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Dime Boxes Rule!
Last Saturday, I showed off my five favorite purchases from the Serramonte Mall Sports Cards, Toys, and Collectibles Show.
Today's post covers everything else I picked up. Let's kick things off with my dime box purchases.
My buddy set up next to a guy who works for Check Out My Cards and had some of the best dime boxes I've ever sifted through. Actually they weren't even dime boxes. He had his vintage cards priced at 12 for a buck.
Obviously this made his table very popular, so I wasn't able to check them out until later in the afternoon. Even though the box had been picked over numerous times over... I still managed to find nine dollars worth of vintage cardboard. In the meantime, I stood around and sifted through a boatload of dime boxes filled with all kinds of goodies.
I was able to add close to two hundred new cards to my baseball inserts and parallels binders, including eleven new cards for my Greg Madduxbinder and five new cards for my Tony Gwynnbinders. Originally he had the newer cards priced higher than the vintage (8 for a buck), but by the end of the day he charged me the same price as the vintage.
If I had to estimate how much time I spent at this guy's table, I'd probably say I stood there for close to five hours. But I wasn't finished with dime boxes.
One of my favorite vendor's is a guy named Dion, who has dime boxes that are sorted by player and loaded with rookie cards, parallels, and inserts.
Plus he's one of those vendors who takes the time to talk to you about collecting, so I hung out and swapped sports card stories. When the dust settled, I had a stack of over 130 cards that set me back another $13.
I would have had more, but a kid walked up a few minutes after and joined me. Anyways... he jumped ahead of me and started pulling cards that I hadn't gone through yet. If that wasn't enough, he also had no problem with invading my personal space. He reminded me of one those "close talkers" who have to be right next to you. I'm not sure if anyone else has been in a similar situation, but I was pretty annoyed.
Luckily he only hung around for around ten minutes, but in that time he definitely picked out fifty-something cards.
A little later, I ran into the guy who has been selling me '75 Topps Minilots. Anyways, he had just purchased a small vintage collection that included some '67 Topps Posters, plus a bunch of Willie McCoveys.
There were several I wanted, but since I still hadn't paid the COMCguy, I settled on his 1965 Toppscard:
He threw it in for $5, since I was buying the set of posters.
Okay... almost finished. I'll combine my final three purchases:
I found the two memorabilia cards at two separate vendors and paid a dollar for the Cormier and two bucks for the Boggs. As for the 1990 Leafbaseball packs, the COMCguy had these laying around and sold me the twelve packs for $4.
The last card I added to my collection is this memorabilia card of Clint Dempsey:
My buddy Ben gave it to me, since I drove him to the show. He let me choose between this card and the Tim Howard. Both guys are superstars that I recognize, but I ended up grabbing the Dempsey. It's a shame that they weren't able to advance on Tuesday.
By the way... my 1000th post contest ends this Saturday at 7am. I'll be posting the randomizations and winners sometime during the day. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read and leave comments on my posts over the past 1000 hours.
Well that's it for now. Happy Thursday and sayonara!
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Today's post covers everything else I picked up. Let's kick things off with my dime box purchases.
My buddy set up next to a guy who works for Check Out My Cards and had some of the best dime boxes I've ever sifted through. Actually they weren't even dime boxes. He had his vintage cards priced at 12 for a buck.
Obviously this made his table very popular, so I wasn't able to check them out until later in the afternoon. Even though the box had been picked over numerous times over... I still managed to find nine dollars worth of vintage cardboard. In the meantime, I stood around and sifted through a boatload of dime boxes filled with all kinds of goodies.
I was able to add close to two hundred new cards to my baseball inserts and parallels binders, including eleven new cards for my Greg Madduxbinder and five new cards for my Tony Gwynnbinders. Originally he had the newer cards priced higher than the vintage (8 for a buck), but by the end of the day he charged me the same price as the vintage.
If I had to estimate how much time I spent at this guy's table, I'd probably say I stood there for close to five hours. But I wasn't finished with dime boxes.
Plus he's one of those vendors who takes the time to talk to you about collecting, so I hung out and swapped sports card stories. When the dust settled, I had a stack of over 130 cards that set me back another $13.
I would have had more, but a kid walked up a few minutes after and joined me. Anyways... he jumped ahead of me and started pulling cards that I hadn't gone through yet. If that wasn't enough, he also had no problem with invading my personal space. He reminded me of one those "close talkers" who have to be right next to you. I'm not sure if anyone else has been in a similar situation, but I was pretty annoyed.
Luckily he only hung around for around ten minutes, but in that time he definitely picked out fifty-something cards.
A little later, I ran into the guy who has been selling me '75 Topps Minilots. Anyways, he had just purchased a small vintage collection that included some '67 Topps Posters, plus a bunch of Willie McCoveys.
There were several I wanted, but since I still hadn't paid the COMCguy, I settled on his 1965 Toppscard:
He threw it in for $5, since I was buying the set of posters.
Okay... almost finished. I'll combine my final three purchases:
I found the two memorabilia cards at two separate vendors and paid a dollar for the Cormier and two bucks for the Boggs. As for the 1990 Leafbaseball packs, the COMCguy had these laying around and sold me the twelve packs for $4.
The last card I added to my collection is this memorabilia card of Clint Dempsey:
My buddy Ben gave it to me, since I drove him to the show. He let me choose between this card and the Tim Howard. Both guys are superstars that I recognize, but I ended up grabbing the Dempsey. It's a shame that they weren't able to advance on Tuesday.
By the way... my 1000th post contest ends this Saturday at 7am. I'll be posting the randomizations and winners sometime during the day. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read and leave comments on my posts over the past 1000 hours.
Well that's it for now. Happy Thursday and sayonara!
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