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I'll send a PM once I confirm...  But we had an "incident" where a box of Bowman Platinum was dropped and most of the corners are dinged.  Of course it had an Ohtani RC in it.  Can't really trade a perceived high-value* card like that, but it's not in bad enough shape to throw away.  So it sits on the shelf (next to my bricked 93 UD) and gives me heartburn every time I see it.  :)

* "high-value" is realitive, I know...

Kirbythedodger wrote:

Honestly, no matter what the conditions I will take free cards. Send me a PM if you have cards that would otherwise go into the trash.

I had forgotten about that incident. Okay, my "incident". A couple springs ago I was at a small show and I was at an older gentleman's table. I bought a bunch of small value items from him and for the heck of it he gave me an entire 94 Score Gold Rush set. Got home and, yep, one brick. Not several smaller bricks, but one large, 660 card brick. Well, at least I didn't spend any money for it....

sandyrusty wrote:

As I get my card sets into binders, if I have a really bad card (duplicate) I use it for the back of the binder to indicate what set it is in the binder.  Recently someone asked for a 1960 Thornberry card I had for trade.  When I pulled it, I could not see it being really useful to anyone (sometimes I include those as freebies in trades but telling the recipient he will probably need to find a replacement eventually). So I told him the condition was Pr and said thta unless he really wanted it, I would use it for my binder set-indicator. There it now is, or at least 3/4 of it as I had to cut it to make it fit.  I know, sacrilege! But when it comes to the junk era, yes I have tossed "bricks"  1994 Score comes to mind; the Gold parallel will peel the gold off when stuck together really destroying the cards.

Maybe it is the unsealing of the unopened product that flash bricks them?  Schrodinger's baseball cards.

I would like to have an upgrade option . I am looking to upgrade many of my 70's and 80's sets to higher grade cards . If I leave them on my wantlist I could end up trading for cards that are same condition or worse . I would also like to be able to print just my upgrade list for when I go to shows . Upgrading is secondary to my wantlist when I am searching for cards and it would be nice to have that list seperate from my needs .

OCH - Love that... Schrodingers baseball cards

chvlDm - Not with high quality pages like Ultra Pro. But years ago, my grandma gave me a binder full of 1990 UD MLB cards that she found at a yard sale. I can't remember now if the pages were CardGuard or Cardboard Gold, but all the pages were really sticky and stuck to each other. They were in a zippered binder, so it wasn't that something got spilled on them. As for the cards, almost all of them were stuck together and I had to toss about a 3rd of them b/c I couldn't un-stick them without damaging them. The most obvious damage was the holofoil logos sticking to the other card's back. Of course there was some surface loss like the OP's '93 cards, but the holograms were where the worst damage was. It took forever to go through those cards. It was nearly the entire set and I had to wash my hands after every few pages. In my own collection, I've never had problems with my sets sticking together when doubled up in pages.

I say this with love. There are thousands of children right now that would have been thrilled to have had these cards. Throw in a few dice and the rules to play dice baseball and you just made new life long collectors and baseball fans. If we don’t each help build the next generation of card enthusiast then why bother collecting? 

BradLevi, that's a great idea. As a former teacher and school administrator I employed that in work stations for students and encouraged it when I left the classroom.

Presently, I send an accummulation of Fleer and Upper Deck team logos to a friend who's left administration and returned to the classroom to hand out as rewards to her students as she chooses. I've got another stack ready to go now, in fact. I've thought about asking TCDB members to send me these logo stickers so I can forward them to my friend, but never follow through with this. (I'm not asking now, but if you would at least find a teacher in your area that would use them as rewards for exceptional work or behavior, that would be great!)

But let me counter your suggestion this way: Why donate damaged cards to encourage collecting? Wouldn't it be best to give the best?

It sounds good to donate, and my wife and I do that often with clothes and other items we have no need for. But for the most part nothing is damaged. 

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BradLevi wrote:

I say this with love. There are thousands of children right now that would have been thrilled to have had these cards. Throw in a few dice and the rules to play dice baseball and you just made new life long collectors and baseball fans. If we don’t each help build the next generation of card enthusiast then why bother collecting? 

Sportzcommish wrote:

So, here's a sample of what I just encountered in my filtered cards, and frankly it's not the worst, but probably fairly common to the rest. The front is without issues, but the back's got a few white smudges circled in red. What would you do with these? Would you accept them as part of your collection even with a description? Would you be upset if you received them without explanation?

You tossed cards?  Damn.  You're pretty much going to hell

Darn it. Here I thought Jesus was my key out of hell!