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A slow morning on the Forum board.  What is everyone doing?

Yesterday ended up being a good day in the cards.  For the last 6 months or so, I had placed an ad on FB Marketplace that I had over 400,000 sports cards (mostly baseball) for sale at reasonable prices for collectors wishing to complete some sets.  Of course I had several  asking how much for everything and to those I replied that I was not selling as one lot, knowing they were not collectors.  But I have had a few collectors message me and have managed to move some cards, quite a few from the 1989-1992 period.

But yesterday, someone contacted me again for the second time and asked if I had 1987 and 1988 Topps sets, both base and traded for sale.  I had the traded sets already and do have some 1987 sets to spare but did not have a 1988 set.  Then I thought, let's see how many I am missing to make another complete set from my traders.  All I was missing is the Barry Larkin card. And in 1987, I have all of them as traders on this site. So the bottom line is that almost 1600 cards from my hoard of duplicates will be finding a new home soon.  I started pulling the 1988 set this morning and hopefully will be done both sets by the weekend. The buyer accepted the 1988 - 1 card.

Happy I never took the advice of some who said we should burn all of those 1987 cards.

Nicely done Bruno!

As for me, I just completed a trade yesterday here and sent my end of the deal out.  I am also in the process of putting my next COMC shipment out.  I already have the comcis lot ready just need to finish the trading card lots this weekend.

I am hopeful that with a bit of slow down in my work and personal life I can get back to catalogueing my collection again.

Oh yeah, plus we are remodeling the spare bedroom, which may turn into the new house office.

I canceled my Facebook account awhile back, so just curious what's for sale. 

I understand why one would cancel a FB account.  Too much politics on a site that should only be for social use.  But FB Marketplace has taken over much of the For Sale listings from Kijiji.  Kijiji allowed too many company advertisers / sellers so a search would yield pages of store ads instead of private sellers.

I fear FB will also go that way.  Yesterday I saw an ad that was a link to an ebay auction.  As far as I know, it is not supposed to be allowed but some do make it through.  For now though, there are still some good buys (along with all those over-priced ones). The card below is advertised for $600 in my area.  Due to its condition, I offered him $20 yet felt I was going to overpay.  He didn't accept my offer.

Got waaaay too many crazies in my past to get on FB, EVER.  

I've tried looking at FB Marketplace, but its too much of a mess for me to figure out.  I type in a 20 mile radius and they post show stuff 400 miles away.  I put newest first, and months old stuff is shown.  Then you have the ones they put at the top, basically ads.  I just want to see stuff I search for.

What I want is a good site for finding garage sales.  That was the only reason I even looked at marketplace in the first place, because people aren't posting on craigslist as much.  I can't find card deals on any sites like it anyways, but it would still be nice to find some site I could use more often.  It's why I stick to COMC and other similar sites.

As for whats going on, I'm buying a few cards on COMC and might plan for a shipment soon.  Also ordered a external hard drive enclosure so I can free up some space on my laptop.  Hope to get that soon, then I might be able to work on some youtube videos.  Also been browsing Ebay, and might even sell some stuff.

FB marketplace can be crazy. I found 60K+ cards with a handful of autos, patches, SNs, and newwer cards for $325, great deal of value well worth what I paid. But then today I see a post for some old basketball cards fresh in packs for 55 cards for $54. They as you probably can guess were junk wax.

The number of reprints on facebook annoys me to no end. I do like chuckling at people trying to sell junk wax commons for like $5... 

Ah, let's just back to the burn he gave said to be nameless member. Bad pun intended....