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Vvvergeer

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:05 PM

Didn't really think that'd be of interest. It's card # 294 of the Topps Gypsy Queen Baseball set, whoever that is. I didn't even check, just looked at the numbers.

22 hours since my message to seller -- no response yet. Getting a tad nervous....

(Ah, it's Nomar Mazara)

C2Cigars wrote:

You gonna leave us hanging or tell us the missing card?

Vvvergeer wrote:

I hear ya, but I'm afraid I'm just not that sympathetic. For this set, I was haggling and ended up paying a few bucks more than I could have because I know the guy is just trying to make a few dollars. But if you're gonna sell on eBay, you need to be as professional as possible, and that means getting the product you advertise to the people who buy it. Like I said, it's not that big of a deal and I'm sure when the guy sees my message, he'll send over the missing card. Or, worst comes to worst, I'll spend a buck and get it somewhere or someone here will just send it to me for free if I whine some more. But, as a said, if you're going to be a vendor, vend well. My success rate of 56% on these types of purchases is not impressive.

griffey423 wrote:

To be fair...some of the set builders are hand collating hundreds of sets. I've modified my set building efforts over the years so that I think I have a pretty good process to not miss any cards, but I am still human. And to take a few minutes with each set to go through it another time (with the example you set of 10 minutes, multiplied by 100 sets, adds up to a lot of minutes) is just not possible.

Typically though, you're much better off with hand collated sets from a massive breaker because they *should* be experienced enough to build a ton of sets at once and not make errors. Most of us are pretty good at it. But I don't think people fully realize how long it takes to open a case of packs and sort it, let alone multiple cases.

Vvvergeer wrote:

Just whining here, but for the ninth time in my life, I bought a "complete" hand-collated set of cards. It's never a big deal and you'd think I'd learn, but for the fourth time, it wasn't complete. Sooooo close....two of one card. The next card missing. I'm sure they'll send me the missing card. But how hard is it to check that they're all there? It takes under 10 minutes. You just count from 1 to 300 and see if the little numbers on the card match the numbers you're saying in your head.

Sigh.

Splinter_9

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:30 PM
I have a factory set of the 1989 Fleer baseball. Got it sealed and everything, and they forgot to include the Rick face card! They put the stupid black box version in there. wth? :D ------------------------------- A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was mine, to have people say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived."

IfbBirdsCards

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:22 PM

I’ve got 3 compete sets, all with the black box on it. Same deal with the Randy Johnson Marlboro card, all the cheap edits.

Splinter_9 wrote:

I have a factory set of the 1989 Fleer baseball. Got it sealed and everything, and they forgot to include the Rick face card! They put the stupid black box version in there. wth?

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aussiewayne

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 7:28 PM
I know how you feel, just had the same thing happen buying on eBay, one was a set of 1992 pro set hockey missing 3 cards, second was a 1992 Parkhurst emerald ice with one duplicate

Vvvergeer

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:31 PM
As has always been the case, I’m told the card’s already in the mail.

Lerxst2112

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Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:38 PM

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24. It's supposed to make that noise.
25. I *love* your new _____!
26. ...then take a left. You can't miss it.
27. Yes, I did.
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Vvvergeer wrote:

As has always been the case, I’m told the card’s already in the mail.

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Vvvergeer

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Friday, March 30, 2018 12:10 AM
Fun. But I believe him. I'll know by Monday. v3

Jd_sports

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Friday, March 30, 2018 10:00 AM
I was missing a card from the 2016 topps factory set ------------------------------- Always Trading!

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