I was a huge fan of WWF wrestling in the 80s and 90s and a big reason for that was Bobby “The Brain” Heenan. He had a quick wit and his jokes made any match where he was commentating ten times more entertaining. Many times, the segments with Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon during Prime Time Wrestling were better than any of the matches they would introduce.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Check Out My Brain Cards
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Buy Something Cool!
 | 5 Bids | $52.00 | Time left: 5h 52m |
| This is one of Pujols cooler looking and rarer rookie cards. It’s time to get back some of the money that I’ve thrown away on eTopps. |
 | | Buy It Now or Best Offer | $150.00 | Time left: 6h 28m |
| I won’t be too disappointed if this card doesn’t sell. I was just testing the waters to see if I’d get a crazy offer due to the serial number. I’m perfectly fine keeping this card with offers of $45. |
 | | 1 Bid | $9.99 | Time left: 5h 58m |
| I started this card off at $9.99 willing to hold onto it if it didn’t sell. I know it’s a production error, but if this is the only one like this it has to add some kind of value to the card. |
 | | 16 Bids | $45.00 | Time left: 6h 3m |
| I picked this card up fairly cheaply back in 2001. It’s time has come to move on. My collecting interests and focus have changed since then. |
 | | 2 Bids | $1.04 | Time left: 6h 5m |
| I thought I had two of these SP cards, but one of them was the non-SP 2009 version. These normally sell for $20 - $30 so I’m hoping for some last minute action. |
 | | 8 Bids | $20.56 | Time left: 6h 6m |
| I did very well with these sets. Bought a bunch of the redemption cards back in 2001 and ordered the sets. Sold a couple of the sets for $80 a few years ago and now it’s time to let go of the singles from the one set that I opened. |
 | | 0 Bids | $0.99 | Time left: 6h 9m |
| Are there really no Antonio Alfonseca fans out there? This will just go into the trade pile. It would have already been there if not for the “eBay 1/1” serial numbering. |
 | | 2 Bids | $1.08 | Time left: 6h 12m |
| Purging the Yankees out of my collection. |
 | | 0 Bids | $9.99 | Time left: 6h 12m |
| This is another card that I started with a higher price and will be perfectly happy if it doesn’t sell. It’s a beautiful card with a fairly low print run. Upper Deck sent this to me when they couldn’t replace one of the base cards from the Timelines set that I sent to them years ago. |
 | | 8 Bids | $4.26 | Time left: 6h 15m |
| I used to love the Fleer WWF wrestling sets. I somehow ended up with two copies of this card and decided to get rid of one. Keibler is as popular now, if not more, then when she was in the WWF. |
 | | 2 Bids | $1.35 | Time left: 6h 18m |
| Traci Brooks recently appeared back on TNA so I figured it was a good time to list this card. |
 | | 0 Bids | $0.99 | Time left: 6h 22m |
| Sometimes, selling on eBay can be no fun. I had someone from Australia contact me about this card, but I had to remove international shipping from my auctions. It costs way too much to send items internationally with delivery confirmation. If you don’t do that, you put yourself at 100% risk due to lost mail or dishonest buyers. I also didn’t want to risk low ratings from people having to pay the higher shipping fees. |
 | | 4 Bids | $3.59 | Time left: 6h 22m |
| Here’s another card from my The Rookies set. I was hoping for Pujols of course, but the Ichiro wasn’t bad. Selling an Ichiro card without international shipping might bite me in the ass when all is said and done. |
 | | 0 Bids | $0.99 | Time left: 6h 25m |
| The Fallen Angel seems to have fallen out of favor now that he left TNA for Ring of Honor. I miss him and all of the personas. |
 | | 0 Bids | $0.99 | Time left: 6h 30m |
| No Chris Kaman fans out there? What the heck am I going to do with his autographed card once the replacement arrives from Panini? |
 | | 2 Bids | $2.25 | Time left: 6h 44m |
| With the other Pujols cards that I’m selling, I thought someone might want to pick this up as well with combined shipping. |
 | | 2 Bids | $22.19 | Time left: 6h 48m |
| I think this card is pretty rare. It’s one of the 2010 SP cards that were only available in Target loose retail packs and were pretty tough to pull. More Yankees purging. |
 | | 4 Bids | $8.00 | Time left: 6h 54m |
| Does anyone want a Tiger Woods jersey swatch that isn’t his trademark red? I guess I’ll find out. |
 | | 2 Bids | $10.50 | Time left: 6h 57m |
| I busted a box of 2007 Just Minors a while back that I never posted on the blog. This was by far the best card in the box. With Zimmerman due to return this season, I figured that people would be looking for his card. |
 | | 0 Bids | $0.99 | Time left: 7h 5m |
| No one wants the regular version though. No big deal, it will go into the trade stack. |
 | | 2 Bids | $2.25 | Time left: 7h 9m |
| I’m surprised that this one isn’t higher. Come on Yankees fans! |
 | | 4 Bids | $6.61 | Time left: 7h 12m |
| This came out of the box of Unrivaled that I won from The Cardboard Connection. Having one autographed patch card per box seems to take some of the specialness away form these types of cards. Maybe it’s just me. A couple of years ago, there’d never be a patch card numbered to 149 and it would never sell for this low. |
 | | 1 Bid | $0.99 | Time left: 7h 15m |
| I completely forgot that I had this card or I would have sold it during the season when everyone was going nuts over Vick. Now that I know that I have it, it must leave the collection. |
There you go. These cards will fund a little shopping spree at next weekend’s big card show and some eBay purchases as well. If something doesn’t sell and you want to work out a trade for it, let me know.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Box Break: 2010 Topps WWE
This past Friday night was the biannual Greater Boston Sports Collectors Club show at the Aleppo Shriners Hall in Wilmington. While this show is heavily weighted towards vintage cards, there are usually enough modern product there for me to have a good time. Heck, I could have a good time just walking through the show looking at all of the amazing cards for sale. There's tobacco cards, '52s and just about anything you could imagine. Rows of Mantles in various grades by half grades, Babe Ruths, Teddy Ballgame and more.
So, what did I purchase at this show that could almost pass as a sports card museum? Wrestling cards. That's right, I purchased a box of 2010 Topps WWE trading cards. I'm not that into Bowman Chrome and want to wait and see if the price drops any lower before I possibly buy any of that. I decided to try something different especially since I have yet to pick up a box of the 2009 edition of these.
So, what did I think of the box? There are far too many insert sets in this stuff. I pulled 57 insert cards out of my box. It is just like 2010 Baseball in that regard. I did not get a complete set and still need 5 cards to complete the set. I got three doubles and one damaged card that I wasn't putting in the set. That annoys me when it comes to a product such as this one. Singles can be tough enough to find these days for popular sets. Forget it when it comes to non-sports and wrestling sets.
How can you complain, you pulled the best non-parallel card in the whole product? That's true and I'm still buzzing about the dual auto pull, but I'm looking at the box in terms of just the base set first off. The majority of the boxes out there aren't going to contain a card as good as this one and if someone gets a dud auto or no auto in their box (autographs fall one in every other box) then this is something that's going to bother them. When it comes to smaller, oddball sets there has to be a complete set in every box.
I'll speak briefly on the various insert sets:
- National Heroes (1:8) - I really like these cards. The design is simple with the wrestler in front of the flag of their homeland, but it works. These would have been even cooler in the 80s when nationality was such a huge part of wrestling.
- History of... (1:8) - These are completely unnecessary and I could have done without them. It's easy to sum up the history of The Miz or Kelly Kelly in one paragraph, but how do you sum up the history of wrestlers such as William Regal or Chris Jericho in one ten sentence paragraph?
- ToppsTown (1:6) - Sure, if you are copying the format of the other Topps sets, why not. They're actually limited in this with four found in each box.
- Favorite Finishers! (1:4) - This is the first insert set that absolutely belongs here. Finishing moves have become such a huge part of wrestling these days. I almost wish that these were one per pack like ToppsTown is in every other product. The simple design of these cards leaves plenty of space for some great photography.
- Championship Material/World Championship Material (1:6 each) - These cards are a bit of a mess. There are 50 cards of wrestlers who have held the various WWF/WWE titles. Then there's a different 25 card set of wrestlers who have held the World Championship. Then there are variants of these cards with picture puzzles on the back of title bels that fall once in every 12 packs. There are three different puzzles so you'll end up with six of these parallels in the box in addition to eight of the regular cards which is a second layer of unnecessary.
- Blue Parallels (1:1) - Again, it's a Topps staple so I don't mind it. With all of these inserts, there really should have been 8 cards per pack.
- Gold Parallels (1:29) - It looks like these aren't even one per box. Gold makes a lot more sense for a parallel numbered to 50.
- Superstar Swatch Relic (1:28) - It is what it is and what it is is boring. I never really understood wrestling relic cards unless it is from something really unique to the wrestler. Yellow with black polka dots for Dusty Rhodes, a piece of Rick Rude's tights would have been awesome with the airbrushing he had on them or piece of a Hulk Hogan bandana (oh wait, TRISTAR already did that in one of their TNA sets). Yawn.
- Dual Autograph (1:162 or 6.75 boxes) - I really beats the odds just in getting one of these and I was even luckier in pulling the best of the bunch. It looks like this card has sold for around $80 on eBay, but I think that I'm going to hold on to it.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
What Did I Pull?
Ok, here's a chance to get a bit of a spoiler for an upcoming box break.
Wrestling fans, take a look at the 2010 Topps WWE Checklist. Excluding parallels and super rare pulls such as printing plates, I feel like I pulled the best card possible in the product. Take a look at the checklist and guess which card you think that may be.
Wrestling fans, take a look at the 2010 Topps WWE Checklist. Excluding parallels and super rare pulls such as printing plates, I feel like I pulled the best card possible in the product. Take a look at the checklist and guess which card you think that may be.
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