The Baseball Card Thread

tempo_n_groove

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

^^^^
Nice Curry!!

Trout and Curry
A couple of autos I need to get. 

TY TY. I believe it's like my 20th Trout auto.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

SPEEDY MCCREADY

That Mays cost me $40

tempo_n_groove

You sir have become a Rembrandt and Houdini.

Bravo!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

1st graded cards.
Let's just say Im very happy with my new hobby. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

I bought those cards for 30% of value that they are now. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

The next submissions, that should be back to me within 2 weeks, should be HUGE PROFIT!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

The miscut killed me! 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

And I've been in contact with a card broker with connections to auction houses. So I will not be cleaning other people's cards for free.

If you are good at something 
Never do it for free. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Again my objective was to get everything to a 4-5.
And I can do that. 
And make a very nice profit, if I want to sell right away. But I may just sit on my vintage collection and see what happens over the next 2-3 years. 

I'll keep buying and fixing as much as possible I guess. But it's not that easy to find the cards that I know will clean up. 

Cracked paint? Forget it 
A crease with cracked paint? Forget it
Some stains? Just never come out.
Those corner triangles due to dings? 75% of those have cracked paint...Forget it

But I can tell the difference from what will improve and what won't. At 1st not so much. But it didn't take long to figure out. 

And my microscope ROCKS!!!!!

tempo_n_groove

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Again my objective was to get everything to a 4-5.
And I can do that. 
And make a very nice profit, if I want to sell right away. But I may just sit on my vintage collection and see what happens over the next 2-3 years. 

I'll keep buying and fixing as much as possible I guess. But it's not that easy to find the cards that I know will clean up. 

Cracked paint? Forget it 
A crease with cracked paint? Forget it
Some stains? Just never come out.
Those corner triangles due to dings? 75% of those have cracked paint...Forget it

But I can tell the difference from what will improve and what won't. At 1st not so much. But it didn't take long to figure out. 

And my microscope ROCKS!!!!!

You have done some amazing work!

tempo_n_groove

I should receive my 130 card PSA submission today.  From what I understand there is a lot of pain in there.

To be continued...

SPEEDY MCCREADY

tempo_n_groove said:

I should receive my 130 card PSA submission today.  From what I understand there is a lot of pain in there.

To be continued...

Oh boy!
How long have you waited?

SPEEDY MCCREADY

tempo_n_groove said:

I should receive my 130 card PSA submission today.  From what I understand there is a lot of pain in there.

To be continued...

Mostly Pokémon?

on2legs

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

1st graded cards.
Let's just say Im very happy with my new hobby. 

Congratulations on those grades! Amazing transformation.  What was the turnaround time from SGC for those?

SPEEDY MCCREADY

on2legs said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

1st graded cards.
Let's just say Im very happy with my new hobby. 

Congratulations on those grades! Amazing transformation.  What was the turnaround time from SGC for those?

90 days exactly. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

My new adventure. 
Through Ebay and auctions I have purchased about 500 or so 1959 baseball cards.
Im going to clean and put together the entire set. I already have a bunch of the expensive HOF cards. Mays, Mantle, Aaron etc etc. After going through the 500 bulk I was able to instantly sell 200 or so duplicates on Ebay for $200. So that worked out nice. Im guessing that more than half of the 300+ cards I now have going towards the collection are in EX CONDITION. But Im cleaning them anyway.

Might take a year.
Might take 3 years.
572 cards
The rookie Gibson will cost me some money. 

I've done a boatload of research on the set.
Going to keep me busy. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Cleaning what I have at basically 10 cards a day will take more than a month. But 10 a day I have found out is my perfect limit.

I just cleaned about 120 1959 cards for a broker/dealer. Let's just say he was fucking blown away. How we go about doing further business together is being discussed. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Tempo?
The suspense is killing me! 
Whats the PSA situation?