Redemption from Topps...Finally!

Over on the sidebar I have a section where I keep track of redemption cards. While I'm not a huge fan of them, I know they serve their purpose and find time to time I'll pick up a redemption card for myself, like the recent Jacoby Brissett I redeemed. However pulling a redemption card myself doesn't happen very often.

Let's rewind the clock to 2015. I picked up a few boxes of Allen & Ginter as I was working on the set and not surprisingly a lot of the hits I pulled were just lack luster relic cards...until I pulled a card for a 10th Anniversary Buyback auto of Buster Posey! I set the card on the corner of my office desk and almost forgot about it until earlier this year. On January 6th, I finally went online to redeem the card and the wait officially began.

2 weeks ago, Wednesday 09/21/16 to be exact I got a bubble mailer from Topps and this beauty was inside.

While I knew the card was a auto Buyback, I didn't know it was going to a mini or that the card would only be numbered to 10! If you can't make out the number in the scan, it's 08/10. Now as cool as the card is, I'm not a Giants fan. I'd much rather try to swap this for a few Braves autos of Smoltz, Glavine, Tim Hudson, Chipper, Andruw Jones or just about any other notable Braves player. I don't know what the card is "worth", but if I were to sell it I'd throw it up on eBay with a Buy It Now price of at least $100 based on what I've seen some of Buster's auto sell for.

Trade or sale at this point, I'm not sure. I could use the money, but I figured I'd share the card here first and see if anyone was remotely interested. If not I'll toss it in that big stack of items I've been too lazy to list on eBay.

Pack Break - 2011 Topps Series 2 Rack Pack (SPARKLE inside!)

I know the blogging world will once again be inundated with 2011 Topps posts, but I just had to share the contents of this rack pack as I pulled a card that is my first from the 2011 Topps flag ship set.

#415 Brian McCann - I could see this card through the wrapper...the reason I chose the pack!
#597 Rick Porcello
#337 Jordan Walden
#507 Huston Street
#423 Hideki Okajima
#412 Samuel Deduno
#643 Jaime Garcia
#405 Ian Kinsler
#363 Aaron Rowand

#335 Buster Posey - Sparkle SP

I've seen pictures of these gimmicky cards posted all over the net, but in all of Series 1 that I busted earlier in the year these cards have eluded me until today!  I rarely post cards on eBay, but I was quick to do so with this one.  Only 2 were listed this afternoon when I put mine up and their starting bids were high.  I listed it for 3 days with a starting bid of $9.99 w/ FREE shipping.  Click HERE for the auction.

#579 Jeff Niemann - Platinum Diamond parallel

#DD-27 Josh Johnson / Justin Verlander - Diamond Duos

#KC-98 Gary Carter - Kimball Champions

#60YOT-65 Brooks Robinson - 60 Years of Topps

#T60-75 CC Sabathia - Topps 60
#420 Ryan Howard
#615 Shaun Marcum
#567 Dallas Braden
#459 Frank Francisco
#625 Ruben Tejada
#473 Chad Billingsley
#544 Justin Masterson
#484 Gerardo Parra
#504 Jhonny Peralta
#640 Dan Uggla
#551 Marcus Thames
#604 Joe Paterson
#458 Javier Vazquez
#552 San Francisco Giants
#366 Joe Nathan
#516 Mike Leake
#TT2-43 Chris Carpenter - ToppsTown
#514 Kelly Shoppach
#538 Jason Motte
#627 Kyle Blanks
#417 Miguel Cairo

I'd say I'm off to a good start w/ Series 2!

Missing cards?

First it was Gypsy Queen missing hits, now it's Bowman missing cards per pack?  I haven't found too many loose packs available in my area (and if I have the packs have been opened and left behind), but I did grab 2 packs the other day and both packs only had 9 cards.  One of the Chrome cards were missing and neither pack had been tampered with.

Has anyone else ran into this problem w/ loose retail packs?  It wasn't a huge deal as I'm more of a fan of the base cards, but I still would like to get everything I pay for.

The 2 packs even though they were short a card I did get a few decent things:

- Buster Posey Finest Futures #FF2
- Buster Posey International parallel #1

Both are available for trade.  Looking for the green retail parallel of Tim Hudson.

Buster Posey 2011 Topps Black #d/60 for Platinum Diamond cards

To follow up my request for more Platinum Diamond parallels from this year's Topps I'm offering up not one, but 2 Buster Posey numbered parallels.  Black #282 (52/60) and Gold #198 (0217/2011).

Looking for just about any Platinum Diamond cards.  Interested?  Shoot me an e-mail (flywheels at yahoo . com) and perhaps we can come to terms.