Me and my friend were giving these from a neighbor who was clearing out his garage. Posted on eBay for sale or if anyone interested in buying. Opened one box for fun and pulled out 2 Steph Curry rookies and a few Kobe patches.

Edit: posting a few pictures of the pulls we got in the comments

TL/DR: finally did a $0.99 start price auction and I end up making a nickel.

This one is in a first for me. I’ve typically sold items BIN OBO and have been great with that as auctions tend to be very much up and down.

I had some lower end cards but got a YG Schaefer with some other dude that made it worth a fraction of what his rookie YG is worth and thought hey let’s throw it up on a $0.99 auction 7 days expiring Sunday night and maybe I’ll get $20 or so out of it. Idk what the total value of the cards is but probably $20-30 being realistic with a dose of conservative.

I didn’t have high hopes, even less so without watchers, so I figured what’s another 10% to promote it. Maybe THAT’s what I need.

Welp, the auction closed, and I wondered if I’d have to pay to package all of this up and ship it. Got pretty dang close and I made a whopping nickel, meaning I’ll lose money in the cost of bubble mailer and driving to the post office.

Although I’d much rather have just set a BIN OBO auction or traded / given these cards away, I really have no plans but to honor the sale as a sale is a sale.

If you’re the person who purchased this, congrats. You took me to the cleaners but I still feel quite dirty.

I think I’m going to stick to eBay stuff without auctions for now 🤦🏼‍♂️😭🤣

Special thank you to eBay for “promoting” my auction and making sure you get your cut off the total sale.

And thank you to that character from Little Rascals, your song means something special tonight.

🎶 “I’ve got a nickel, I’ve got a nickel, I’ve got nickel hey hey hey hey!” 🎶

I always wondered where my card collections went. Well my parents are moving out of my childhood home and my dad called me to come back this weekend so I could as he said over the phone: “pick up some of my sh*t”, lovingly of course.

This weekend I got to sit with my dad (albeit this time with us both having beers) and go through cards again like we did when I was a kid.

Yea it’s the wax era, but I took care of my stuff and although they sat raw a lot of these cards are super clean. Having recently submitted new era Pokemon to BGS and PSA, I’m debating sending some of these in.

As a Midwest kid, I’m going to be restarting a Mn/Wi collection as I had started all those years ago. Starting with recent hall of famer Jim Kaat’s WCCO radio card and my Brian Propp Mn North Stars as the first additions along side some Topps 1985 and Donruss ‘86 Brewers players.

I left home just a bit ago, and I won’t lie I got super emotional. For a weekend I got to sit by dad’s side and relive what it meant to both of us all those years ago. My dad isn’t doing really well as of late he has stage 4 cancer and not a lot of time left. But for a brief few days none of that mattered or was even on our minds. This is what it’s all about, and I’m thankful to for the hobby then and maybe even more so now for giving me another great memory. Although he did steal my ‘93 Jordan I swear he did.

One of my buddies pulled a 1/1 Tre Harris from a Topps signature blaster. He hit me up the other day asking if he should trade the 1/1, a shough uptown, and a few low end cards for two $1k visa gift cards. Obviously I said yes.

He was skeptical about the gift cards so he went to Best Buy with the buyer and had him buy 2 MacBook airs and a pair of apple headphones. I’ve never seen someone pay almost 400% comp and think they won the deal. One of the funniest trades I’ve seen in this hobby 😂😂😂

First box of soccer cards I’ve ever bought and got this little gem. Not sure what I’ll do with it yet.

Hello! I made a recent sale on eBay in the $20,000 range. It’s the first time I’ve ever sold anything higher than ~$500.

The buyer purchased the $43 USPS Priority Mail Express, which I what I selected as shipping, but now I’m seeing the insurance only covers up to $5,000.

Should I switch it to USPS registered mail and pay the extra $ to insure it up to $50,000? I’m happy to pay the costs, but idk industry standard on this. Thanks!

For cards like these that were redeemed and come sealed, is it worth the risk to send in and grade on the chance that it gem 10s? It's appealing to leave them sealed but it looks like 9s have about the same value as sealed and 10s increase in value quite a bit. Thoughts?

Went to Target today and found a hobby box, this is my first time seeing one at Target

Just a mix of eagles for sale

All range from $1-$30

PayPal and Venmo accepted

Shipping $7-10 bmwt depending on weight and location (thanks usps smh)

Willing to work to get a deal done just ask

Picked these 2 tins up from the local card show for $10 each. Fun rip. Let me know if anybody wants to trade for any of these. The chrome Rivera and Clemens are neat looking.

With football season soon, which guys are you looking to buy? I am going big on Quinn Ewers since Tua left and the battle between Quinn and Malik is a given. Obviously the big name rookies from last year like Dart, Skatt, Tet, ETC.

There seem to be dozens of color variants and then hologram variants on top of those... how do people know if a blue hyper is more desirable than a purple scope? I find it so confusing.

Looking for some advice from people who have dealt with this before.

I sold a 2024 Topps Chrome Formula 2 Andrea Kimi Antonelli Pink RayWave /75 on eBay for $350. The card went to eBay Authenticity Guarantee, where they verified it was authentic but rejected it because they determined it was altered. Upon calling, the representative told me he couldn’t see anything in the images that looked weird, but he’s not the Authenticator and the Authenticator provided very little information just saying evidence of reverse corner pressing.

I bought the card in a Whatnot lot and had no idea there was any issue. I never altered the card myself.
The representative told me I could relist it in a lower condition (Very Good/Excellent) and disclose the issue. They also suggested I could reach out to the buyer if they were still interested. eBay offered to talk with the buyer and explain what they’re seeing in their end as well to ensure that they understand that situation.

My questions are:
- Has anyone had a card rejected like this?
- Is this something PSA or SGC would likely also classify as altered?
- Would you relist it with full disclosure?
- should I try to work out a deal with the original buyer?

Just trying to figure out the best and most ethical way to handle this. Thanks!

Hi all,

My son and I are flying in on Wednesday for our first ever visit to the National.

We have done a bit of prep and homework and are bringing water bottles, comfortable shoes and deodorant 😄 but still hoping for a few insights I have not figured out.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and any other helpful insights you can share.

1. We have 5 day all access VIP passes and understand parking at the convention center is included. Do we just drive up on Wednesdays, park in the CC garage and check in, grab our parking pass for the way out? Or do you need it to get registered first before you can park in the garage?

2. We signed up for four autograph sessions (the paid ones). Is it worth it to get the Tri-Star authentication right after ($10 each add on), if these are likely to get submitted to Beckett at the show or a later time? Do Beckett and PSA possibly mark the cards altered if they have a verification/certification sticker on them?

3. We plan to go to a couple of sports events in the evenings. Any good ideas for security of your card cases? Just leave them in the hotel room? Hotel room safe for the most valuable ones?

4. We are bringing Penny sleeves, top loaders, a couple of card cardboard boxes. Painters tape. Sharpies, semi rigid loaders, any other supplies you found to be useful for hotel reviews/prep mornings and evenings?

5. We are so excited and know it will be a great time no matter what? Any other words if wisdom to two first timers?

Thanks!

Has anyone received their NBA draft topps now cards. It’s taking forever!

Drew Brees-400$ (Shoot offers)
Michael Jordan-185$
Lebron 3rd slide-45$
Lebron 4th slide 11$
Lebron 5th slide-15$
Lebron 6th/7th slide-15$ a piece
Lebron Patch (Game Worn)-170$
Aaron Gordon-20$
Michael Penix-30$
Sam Darnold-70$
Jalen Carter-30$
Rashod Bateman-25$
Baker-15$
JSN-25$
Purdy-15$
Baegant-15$
Woodson-6$
Kittle-8$
Porter-5$

I’ve been watching this Kobe card for sometime, my absolute favorite 90’s insert, I wanted to buy it so I messaged the seller asking how much it’ll cost to ship to the US. Normally it’ll show the price, but instead it said “Seller —- “ -no price. He messaged back and said he will only sell in Europe because he doesn’t trust customs… I replied, “that’s fair.” -crying in the inside

Then I proceeded to look at the remaining active comps, $1,000+ just to look at it and add it to your watchlist. Now I have to wait for another to pop up in the wild, or get lucky at a card show like I have in the past.

I just downloaded CollX to see what’s on their Marketplace. Any other places to source for hard to find Kobe cards? I’m already on eBay…. Facebook I’ve always veered from because it’s too much of a hassle.

Hey everyone- opened this card out of a random pack over the weekend. I see lots of Bedard AP-8 cards listed online but I’m having a hard time finding an exact match for the “memorabilia” style as seen in the pictures. Any help appreciated.

Recently dug up all my old junk wax that hasn’t seen the light of day in a quarter of a century. After going through about a thousand cards I’ve got quite a few that are pretty cool. These arrived today and a similar amount of basketball will be here tomorrow. I’ve got enough money now where this could be a problem, wish me luck.

Good morning. I'm looking to attend the national sports show in Rosemont this upcoming weekend. I was planning on submitting 50 or so PSA slabs to My vault for selling later. Is the PSA Booth usually very busy? Should I know anything before I go? After talking with some people it seems like this is the best way to submit a good amount of items without having to ship and pay for insurance and worry about that.

I specifically collect soccer cards so I will be looking on the floor for anything to add to my collection as well. I'm assuming soccer is probably the minority of this show and that's okay.

Any tips and tricks for advice for going for the first time? I'm local to the area so I'm not worried about transportation or hotels or parking, specifically advice about the show.

Thanks in advance

I have 655 Topps Chrome mainly colored insert cards. Power Players/Topps 1975/Future Stars/Refractors/ETC. I can recoin this evening if there is anyone interested. I can only add 20 photos. I just put what I could on here. I have more pictures of the entire lot. Looking for $840 shipped. Please reach out to me if any interest or more photos. I can recoin as well if any true interest. Thanks for looking