My life and times in sports and baseball cards
Ebay has a new offering that I have been dabbling with lately. It’s called Ebay Deal Finder. The premise is that you can find items that haven’t been bid on yet with less than 4 hours left and no reserve. It sounds like an opportunity to sneak under the radar and get some really good [...]
If you are like me you may have quit purchasing individual packs of cards at retail stores. This change has nothing to do with the price or the cards themselves. Before the relic and autograph card era it was not uncommon for me to grab a handful of wax packs on my way to check [...]
Part three of a three part series
I purposely held this topic until the end because it hits me close to home. This is the third and final post in my discussion of “Where have all the card shops gone?” If you are just now joining us you might want to start with part one here. [...]
A Guide for Shipping Baseball Cards
I have been selling sports cards on Ebay for several years. One of the questions I am most often asked is, aren’t mailing the cards a huge hassle? My answer is, not really. Let’s take a look at some shipping practices I really believe in.
Mostly what I sell are singles [...]
Part two of a three part series
If you haven’t read part I of this post you may want to read it here first. In part two I want to talk about two of the contributing factors for the decline of the card shop. I touched on the over produced and growing card brands in Part [...]
Part I of a three part series
I live near Tyler, Tx a city of nearly 100,000 people within just minutes of the city limits. But in this ever growing metropolis there is not one baseball card shop. In years past we have had as many as five open at any given time. What happened? Baseball Card [...]
I was reading an article in Tuff Stuff, entitled ‘Elite Company’ written by Dennis Tuttle. The article was about Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard. The basis of the article is that Howard is no longer mired in obscurity. After leading the majors with 58 homers and winning the NL MVP award his cards are rising [...]
This is my first post to the blog. I am quite overwhelmed at this point of the whole blogging scene. I have had a few friends suggest posting a blog. I never really took it seriously until I started researching how the Google search engine really worked.
I happened upon pearsonified. It was the first [...]
