I collect: NBA, NHL, NASCAR, Star Wars, History, Military, DC Comics, Olympics, whatever interests me
Current project is trying to get at least one card of everyone to ever get one for NBA, NHL and NASCAR. Also working on getting at least one example of every set ever for the above sports. (Wantlists on Cardboard History)
I have some health problems that make it challenging for me to get to my trade stash. It makes me a slow trader as there are some days when I'm simply in too much pain to access the boxes. My health problems are not transferable so you do not need to fear catching anything from trading with me. I generally only can mail on Saturdays.
Trading:
I prefer to trade 1 card for 1 card. I do not care about any made up "book value". I will gladly trade more than one card for some as well...there are a few cards on my tradelist that I do need more than one card for in return though. I only put sets on my wantlist that are close to completion, so if you have something else in any of the three sports or the Non-Sports topics I focus on, odds are I will want it. Only reason I wouldn't is if I had it already. If you don't have anything from the topics I mainly collect, but I have something you want, I will also accept football or baseball in trade, pretty much anything to get a trade done. I would prefer not to trade with smokers. I have breathing problems and cards that come from smokers are essentially useless to me, I cannot handle them. I prefer larger trades but will do any size at all.
I have tried to make sure all the cards on my Tradelist are problem free, with no corner dings, scratches or other flaws, but I am human and it's possible I may have missed something, but all cards sent out are cards you shouldn't need to worry about ever finding a replacement for. I don't demand problem free cards in return as my theory is that a damaged card is better than no card, but writing and paper loss means to me that I don't actually have that card so please don't offer them to me in trade.
If you don't care about condition, take a look through my "Damaged Cards" collection. These are all cards that I rejected from my tradelist for having flaws but they are available for trade. I would put them at one third a card "value" so 3 damaged cards vs. 1 of your cards. If you do want any of them, let me know and I will move them to my tradelist. I don't want to put them all there and cause matches for people expecting good cards and getting damaged cards in return. Some of the flaws are pretty big problems, some you will probably wonder why I didn't list it in my tradelist. While my collection doesn't demand perfection, I am very strict with condition on cards I send out in trade.
Trading Prioroties: (what makes me the happiest to get in trade, in no particular order)
- 1995-96 and 1996-97 NBA Cards
- 1994 NASCAR Cards
- Any NASCAR card that actually focuses on the car
- Automotive Non-Sport cards
- New York Rangers
- New York Knicks
- New Jersey Nets (and Brooklyn and New York Nets, but the NJ era is my favorite
- Elton Brand
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Henrik Lundqvist
- History related Non-Sports cards
- Attractive women (with or without clothes)
- Anything from Racing Champions I don't have
- Team logo cards for NBA and NHL
- Non-sports subjects in Allen & Ginter
- People with last names starting with Q, U, Z and especially X.
- With that said, I will trade for anything at any time, whether it's on my wantlist or not. I prefer "quantity" to "quality" and I'm a set builder at heart.
There are also a couple of specific sets I'm really hoping to complete some day:
- 1996-97 Ultra (NBA), my favorite set ever
- 1988 Leesley Bigfoot (the set that got me started collecting)
- 2002-03 Topps Chrome Refractors (NBA) Refractors are my favorite parallel and this is the closest one to completion
- 1994 Action Packed (NASCAR) tied for my favorite NASCAR set
- 1989-90 Marine Midland New York Rangers (just need the cover card!)
- 1993 & 1994 Skybox The Simpsons (One base card away from completion, also chasing inserts)
- 1954 Topps Scoop (my favorite Non-Sport set ever)
- 1953-54 Topps World on Wheels (my favorite automotive set ever)
