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2nd ever 1/1...2018 Topps Series 1

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ketchupman36

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Saturday, February 3, 2018 8:33 PM
Wow that's two members now pulling 1/1 from 2018 Topps. Congrats!

Jimmymak22

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Joined: Jan 2017

Saturday, February 3, 2018 8:47 PM
Thanks again everyone.

vrooomed

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Joined: Dec 2012

Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:13 PM

I know that shop in Midland Park - great guy Dave is. I just wish I had been able to get there more often.

I'm not too far from you. I'm right in Fishkill.

I assume the overpriced shop you're talking about is up in Red Oaks Mills?

Jimmymak22 wrote:

I actually live in Wappingers Falls now as of the last 3 years. Grew up in Brooklyn.

I work in Jersey City, so the drive home from Jersey City to Wappingers Falls takes me through Mahwah New Jersey. I go to The Baseball Card Store in midland which is right next to Mahwah. Owner's name is Dave and he is a great guy. practically throws a piece of double bubble at the door as soon as it opens. Always up to chat baseball and usually throws a few supplies in when I visit.

I googled card stores near Wappingers Falls and totally struck out. 3 stores within 30 kminutes of me turned out to have outdated website and only carried magic/pokemon and the 4th which is close carries like 3 baseball products total, charges more than any place else I have seen and has a vintage case full of cards in horrible shape marked at BV from Beckett for mint condition with zero negotiaions. Which is why 3 years later, every card that existed in that case is still sitting in that case with an over priced non-negotiable sticker on it.

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spazmatastic

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Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:38 PM

That's a four hour drive! I know b/c my sister lived there when she was stationed in Norfolk. I'd rather take the nearly 3 hour drive to Gastonia (near Charlotte) to go to the closest SPORTS card shop.

obxyankeefan wrote:

I would have to drive to Virginia Beach when I lived in NC for shows.

spazmatastic wrote:

I have ten 1/1's. Three were traded for and and the others were bought. I had another one that I bought but later traded away to a hardcore collector for something way more valuable. Six of my 1/1's are AU's, 3 are plain printing plates and 1 is a base parallel. Of the AU'd cards, 5 are printing plates and one is an AU & 4x-MEM. You can see 5 of the 10 cards in my "My Jimmie Johnson AU's" List.

I don't have a single MLB 1/1 and only own one from NFL. The others are all NASCAR cards. Of all the boxes of any cards that I've bought over the years, it's still surprising that I haven't pulled a single 1/1 card!

I really hate how many card shops have switched from sports to gaming cards over the past decade or so. I have a shop somewhat close, but they appear to mostly deal with the Pokemon/Yu-gi-Oh/Magic stuff now. I haven't taken the time to drive down there to see what they really have b/c I feel like it would be a wasted trip. I'm never in that area for any reason, so coming home with no cards would certainly be a waste of time and money.

Congrats again on the great pull though! If I had pulled it, I'd want to do the same as you and trade it for another card or sell it to get more packs of cards.

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Jimmymak22

Posts: 99
Joined: Jan 2017

Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:39 PM
What a small world. Dave really is great. Thankfully I drive home through Mahwah everyday so stopping in to see him is pretty easy. Yes the store I was referring to is on Red Oaks Mill. I feel as though I might have been too harsh on my review, but I didn't have a great experience which could have been 2 bad days for them. I haven't gone back though.

spazmatastic

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Saturday, February 3, 2018 9:40 PM

I was going to say the same in my first post, but I didn't want to burst his bubble so fast!

C2Cigars wrote:

Interesting how they define a 1/1. Yes, it's a 1/1 of the letter "B". But not a Strasburg #ITN-SS 1/1. Apparently each letter gets a 1/1. There must be at least 7 #ITN-SS 1/1s. I wonder if there are two "S" and two "R" 1/1s?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/STEPHEN-STRASBURG-2018-Topps-Series-1-IN-THE-NAME-1-1-JERSEY-LETTER-PATCH-RELIC/332542236977?hash=item4d6d0fd931:g:Q8EAAOSwhxhadZYw

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stephen-Strasburg-2018-Topps-Series-1-All-Star-In-the-Name-letterman-card/391974326594?hash=item5b437d9142:g:QWcAAOSw37BadR~j

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NO PWE's EVER!!! PLZ PM me 1st before sending any offer. ONLY selling cards as of March 2024. No trades or purchases right now.

_______________________________________________________________________

Largest total PC card collections by Team, then Athlete (as of 3/22/24):

STL Cardinals (MLB) - 8810; Carolina Panthers - 2888; GB Packers - 1790+ cards

Mark Martin (NASCAR) - 2038 cards; Jimmie Johnson (NASCAR) - 1875 cards; Jeff Gordon (NASCAR) - 1594; Ricky Rudd (NASCAR) - 839; Ozzie Smith (MLB) - 707

vrooomed

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Joined: Dec 2012

Sunday, February 4, 2018 8:30 AM

The guy in Red Oaks Mills was a complete jerk to me and my son (who was 9 at the time). I had a bunch of the Spring Fever cards, which simply stated to take them to ANY participating Topps dealer (and Champion was one of them) and receive a pack for each card.

I took a stack of about 20 in, and he said "You didn't buy these here, nope." He then proceded to "give in" and redeemed 1 pack - total. Not even one for each of us. My son, as a 9 year old, said in the car on the way home, "I don't ever want us to go there again." We haven't.

A shop in Fair Lawn (I used to work in Paramus) did actually redeem them all, plus gave me an extra because he was a nice guy. And then later in that year, I found the one in Midland Park.

Jimmymak22 wrote:

What a small world. Dave really is great. Thankfully I drive home through Mahwah everyday so stopping in to see him is pretty easy.

Yes the store I was referring to is on Red Oaks Mill. I feel as though I might have been too harsh on my review, but I didn't have a great experience which could have been 2 bad days for them. I haven't gone back though.

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obxyankeefan

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Joined: Aug 2017

Sunday, February 4, 2018 12:24 PM

Seeing as i worked in Norfolk at the time it was a little closer. Charlotte was a six hour drive at the time.

spazmatastic wrote:

obxyankeefan wrote:

I would have to drive to Virginia Beach when I lived in NC for shows.

spazmatastic wrote:

Congrats again on the great pull though! If I had pulled it, I'd want to do the same as you and trade it for another card or sell it to get more packs of cards.

Colengco90

Posts: 577
Joined: Oct 2014

Sunday, February 4, 2018 1:02 PM

yea, your review of that place is spot on....used to be a lot better back when, but now only thing i find them useful for is storage boxes...Check out the Dutchess marketplace down by Home Depot, couple of dealers in there. I mainly deal with Scott, who has booth about 5 rows up from the front right on the main aisle on left hand side... used to have shop by me known as "the bullpen''. There are a few other dealer in there as well.

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Jerry

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