Patriot86

Mostly Basketball 80's to current and 49er's Football

Collecting all Topps Baseball base sets from 1956 to 2020. 

If I have something on my For Sale/Trade list that you need and you have nothing to trade me, I am more than willing to sell most cards on my FS/T list at a very reasonable price...especially to fellow set collectors!

VAR's: If it's important to you to get a specific variation in a trade, please let me know so I can be sure I have the correct one for you.

Steelers are my main focus. Pirates & Penguins will always have one or two team sets in the works as well.

Any Rocky Bleier not already in pc, happy to trade heavy for.

Grew up in Three Rivers Stadium. Collecting is about the memories for me.

Always happy to trade no matter if it's big or small. Same town or different continent, all good. A great way to help one another.

Steelers team set completion help of any year. 

Pirates 1971 to 1991. Few modern team sets

Pens 1976 to 1993. Few modern team sets
 

Want list is being trimmed down slowly. Listing more.. most from small box sets & pack rips, conditions will be very sharp.

Happy to trade heavy if you close out a Steelers team set. 

1989 Pro Set FB has a handful of VARs missing. Willing to purchase or trade heavily to complete.

Small sets & packs for trade:

**packs & box sets need sorting, will have list up soon. 
     ~ Retail boxes are always changing. Currently 88 Topps baseball Coins; 87 Bball Sportflics set; 90-91 OPC hockey wax; 90-91 Topps Hockey sealed set; 91-92 pro set French wax; 91 pro set platinum fb series 1 & 2 wax; 91 pacific fb.. few left of 99-00 upper deck McDonalds retro hockey & few blister hangar packs left of 08-09 upper deck series 2. 
 

Please feel free to drop a line if any are of interest, happy to trade. 

Miscellaneous:

•Framed displays of favorite players & favorite cards + memorabilia have been made with my nephew, long distance from back home in Pittsburgh. Below is a link to photos of a few of the 60+ we've made & a 2nd link for where the nameplates came from. If not the best plates around for best prices, made by a good individual? No chance I'd have the links up. Anyone who may be interested, take a look & drop either Mike or myself a line. Why keep your pc tucked away when it can be easily mounted, safely, & to see daily. I hate promoting. Whole experience over the past couple years is simply worth it. 

Thank you. 

Steelers are my main focus. Pirates & Penguins will always have one or two team sets in the works as well.

Any Rocky Bleier not already in pc, happy to trade heavy for.

Grew up in Three Rivers Stadium. Collecting is about the memories for me.

Always happy to trade no matter if it's big or small. Same town or different continent, all good. A great way to help one another.

Steelers team set completion help of any year. 

Pirates 1971 to 1991. Few modern team sets

Pens 1976 to 1993. Few modern team sets
 

Want list is being trimmed down slowly. Listing more.. most from small box sets & pack rips, conditions will be very sharp.

Happy to trade heavy if you close out a Steelers team set. 

1989 Pro Set FB has a handful of VARs missing. Willing to purchase or trade heavily to complete.

Small sets & packs for trade:

**packs & box sets need sorting, will have list up soon. 
     ~ Retail boxes are always changing. Currently 88 Topps baseball Coins; 87 Bball Sportflics set; 90-91 OPC hockey wax; 90-91 Topps Hockey sealed set; 91-92 pro set French wax; 91 pro set platinum fb series 1 & 2 wax; 91 pacific fb.. few left of 99-00 upper deck McDonalds retro hockey & few blister hangar packs left of 08-09 upper deck series 2. 
 

Please feel free to drop a line if any are of interest, happy to trade. 

Miscellaneous:

•Framed displays of favorite players & favorite cards + memorabilia have been made with my nephew, long distance from back home in Pittsburgh. Below is a link to photos of a few of the 60+ we've made & a 2nd link for where the nameplates came from. If not the best plates around for best prices, made by a good individual? No chance I'd have the links up. Anyone who may be interested, take a look & drop either Mike or myself a line. Why keep your pc tucked away when it can be easily mounted, safely, & to see daily. I hate promoting. Whole experience over the past couple years is simply worth it. 

Thank you. 

I started collecting as a kid in 1974, baseball, football, and basketball cards. I purchased my first packs for $0.10 in 1974 at Zane's Market in Dover, Ohio.  The next year the price jumped to $0.15.  I quickly learned to count by 15s.  I sold my entire collection in 1989 to get an apartment after graduating from college.  I regret it to this day.  I have been rebuilding my collection over the last 25 years thanks to a very supportive and encouraging wife.  I collect Topps base sets and pre 1990 baseball cards only.   I am always looking for cards I need. I have thousands of doubles from mid 70s - 80s to present plus others. Will trade vintage for vintage but not interested in most cards from last 30 years except Cleveland Indians/Guardians cards. Looking for nice mid grade vintage on trades, min VG/VG+, or  lower grade on some the HOFers pre 1970.  

Complete sets; Topps 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2021, 2022, 2023.

Currently working on; Trying for better quality of stars' cards in my sets and finishing off the 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 Topps Heritage sets.  Heck, I'm working on ALL of Topps base sets not listed.

Players that I collect; Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel, Jim Thome, Cleveland Indians' team sets, HOFers concentrating on pre-1990 players.

I prefer not to ship to Canada.  It's quite expensive.

Let's trade!!

TRADING

—Suggestions if you would like to trade: Prefer trading inserts/short prints for inserts/short prints, vintage for vintage, junk wax for junk wax, and modern base-set cards for same. I don't mind getting modern cards in return for junk wax (1980s and early 1990s), depending on the cards involved. These are just general guidelines, and if you want to make a deal different from that, just message me. I'm sure we can figure something out.

—Why I prefer trading inserts for inserts: Even if the value of a particular insert is no more than an ordinary base-set card, inserts typically are more scarce here than base-set cards. Check each card, and in most cases, you'll see that inserts are included on more Want lists than For Sale/Trade lists. A large majority of modern base-set cards are on more For Sale/Trade lists than Want lists. That's why I don't consider base-for-inserts to be an equal trade. Again, message me if you disagree, and I’ll try to work with you.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON

—Modern baseball set priorities:

**Topps flagship, Series 1 (2024) 64 to go
**Topps Heritage (2024) 234 to go
**Topps flagship (2018) 386 to go
**Topps Update (2023) 8 to go
**Topps Archives (2023) 64 to go
**Topps Update (2018) just started, 298 to go
**Topps Update (2019) just started, 177 to go
**Topps Heritage (any year, but especially 2017)
**Topps Archives (2020) 229 to go
**Topps Allen & Ginter (2022) (Not a big priority for now)
**Donruss (2019-23) (Not a big priority for now)
**Fleer (1983) (Need cards to be NrMt or close to it)
**Donruss (1986) (Need cards to be NrMt or close to it)

—Priorities on insert sets:

**2017-24 35th Anniversary sets (I love them all)
**2017 Heritage: 1968 Topps Game
**2020 Topps Archives: 1960 All-Star Rookies
**2017-23 Heritage: New Age Performers
**2018 Anything (Especially Legends in the Making, and Highlights of Judge, Bellinger, Bryant and Jeter) 

—Football priority: Cards of former Alabama players. To a lesser extent, I'm interested in former Alabama basketball players, too. Also, I'd like to complete the 1982 Topps football set, but cards need to be NrMt because all the ones I have for that set are NrMt or better. I'm trying to finish my 1973, '74 and '75 Topps sets, too, and I'd like to get at least Vg to VgEx.

CARDS FOR SALE/TRADE

My goal is reduce the number of trade cards to zero. Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. What I'm offering:

**Baseball, 1981-current: These are almost always Ex-Mt or Nr-Mt. (If they aren't, I've got condition marked.) If you ask for a particular card, I'll check condition before accepting the deal.

**Baseball, 1961-80: I've listed condition for everything baseball from 1961-80.

**Football: Everything 1980 and newer is almost certainly Ex-Mt or Nr-Mt. I've listed condition for 1982 and everything 1979 and older. The 1969 and 1970 cards are almost all Poor to Fair, with a handful of Good sprinkled in. (Sorry, I got them years ago from a friend who didn't take care of his cards.) I've got some 1970 cards to trade that are Ex-Mt or better. 

**Basketball: I've got some 1981-82 Topps listed. All those cards are Ex-Mt or Nr-Mt. I've also got some 1990-91 Hoops and 1990-91 Fleer cards listed. They're all NrMt.

MY OWN CARD RANKINGS

—Where I rank, as of March 2, 2024, in TCDB rankings: Shaun Alexander (21), Bob Baumhower (1), Cornelius Bennett (60), Paul Bryant (1), John Hannah (1), Bobby Humphrey (10), Wilbur Jackson (1), Lee Roy Jordan (1), E.J. Junior (1), Barry Krauss (1), Woodrow Lowe (2), Marty Lyons (2), Johnny Musso (1), Joe Namath (10), Tony Nathan (1), Ozzie Newsome (3), Jeff Rutledge (1), Nick Saban (1), Ken Stabler (5), Bart Starr (81), Dwight Stephenson (1), Derrick Thomas (93), Richard Todd (1)  and Mike Washington (1).

#1 JJ Watt Collector on TCDB

• Houston Texans
  • JJ Watt
  • Deshaun Watson
  • DeAndre Hopkins
• Houston Rockets
  • Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Clyde Drexler
  • Sir Charles Barkley 
  • James Harden
  • Russell Westbrook 
• Houston Astros
  • Craig Biggio
  • Jeff Bagwell
  • Lance Berkman
  • Justin Verlander 
  • Jose Altuve
  • George Springer
  • Carlos Correa
  • Alex Bregman
  • Yordan Alvarez
  • Kyle Tucker
  • Yuli Gurriel
• Houston Oilers
  • Warren Moon
• University of Houston cards
• Pete Maravich
• Chris Mullin
• Frank Thomas
• Will Clark

CURRENTLY NOT TRADING. WILL BE BACK SOON

Now under the username toppsguy85

I was a life long collector of sports cards up to the "Junk Era" then stopped in the early 1990's.  As you can see by the picture, the collection had taken over one room of my house (I could post a worse picture of the closet and floor).  So after 25+ years of not touching  them, I took the leap a couple of weeks ago to start digging.  I am excited and enthusiastic to discover and rediscover the collection I had forgotten or never knew...  I have given myself 10-12 years to sell my PC (I need the floor space, closet, and room back) ...  So I am hoping to make a little money and hopefully help other collectors, set builders, etc.   I have way too many cards too list but really good at 1977 to the early 1990's and apparently I specialize in regional and oddball material.  Who knew?  I have noticed that I really do have all sports and a lot of non-sports and the kicker is 95% of my collection is unopened!!!  This is going to be a long 10-12 years...If anyone should happen to read this besides me, message me...

Fighting Irish Football....but only in ND uniform (slop,sets,inserts,autos, new, vintage, promos, regional issues)....just gotta be wearing the Golden Dome) On the hunt for the 1999 Century of Greatness set,  which isnt valuable just hard to come by. Although I wont pay $50 for a $15 set, I will reward anyone (with cards) that can lead me to finding "hard to find" cards. Open to Chicago/Green Bay/Pittsburg teams as well, since a lot of ND fans are fans of those  teams,  I can turn it into something I want. I will consider doubles that I already have to help figure out a trade. So it doesn't hurt to ask or get creative. Im not actively seeking/chasing every parallel and/or autos (newer sets) but would trade for them if the occasion arises. (everything basketball and hockey are available for trade even if it not listed for trade, just a lot of matches that dont have anything from my wantlists so they arent listed for trade)

Please be patient with "large trades" and/or anything that is a variation as I would prefer to pull/verify everything before accepting, and would rather take it slow and correct rather than quick and incorrect (still trying to figure out a "system" for organizing and staying that way in regards to baseball cards)

Fair warning: I'm kinda slow at trading and currently have a lot going on ATM (so patience is needed when trading with me) it's not intentional, just trying to squeeze the hobby I enjoy into a rl busy time.

• Working on low to mid grade 1970 through 1972 complete Topps baseball sets, but I'll take any condition just to complete these sets. I'm focusing on these right now and I hope to trade as much for these as I can. I will buy if the price is right. I'm over halfway on 1970-1972 with HOF and High #'s remaining.

• Detroit Tigers Topps Team Sets, including SP (Complete 1958 to present)

• Detroit Lions Topps and Donruss post 2015 Team Sets, including SP (Complete 1956 to present)

• West Michigan Whitecaps Team Sets (Complete 1994 to present)

• Topps Flagship Baseball Sets 1970 to present (Complete 1973 to present)

• Topps Flagship Football Sets (Complete 1981-1992)

• Topps Traded/Update Sets (Complete 1974 to present)

• Topps Pro Debut Sets (Complete 2010 to present)

• MLB Mascots

• Any other local teams of interest - Grand Rapids Griffins, Muskegon Lumberjacks, Grand Rapids Rampage, Traverse City Beach Bums, Traverse City Pit Spitters, etc.

I've been very blessed in my trades and transactions here on TCDB. Thank you to all. I will trade vintage for modern and vice versa as long as there is roughly equal value felt on both sides. I am a set builder and collecter. I do not speculate on my cards for future value. I do this for fun, not for profit. I will sell, but only to build a small bank of money to use for buying cards I can't trade for. I've traded hundreds of cards each way and I've done many 1 for 1 trades, so no trade is too big or small for me.

In packaging, I use painter's tape ONLY. I try to use a photo mailer for small trades of about a dozen or less.  I use #10 PWE for trades up to about 2 dozen cards and maybe 2 PWE for 4 dozen.  After 50 cards, I typically will use a bubble mailer with tracking.  If it is 200 or more cards, they will likely be in a box well padded.

NOTICE: I've decided to make a slight change my trading approach.   I really don't have any interest in doing these large "player collection" trades anymore.  I'm a set collector and all my traders are stored by set (in nearly 100 3,200 count boxes).  It sometimes takes me hours to pull cards where someone is only looking for certain players.  What's worse, I recently had a guy screw me on a trade after I pulled 120 random cards.   Going forward, I will be rejecting these types of trades.  I'm looking to help people complete their sets and vice versa.  Sorry, but I hope you understand.  Craig

I’ve been collecting cards for over 47 years and have over 503,000 unique cards in my main collection, including some nice vintage stuff.  I collect older cards of the four major sports but lately I've been expanding to some more recent sets.  I'm primarily a Set Builder and I’m looking for other like-minded set builders to trade with.   I’ve accumulated tons of extra cards that I would like to trade away with almost 250,000 cards in my current For Trade list.  Big trades don't bother me. I have a huge Want List, so hopefully you have something I need.  Feel free to make me an offer. 

For Canadian Traders: It's expensive for me to trade across the border.  Going forward I would like to limit cross border trades to two (2) PWEs. That's about 54 standard-size cards.  Thanks.

For Anyone Outside US/Canada: The increased postal rates have made it impossible for me to trade outside North America cheaply.  So going forward I will have to decline trades from outside US/Canada.  Sorry about that.

Update on Donruss/Leaf * Variations and Upper Deck Holo Variations:
I can't guaranty the junk wax era Donruss/Leaf cards and the UD holo variations are listed with the correct variation.  Going forward I will no longer check the variations on these cards.  If you want these cards regardless of the variations, feel free to request them in the trade.  However, If you want a specific variation of these cards, I'm no longer your guy - please don't put them in the trade request.  For all other cards that have variations, I will continue to check and make sure you get the correct one.

Note on Vintage Cards:
I have over 6,000 vintage cards listed for trade (I consider vintage to be 1977 or earlier).  For each card I've noted a condition grade and if you check closer, a note on each regarding any condition issues (be sure to select the correct one if multiple cards are shown).  Please note that I'm by no means a professional grader and if you're hyper-sensitive on card condition, please message me first and I'd be happy talk about it.  In exchange for these cards, I have three priorities:

• 1) similar vintage cards that I need (any sport)
• 2) inserts for my 90s sets that I need (any sport)
• 3) or non-junk era base cards that i need as a last resort (any sport)

Note on Card Condition: A card noted as Pr, Fr, Gd, or GdVg will have some obvious condition issues such as creasing, corner wear, or marks.  I would consider them place holders in a collection at best (I've listed them because some people do want place holders).  A VG card will usually be a clean card with some corner wear or a centering issue.  For me, VG would be the bare minimum for my personal collection.  EX will be nice sharp card and VgEx will be something just between VG and Ex, still a nice card with a small issue that prevents it from being EX.  NM in vintage is a tough find.

I collect mostly hall of farmers, future hall of farmers, and players on Chicago teams.  Currently super collecting Frank Thomas cards.   Only cards on my trade list are up for offer.

****** FRIENDS AND FELLOW TRADERS*****

****04/14/2024*********

I know this is a trading card site but I came across several volumes of stamps in a collectors hoard I purchased and thought I would see if there would be any  interest in them, either trading a few baseball card commons or just finding a new home for stamps!  First up:  

1997 Guinea set of 5 plus commemorative sheet - golden retrievers, etc. - used.

1993 Sao Tome and Principe #1489-1496 Atlanta Olympics - used

*****07/07/2023********

Been receiving a few sale offers - I sincerely  appreciate the reach outs but I am overwhelmingly primarily a trader.  I  might make a purchase if I am very close to completing a set and have been unsuccessful in trading for that card  or few cards but most of the time I am not interested in purchasing.  Thanks my  friends!!

******09/27/2022*****

Thought I would take this opportunity to update this profile.  I want to weigh in once again on what a fun community this is!  I have now been a pretty active trader for a couple of 3 years and it has been everything I could want in a hobby.  In addition to  completing my 1977 T and 2006 T ( a set my sons and I started when it was new so brought back many memories of that time), I have completed a 1990 UD BB by trading alone, which was a blast and cleared out a lot of duplicates!  I am also close or even very close to completing other BB sets.  I am an old-fashioned flagship set builder, not all that concerned with inserts/chase cards or condition, and my experiences here have been invariably positive.  I am always on the lookout for BB cards of any age or condition (even if you're just trying to get rid of that shoebox of junk wax commons!!) and am always delighted to send along my extras to other member collectors.  Considering my collection had been boxed away for some 30+ years, it has been great fun to get back into the true trading card aspect of the hobby and this site and the friends I have made here are truly remarkable.

Always open to trading (large, small, PWE, whatever) and I'm happy to help with fellow set-builders, as so many here have been so kind to me.  Very willing to help; my extras are much more at home in your collection then in my duplicates box.  If see something you need/want in my to trade and don't have any matches from my wantlist, let me know and we'll figure out something.

Greg Bergstedt

1935 Barbe St.

Lake Charles, LA.  70601

Goals: I'm currently trying to complete a few sets from the late 70's, 80's and early 90's. Please have a look at my Goals page for specifics.

Baseball: Dodgers & 1978.

Basketball: Kobe, Shaq, MJ and Lebron

Football: Currently trying to complete 1978 & 1979 Topps sets.

Football: New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Breakers

Basketball: New Orleans Jazz/Hornets/Pelicans

Baseball: Cincinnati Reds and New Orleans Zephyrs/Baby Cakes

Hockey: Vegas Golden Knights and Cincinnati Cyclones

Collegiate: Tulane Green Wave and UNO Privateers

Soccer: FC Cincinnati, Chelsea FC, 1. FC Köln, Inter Milan, and LOSC Lille

Also any player who grew up in the New Orleans area

Only interested in trades, not buying, at this time.

2014 Topps Baseball - Priority

1977-1979  Topps Baseball 

1990 Leaf Baseball

1994-1995  Leaf Baseball

1992 Fleer Baseball

Player Specific - Dansby Swanson, Ty Cobb

*** Anything Godzilla ***

Complete Sets For Sale/Trade

Baseball - 1990 Fleer Baseball

Football - 1991 Pro Line Portraits 

Football - 1991 Score Supplemental

Football - 1995 SP

Football - 1991 All World CFL

Basketball - 1989 Converse

Basketball - 1990-91 Hoops

Basketball - 1994 Classic Draft

Basketball - 1998 Press Pass Double Threat

Unopened Material For Sale/Trade 

Baseball - 23 Jumbo Packs of 1989 Donruss Baseball  (39 cards + 6  puzzle pieces per pack)

Basketball - 1992-93 Upper Deck High Series (20 Jumbo Packs - 27 cards per pack)

Football - 1991 Pro Line Portraits - Signet Series 

Currently mailing Monday thru Friday .... next day almost always 

--- Trade offers will be deleted after 3 days if unresponded too. 

--- Please - if variation is important to you,  ask me to verify. 

I enjoy collecting football and baseball sets all major manufactures Topps, Fleer, Leaf, Upper Deck, Score (that all I can think of right now) 1970's to present, 

I have also started a collection of my favorite NHL team the Nashville Predators.

Set building is my major goal condition is secondary. I do not mind a small crease or a rounded corner if a card is needed to complete a set. 

I do not grade cards but I will let you know if a card has an obvious flaw before I accept the trade. 

I do not mind PWE trades. I always ship in bubble mailers and with tracking if the budget permits. That is my personal preference I do not require or ask it to be yours.

PC - John Elway. Also looking to fill holes in the sets I collected when I was younger, and trying to build the Topps baseball sets I missed out on when I stopped collecting for a while. Just recently started to build a collection of Texas Rangers Topps base parallels. 

To get the most for my postage buck, I'm trying to keep my trades to either: 1.) - less than 20 cards or so (which will go out in PWE's), or 2.) - larger than 50 which will go out in bubble mailers. Also, unless they're something which I'm really interested in, I'll pass on trades of only 2 or 3 cards going each way.

Anything ALABAMA, SERIAL NUMBERED, PATCHES, RELICS, AUTOGRAPHS.

NY Mets cards for any and all years, including former and future Mets.  Giants, Rangers and Knicks as well, but main focus is on the "Amazing Mets". LGM

Also looking for any Cap Anson cards.  Just found out he is my boy's great great great uncle.

Trading cards from same subsets.  ie Rainbow Foil Team X for Rainbow Foil Mets, etc.

Collecting Baseball and Football cards.  Looking to complete sets from 70s Football (VgEx or better preferably), and any cards pre-1970.

Collecting Topps Baseball from oldest years - 1990, with exceptions in 2014 Topps and 2020 Topps Heritage.  Old cards should be VgEx or better.  Right now I'm prioritizing 65, 69, 71, 72, 2014, and 2020 Heritage.  

When offering trades please check value and make of somewhat equal value.  I also only trade in the US.  

TCDb Ranking:

• JJ Watt - #1
• Dutch Clark - #1
• Red Grange - #1
• Mel Hein - #1
• Fats Henry - #1
• Bronko Nagurski - #1

Football only except Andre Dawson. JJ Watt. Hall of Fame Members with a preference to defensive players and linemen. 1st Topps cards of HOF Members.

On football cards to trade/sell the grade if not noted is: 1980 to present - NM or better, 1979 - VG+ or better, 1970 to 1978 - wide range, Pre 1970 - I try to indicate grade on each card.

I have quite a bit of baseball prior to 1993 but do not follow or collect anymore except Dawson. All my non-Dawson cards are for trade but have few entered into the database (and really would rather not enter them). Let me know if you would want to trade and I can check out your want list.

Looking to trade for Michael Jordan cards specifically. I'm not a condition freak at the same time I'm not looking for junk or worthless cards. I have cards from baseball, basketball, and football that I would like to trade with others for Jordan cards but I'm always willing to listen to any deals offered to me. The football and baseball cards are vintage, some are in excellent condition and some not so much. But, I can promise you I will not be trading or offering anybody a card that is not worthy of being traded or sold. I'm willing to send pictures as well. I won't trade any of my  M.J.'s unless it's for one I don't have already. Any cards I do have are open to trade except ttheJordans so  malsome offers let's trade some cards.

I use sleeves and top loaders then sealed up. Placed in a  cardboard sleeve and shipped using a PWE (Plain white envelope. I'm a down to earth and easy to talk to deal with person so offer me your deal already! LOL

I collect Michael Jordan cards from the 1980's to present, oddball cards, and checklists. I'm just getting started on my collection. I have some mixed football cards from the 70's and 80's however, they are not in excellent condition but they are not trash either. Please  free to look through my collections and if you see it and need it hit me up and we'll talk.

April 2024 - I've added a lot of Young Gun cards to my FS/Trade list, please don't propose a trade for these cards without being willing to offer Young Guns in return. Response A) Hate being a stickler about this but I'm really focused on wrapping up my Upper deck sets and need Young Guns cards to do so. Response B) I continue to get lopsided trade offers with folks wanting Young Gun cards, expect me to counter. 

March 2024 - I am extremely busy at work right now and have next to no time for card related items. Happy to look at trade offers when I can but the hobby is not a top priority for me right now. 

January 2024 - Over 1400 trades completed and I've owned/traded/moved over a million cards since joining the site 6+ years ago. That being said, the current state of trading on this site is atrocious. Several years back, the traders were all great to deal with but this has changed dramatically in the last few years and there's truly on a handful of traders which I feel any level of comfort dealing with. Trade offers go ignored, are countered with ridiculous offers and petty issues seem to be common anymore. I left out everyone seems to treat their cards like million dollar prized possessions. I started a No Trade list but it seemed like every few days I was adding someone to it, not worth it guys and gals. I'm finding that I can buy cards I want either from Sportlots or eBay with so much less hassle. And cheap too. 

All that said, when my current stash of postage runs out, I'm turning off trading and not sure if I will be returning. Was a fun ride while it lasted. 

November 2023 - Trade Values - I am back to using Beckett to look at card values for trade equality. 

Willing to trade to Canada again. I am though not accepting any responsibility for any losses, etc. once I drop my envelope in the mailbox. Trader beware!

October 2023 - Nothing against any of my Canadian traders but I am no longer trading to Canada due to issues with Canada Post and the USPS destroying envelopes causing loss of cards, cards needing to be resent, issues with postage, etc. It's too much folks. 

To pull, package and ship cards, only to have one of the postal systems destroy the package makes it a fruitless endeavor. It's a waste of both time and money. 

Sadly, Canadian trades make up most of my trades so this is probably the beginning of the end of my trading days.  I will probably beginning selling off most of my collection starting in 2024. It's been a fun ride but thats the way I'm heading right now. 

****1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey VAR's on my For Sale/Trade list - Highly unlikely that I have any of the oddball VAR's. These cards were entered mainly as placeholders meaning I do have one version of a given card but probably not the version you need. If time permits, I may be open to checking VAR versions but it's not something that I enjoy doing nor high on my list of things to do. ****

September 2023 - Continuing to focus on collecting one card of anyone who is the four Hall of Fame's. I'm over 90% complete on Baseball and Football. Basketball is lagging far behind. Haven't updated Hockey but I should be in good shape there as well. 

Supplies:

For anyone close to Denver, I have a large amount of trading supplies that need to find a new home. I have BCW card houses, 5000 and 3200 count boxes and a host of smaller boxes (800, 660, 550, 400, 300, 200 and 100). The latter is a mixture of used and new Collect-Save-Protect or BCW brand. 

Disclaimer on PWE trades

I'm hearing of, and personally experiencing, more and more issues with PWE trades. Mainly postal machines destroying/bending envelopes or envelopes arriving and the cards being missing. I have not seen issues like this in my prior 1100+ PWE trades. That being said, I will continue to send 25 cards or less PWE but once the envelope is dropped in the mailbox, I'm no longer responsible for damage/issues after that point. I'm not sending replacement cards or funds if there's damage once the USPS has my/your envelope or your cards are lost in the mail.

I'm very close to no longer writing "Non-Machinable" on my PWE envelopes. This doesn't seem like a makes a difference to the USPS and the financial costs for doing this quickly add up. 

I hate to take a hard stance on this but short of stopping trading (or doing larger, bubble envelope trades), I have no other options. I'm spending too much time and money on postage to send replacement cards, when the issue arises, to make trading worth it.

Happy to do larger trades (30+ cards) in bubble envelopes.

What I'm collecting for:

1)I'm primarily an Upper Deck flagship hockey collector. I'm working on completing a few remaining base sets and then chasing Young Guns and insert cards. 

2)I'm also collecting RC's (when possible) of all NBA/NHL/NFL/MLB players who have been inducted into their respective Hall of Fames. Also collecting non-players cards as well if they are in the HOF. Basically if the person is in the Hall of Fame for their sport, I'm hunting their RC or if it's a non-player, some type of card for them.

3)Finally, I'm collecting Baseball/Hockey and to a lesser extent, Football sets, of the 1970's/1980's. 

Card condition:

If your cards look like they have been manhandled, I'm not interested in them for my collection. No creases, rounded corners or teeth marks. 

Buying cards:

I've had several folks approach me about buying cards..I will rarely be interested in buying from someone and, odds are, I will reach out to you first..

Trade size:

Make it worth our time..

PWE packaging:

I am no longer using cardboard protection in my PWE trades. Historically, I've done 100's of trades with cards just in 9 pocket pages and then placed in envelopes and have had zero issues. After some issues I have seen lately with including cardboard in my PWE trades, I'm no longer spending the extra money, and time, just to have cardboard protection in an envelope. 

Postage:

Please make sure you have proper postage on whatever you are sending me. Seems to be half the envelopes I get are short on postage. Minimal postage on a PWE envelope is $1.03.

Canada trades:

Has between 9 and 25 cards or less. I can't afford to send big trades unless there's additional cards/value to compensate. Trades less than 9 or so cards don't make a lot of sense either from a cost standpoint.

PCs (priorities in bold)

BASEBALL: Sammy Sosa, Ichiro Suzuki (any uniform for both)

BASKETBALL: Minnesota Timberwolves, Anthony Edwards, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett (Wolves only), Michael Jordan (any uni), Dirk Nowitzki

FOOTBALL: Chicago Bears, Matt Forte (Bears only), Devin Hester (Bears only), David Montgomery, Peyton Manning (any uni)

Have plenty of the following teams to trade: Cubs, Bulls, Timberwolves, Spurs, Bears, Vikings

SITE RANKINGS as of December 27, 2023

CHICAGO BEARS - #8

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES - #25

Kevin Garnett (#24), Peyton Manning (#19) Tim Duncan (#17)

Devin Hester (#11), Matt Forte (#5), Sammy Sosa (#5- thanks for 1,800 cards!)

Dirk Nowitzki (#5), Ichiro Suzuki (#4), Anthony Edwards (#3)

David Montgomery (#1- 470 cards and counting!)

Help me reach the top for all these guys!