2012 Topps Series 1 - Hot Pack

It's Hot Pack Time

I just won an auction on eBay for a Hot Pack of 

2012 Topps Series 1.

36 Card Retail Jumbo Pack.

Cost me about 6,50$ plus 6$ shipping !

Is that strange people ? Yes it definitaly is!!! -.-

BUT i paid 12 for those packs at times,  .. without shipping. So anyways .. Here it is:

The " Hit " :

Alex Gordon - Golden Moments - Relic

Maaaan why? -.-

I spend dollars and dollars and most of the time my hits are crap.

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There was a Gold parallel also. A really cool one. .. 

The 2011 National League Leaders in Wins!! 

Ian Kennedy

Clayton Kershaw

Roy Halladay

... in solid GOLD ^^ haha

And one cool 1987 Mini card:

Derek Jeter - 1987 Mini

Actually the best mini in set you can get with an HI value of

4,00$ ^^ ... Coooool !

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Something funny at the end ... 

Caption this ...

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Thanks for reading!

2012 Bowman - Some Packs

What's up fellas ? 

I bought some Bowman Packs. Hobby Edition, what else ?

Let's look at the Packs!

Nicey! ^^ 

Baseballcardpedia Quote:

2012 Bowman Baseball was release to retail on May 4, 2012. The set features 220 cards and a 110 card Prospect insert set. Each Hobby box will yield one on-card autograph. Each pack will contain five base cards, one Gold parallel, two Prospects, two Chrome Prospects. For the first time since 2008, Bowman will not include and Team USA content.

The normal price is 2,99$ per Hobby pack!

Let's take a look

Jacoby Ellsbury and Melky Cabrera 

The base cards looking really cool. Like the whole product. Just great.

Gold Parallels - One in every Pack

David Ortiz and Jayson Werth - Gold Parallels (not numbered)

(Sorry for the bad Ortiz scan)

These are not very special cause you get one in every pack.

But 2 greats. Lucky!

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Let's continue with 

Bowman Chrome

You get 2 in every pack. I had one pack with only one .. FUUUUU!! ^^ 

Greg Bird - Bowman Chrome

Ok, something ugly now.

An Insert called Bowmans Best

Hobby Odds 1:6

Mann Dominguez - Bowmans Best

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Last but not least the greatest backstabber of them all.

A numbered blue parallel of Jose Reyes - Miami Marlins

Jose Reyes - Blue Parallel # to 500

Really Cool! 

These packs won't be the last. I want a really cool refractor. An orange one

And i will buy them untill I get one ^^ 

Stay tuned and thanks for reading! 

Inventory Lot - eBay - Is it worth 14$ ?

Good morning people.

Today i've got a little special from eBay.

It's called an Inventory Lot.

The official auction Link:

MASSIVE BASEBALL CARD AUTO RC GRADED INVENTORY LOTS

eBay Sports Card Singles

Username integrity-ecommerce-inc

The seller is telling me that all cards are from his collection.

And I quote:

"Over the last 20 years I have built up a collection of over 300,000 sports cards. Now its time to move and I simply won't have enough space for all but a very small portion of my sports memorabilia collection. Unfortunately that means it time for the sports cards to go. My loss is your gain big time, because I've got TONS of good stuff available at an incredibly low price. "

His description of 1 lot:

Each $14 lot will include:

• A total of 30-50 baseball cards from my collection. My collection spans from 1909-2010.
• Half of the Lots Contain (1) Certified Autographed Card, Game Used Jersey Card, Game Used Patch Card, or Graded Card.
• The Other Half of the Lots Contain (2) Certified Autographed Cards, Game Used Jersey Cards, Game Used Patch Cards, or Graded Cards!
• There are NO junk 80's and 90's cards whatsoever in ANY of these lots.

So these are the facts!

(He offers discount after 3 Lots with more Auto/Relic/Graded Stuff)

I bought 1 Lot with 8,40$ shipping to germany!

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I received a total of 30 cards (remember 30 - 50in each)

I received 1 Auto and 1 Jersey # to 99

A total of 7 Rookie Cards

28x Topps Company

1x SPX

1x Donruss

The details: 

(Remember 1909 - 2010)

2 x 2012 Bowman

1 x 2012 Topps

2 x 2012 Gypsy Queen

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1 x 2011 Topps Update (Parallel)

1 x 2011 Topps Chrome

2 x 2011 Topps Lineage

3 x 2011 Topps Finest

2 x 2011 Topps Heritage

1 x 2011 Allen Ginter

1 x 2011 Gypsy Queen

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1 x 2008 Bowman

1 x 2008 Donruss

5 x 2007 Bowman

1 x 2006 Bowman

1 x 2006 Bowman Heritage

1 x 2009 Bowman

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1 x 1969 Topps (Common)

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1 x 2012 Bowman Auto (RC)

1 x 2008 SPX Relic (Jersey) #99

(Scroll down for the details)

So 17 of 30 cards are not in the range of 1909 - 2010. Those cards are NOT out of market so I can buy packs, boxes or HUGE cases my self. This would be a reason for me to give him a   -   !!! I did not.

I had only 1 parallel. It was a common diamond anniversary edition of 2011 Topps Update. Not cool.

He sais:

" I have randomly sorted and packaged the cards. So what you get is purely the luck of the draw. This is true no matter how many lots you purchase to some extent.  "

I bet in every lot are exactly 30 cards ^^ !! 

... filled with 2011 and 2012 products! 

 "I have done my best to mimic the fun, excitement, and risk involved in buying and breaking wax packs. As such not everyone will receive a big money hit! BUT many people will! "

Yeah , that's right! :)

 " The overall average value of the cards you get will be far and away better then what you would get from a packaged card product. "

Not in my case.

So enough quotes now. You can read it by yourself.

 And please take a close look at his scans.

The scanned cards are AWESOME! 

The Auto / Jersey I received was not in the the shown range. Really! 

I've scanned some things for you!

2003 Bowman Chien-Ming Wang and 2006 Bowman Howie Kendrick

1969 Topps Fred Lasher and 2007 Bowman Curtis Granderson

Some of the cool cards I think. I'm sorry but I dont even know this Tigers Pitcher up there

2011 Topps Finest Dillon Gee RC (yippi :) )and 2012 Gypsy Queen Alcides Escobar

Btw. I think the 2012 Gypsy Queen product is looking a lot better than last year. I like the "filter" , the colors. Really cool stuff .. 

My Hits: 

2012 Bowman - Brad Peacock Auto - Rookie Card

The value is just about 4$ , anyways this card is really cool. The Auto is nice and 

it's a Rookie card. So That's cool .. 

2008 SPX - Winning Materials - (Relic) Jermaine Dye numbered to 99

Now this one is # to 99 .. the normal ones are # to 150 !

Beckett say that the #99 is

.4x to 1x WM SPX 150

Why? oO 

In what world is a 150 piece limited card more rare than a 99 piece ??

If you read that, Mr. Card Fan, explain that to me. PLEASE! 

Let's say it's a 4$ card ?! Maybe dunno...

The Score : 

I'm not really satisfied with this lot. If he tells me 1909 - 2010 ... I want 1909 - 2010 

and no 2011 or 2012. 

90% of the cards are common. No cool Inserts or relevant Rookie Cards.

Only One Card was pre-2000 . This is not cool.

The hits are ok but nothing really special.

So i think the whole thing is calculated. There is no collection of a single man.

The seller bought the cards and repacked them into lots. So he is able to earn 2 dollars per lot.

(sellers name : integrity-ecommerce-inc ^^ )

I will give it 1 more chance and buy another lot or maybe 2.

Stay tuned for the result.

Thanks for reading guys!!!

1990s Packs - Baseball and other

Just received some 1990s "crap" 

3 x 1990 Fleer Baseball

3 x 1990 Upper Deck

1 x 92-93 Topps Basketball Series 2

1 x 1990 Fleer Basketball

1 x 1991 Topps Stadium Club Hockey

I think ... I know they are not even worth a penny sleeve for each but I got them

for a very low price.

Maybe I'll do some scans later and show them here :)

UPDATE


Just wanted to inform you that i will not scan any card. It really
was only shit in all packs! ^^
Sorry

2012 Topps Series 1 - MY first look :) Part 2/2

Hi Ho Silver,

Let's continoue with part 2.

Some cool base cards:

Alex Liddi RC - First italian born to debut in the MLB

This is a World Series 2011 Card, telling a little story about Pujols performance in game 3!

Likey!

My first thoughts about this one: "Woow this is a Dugout SP Variation card" 

-.- But nope .. it's the regular one 

Let's see what we've got next! Some inserts i think ....

Curtis Granderson 

Mini 

... has the look of 1987 Topps! Don't like it so much 

The Timeless Talent Section

Chase Utley is one of my favorite players. Reason I like this one ..

Close to the End! An Golden Great of Nolan Ryan ... "Like" :)

And the best comes last:

This is such a nice card.

A "Gold Standard" of Andre Dawson. The gold emblem is realy beautiful!

As you see, NO hit! :( 

A little disapointing but *keep smiling* :)

So stay tuned for more!

2012 Topps Series 1 - MY first look :) Part 1/2

Hi Baseballcard Community.

It's april and I write my first post this year. It's my late first look at Topps series one.

I bought some packs over ebay an paid 16 dollar for the packs and 12 for shipping ^^

That's the sad reason for not buying packs or boxes every week.

2012 Topps Series 1 - Hobby Pack

2012 Topps Series 1 Baseball

Release Date: February 1, 2012

Retail Release Date: January 28, 2012

36 Packs Per Hobby Box

1 Autograph or Relic Per Hobby Box

1 Autograph & 2 Relics Per Jumbo Box

But let's start with part one. There wasn't a special hit but it's ok cause i'm just excited for the product.

First some base cards that you can imagine how they look like....

Jarrod Saltalamacchia Front

Jarrod Saltalamacchia Back

I think the base card design is good. A little more modern then 2011 but cool!

Some more:

Chipper Jones

Mike Napoli

Curtis Granderson

I pulled 2 Gold Paralells or Variations ... could you tell me where the difference is??

Tyler Chatwood Gold Variation / Paralell

Koji Uehara Gold Variation / Paralell 

(Really ... where's the difference ?)

Ok, bad luck with the the players. I WANT Ichiro :-O

Everytime I pull a card of Lou Gehrig I have to smile :) ... I really like this man.

We continoue with a Golden Greats card

GG-4

I want the Relic :-D haha

Another new section is " Golden Futures" 

I pulled a Freddie Freeman. If this guy is the future of Baseball ... The future sucks ^^

I don't like this guy.

Freddie Freeman Golden Futures GF-4

Let's do it quick now. We have 2 more cards ... First there is " Golden Moments " 

Frank Thomas - Golden Moments GM-35

Next: Classic Walk-Offs

Derek Jeter - Classic Walk-Offs CW-15

And as you know from the last years there are some stories on the back.

Finally the Give Away cards:

There is a code on the back of every card!

I don't know if Topps ships the unlocked cards to germany this year but i think they won't. -.-

If there is a guy I can send my cards to please comment or contact me.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for part 2 ... If you want some scans of the backs ... tweet/contact!

2011 Topps Chrome - Hobby Packs

Heeeey fellas, 2 weeks ago I ordered 5 hobby packs of 2011 Topps Chrome.
They arrived 2 days ago. Now thats my first year of collecting and I knew topps chrome only by scans.

In real it's a lot better. It looks fantastic but I bet you know this ...

Let's see :

When you look at the scans the glance on the cards is hard to imagine.

Mark Trumbo Rookie Card:

Following two are Chrome Refractors (1:3 Hobby) not numbered

Roy Halladay

Joe Nathan

I think Topps does a bad job by selling the same photo

over and over and OVER ... I got all these from the normal 2011 Topps S. 1 or 2

At least I pulled this Domonic Brown Vintage Chrome 

It's the 1996 Topps Chrome style. There are 50 different and the odds are 1:8 for hobby

Front 

Back

So I wasn't very lucky at all again. I don't know if these packs were searched

but there was nothing cool in it.

Thanks for reading