January Afternoon Trip To The Mailbin

All right, Alco 3, let's do it. Um, this will be a Melbin. So, all you Melbourne fans, put some mail together recently come that has arrived and uh got a nice assortment to show. There's a small stack of graded. It's primarily football. Uh it is winter time, so I I tend to buy more football in the winter. As we get closer to March, I'm sure the baseball and the other sports will pick up. So, [clears throat] let's start with this Thurman Thomas. So, this was one that I had set aside to get graded, but I I don't think it's a uh has a chance at a 10. So, I think best case it's a nine. So, I'm just going to throw it into the mint PC. And that's the indicator. So, I'll put it in my box. It'll have that on it. So, if I ever know, like maybe down the road, I want to get this graded. Well, I I know I had this rated as mint already, so it'll save me some time sitting through cards. And that's kind of the new project. I'll show some more mint PC cards. Just a Frank Thomas Bowman. Cards I think that could um are in mint condition and could earn a mint grade if submitted. Of course, that depends on on the graater. It's just my opinion on them. Piaza, Phenoms. It's kind of a cool little insert. Here's a Randy Diamond Kings. So, I think there's about five more of the mint PC ones. I was kind of having fun with it the other day. Yeah, these are all mint pieces. So, Frank Thomas, Vic, Ed Reed tops. That card does have a nice uh market in a nine. I think it's what 40 50 bucks. There's a clean Peterson. Um I think the Conco and Magguire are nice copies. They're just not centered good enough. So there's Conco and then a FAR. So new new project. It's always fun to evolve in the hobby and with current grading prices, you kind of have to sometimes. So sending in a lot less. I'm I'm still sending in pretty good amount of orders, but definitely less than my peak when it was six, seven bucks to grade. Just doesn't make sense anymore. Heritage Collection. So, this one's got a weird top edge. Keep dropping the cards. [clears throat] Weird top edge. Um, probably a six or so. I don't know what I'll do with that one. This is like a This is a really clean bow that uh probably going to submit. It honestly looks like it could be a 10. That that right to left is spot on. Top to bottom looks good as well. I didn't see any chipping on the front. The back it's off centered. So, I don't know. It's definitely a solid candidate though. Lynch contenders this ticket. I don't know the print on this one, but uh 2007 playoff contenders was before they had 20 variations off the ticket and it was just a better time to collect, better time to open boxes. Platinum Adian J race 66 print. This is Eddie George offc center refractor. That is the ricker refractor though from 1996. And uh yeah, it's the first year that Topps did refractors in football and baseball. I believe Fleet Brilliance Gold. There are 24 carats, but out of 24, this is the brilliance gold to 99 Chipper Jones. Uh cool parallel. It, you know, it had pretty decent amount of surface issues. You can't really see it in the top loader, but to me it looked like a seven or eight. I didn't feel like paying the fee to get a seven or an eight. Upper Deck exclusives. Kind of a strange card. He's holding like stuffing. I think it's fake snow, but uh that is the gold. These exclusive goals are collectible in my opinion. And this one was the 50. It looked like an eight, so I just put it in the top loader. Platinum Medallion Ricky. This would be a thirdyear Ricky. Platinum Medallion to 50. 2001 Ultra's got a good design. Always been a fan of these. So, uh, the Ricky Philip Rivers SPX. These have been like $60 to $90 for a long time. I think that's a steal for this card. 375 print. This one had some issues. It looked like a seven or eight. So, into the top loader it goes. So, here's uh low-end football. There's a lot of low-end football in this. I've been having fun just going to the stars of the 90s, maybe early 2000s, finding their cards raw, sifting through examples, and just looking for ones that look clean from the pictures on eBay. So, all these cards are off eBay. People always ask me, "Where do you get your cards?" And I mean, I keep it simple. I just buy them off eBay. And uh some people have different means of doing it, buying collections. I've I've always had a pretty good success just buying them raw on eBay. Track down the right sellers and there are clean examples to be had. Of course, there are some rough ones that I come across as well, but that's just part of it. This is a 2003 tops and this one looks like a Blazer that'll probably get end up getting sent in. All these cards I still have to go through and decide what I'm going to send in. Here's an SPX Alexander. These were all fresh from the mail. So, I just pulled them out and put them into a stack. SPX Alexander Bagwell Stadium Club. That's uh it's like two bucks. So, there's a little baseball in here sprinkled in. This is the Encore Gold FX. So, this is the 125 print. It's about 40 bucks. There's another upper deck gold. This is Reggie Wayne to 50. And uh this seller did not want to let it go. We went back and forth many times. Sell it at about 70 bucks. Excitement. Here's a couple of Vikings. So, excitement co pepper 250. Of course, the super excitements are 25, but those do not surface very often. this card. [clears throat] I don't It's happened many times, but I I'll buy it and then they'll send me the 2010 reprint. It's a different shade of color. It's pretty obvious to a collector, but that that's the actual 98 issued one. Um, we'll just throw this graded card in. And I'm going to snap this and keep it raw. Cards like this, I don't really need it graded in an eight. If it was a nine, I'd keep it slab. That's just personal preference for collecting, but I'll just snap it and topload it if it's if it's an eight. I won't won't be resending that one in. This is like a grungy case, but it's got a little chipping on that blue. Pretty much every copy does LT Pacific Auto. That's like $40 card. It's a steal. Free SPX500 Bettis Bowman. These are like two bucks. But this one's offc centered though. I don't think it'll not not going to get submitted and it probably won't make the mint PC. So, I'll probably just sell it. Victory gold. Pretty good condition for the gold that chips up. SJ uh sweet spot 199. Cool set that uh they did not do for that many years. Sweet spot. These stadium clubs are tough. I bet the pop on this is under five for uh rookies like this. They're always chipped. Tops just their their quality control slipped with that 01 stadium club. This one's centered. I had sifted through different examples and this one looked good. 96 Tops Harrison. Not that it's a high-end card. I think I paid a dollar or two for it. This one's got an auto issue. just kind of faded and smudged, but it is the upper that graded John Alexander the 250. That one looks pretty good. It's definitely off center though. It's a base Jordan card. Woodson Tops 98 holding the Heisman. Here's a bigger card. This was from uh the eBay authentication. Sometimes they'll ship the card back and it's like coming up to here. It's about to come out of the uh card saver. I don't really know know what they're doing out there. Top scrum refractor moss looks pretty good. Those aren't it's not the toughest set. Pro set. EMTT submits a rookie. I think this was two or three bucks, but the front looks good. Let's check the back. Yeah, card looks mint. Kurt Warner crown. That's 99 showcase. It's coming out. Showcase LT. That's the Avant card to 500. Here's a Fox Stadium club. A lot of times these old rookies are priced at like a dollar plus 70 cent shipping. And if it looks nice enough, I'll just hit the buy it now on them. [clears throat] Jonathan Ogden, that's the choice. Rookie class, Dream Team, Faulk, Woodson, Starburst, Thunder. Think that was five or 10 bucks. Reggie Wayne finest. It's out of a thousand. Bowman's Best Terrell Owens. I mean, these are cheap. I think you get this under five bucks shipped. Seems like a cheap price for Owens. Bowman's best base rookie. Ogden tops. That one's off centered. The right to left's off. Top to bottom. Barely off too. Co Pepper. This is his ticket. The contenders SSD. These were nice. They're kind of a shiny look along with uh oncard autos. Probably one of the nicest sets from that year for sure. Infinity Green. That's a 75 print on that Vic. Let's go with a couple more. Beltree Bowman Chrome. That was 25 plus shipping. Diecut Moss. These are 500 print. That was pretty pretty cheap for that card. Edger and Tops chrome refractor centered up pretty good. I have to check the surface on that one. Um, this co pepper is neat. That's the the 400 version. Burus, Future Watch, Base, Charles Woodson. Bowman's Best Breeze 1499 on that one. That's a card that's been on the featured on the channel many times. Erlacer star rookie. So, we're kind of staying in that same era of football cards 93 to what 2005ish. Janikowski. These are like 250. $250 in a 10. You get them raw for 10 bucks. Brady, that is uh that's his first Tops card. This one's clean, too. I had to I had to look through some examples to find this one. Randy Moss, Fred Taylor, Gold Medallion. It's 98. Andre Johnson. Here's some like dollar cards. Eddie George premium Harrison star rookie. Tony Belli gold medallion. That's a rookie. He's a Hall of Famer. That's 95 Ultra. This is one of those uh Prism 99 Parallels 150 Tory Holt. So that's a second year. This Manning's pretty neat. 99 Bowman chrome Manning refractor SP premier prospects Eddie George we'll just do this last stack like this Ricky Waters that's the pro vision lonear signatures edge this is SP game used gold to 50 there's Uh here's a river sign of the times 2004 auto rookie. Another Williams platinum. That's 66. That's a 2004 version. Uh Premier Prospects do. And here's a ticket. 571 print is what I think it is. Someone can check me on that. That's just going [snorts] off of memory back in the day when the set came out. Um, let's do this last one. I'm gonna send this one into the graded, but this is a big card. Platinum Medallion Griffy. That's out of 100. I that one set aside to show last for the raw stuff at least. So, clean example. It looks like an eight. So, hopefully just get it slabbed up and get the eight and put it into the Griffy PC and then finally do the Griffy PC update video. Here's some graded stuff. Uh Wayne, I don't really need this in an eight, so I'll just snap it and topload it. So Wayne ticket that that I mean that's a nice piece to have as a raw card. A uh respectable raw condition ticket Wayne. I would take that over the eight. Here is uh this is like the nicest example I've ever seen of this card. So SGC gave it a 95. Now the question is, is it worth it to snap it? Probably. The back's clean, too. A 10 of this is probably pushing towards 25,000. And a nine. Probably close to five. I would say 3500 to five if I had to guess. So the Brady Rookies and Stars, that's an example I've had set aside. I'm trying to think of what I want to do with it. This Dickerson I bought and uh for my uh dual service PC collection and uh I wasn't overly impressed with the condition. It is a nine, but it looked more like an eight to me. So, I'll probably end up selling it. Here's a basketball card. 93 Ultra Jordan power in the key little insert set. I know there's a pretty good demand for cards like that. Here's a Brady Pros and Prospects. That is a uh fake gem graded 10 million. So what 2015ish graded Marshall Faulk dual service pinnacle not really the best uh photo didn't do a great job with these rookies but it's a dual service 1010 card checked out so it'll go into the PC Donnie baseball just a refractor bought off eBay and this Brett looks really pretty good. It's It's not as nice as my SGC9, but it's it's pretty close. So, 85 tops brat in an 85. That is a blazer center incredible in this one. We'll round out with uh sometimes I watch NFL films and I watch like the old players from like the 60s,7s and 80s and I watch a little feature on this guy. He racked up 20 like 20 and a half sacks in 14 games I think once and then he tore his knee I think and came back and he is a Hall of Famer. So Joe Cleco the Jets great just a random card that I picked up after watching it. Yeah, I was trying to find a seven or an eight that looked good and I picked up an eight. So that's it. Hope you guys enjoyed. Uh, lots of football, but that's what I'm buying right now. I'm not spending a ton on raw cars. Just kind of having fun with it. Later, I'm out.