General Forum

Let me preface my confession by posting what I have as a quote on my TCDB Profile:

I'll consider trading for your lesser conditioned vintage (pre-1976) if you agree to a 3-for-1 ratio for you to upgrade including the replacement card.

This is not to push for those types trades, rather it's a mea culpa. Let me also remind some of my trade partners that I've stipulated that I'll accept cards that some may consider unworthy of keeping as long as they are not defaced.

Today, about 30-minutes ago, I tossed about 100 cards in the trash because I deemed them unacceptable to remain in circulation. There I've said it. You can see the cards here.

Well, it wasn't a bonfire of perfectly good cards....

That's always a bummer. I've opened a fair amount of product from the early to mid-90's and have seen plenty like that.

Yep, an entire factory set of 94 Topps and half a box or 94 Leaf. I also had factory sets from 95-04 that all had that issue to some degree or another

You TRASHED Cards? UGH. Please don't do that ever again, reccycle them if you must but to toss them in the trash? 

Fot those thinking of just throwing cards into the trash you can send them my way.

Mea culpa. 

I kept them for months and had a few trade requests for them, but I'd remove them because I didn't feel that they'd be acceptable to my partners. In only one occasion did I explain why I removed about 20 cards from his offer, and he was appreciative.

Next time I run into this problem I'll certainly PM you, though.

I've tossed 5 cards in my life, all within the past year. They were bad. Looked like a kid folded them up and shoved them in his pocket. And tossing them still traumatized me lol.

I have a " I should throw a way box" now lol. I had to adjust a trade last week, cause I felt the cards were in too poor of shape to trade. So I remove them from the trade list and but them in the box. I guess I'll let my kids worry about that box after I'm gone :)

Yeah, "Pass the buck!" in great American fashion. I love it!

Since I still plan to meet up with Billy one of these days, and I started a "Billy Box" about 2 or 3 years ago, if I didn't have another purpose for them, they wind up in the Billy Box. :) He has also stated that he'll take anything that others don't want. At least this way no one will be out the cost of postage!