Trading Thursdays - Seattle Mariners Edition

As I've mentioned on this blog before, one of the things I enjoy most about the blogosphere is trading with other bloggers. I don't make it to too many card shows, and it's often times very tough to find the cards I need to complete the sets I'm working on.

I've gotten closer to some sets thanks to the trading I've done, and hopefully I've been to help other bloggers with their collecting goals as well. So I've been thinking for a while about how I can help initiate some trading with other collectors/bloggers that I may not have connected with yet. Of course, I'm certainly up for trading with collectors/bloggers that I've traded with before.

So every Thursday I post a collection of items representing a specific team. It will generally consist of mostly cards from that team, but it could also include a media guide, a yearbook, a pack of cards with a player from that team on the wrapper, etc.

If you are interested in it, either comment on the blog or email me at swingandapopup@gmail.com, with what you want to trade for it. No reasonable offer will be refused, however it does have to be off of my want list. I need to finish these sets! Trade me a dozen cards, trade me a hundred cards, trade me one card, but help me finish these sets!

I only have a small percentage of my "wants" uploaded. This is a huge work in process, and I am adding new want lists up weekly. I also keep track via a sidebar on my blog letting readers know what lists have been added in the past week. There are also some "junk wax" sets on there that I haven't finished. I know some of you are sitting on some '88 Score, 92 Leaf, etc., and this could be a chance to unload some of it to someone who needs it!

This week I feature the Seattle Mariners.

So here's what up for trade this week:

1998 Score Ken Griffey Jr.

2006 Upper Deck Future Stars Ichiro

1978 Topps Carlos Lopez

1985 Topps Dave Henderson

1986 Topps Alvin Davis

1980 Topps Ruppert Jones

1993 Fleer Ultra Fernando Vina

1995 Fleer Ultra Alex Rodriguez

2002 Upper Deck Ovation Superstar Spotlights Ichiro

2008 Upper Deck Goudey Felix Hernandez

2007 Upper Deck Goudey Matt Tuiasosopo

1998 Pinnacle Jamie Moyer

 

2002 Topps Dan Wilson

2002 Fleer Changing Places Ruben Sierra

2000 Fleer/Skybox Impact Freddy Garcia

1999 UD Choice Jay Buhner

1998 Fleer Sports Illustrated Legends Of Today Ken Griffey Jr.

2003 Fleer BoxScore World Piece Kazuhiro Sasaki Jersey

1981 Topps Jerry Narron

1981 Donruss Rodney Craig

If you are interested in trading for all of this, either leave a comment or email me at swingandapopup@gmail.com with what you wish to trade. First person to contact me wins the entire package of Mariners.

Don't forget to check the sidebar to see what other team packages I have available for trade. Click on the team and it will take you straight to the posting!

Thanks for reading and let's trade!

Luck With Listia

I've talked a couple times about Listia before (here and here), and said that I didn't really care much for it. Well, I still had my original amount of credits and was still getting emails from them, so I went back on the site and put in a few bids for a couple of things.

I'm guilty of that quite often...complaining that something sucks and then trying it again later.

And as difficult as it was to believe I pulled a buyback card out of 1991 Topps, it is more difficult to believe (at least for me anyways), that I actually won something!!

Ten 1994 Fleer Extra Bases cards. These are oversized cards and part of a 400 card set.

I think I now have 15 of the 400.

Although they arrived safe and sound, I think it was more by luck than shipping smarts.

First of all, they showed up in a PWE by themselves with no protection of any kind. I was very surprised that there were no dents or any sort of dings on them.

The front of the envelope was blank, my address was written on a small pink piece of paper and taped with packing tape to the back of the envelope.

 

Not too impressive. But alas, ten Extra Bases cards weigh more than one ounce, so on the envelope it was stamped...

 

 

Fortunately, my friendly post office did not charge me the extra 20 cents. 

We Have A Winner

A couple of posts ago I displayed all of the loot I had acquired from last Friday night's card show. It was the first show I had ever been to in the great state of Maine, and I was pretty happy with what I ended up with.

At the end of the post I asked all of you out there to guess how much you thought I spent to acquire all of that cardboard booty. The closest to guess how much I paid (and you could go over) would win some cards.

To refresh your memory, here's what I bought:

There were eight guesses. Here they are in order of submission.

Night Owl - $50
Jafronius - $42.50
Nick - $60
Stealing Home  - $45
Reds Card Collector - $35
Dhoff - $28
Robert - $40
Junior Junkie - $42.39

First of all, I find it odd that Nick, author of the fantastic blog "Dime Boxes" came in with the most expensive guess.

Second of all, I knew I everybody would guess higher that what I actually spent. I would have too. (That's why it wasn't "closest without going over".)

So to recieve all of that cardboard goodenss, I had to shell out....

20 bucks.

Dhoff was the closest at $28, so I will be sending him some cards.

Thank you all for playing.

Trading Thursdays - New York Mets Edition

As I've mentioned on this blog before, one of the things I enjoy most about the blogosphere is trading with other bloggers. I don't make it to too many card shows, and it's often times very tough to find the cards I need to complete the sets I'm working on.

I've gotten closer to some sets thanks to the trading I've done, and hopefully I've been to help other bloggers with their collecting goals as well. So I've been thinking for a while about how I can help initiate some trading with other collectors/bloggers that I may not have connected with yet. Of course, I'm certainly up for trading with collectors/bloggers that I've traded with before.

So every Thursday I post a collection of items representing a specific team. It will generally consist of mostly cards from that team, but it could also include a media guide, a yearbook, a pack of cards with a player from that team on the wrapper, etc.

If you are interested in it, either comment on the blog or email me at swingandapopup@gmail.com, with what you want to trade for it. No reasonable offer will be refused, however it does have to be off of my want list. I need to finish these sets! Trade me a dozen cards, trade me a hundred cards, trade me one card, but help me finish these sets!

I only have a small percentage of my "wants" uploaded. This is a huge work in process, and I am adding new want lists up weekly. I also keep track via a sidebar on my blog letting readers know what lists have been added in the past week. There are also some "junk wax" sets on there that I haven't finished. I know some of you are sitting on some '88 Score, 92 Leaf, etc., and this could be a chance to unload some of it to someone who needs it!

This week I feature the New York Mets.

So here's what up for trade this week:

1979 Topps Kevin Kobel

2010 Topps Carlos Beltran

1993 Score Anthony Young

1985 Topps Junior Ortiz

1986 Topps Mookie Wilson

2007 Topps Allen & Ginter Willie Randolph

1995 Topps Ryan Thompson

1988 Topps Randy Myers

1989 Score Bob McClure

2013 Topps Gypsy Queen No-Hitters Johan Santana

1993 Fleer Ultra John Franco

2003 Fleer BoxScore Press Clippings Jersey Roberto Alomar

2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces Johan Santana

2013 Topps Mike Baxter

2013 Topps Archives Dwight Gooden

2012 Topps Gypsy Queen David Wright

1999 UD Choice Rookie Class Mike Kinkade

1999 Topps Finest Rick Reed

1996 Upper Deck Bernard Gilkey

1996 Fleer Update Checklist Rey Ordonez

If you are interested in trading for all of this, either leave a comment or email me at swingandapopup@gmail.com with what you wish to trade. First person to contact me wins the entire package of Mets.

Don't forget to check the sidebar to see what other team packages I have available for trade. Click on the team and it will take you straight to the posting!

Thanks for reading and let's trade!