Well, even though I'm pretty sick, my birthday was a ok, cause it is heritage season. I was only able to afford 6 boxes right now, but hopefully I will be able to get more. I took 5 boxes from one case and then another box from another case. The one box was the first I opened and it had ink in it.....can't remember his name,but none the less exciting.
Box two had another long shot surprise...Black refractor!!!! Chipper Jones no less! The rest of the boxes had all GU in them. I really have not even had a chance to sit down and look at them. Some of the cards were pretty O/C like the Wang SP, but for the most part they looked good. The black was perfect, and 5 of my boxes had 59's as a topper. No Mantle though.
I can't wait to see some more busts. I should have the totals up soon.
I picked up 4 boxes from my local dealer for $62 each. No great pulls, 2 buybacks (scrubs, vg-ex cards - 1 had a small crease).
One box had neither a relic nor an auto.
3 other relics - zimmerman, berkman, posada bat (all available for trade) 12 chromes 3 refractors 7 news 7 fb 5 tn 8 nap
Love the cards, but have found some centering issues. Thankfully no print splotches like last year. I find the photography uneven and a bit disappointing in many cases....looks like they did too much photoshopping and blew up the pictures to make them too grainy. JAcoby looks great and so does pujols, a-rod, and jeter. But glavine looks horrible - like he's got terrible acne. And many of these guys look like they just stepped out of the rain - their faces look drenched.
Geordie, looks like I agree that we won't be lucky enough to think that all cards above 425 are sp's.
And by the way, thanks for the early fix. I still have some 07 chromes for you.
What's up with the Johan on the Mets card?? I have Johan on the twins.
Anyone got any ideas on the advertising panels? how many different ones are out there?
<< <i>Got the itch as well so I emailed LR Cards to see if I could get any shipping details. Larry responded very quickly w/
"shipping this week wed thru fri - will send track #s 1 day after they ship "
Looks good - can't wait! >>
Thanks for this update. My order was still showing as pending a few hours ago. Perhaps they'll go out in the next day or two and I'll have them the first of next week. I'm not sure I can wait that long!!! >>
Here is a list of chrome cards. I think it is accurate.
C-1 Hunter Pence C-2 Andre Ethier C-3 Curt Schilling C-4 Gary Matthews C-5 Dontrelle Willis C-6 Troy Tulowitzki C-7 Robinson Cano C-8 Felix Hernandez C-9 Josh Hamilton C-10 Justin Upton C-11 Brad Penny C-12 Hideki Matsui C-13 J.J. Putz C-14 Jorge Posada C-15 Albert Pujols C-16 Aaron Rowand C-17 Ronnie Belliard C-18 Rick Ankiel C-19 Ian Kinsler C-20 Justin Verlander C-21 Lyle Overbay C-22 Tim Hudson C-23 Ryan Zimmerman C-24 Ryan Braun C-25 Jimmy Rollins C-26 Kelvim Escobar C-27 Adam LaRoche C-28 Ivan Rodriguez C-29 Billy Wagner C-30 Ichiro C-31 Chris Young (SD) C-32 Trevor Hoffman C-33 Torii Hunter C-34 Jason Isringhausen C-35 Jose Valverde C-36 Derrek Lee C-37 Rich Harden C-38 Andrew Miller C-39 Miguel Cabrera C-40 David Wright C-41 Brandon Phillips C-42 Magglio Ordonez C-43 Eric Byrnes C-44 John Smoltz C-45 Brandon Webb C-46 Barry Zito C-47 Sammy Sosa C-48 James Shields C-49 Alex Rios C-50 Matt Holliday C-51 Chris Young (AZ) C-52 Roy Oswalt C-53 Matt Kemp C-54 Tim Lincecum C-55 Hanley Ramirez C-56 Vladimir Guerrero C-57 Mark Teixeira C-58 Fausto Carmona C-59 B.J. Ryan C-60 Manny Ramirez C-61 Carlos Delgado C-62 Matt Cain C-63 Brian Bannister C-64 Russell Martin C-65 Todd Helton C-66 Roy Halladay C-67 Lance Berkman C-68 John Lackey C-69 Daisuke Matsuzaka C-70 Joe Mauer C-71 Francisco Rodriguez C-72 Derek Jeter C-73 Homer Bailey C-74 Jonathan Papelbon C-75 Billy Butler C-76 B.J. Upton C-77 Ubaldo Jimenez C-78 Erik Bedard C-79 Jeff Kent C-80 Ken Griffey Jr. C-81 Josh Beckett C-82 Jeff Francis C-83 Grady Sizemore C-84 John Maine C-85 Cole Hamels C-86 Nick Markakis C-87 Ben Sheets C-88 Jose Reyes C-89 Vernon Wells C-90 Justin Morneau C-91 Brian McCann C-92 Jacoby Ellsbury C-93 Clay Buchholz C-94 Prince Fielder C-95 David Ortiz C-96 Joba Chamberlain C-97 Chien-Ming Wang C-98 Chipper Jones C-99 Chase Utley C-100 Alex Rodriguez
i just bought a buy it now on a yogi berra jersey or bat card for 35$ says 1 in 4100 packs. so i think i did ok there. cant seem to find any bargains on the black refractors this year. i got a couple,, last couple years at 3$ buy it nows.
i like this set alot better then last years.
major hits in 3 boxes were arod chrome 3 relic cards 1 buy back 3 box toppers. can see manny ramirez thrills in the one. topps didnt do a great job of hiding the box toppers.
Thank you Kevin! The guy at the card shop that I went to tonight pulled a Red Ink auto of Joba Chamberlain. Needless to say, he was pretty pumped about it!
I'm not sure about the 110 vs 88 card set. I'm thinking there are 88 black back variations that can also be found in green back and there are 22 additional cards that are ONLY available in black back. Not sure, we'll find out more when everyone starts ripping.
Ian >>
Brian & Ian. There is no question that the black back set is 110 cards, and yes, that makes the "master" set 655 cards this year. Yikes!
Well guys, I'm one and a half boxes in to my case and the only thing of interest that I have to report so far is that I just pulled two chromes from the same pack...
Doran & Kurt - nice pickups on the Minoso jerseys. I was taking another nap trying to catch up after the all nighter. I ain't as young as I used to be - can't do those without some repurcussions! I'm hoping good deals on Minosos are still to be found. I did just pick up a Berra relic, so that's 1 down & 3 to go on the Group As.
Just finshed my first 4 boxes. Time flies when you're ripping packs, doesn't it ??
Some observations:
A black-back card in every pack. I like it, but that set shouldn't be hard to finish at all.
Less SPs than last year. I don't know all the SPs yet, but I'm pretty sure I had 1-2 'dud' packs per box. In 4 boxes, I got something like 36-39 SPs. Less than 10 per box.
A lot of cards are out of focus.
The gum still loses flavor before I've gone through the 8 cards in that pack. Seriously.
Now the cards:
Don't have scans yet, but I got Blue Ink. Vito Valentinetti of the Senators.
3 Relics: Zimmerman Jersey (seems overwhelmingly popular so far), F. Rosbinson Seat and a Gibson Seat. Love the photo on the Gibson seat card.
I got two 'Twins' Santanas and a 'Mets' Santana. I'm excited to find out exactly how rare this Mets Variation is.
I got 3 Refractors: (Phillips, Beckett, and McCann) 11 Chromes ( Jeter, Sosa, Pence, JOBA !!, Bedard, etc.)
2 Buybacks. Here's the funniest thing I've seen in a pack before. The one my dad opened was Andre Rodgers and mine was....... CUT IN HALF !!!
Literally, cut in half about 3/4 of the way down the card. Looks like when the packs were being separated from each other on the conveyor belt, the seam of the pack somehow opened up, the card slid out, then CHOP!!!!
Kinda bummed out that Topps chopped a '59 card in half. What if it was a Mantle ?!?!?!?!
All in all, a blast. Can't wait until my other boxes get here.
Has anyone out there received their refund (or case) from SVU18??? Does anyone know this guys address or have any other information? I wish EBay would not have shut him down because now we have no way to track if he is continuing to offer refunds and/or product. Please......any information you have would be greatly appreciated!!
We know SVU18's name is John Phelan, and he is located in Brooklyn I think.... Where is Nick? I think he has called the guy before, so he should have his contact info.
I have had no contact with him except what I posted earlier in the thread - he sent me the same form letter as everyone else. I haven't raised my paypal dispute to a claim yet, to give him time to respond, but I will do so within a week if I hear no more from him.
I've only had email contact with svu and he has always responded pretty quick. Does that mean anything.....no way. I'm just giving enough time because I can.
I've talked to SVU18 by email and phone. He sent me an email yesterday saying he is still trying to work everything out. I do still have his contact info. I don't want to post it here since so far he seems to be refunding or delivering to everyone, but if you purchases from him and need the info, send me a pm.
Just for info with my case plus one box I came up short six sp's for the first master set including black back and all insert sets and forty-two sp's short for the second master set I also need about twelve inserts in this second set and five black backs. I'll be working on the missing cards for a while before trying to trade for them since values are not yet clear... On the chromes I got thirty eight chromes and need 62 I got nine chrome refractors .. I will be building both these chrome sets. I did pull a dual redemption auto Mazeroski/ Sanchez and a Posednick redemption auto. I also got a Carl Erskine Blue Ink auto... The buybacks are mostly crapola, poorly centered, The one "good" one was Don Zimmer with a bent corner... Regards, Charlie G
I decided to escalate my svu18 claim after the standard email everyone else got. He hasn't responded to that through the pay pal process yet. If he doesn't respond by march 5 it goes in my favor. If he doesn't have the cash will I still be refunded by pay pal?
I've been checking my email every ten minutes for my tracking # from LR. Can't wait, might have to hit a shop this weekend.
Knopfler, I'd like Phelan's contact info if you don't mind. Has anyone showed him (svu18) this thread? There are at least 5 of us here who bought from him.
<< <i>Jason (five7teen) - anything good to report in you case so far? >>
Well, I'm an absolute lightweight compared to Geordie's heroics (he is a Dodger fan after all) - I got through 4 and a half boxes last night before calling it a day. Best pull was an ARod refractor. 4 boxes had relics (Torii Hunter, Oswalt, Berkman, and the very predicatble Sexson), and the other box had neither relic nor ink, but had 4 chromes, including two back to back in the same pack. I kept all the wrappers and may send them to Topps, but Murphy's Law would say that I'd simply get another Sexson jersey (do they try to find the biggest players so that the "game worn" jerseys make more cards?). I think I got 4 refractors (including the ARod), but no blacks or anything else special.
At first I thought the idea of not knowing the SPs would be frustrating, but in a way, it's kind of liberating. I sort into hundreds as I go, and all I can tell so far is the 400-500 pile is shorter than the rest, so I have to believe that a good chunk of the SPs are "high numbers" (Geordie already figured that out though).
My thoughts on the set so far are mixed - a lot of the cards have what appear to be blurry/fuzzy photos, which I don't like too much, and the lack of action shots is a little disappointing as well (I know both of those things are in homage to the '59 set). The most attractive card to me so far is the C-M Wang card, and without question the least attractive card is the Torri Hunter card (why does he insist on making a fool out of himself in his cards?), with the Noah Lowry (I think that's the one) card coming in second in the worst category (filthy hat and bar fight look).
All in all, I still enjoy the Heritage product, and I'm not expecting any huge pulls this time around as I've had incredible luck in both Heritage and A&G in the past couple of years. Hopefully I'll dig into some more boxes tonight!
Topps Heritage Chrome Series 2 list (which reminds me a whole lot of last year's regular chrome set) C101 Phil Hughes C102 Hideki Okajima C103 Chone Figgins C104 Jose Vidro C105 Johan Santana C106 Paul Konerko C107 Alfonso Soriano C108 Kei Igawa C109 Lastings Milledge C110 Asdrubal Cabrera C111 Brandon Jones C112 Tom Gorzelanny C113 Delmon Young C114 Daric Barton C115 David DeJesus C116 Ryan Howard C117 Tom Glavine C118 Frank Thomas C119 J.R. Towles C120 Jeremy Bonderman C121 Adrian Beltre C122 Dan Haren C123 Kazuo Matsui C124 Joe Blanton C125 Dan Uggla C126 Stephen Drew C127 Daniel Cabrera C128 Jeff Clement C129 Pedro Martinez C130 Josh Anderson C131 Orlando Hudson C132 Jason Bay C133 Eric Chavez C134 Johnny Damon C135 Lance Broadway C136 Jake Peavy C137 Carl Crawford C138 Kenji Johjima C139 Melky Cabrera C140 Aaron Hill C141 Carlos Lee C142 Mark Buehrle C143 Carlos Beltran C144 Chin-Lung Hu C145 C.C. Sabathia C146 Dustin Pedroia C147 Freddy Sanchez C148 Kevin Youkilis C149 Radhames Liz C150 Jim Thome C151 Greg Maddux C152 Rich Hill C153 Andy LaRoche C154 Gil Meche C155 Victor Martinez C156 Mariano Rivera C157 Kyle Kendrick C158 Jarrod Saltalamacchia C159 Tadahito Iguchi C160 Eric Gagne C161 Garrett Atkins C162 Pat Burrell C163 Akinori Iwamura C164 Melvin Mora C165 Joey Votto C166 Brian Roberts C167 Brett Myers C168 Michael Young C169 Adam Jones C170 Carlos Zambrano C171 Jeff Francoeur C172 Brad Hawpe C173 Andy Pettitte C174 Ryan Garko C175 Adrian Gonzalez C176 Ted Lilly C177 J.J. Hardy C178 Jon Lester C179 Carlos Pena C180 Ross Detwiler C181 Andruw Jones C182 Gary Sheffield C183 Dmitri Young C184 Carlos Guillen C185 Yovani Gallardo C186 Alex Gordon C187 Aaron Harang C188 Travis Hafner C189 Orlando Cabrera C190 Bobby Abreu C191 Randy Johnson C192 Scott Kazmir C193 Jason Varitek C194 Mike Lowell C195 A.J. Burnett C196 Garret Anderson C197 Chris Carpenter C198 Jermaine Dye C199 Luke Hochevar C200 Steve Pearce
That blows about having to cross over into the Chrome product. Really blows!
That being said, I'm sorry to hear about the continued problems with SVU. This should be a great time, not one fighting with shady deals. Heritage collectors are true collectors rather than flip artists that populate the modern market and for some to be soured on the experience is troubling. I hope that everybody gets things sorted out. Too much fun to have crap like this being pulled.
I just called LRCards and got my tracking number. It shipped yesterday, and my location is a one day ship, so my case is on the UPS truck as we speak. The only downside to that is that I am the last house on the UPS route and I get my deliveries around 6PM, but I aint complaining.
<< <i>Well, even though I'm pretty sick, my birthday was a ok, cause it is heritage season. I was only able to afford 6 boxes right now, but hopefully I will be able to get more. I took 5 boxes from one case and then another box from another case. The one box was the first I opened and it had ink in it.....can't remember his name,but none the less exciting.
Box two had another long shot surprise...Black refractor!!!! Chipper Jones no less! The rest of the boxes had all GU in them. I really have not even had a chance to sit down and look at them. Some of the cards were pretty O/C like the Wang SP, but for the most part they looked good. The black was perfect, and 5 of my boxes had 59's as a topper. No Mantle though.
I can't wait to see some more busts. I should have the totals up soon.
Well after doing my best to be patient I called around and found a local shop with boxes for $70, I even showed some self control when I got there I only bought 3 of the 4 boxes they had. If there are any highlights I will let you know after the rip.
When I saw TNP777's scan with the Clubhouse Collections cards, my first thought was about a thread from last week on designs that didn't make it and that Topps held onto the design long enough.
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now, but hopefully I will be able to get more. I took 5 boxes from one case and then another box from another case. The
one box was the first I opened and it had ink in it.....can't remember his name,but none the less exciting.
Box two had another long shot surprise...Black refractor!!!! Chipper Jones no less! The rest of the boxes had all GU in them. I really
have not even had a chance to sit down and look at them. Some of the cards were pretty O/C like the Wang SP, but for the most
part they looked good. The black was perfect, and 5 of my boxes had 59's as a topper. No Mantle though.
I can't wait to see some more busts. I should have the totals up soon.
Kevin
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One box had neither a relic nor an auto.
3 other relics - zimmerman, berkman, posada bat (all available for trade)
12 chromes
3 refractors
7 news
7 fb
5 tn
8 nap
Love the cards, but have found some centering issues. Thankfully no print splotches like last year. I find the photography uneven and a bit disappointing in many cases....looks like they did too much photoshopping and blew up the pictures to make them too grainy. JAcoby looks great and so does pujols, a-rod, and jeter. But glavine looks horrible - like he's got terrible acne. And many of these guys look like they just stepped out of the rain - their faces look drenched.
Geordie, looks like I agree that we won't be lucky enough to think that all cards above 425 are sp's.
And by the way, thanks for the early fix. I still have some 07 chromes for you.
What's up with the Johan on the Mets card?? I have Johan on the twins.
Anyone got any ideas on the advertising panels? how many different ones are out there?
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<< <i>
<< <i>Got the itch as well so I emailed LR Cards to see if I could get any shipping details. Larry responded very quickly w/
"shipping this week wed thru fri - will send track #s 1 day after they ship "
Looks good - can't wait! >>
Thanks for this update. My order was still showing as pending a few hours ago. Perhaps they'll go out in the next day or two and I'll have them the first of next week. I'm not sure I can wait that long!!! >>
Mine still shows as pending too...
Here is a list of chrome cards. I think it is accurate.
C-1 Hunter Pence
C-2 Andre Ethier
C-3 Curt Schilling
C-4 Gary Matthews
C-5 Dontrelle Willis
C-6 Troy Tulowitzki
C-7 Robinson Cano
C-8 Felix Hernandez
C-9 Josh Hamilton
C-10 Justin Upton
C-11 Brad Penny
C-12 Hideki Matsui
C-13 J.J. Putz
C-14 Jorge Posada
C-15 Albert Pujols
C-16 Aaron Rowand
C-17 Ronnie Belliard
C-18 Rick Ankiel
C-19 Ian Kinsler
C-20 Justin Verlander
C-21 Lyle Overbay
C-22 Tim Hudson
C-23 Ryan Zimmerman
C-24 Ryan Braun
C-25 Jimmy Rollins
C-26 Kelvim Escobar
C-27 Adam LaRoche
C-28 Ivan Rodriguez
C-29 Billy Wagner
C-30 Ichiro
C-31 Chris Young (SD)
C-32 Trevor Hoffman
C-33 Torii Hunter
C-34 Jason Isringhausen
C-35 Jose Valverde
C-36 Derrek Lee
C-37 Rich Harden
C-38 Andrew Miller
C-39 Miguel Cabrera
C-40 David Wright
C-41 Brandon Phillips
C-42 Magglio Ordonez
C-43 Eric Byrnes
C-44 John Smoltz
C-45 Brandon Webb
C-46 Barry Zito
C-47 Sammy Sosa
C-48 James Shields
C-49 Alex Rios
C-50 Matt Holliday
C-51 Chris Young (AZ)
C-52 Roy Oswalt
C-53 Matt Kemp
C-54 Tim Lincecum
C-55 Hanley Ramirez
C-56 Vladimir Guerrero
C-57 Mark Teixeira
C-58 Fausto Carmona
C-59 B.J. Ryan
C-60 Manny Ramirez
C-61 Carlos Delgado
C-62 Matt Cain
C-63 Brian Bannister
C-64 Russell Martin
C-65 Todd Helton
C-66 Roy Halladay
C-67 Lance Berkman
C-68 John Lackey
C-69 Daisuke Matsuzaka
C-70 Joe Mauer
C-71 Francisco Rodriguez
C-72 Derek Jeter
C-73 Homer Bailey
C-74 Jonathan Papelbon
C-75 Billy Butler
C-76 B.J. Upton
C-77 Ubaldo Jimenez
C-78 Erik Bedard
C-79 Jeff Kent
C-80 Ken Griffey Jr.
C-81 Josh Beckett
C-82 Jeff Francis
C-83 Grady Sizemore
C-84 John Maine
C-85 Cole Hamels
C-86 Nick Markakis
C-87 Ben Sheets
C-88 Jose Reyes
C-89 Vernon Wells
C-90 Justin Morneau
C-91 Brian McCann
C-92 Jacoby Ellsbury
C-93 Clay Buchholz
C-94 Prince Fielder
C-95 David Ortiz
C-96 Joba Chamberlain
C-97 Chien-Ming Wang
C-98 Chipper Jones
C-99 Chase Utley
C-100 Alex Rodriguez
i just bought a buy it now on a yogi berra jersey or bat card for 35$ says 1 in 4100 packs. so i think i did ok there. cant seem to find any bargains on the black refractors this year. i got a couple,, last couple years at 3$ buy it nows.
i like this set alot better then last years.
major hits in 3 boxes were arod chrome 3 relic cards 1 buy back 3 box toppers. can see manny ramirez thrills in the one. topps didnt do a great job of hiding the box toppers.
5 Buy Backs.
Paul Giel
Granny Hammer
Joe Ad*ock
Russ Nixon
Wally Post
Game Used
Zimm Jersey
Hafner Jersey
Hunter Jersey
Sexon Jersey
Black Chrome
Chipper Jones
Refractors:
Utley
Man Ram
Mig Cabrera
Reyes
Dontrelle
Auto
Morrie Martin
18 chromes including Ellsbury and Cano
Everything is for trade. Im looking for ink first!
Thanks
Kevin
Clubhouse Collection Autographed Relic!
Odds are 1 in over 6,000 and it will be hand numbered to 25. Very hard to pull!! Always looking to trade for my vintage needs....
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Monster pull..congrats!
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<< <i>brian,
I'm not sure about the 110 vs 88 card set. I'm thinking there are 88 black back variations that can also be found in green back and there are 22 additional cards that are ONLY available in black back. Not sure, we'll find out more when everyone starts ripping.
Ian >>
Brian & Ian. There is no question that the black back set is 110 cards, and yes, that makes the "master" set 655 cards this year. Yikes!
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Some observations:
A black-back card in every pack. I like it, but that set shouldn't be hard to finish at all.
Less SPs than last year. I don't know all the SPs yet, but I'm pretty sure I had 1-2 'dud' packs per box. In 4 boxes, I got something like 36-39 SPs. Less than 10 per box.
A lot of cards are out of focus.
The gum still loses flavor before I've gone through the 8 cards in that pack. Seriously.
Now the cards:
Don't have scans yet, but I got Blue Ink. Vito Valentinetti of the Senators.
3 Relics: Zimmerman Jersey (seems overwhelmingly popular so far), F. Rosbinson Seat and a Gibson Seat. Love the photo on the Gibson seat card.
I got two 'Twins' Santanas and a 'Mets' Santana. I'm excited to find out exactly how rare this Mets Variation is.
I got 3 Refractors: (Phillips, Beckett, and McCann)
11 Chromes ( Jeter, Sosa, Pence, JOBA !!, Bedard, etc.)
2 Buybacks. Here's the funniest thing I've seen in a pack before. The one my dad opened was Andre Rodgers and mine was....... CUT IN HALF !!!
Literally, cut in half about 3/4 of the way down the card. Looks like when the packs were being separated from each other on the conveyor belt, the seam of the pack somehow opened up, the card slid out, then CHOP!!!!
Kinda bummed out that Topps chopped a '59 card in half. What if it was a Mantle ?!?!?!?!
All in all, a blast. Can't wait until my other boxes get here.
Ian
<< <i>Big things, Jason, Big things coming. >>
What Kurt said, Jason. I'm thinking Jeter black refractor, a Mantle seat and some ink.
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Does anyone know how many of the Perez variations there are? So far we know Wright and Santana?
Kevin
I probably should go out and shovel all of that global warming off of the porch and steps for the UPS guy.
We know SVU18's name is John Phelan, and he is located in Brooklyn I think.... Where is Nick? I think he has called the guy before, so he should have his contact info.
I have had no contact with him except what I posted earlier in the thread - he sent me the same form letter as everyone else. I haven't raised my paypal dispute to a claim yet, to give him time to respond, but I will do so within a week if I hear no more from him.
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I'll be working on the missing cards for a while before trying to trade for them since values are not yet clear...
On the chromes I got thirty eight chromes and need 62 I got nine chrome refractors .. I will be building both these chrome sets.
I did pull a dual redemption auto Mazeroski/ Sanchez and a Posednick redemption auto. I also got a Carl Erskine Blue Ink auto...
The buybacks are mostly crapola, poorly centered, The one "good" one was Don Zimmer with a bent corner...
Regards,
Charlie G
march 5 it goes in my favor. If he doesn't have the cash will I still be refunded by pay pal?
I've been checking my email every ten minutes for my tracking # from LR. Can't wait, might have to hit a shop this weekend.
Has anyone showed him (svu18) this thread? There are at least 5 of us here who bought from him.
Dave
Also waiting on my LR case.
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
<< <i>Jason (five7teen) - anything good to report in you case so far? >>
Well, I'm an absolute lightweight compared to Geordie's heroics (he is a Dodger fan after all) - I got through 4 and a half boxes last night before calling it a day. Best pull was an ARod refractor. 4 boxes had relics (Torii Hunter, Oswalt, Berkman, and the very predicatble Sexson), and the other box had neither relic nor ink, but had 4 chromes, including two back to back in the same pack. I kept all the wrappers and may send them to Topps, but Murphy's Law would say that I'd simply get another Sexson jersey (do they try to find the biggest players so that the "game worn" jerseys make more cards?). I think I got 4 refractors (including the ARod), but no blacks or anything else special.
At first I thought the idea of not knowing the SPs would be frustrating, but in a way, it's kind of liberating. I sort into hundreds as I go, and all I can tell so far is the 400-500 pile is shorter than the rest, so I have to believe that a good chunk of the SPs are "high numbers" (Geordie already figured that out though).
My thoughts on the set so far are mixed - a lot of the cards have what appear to be blurry/fuzzy photos, which I don't like too much, and the lack of action shots is a little disappointing as well (I know both of those things are in homage to the '59 set). The most attractive card to me so far is the C-M Wang card, and without question the least attractive card is the Torri Hunter card (why does he insist on making a fool out of himself in his cards?), with the Noah Lowry (I think that's the one) card coming in second in the worst category (filthy hat and bar fight look).
All in all, I still enjoy the Heritage product, and I'm not expecting any huge pulls this time around as I've had incredible luck in both Heritage and A&G in the past couple of years. Hopefully I'll dig into some more boxes tonight!
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
C101 Phil Hughes
C102 Hideki Okajima
C103 Chone Figgins
C104 Jose Vidro
C105 Johan Santana
C106 Paul Konerko
C107 Alfonso Soriano
C108 Kei Igawa
C109 Lastings Milledge
C110 Asdrubal Cabrera
C111 Brandon Jones
C112 Tom Gorzelanny
C113 Delmon Young
C114 Daric Barton
C115 David DeJesus
C116 Ryan Howard
C117 Tom Glavine
C118 Frank Thomas
C119 J.R. Towles
C120 Jeremy Bonderman
C121 Adrian Beltre
C122 Dan Haren
C123 Kazuo Matsui
C124 Joe Blanton
C125 Dan Uggla
C126 Stephen Drew
C127 Daniel Cabrera
C128 Jeff Clement
C129 Pedro Martinez
C130 Josh Anderson
C131 Orlando Hudson
C132 Jason Bay
C133 Eric Chavez
C134 Johnny Damon
C135 Lance Broadway
C136 Jake Peavy
C137 Carl Crawford
C138 Kenji Johjima
C139 Melky Cabrera
C140 Aaron Hill
C141 Carlos Lee
C142 Mark Buehrle
C143 Carlos Beltran
C144 Chin-Lung Hu
C145 C.C. Sabathia
C146 Dustin Pedroia
C147 Freddy Sanchez
C148 Kevin Youkilis
C149 Radhames Liz
C150 Jim Thome
C151 Greg Maddux
C152 Rich Hill
C153 Andy LaRoche
C154 Gil Meche
C155 Victor Martinez
C156 Mariano Rivera
C157 Kyle Kendrick
C158 Jarrod Saltalamacchia
C159 Tadahito Iguchi
C160 Eric Gagne
C161 Garrett Atkins
C162 Pat Burrell
C163 Akinori Iwamura
C164 Melvin Mora
C165 Joey Votto
C166 Brian Roberts
C167 Brett Myers
C168 Michael Young
C169 Adam Jones
C170 Carlos Zambrano
C171 Jeff Francoeur
C172 Brad Hawpe
C173 Andy Pettitte
C174 Ryan Garko
C175 Adrian Gonzalez
C176 Ted Lilly
C177 J.J. Hardy
C178 Jon Lester
C179 Carlos Pena
C180 Ross Detwiler
C181 Andruw Jones
C182 Gary Sheffield
C183 Dmitri Young
C184 Carlos Guillen
C185 Yovani Gallardo
C186 Alex Gordon
C187 Aaron Harang
C188 Travis Hafner
C189 Orlando Cabrera
C190 Bobby Abreu
C191 Randy Johnson
C192 Scott Kazmir
C193 Jason Varitek
C194 Mike Lowell
C195 A.J. Burnett
C196 Garret Anderson
C197 Chris Carpenter
C198 Jermaine Dye
C199 Luke Hochevar
C200 Steve Pearce
Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
Now collecting:
Topps Heritage
1957 Topps BB Ex+-NM
All Yaz Items 7+
Various Red Sox
Did I leave anything out?
That being said, I'm sorry to hear about the continued problems with SVU. This should be a great time, not one fighting with shady deals. Heritage collectors are true collectors rather than flip artists that populate the modern market and for some to be soured on the experience is troubling. I hope that everybody gets things sorted out. Too much fun to have crap like this being pulled.
Edited to add: Probably not as well as Geordie did his though.
<< <i>Well, even though I'm pretty sick, my birthday was a ok, cause it is heritage season. I was only able to afford 6 boxes right
now, but hopefully I will be able to get more. I took 5 boxes from one case and then another box from another case. The
one box was the first I opened and it had ink in it.....can't remember his name,but none the less exciting.
Box two had another long shot surprise...Black refractor!!!! Chipper Jones no less! The rest of the boxes had all GU in them. I really
have not even had a chance to sit down and look at them. Some of the cards were pretty O/C like the Wang SP, but for the most
part they looked good. The black was perfect, and 5 of my boxes had 59's as a topper. No Mantle though.
I can't wait to see some more busts. I should have the totals up soon.
Kevin >>
Happy Birthday Kevin!
I hope I got my cards today!
mike
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