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I have none within 40 miles on that site. Of course, I'm very rural.

I'm going to start trying this out. 

i have found bunch of deals near me on Facebook Marketplace... always keeping an open eye there

I only have a couple more rows to work through. As usual there is a large amount of early 90's junk stuff but I also have a nice stack of 1995 Sportflix UC3. I had never seen any of these and they are the kinds of cards I really like. I love it when you pick up something like this and make discoveries like this.

I have a few UC3 cards on my want list. 

Facebook market has been good to me the past few months. Found a guy selling every Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Score and Upper Deck set from '81-'94, traded and update sets included, in binders plus another couple hundred random cards for $200.

A rummage sale ad that had a stack of 100 EX '68-'69 Topps football that I picked up for $15.

But my favorite so far has been the stack of about 100 '61-'64 Topps baseball ('61 Spahn and Gibson were the noteables) some Jay's Publishing Yankees, a '39 Play Ball Carl Hubbell and '21 Amercian Caramel John McGraw and Zach Wheat for $80.

2 of these were rummage sale ads within an hour of me.

Not saying any of this to brag, only to show that Marketplace is a good place to find great cards and great deals amidst all the junk wax.

I hit yard sales and thrift shops as often as I can and I cant remember the last time I saw cards other than 90 donruss and 91 fleer for example. Maybe its the region I live in but I never seem to score anything.

A couple of things, first the LCS in New Jersey was where I scored the best purchases a total of five separate lots of about 60K in cards for a grand total of $95. I've lost count of how many I was able to add to my PC, and certainly about 90% of my Trade List came from those purchases. I haven't been able to find anything remotely close to that on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist (in either Texas or NJ). I haven't tried garage sales, but will have to do so.

Secondly, and this is just reiterating a preference in terminology - and I hope it doesn't hijack the thread. As a hobbyist I hate the term junk wax. It comes from an investment mindset that I do not partake in. I'm not offended by it, I simply don't see my endeavor in this as a way to provide for me financial, nor do I hope to recoup what I have spent on it. A similar term used synonymously is overproduced era, again, used in reference to investment. I rather see the high volume of production as good for the hobby so that more can participate.

Anyway, I just had to get point two off my chest.

Onward and upward toward finding those scores of cards.

I've been really trying to find a lot of the local Brewers police cards and have had pretty decent luck at the Antique Malls.  There is one about 45 mins north that I spent too much money but need to get back there.  I am going to travel WI this next week and hopefully the wife lets me look through more of the shops.

In another purchase, this one for $75 which included about a third of the oddball stuff I have in inventory I found two police sets. One I kept as it was a Houston Astros set that no one else shows owning, or at least didn't at the time, and another of the Portland Trailblazers that I sold on Ebay to a TCDB member in an auction.