MoTown Cards

*** To anyone who has sent me an offer, I have over 20 in my offers right now. I am trying to respond to them in the order they came in, without overwhelming myself with accepted trades. Please be patient with me, and do not blackball me from trading with you.***

ALL CARDS ON TRADE LIST ARE FOR SALE OR TRADE. 

USA TRADES ONLY PLEASE

PC/TRADING:

Cal Ripken is my only real PC, trying to get as many as I can.

I have a preference towards the Orioles and RC's.

Looking to mostly do deals where I send you 5-6 cards on your list and get 1-2 in return.

When trading Autos, Relics or SP's, I would want one of those in return, or a higher quality Ripken in return. 

Will most likely not trade one of those for a base card but you never know.

Feel free to send me an offer for what cards you would like, empty on your side, and I will find something from your list that I am interested in.

SHIPPING:

I do all of my trades PWE, unless we discuss that beforehand. I understand that once in a blue moon cards coming either direction get lost, I have 200+ transactions that can attest to my credibility and reliability when it comes to this.

If you are not ok with this please do not trade with me. Things getting lost in the mail sucks, but it happens

GRADING:

 I am trying to update condition on my cards as I enter new ones and go through as I am pulling trades. If the card does not have any issues I will mark it as EX-MT. and then work my way down from there. I am NO expert when it comes to grading as it is not something I care about, but just trying to give a rough idea on condition for you.. 

Can't wait to trade with as many different people as possible and hope to do some great deals!

SITE RANKINGS (AS OF 4/29/24)

Christian Binford- #1 (67/232 total)

University of Maryland Football- #1 (196 total)

Ryan Schroyer #1 (2/19 total)

University of Maryland Baseball- #1 (7/107 total)

Josh Conway- #1 (5/21 total)

University of Maryland Basketball #1 (91 total)

Nick Adenhart- #2 (34/252 total)

TJ Hose #2  (1/6 total)

Colt McCoy- #5 (69 total)

Cal Ripken Jr- #30 (1,338 total)

Giannis- #67 (50 total)

All Baltimore Orioles cards, specializing in Cal Ripken Jr.

I will alway try to make reasonable trades in your favor.

PWE will be used on small trades unless otherwise requested. For higher-valued cards, a bubble-wrap will be used.

Minor League Cards  -  I have several hundred listed for trade and will trade heaviely in your favor.

       Love to trade. 

        always looking for Jackson Holiday, Colton Cowser, Gunner Henderson and Adley Rutschman, Brooksie and Palmer , Os cards 

        MAINLY Old baseball and non-sport - pre 1980, 70s football.  

       Recent - All Topps , Boman , Panini - mainly 2019-2023 - working on sets and insert sets 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^   Its common sense, what's it going to cost me to buy, both sides the trade. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  I love old cardboard - Started as a kid collecting in 1974, buying and opening packs with my cousin (who later in life gave me all his 74 and 75s.  It was all about finding any Aaron cards when ripping open a pack that year.                                                ((ORIOLES FAN, VIKINGS & PANTHERS FAN))

        Mainly Vintage Baseball - 1973 and older - (working on second 74-80 sets - looking EX or better for these)

                                                rather HERITAGE SP FOR HERITAGE SP  

Cal Ripken, Jr. cards are my main focus. I also collect Fred Lynn And Baltimore Orioles cards. I am currently ranked on TCDB as # 10 for Ripken, # 5 for Orioles, and # 3 for Fred Lynn.

I am currently looking for Baltimore Orioles Pocket Schedules.

I am also actively searching for the Holiday Inn room key cards of Cal Ripken that parallel the 2007 Upper Deck Holiday Inn Ripken set.

I've been a baseball collector since the late 80's and love to trade.  I am primarily a set collector and belong to several online trading clubs.  My never ending goal is to collect all the regular issued Topps cards from 1952 to present.

My main collecting interests are vintage cards,  Minnesota Twins,  a few newer sets and Bert Blyleven.

Vintage sets:  1952 Topps, 1953 Topps, 1954 Bowman, 1954 Topps,  1955 Topps,  1956 Topps,  1957 Topps,  1963 Topps,  1967 Topps

Newer sets: 2004 Donruss,  2005 Donruss,  2012 Cooperstown.

* I prefer not to trade vintage cards (below 1976) for newer cards.

* Before delivering or accepting a proposal please make sure you have all of the cards.

Currently working on:
1993-94 Finest Basketball
Base Set: 220/220 | 100.0% COMPLETED!
Main Attraction Insert: 27/27 | 100.0% COMPLETED!
Refractors Insert: 47/220 | 21.4% Complete

1986-87 Fleer Basketball
Base Set: 24/132 | 18.2% Complete
Stickers: 4/11 | 36.4% Complete
2007-08 Fleer - 86-87 Retro Rookies: 6/30 | 20.0% Complete
2007-08 Fleer - 86-87 Retro Rookies Glossy: 1/30 | 3.3% Complete

1993 Finest Baseball
Base Set: 31/199 | 15.6% Complete
All-Star Jumbo: 0/33 | 0.0% Complete
Promotional Samples: 0/3 | 0.0% Complete
Promotional Samples Refractors: 0/3 | 0.0% Complete
Refractors: 0/199 | 0.0% Complete

1994 Finest Football
Base Set: 100/220 | 45.5% Complete
Refractors: 1/220 | 0.5% Complete
Rookie Jumobs: 1/37 | 2.7% Complete
 

Hey everybody, Jeremy here.

Big time Husker fan as I've grown up and lived in Nebraska my entire life. I'm an alum and will cheer for any sport.

Been a card collector since a wee child. Took a 15 year hiatus in college and post-college and getting back into it collecting my childhood favorites. Boy have things changed! I'll dabble in some new cards, thus, I have newer cards for trade as well.

My goal: is to help you complete your sets and/or collect your favorite players or teams. I only have 1-5% of my collection logged into TCDB thus far, so most likely have many more in your want list then what appears. I'm very open and actually prefer trading 100-400 cards for 5-15 cards in return. I understand a number of my want list includes potentially "higher" priced cards ($1-$20+), so if I need to trade 1:10 or 1:20 if you're open to that, I am as well and will ship accordingly. As stated above, I love helping others complete sets as I have a TON of doubles and commons.

I will always send PWE, unless the trade is over 30+ cards, then use a padded envelope.

I enjoy collecting: (ranking week of 4/22 ---> 5/6)
* Shaquille O'Neal (#24 ---> #22) (765 Cards | 4.6% Complete)
* Ken Griffey Jr. (#42 ---> #42) (1,317 Cards | 4.2% Complete)
* Dan Marino (#15 ---> #15) (969 Cards | 5.0% Complete)
* Kobe Bryant (#29 ---> #27) (693 Cards | 1.5% Complete)
* Michael Jordan (#92 ---> #92) (615 Cards | 3.8% Complete)
* Lebron James (#22 ---> #23) (156 Cards | 0.9% Complete)
* Alex Rodriguez (#33 ---> #33) (445 Cards | 1.7% Complete)
* Ricky Williams (#7 ---> #7) (252 Cards | 5.1% Complete)

Always open to fair offers and selling any cards in my FS/FT list, as I have a BUNCH of cards I'm looking to purge as well. As I continue to get back into it, I may grow my wants/needs in completing sets, etc. I accept cards in all conditions, they don't have to be perfect.

Appreciate all considerations and will try to communicate if a card isn't in "gem mint" condition as well, as I do have some that aren't, as I actually traded cards waaaayyyyy before TCDB came along!

I do have a SportsLots Page for selling as well: https://www.sportlots.com/dealers/?dealer=Jmo34353

I *DO NOT* buy cards via TCDB, only trade.  Set Builder primarily, to include insert subsets.  I try to trade cards from like-sets.....if you or I am trading for a premium card type, I expect to offer and be offered the same in return.  Please do not use my inventory as a poaching opportunity.  I get it, you have the card types that you like to collect, but so does everyone.  If I have 3 Ronald Acuna's of the same set as doubles, don't even attempt at getting all 3 from me.....I too need trade bait.

For recent and current year trades, I'd like to trade for like sets, Archives for Archives, Heritage for Heritage, Topps Gallery for Topps Gallery, let's help each other complete our sets!  If you propose something otherwise, I will likely decline. Thanks for your interest.

I am a die hard Caps and Oriole Fan. My Oriole collection goes back to 1954 and my Caps collection goes back to 1974.  I am look to trade for Ovechkin and Backstrom in hockey. I am currently updating my collection and I am trying to get as many color variations for the OPC Platinum Caps and as always looking to expand my Brooks Robinson Os collection.

Mostly Baseball, but a little bit of everything.

Baltimore Orioles cards of all stripes and flavors! 

Sub-collections include:

• Cards featuring The Bird, the Orioles' mascot
• Cards featuring Oriole Park at Camden Yards or Baltimore's Memorial Stadium
• Cards or Stickers focusing on the Orioles logo
• Canadian-produced (or Japanese, Venezuelan, British...) cards of the Orioles
• Cards produced by the Star Company featuring Orioles players
• Weird unlicensed Orioles cards from the junk wax era
• Topps Opening Day cards featuring Orioles players

I'm good with PWE trading. Big or small trades can both be rewarding. I'll always aim to make sure it's an even trade where everyone is happy! 

At the end of the day, all of this should be FUN. 

Ripken Jr., Orioles, Annika Sorenstam, Dr. J., Johnny Antonelli,  Some Twins, Some Bengals

If I have something you would like to trade for, reaching out to me via Twitter might be the fastest way to start. We can bring it back here just to keep track of it, if you would like. I see messages quicker on Twitter than I do here...sorry🤷‍♂️

If you need a vouch or two, you can get them via Twitter also.😉

Topps Base (all years), Topps Heritage (all years), Baltimore Orioles (1954-2000), MLB Topps Now, MLB Topps Living, Project 2020/70, Texas Rangers (2000-Present), Texas Longhorns, Golf

COLLECTING

• Sets: 1954-2024 Topps Baseball base sets, including updates. Here is my TOPPS SETS STATUS list.
• Teams: Baltimore Orioles, Washington Capitals, Baltimore Ravens, and a few Baltimore Colts.
• Players: Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Palmer, Alexander Ovechkin, Dale Hunter, Chris Simon, and Olaf Kolzig.

TRADING

Overview

• Trades only. I don't buy or sell cards on the TCDB.
• U.S. TRADES ONLY. Shipping outside of the U.S. is expensive.
• I have 50,900+ different cards listed for trade (I don't list multiples). Fair, base-for-base, trades are welcome, especially in bulk. As a set collector, there are a lot of base cards on my want list. Having a large number of base cards on my want list makes it difficult to line up one-for-one trades for requested inserts, stickers, or non-base cards, especially in bulk. If you're asking for inserts or non-base cards, please offer cards that are similar.
• Let's communicate to make sure both parties have all cards available and in acceptable condition BEFORE either of us commits to hitting the "Accept" button. It's a mess trying to fix errors for damaged or missing cards after accepting.
• I'd like to stay within the same decade for vintage trades: 50s for 50s, 60s for 60s, and 70s for 70s. For 80s and later cards, it's not as important. Also, I'm OK with trading across sports or for non-sport if you are.
• I love to trade, but if I have more than 10 transactions going at once, I will momentarily turn off my incoming trade proposals to let the queue clear before turning it back on. I thank you for your patience and understanding.
• If you are a team or player collector and we have a large trade going, please take into consideration that it will take me a longer amount of time to pull your cards spread out over many different boxes and locations, especially if variations are involved, as opposed to pulling cards all from the same set located in one box.

Condition and Variations

• For trades involving pre-1980s cards, expect to exchange images of cards to verify condition. Everyone's standard varies on what is acceptable condition. Exchanging photos solves this so both of us can determine if the condition of the cards being exchanged is preferred by both parties.
• For 50s-70s vintage cards coming my way, I'd prefer cards without tears, heavy scuffs, surface damage, writing, heavy creases breaking the surface, severely rounded corners, holes, wax stains, or part(s) of the card missing. Somewhat centered is preferred. Everything later than 1980 I'd expect to be near-mint or mint condition. Again, I'm open to exchanging images of cards to verify condition, especially for vintage cards.
• If offering cards with dark borders such as 2001, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Topps cards, please ensure that they do not have surface damage from bricking (snow) or edge chipping. Thank you. 
• I make every effort to enter the correct variations. If you are a variation collector, please ask and I will verify that the variations are correct. For me, the only sets that I'm concerned about receiving the correct variations for are the 1981 Fleer, 1991 Topps, and 2012 Topps sets that I'm trying to complete master sets of.

Trade Sizes and Shipping

• The bigger, the better! I'm trying to complete sets while helping you to complete yours, so large fair trades are welcome! My biggest single trade so far has been 3,509 cards: 2024 TCDB Site Award: Largest Trade. We can top that, right?
• I use the Trade Matching feature often to propose large trades. If you're on the top of my match list, don't be surprised if you get a large trade offer from me. I'm trying knock out sets while helping you with yours.
• For Plain White Envelope (PWE), I prefer to trade 15 or more cards to make it worth the postage unless the cards involved are of higher value or vintage cards.
• 15 to 24 Cards: PWE, unless you prefer otherwise.
• 25 to 48 Cards: Two PWEs (because getting TWO envelopes full of cards in the mailbox is better than getting only one!).
• 49+ Cards: Team bags in a plastic bubble mailer, or a 200ct to 500ct card box. All larger trades will have a USPS tracking number sent to you in a transaction message.
• I try to mail out as soon as possible. When work is crushing my soul, I will let you know my mailing is delayed. Apologies in advance.

Thank you for reading my profile and stopping by!

SET BUILDERS, UNITE! HAPPY COLLECTING!

Orioles

Star Wars

Coast Guard

Goals for 2024:

Complete 80 transactions -   51 / 80

Send / receive 800 cards in transactions -   491 / 619

(Complete 1976 Topps set - 281 / 660)

Complete 1978 Topps set - 671 / 726

(Complete 1979 Topps set - 31 / 726)

Complete 1954-2023 base Orioles:

Donruss - 6 / 27

Fleer - 4 / 44

Score - 3 / 6

Upper Deck - 18 / 62

Increase Orioles collection to 15,000 cards - start 13,238 - currently 14,006 - 14,000th card was 1970 Kellogg's 3-D Super Stars 21 Brooks Robinson

Increase Star Wars collection to 5,500 - start 4,699 - currently 5,211 - 5,000th card was 2023 Topps Finest Star Wars FN-2 Hera Syndulla

Goals for 2023:

✔️ Complete 80 transactions -  171 / 80

✔️ Send / receive 800 cards in transactions -  2433 / 1557

Complete 1976 Topps set - 

Complete 1978 Topps set - 

Complete 1979 Topps set - 

✔️ Complete 1954-2023 Topps base Orioles - received 32 / 32 needs 

✔️ Increase Orioles collection to 13,000 cards - 12,000th card was 2022 Panini Prizm - Illumination Bronze Donut Circles Prizm #IL-9 Cedric-Mullins

13,000th card was 1995-Leaf-Limited-70-Mike-Mussina

✔️ Increase Star Wars collection to 4,000 - 4,000th card was 2023 Topps Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi   #6 The Grand-Inquisitor

Goals for 2022:

Complete 100 trades - 91 / 100

Send /receive 1,000 cards in trades - 722 / 777

✔️ Complete 1977 Topps set - received 16 / 16

✔️ Complete 1980 Topps set - received 10 / 10 needs 

Complete 1954-2021 Topps base Orioles - received 35 / 67 needs 

✔️ Increase Orioles collection to 11,000 cards - currently 11,027 - 11,000th card was 2022-Topps---Gold-Star-579-Ryan-Mountcastle  

Log all cards in my collection into TCDB

Log all trader cards into TCDB
 

Goals for 2021:

✔️ Complete 50 trades

✔️ Send /✔️ receive 500 cards in trades

✔️ Increase Orioles collection to 9,000 cards

✔️ Orioles collection rank top 5 on this site

Log all cards in my collection into TCDB

Log all trader cards into TCDB

Tim Castle

724 Spruce Hill Way

Charles Town, WV 25414