on June 26th, 2009 by Mario A.
I gave up on collecting autographs during this past Spring Training, after realizing I didn’t want to be “that guy”. You know exactly who I am referring to. The 40-something with a ponytail and goatee who attends every single game with the same stained white t-shirt, hounding players for several autographs.
One of my final days [...]
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on June 26th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Simple put, this is a card I had put off acquiring for far too long. When I started collecting Hamilton seriously, it was selling in the $15-30 range. Looking back, I wish I had bought 20 copies. It isn’t rare, but it is a true RC autograph, and that is huge. I picked this copy [...]
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on June 26th, 2009 by White Sox Cards
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on June 26th, 2009 by No Brainer Bargains
As of yesterday, June 26th the following are stats covering the last 7 days on ebay for etopps in-hands:
Quantity of etopps in-hands listings: 206
Sell-Through: 57.28%
Average starting price: $7.28
Average final price: $13.77
Highest Single Card Sale: 2008 Allen & Ginter Barack Obama, $125
Highest Mult-Card Sale: 2008 Allen & Ginter Yankee Tribute Set, $101.62
Highest Graded Sale: 2003 LeBron James BGS 10, $355
Highest Non-Graded Autograph Sale: 2006 Brett Favre, $177.50
Highest Graded Autograph Sale: None
Other best sellers:
* 2001 Albert Pujols
* 1961 Mickey Mantle
* 2009 Barack Obama
* Baseball Classic Mark Fidrych
In-hand listing (not including graded or autographed) that received most bids that sold well: 1961 Mickey Mantle – 13 bids
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on June 26th, 2009 by No Brainer Bargains
For the last several Mondays I, like others, have refreshed the homepage of the etopps website around noon, expecting to see the next autograph offering pop up. But each time, the IPOs show up at 1PM instead.
The last one (Masterson) took a bit of time to sell out. Doing a biweekly offering makes sense to keep everyone interested without hurting their wallets but after so many weeks, you would expect them to resume the biweekly schedule since it’s now looking more like a monthly schedule.
I think the next autograph will tell us what’s going on. Either we’re going to be offered something big (as if they wanted to prepare our wallets for this) or the same low priced offering will continue.
I don’t think a higher-priced offering will be a problem considering the money being made from this year’s baseball offerings so far.
The only other possibility I can think of for the hiatus is the focus on getting signatures for this fall’s football season. We don’t know whether etopps is so scaled down that Mark is getting the autos himself or someone else is doing this for etopps. It’s just a hunch considering the fact that a lot of the autographs come with COAs that show the date of the signature occurred months before the offering.
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on June 26th, 2009 by gmoney168
By Dan Gladstone aka gladdyontherise
We all have our stories on how we got into the sport card hobby. Mine is probably just as odd as everyone else’s story.
I was around seven years young. I was a heavy WWE (then WWF) fan. I collected anything of wrestling, such as shirts, hats and memorabilia. This included everything [...]
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on June 26th, 2009 by Captain Canuck
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on June 26th, 2009 by Mario A.
By the time Jose Canseco joined the Devil Rays, he was a broken down slugger whose star had long ago faded away. Despite all this, in Jose’s first season he went into the All-Star break leading the Majors in home runs and making the All-Star team.
By the following year, the Devil Rays gave up on [...]
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on June 26th, 2009 by Laurens
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on June 26th, 2009 by zman40
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on June 26th, 2009 by Captain Canuck
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on June 26th, 2009 by Dave
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on June 26th, 2009 by chrisolds
The New York Mets’ 17-year-old shortstop prospect has returned his signatures and those redemptions should begin being fulfilled soon by Panini America. Redemptions for Flores signatures were inserted into four 2008 Donruss products — Threads, Elite Extra Edition, Americana Sports Legends and Contenders. 
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on June 26th, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Mariano Rivera’s Race To 500 Saves!!! Part 13
After a 3-game set with the Atlanta Braves, Mariano Rivera was able to get into 2 games and record a save in each contest.
He now heads home, sort of. The New York Yankees return to the Big Apple, but they’ll play their next 3 games in the ‘other’ ballpark that calls New [...]
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on June 26th, 2009 by Dave and Adam's Card World
Look for weekend specials every Friday starting at Noon EST. Prices are good until Monday at 1 PM EST or until product runs out.
Our top weekend special picks:
2007/08 Upper Deck Sweet Shot Basketball
Why it’s good: 2 Autographs and 2 Memorabilia Cards Per Tin, one of which is a rookie autograph (possibly Kevin Durant). Product also [...]
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