You know what sucks?

sjeanblanc

I've spent the last two nights and all day today going over my inventory, selecting cards with equal or better characteristics than the ones in my last submission. I've only gone through half my stuff and I have over 3000 cards that could get really decent grades for their respective years. The problem is I have to pick 100 cards from that pile for the $8 special. I want to grade them all but I haven't won the lottery yet, man that would be 24K or 30K depending on which special was used, just in grading fees.

There I had to get that off my chest and now I feel better.

Scott Jeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94) and 1971 Topps

qualitycards

SCOTT - Look on the bright side, at least you have a nice pool of ungraded cards ready to be slabbed when the time is right. Thats an enviable situation...jay

Virtualizard

Scott,

I hear you! I probably have 100,000 cards that are gradeable. What I do is focus on the stuff that hasn't been graded yet (i.e. low pops and oddball cards). Anything that I need to add to one of my sets gets priority. I have tons of stuff to get graded just for selling. I'll get around to it someday.

When I get a chance, I'll go through my stack of Ryan cards and see if I have anything you might need - I have tons of oddball stuff, including some cards that PSA won't grade if you are interested.



Here's one for you:





Best of luck with your set.

JEB.

uniship

Hey, that's a great "problem" to have. Work out a deal with PSA - mortgage your house to have everything graded at $2 per card - then dump them all on ebay over the course of a year, do the math - you will probably add a ton to your net worth.

That is always a challenge - keeping your collecting love ahead of the ability to make serious cash on ebay.

sjeanblanc

Uniship,

Not all of it is for resale, most are for my sets and the duplicates will get sold, the composition breakdown is around 400-500 of them are Ryan cards from all accross his career, the biggest chunk are 1971 Topps commons probably about 1300-1400 the bulk of which will grade 10% PSA 9, 50% PSA 8, 30% PSA 7 and the rest PSA 6, 100-200 76-78 Commons, and then another 1000 or so 70's through 01' HOF's, Stars, rookies, and commons. I just have to learn patience, and do the gradings in baby steps. I'm already mortgaged to the hilt, how do think I got all this stuff.

The funny thing is that this is probably a small submission when compared to what DSL must dump in PSA's lap every month or two.

Virtual Lizard,

Why won't PSA grade that card, its not one of one or anything like that?

Also any aid in Ryan cards is always appreciated, hopefully I might have something to reciprocate with. If not I am always buying. I'm kind of a baseball card addict.

Scott Jeanblanc
jeanblanc@iconnect.net
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Bighurt4

Scott,

Ever thought of bachelorhood, I have a lot more money for cards since my divorce. Even when you factor in the cost of dating, the extra "whoopie" ( for Newlywed Game enthusiasts) and money makes it worthwhile, lol.

Brent

CON40

Scott;

You can let me take those 400-500 Ryans off your hands and I'll pay to grade them!

Seriously, if it's for your personal collection, just keep sending in 100 card batches at a time... include a few extras to sell to cover some of the costs and you'll find that in a couple years you've made a huge dent in that stack and you won't be any poorer for it!

** edited because I can't spell for crep on a Sunday morning!!

sjeanblanc

Keith,

The problem is the stack will keep getting bigger, I think I have 400+ cards coming to the house this week, and I can't stop buying stuff on Ebay. Its like Don West is in there talking to me and I spend my money.

Brent,

If I wasn't single do you think I would be buying tons of cards? As soon as the dating process gets to "Gee you could buy me a really expensive ring, if you sold those baseball cards." its bye-bye time. Still looking for the non-materialistic woman who will wash my clothes and clean the house and not pi$$ and whine when I spend thousands of dollars on cardboard. Like there is one of those out there.

Scott Jeanblanc
jeanblanc@iconnect.net
Ebay UserId : sjeanblanc
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94) and 1971 Topps

bill7549

lol, a funny story about dating and baseball cards... I told a woman I went out with about me buying a $5K baseball card. At the time we were doing some window shopping. She called me a "freak", then not two minutes later started drooling over a $2K sink! I guess I'll never understand women....I'd wash my face in a bucket outside if it meant that I could have a few more baseball cards. The heck with the super expensive household ammenities. At least my card will go up in value. 20 years from now, that stupid sink would probably be in a trash pile somewhere.

uniship

"I'd wash my face in a bucket outside if it meant that I could have a few more baseball cards"

I love all of you people

nearmint

For the cost of that bucket you could get another card or two graded. Don't they have a sink where you work?

carew4me

Bucket?
Cup hands
press hands together-palms up
fill with water
move upward rapidly - applying water to face

Face washed - free

bill7549

LOL, good point, everyone. Actually, why even worry about washing our faces? That takes up time that we could be shopping for baseball cards on Ebay.

onegaucho

Any oddball Gwynns?

sjeanblanc

Onegaucho,

If you have a list of Gwynn's that your looking for you could email that to me.

or

If you give me a couple of days I should be able to sort the Gwynn's out and let you know what I have.

Scott Jeanblanc
jeanblanc@iconnect.net
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Collecting Nolan Ryan cards (68-94) and 1971 Topps

mcastaldi

Scott> As I got a lot closer to completing my 72 set, I asked myself several times - What next? I'm about 22% complete with a 73 set. . .20-something percent of a 79 set, etc so do I focus on one of them? Ultimately, this is what I decided to do. . .build all the Topps, Fleer, & Donruss sets from 1969-1984 - eventually in graded form. 1969-1971 in PSA7. . .1972-1977 in PSA8. . .1978-1984 in PSA9 (or better).

Like most people, I have limited funds - and seemingly unlimited wants. For me, there are several advantages to building all these sets pretty much simulaneously -
* I will ALWAYS have items I can bid on - most of which are currently VERY inexpensive.
* There will ALWAYS be cards for me to buy at shows.
* For many of those sets, unopened product is still plentiful and inexpensive - especially the Fleer and Donruss stuff.
* I will ALWAYS have cards on-hand that I can submit when I'm ready/able.
* With so many different cards, I can't get burned out on any one set.
* For these years, there's enough quality material out there where I won't feel like I'll have to overpay for very much, if anything.
* With these years, you'll generally be able to decide whether to submit your own example of a given card or bottom-feed it from eBay.

Obviously, the only way you can go into a project like this is with the firm understanding that it will take several years. I also think you should prioritize what you submit first and what can wait. Obviously it makes more sense for me to submit 73s and 74s before I submit the boatload of 84T I have on-hand.

With many of the sets - esp. the later ones, I'm planning to take the approach of building the nicest and cleanest complete raw set possible. . .then submit them as time and money allow. Worst-case, I'll end up with some super-nice raw sets - and I can live with that.
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For those who would offer me cards, please keep me in mind - however, my buying potential is pretty limited right now. Put it this way, I'm so broke I couldn't get out of town if it cost a quarter to go around the world.

Mike

sjeanblanc

Hi Mike,

I here you. I have to learn patience when it comes to this hobby, right now I have the patience of a rattle snake being poked with a stick. I want to bite everything I see. Just ask Keith (Con40), I'd bet that he would have bought some of those $5000 bullets to get me out of his hair last year.

When I was unemployed last year and most of this year, I had to sit by and watch a lot of nice Ryan cards go through Ebay and I just about killed me. Now that I'm employeed at least for the near term, the engines of Ryan acquistion have been rekindled. The old financial engine just got stoked last week with my tax refund, and its burning a hole in my pocket. Ebay hasn't had anything that I need for the Ryan sets in more than a month, outside of a card or two. So I've been contemplating grading more of the raw cards that I already have. I hate to wait for things too so I've been using the $10/5 day, and 5 days is too long to wait. If I had to wait like some of the other submitters for 30-35 or more days I think I would go postal. This mentality though realistically limits the amount of cards I submit 100-200 at a time. I plan on collecting until I get planted in the earth, so I guess there's plenty of time to wait. So I figure I'll be doing these kind of submissions for as long as PSA and the Set Registry are around.

Mike email me your address and I will send you some 71 PSA 7's for your set.

Scott Jeanblanc
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mcastaldi

Scott> Patience can be a tough thing. Right now, I really don't have the money to buy much new stuff. So. . .this is where the raw and unopened stuff comes in.
Right now, for about half the sets I've probably got 100+ submission-worthy cards. Those are in CS1s, but have to be put in number order and each card must be graded by me. Then I need to enter each card into a spreadsheet so I can keep track of what I already have - year, card#, name, my personal grade, etc. Let's face it, sets from 1969-1984 equals a LOT of cards. So getting this stuff organized is going to take a lot of time in and of itself. Plus. . .I still have half a 6-box rack case of 84T to open.

I'm going to depend on this stuff to keep me from getting too frustrated. I mean it's great to make progress on the set, but in looking at all this stuff I get to actually enjoy the beauty of each card as I examine it and aprreciate it. I like to build sets, but it's so much fun to just look at the cards that bring the most memories.

Mike