Bronze David Ortiz GU Jersey #1/1

 

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This is Guru’s Pic of the Back

This is Beantown’s



In last night’s episode of Card Corner Club, there was some talk of Barry Bonds and his conviction. For those of you that don’t know, Dmitri Young co hosts the CCC show. Dmitri had a very long and successful career. Part of that career was playing first base for the Washington Nationals.

Dmitri was playing first base for the Nats when Bonds hit 756. Dmitri said he wanted to trip Bonds on his way around the bases…..Awesome.

In other news, I was searching for patch sets when I came upon this auction.

is super pissed. For those of you that don’t know who Fish is, he is a partner in Blowout Card with Chris Park. Anyway, he called in to Card Corner Club Radio tonight after Chris Carlin from Upper Deck was on. I really can’t do justice to Fish’s glorious rant. So listen for yourself. It’s the Chris Carlin Tom Fish episode from 4/15/11,  By the way, I agree with him.

On another note, you may have noticed that I haven’t gotten review boxes from Panini in a while. They were none to happy with my speaking out against their price fixing anti consumer shenanigans.  That’s what I get I suppose. 

One more thing. Kudos to Beckett for calling a spade a spade. Let’s be honest.  Evolution is a piece of dung.  THey are cheap, flimsy and just dumb.  Oh yeah, they aren’t cards neither.  I do expect Panini’s to be much better.  They are autod and don’t look like a piece of crap toy you would get at the dollar store.  First, Beckett got a review box of 2011 Upper Deck, that surprise surprise happened to have an evolution in it.  These are not 1 per case.  I have heard of 1:3-4 cases.  Dude.  Anyway, the way they are packed out is the mylar looking pack is essentially taped to the bottom of the box.  If you look at the Beckett video, you can see that they started taking the packs out of the box and then quickly closed the lid as to try and shield the evolution from the camera.  Additionally, the Beckett guys are card guys. You better believe that they were examining that box to see if they could tell.  They knew it was in there.  For Upper Deck to say that they sent them a random box is just too hard to swallow.

Anyway, the evolution was DOA so there is a second part to the video where Beckett charged the thing and then gave their opinion of the thing.  They thought it was a steaming pile to the chest too, but said it more nicely than that.  Funny thing is that @scoobycub on twitter, an UD employee, was pissed.  There was quite the Twitter exchange.  BTW, if you are looking to follow daily comments on the industry, I strongly recommend you join the twitter and follow us basement dwellers. I think UD was a little surprised, as was I, that they got an honest response.  God forbid

Funny thing about evolution is that Chris Carlin Yammers on and on about value and how much they sell for.  He was citing initial sales on ebay and should pay more attention to recent sales.  Enjoy that $28 for the Patrick Willis.

And on a final note.  Press Pass emailed me on Twitter, there is a private message feature, and asked me why I don’t like their cards. 

Here’s What I said: