September 2025 - For anyone wondering how I price cards, I typically look at eBay sales, Comc and buysportscards.com My prices tend to be more than fair. If you think I'm going to sell cards for a nickel or dime a piece, I am not.
May 2025 - I have 60,000+ cards on my For Sale/Trade list that I'd love to find a new home for. If you don't see trade matches, I also have my entire FS/Trade list listed on BuySportsCards.com and about a hundred or so cards on COMC. Also happy to do a sale through here if need be.
Looking for 1970's OPC hockey to start or wrap up sets!
****1990-91 Upper Deck Hockey VAR's on my For Sale/Trade list - Highly unlikely that I have any of the oddball VAR's. These cards were entered mainly as placeholders meaning I do have one version of a given card but probably not the version you need. If time permits, I may be open to checking VAR versions but it's not something that I enjoy doing nor high on my list of things to do. ****
Supplies:
For anyone close to Denver, I have a large amount of trading supplies that need to find a new home. I have BCW card houses, 5000 and 3200 count boxes and a host of smaller boxes (800, 660, 550, 400, 300, 200 and 100). The latter is a mixture of used and new Collect-Save-Protect or BCW brand.
Disclaimer on PWE trades
I'm hearing of, and personally experiencing, more and more issues with PWE trades. Mainly postal machines destroying/bending envelopes or envelopes arriving and the cards being missing. I have not seen issues like this in my prior 1100+ PWE trades. That being said, I will continue to send 25 cards or less PWE but once the envelope is dropped in the mailbox, I'm no longer responsible for damage/issues after that point. I'm not sending replacement cards or funds if there's damage once the USPS has my/your envelope or your cards are lost in the mail.
I'm very close to no longer writing "Non-Machinable" on my PWE envelopes. This doesn't seem like a makes a difference to the USPS and the financial costs for doing this quickly add up.
I hate to take a hard stance on this but short of stopping trading (or doing larger, bubble envelope trades), I have no other options. I'm spending too much time and money on postage to send replacement cards, when the issue arises, to make trading worth it.
Happy to do larger trades (30+ cards) in bubble envelopes.
What I'm collecting for:
1)I'm primarily an Upper Deck flagship hockey collector. I'm working on completing a few remaining base sets and then chasing Young Guns and insert cards.
2)I'm also collecting RC's (when possible) of all NBA/NHL/NFL/MLB players who have been inducted into their respective Hall of Fames. Also collecting non-players cards as well if they are in the HOF. Basically if the person is in the Hall of Fame for their sport, I'm hunting their RC or if it's a non-player, some type of card for them.
3)Finally, I'm collecting Baseball/Hockey and to a lesser extent, Football sets, of the 1970's/1980's.
Card condition:
If your cards look like they have been manhandled, I'm not interested in them for my collection. No creases, rounded corners or teeth marks.
Buying cards:
I've had several folks approach me about buying cards..I will rarely be interested in buying from someone and, odds are, I will reach out to you first..
Trade size:
Make it worth our time..
Postage:
Please make sure you have proper postage on whatever you are sending me. Seems to be half the envelopes I get are short on postage. Minimal postage on a PWE envelope is $1.03.
Canada trades:
Has between 9 and 25 cards or less. I can't afford to send big trades unless there's additional cards/value to compensate. Trades less than 9 or so cards don't make a lot of sense either from a cost standpoint.
