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2010 Topps T206 Baseball Group Break

stusigpi — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:26:00 +0000

3 Damaged Minis
They have creases in the middle of the card. Ill send these in with my Topps Jumbo Cases.

2 Jersey Cards
Ricky Approves of the Green and Gold!

2 Autos
I saw the W on the hat and thought it might be Strassleburger

and a Printing Plate of some guy

Do I bust it

stusigpi — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:03:00 +0000

My 4th case of Topps Football Jumbo. Do I bust it or sell it? Do I take a chance on more damaged cards or just sell it?

updated Topps Jumbo Football 3 Case Damaged Cardapalooza

stusigpi — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:32:00 +0000

Find the original post here.

Topps emailed me and told me to send receipt, UPC's and letter discussing the problem.

I'm not sure what this is going to result in but we will find out.

2010 Topps Jumbo Football 3 case Break condition problems

stusigpi — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:15:00 +0000

I have 1 more case in transit and I have busted 3. Here are the gory details.

As a Rams fan I was really looking forward to pulling a Bradford auto, when I did, I was psyched. Quick note, I am not a bandwagon jumper. Kurt Warner was my favorite player and when the Rams dumped him like yesterday's trash, I refused to root for them until Warner retired.

Prior to busting my third case, I busted the group break case inserts, autos and jerseys, but nothing else. When sorting all the cards for the second case, base cards, inserts and everything else, I noticed that the cards had a lot of bent corners. They suffered from what I refer to as "corner pull". This occurs when the wrapper is pulled in a certain direction and the corners are pulled down with it. The jumbo packs seem to be incredibly susceptible to this due to the way the boxes are packed. The wrappers are much longer top to bottom than the box is able to accommodate so whoever packs them must bunch the wrapper up or pull it down around the cards. Pulling it down around the cards does the damage to the corners. The reason why i know this is what happens is because no matter what way the cards are oriented in the pack, the damage is to the same corner i.e. the bottom left hand corner of the pack. There were entire packs that had the damage, leaving me with literally thousands of damaged cards. I estimate there are 5000+ damaged cards amongst the 3 cases.

Here is what I found:
Quite a few of these but I had 3 handy
The crimped:

Indentions:

Edge damage:

Now the corners:
Severe:

Now the subtle that aren't readily noticeable. I found this issue when I began sorting the base cards. The way I sort base cards is that I turn them to the back and sort them in to hundreds piles. 1-99, 100-199, 200-299 etc. Thats when I noticed tons of cards with corner pulls. Then I checked the inserts, sure enough.

Fuzzy pic but shows the bend:

See how from straight on the corner just looks blunted? Thats because the corner is bent toward the camera.

Now this one shows how the corner is bent.

Here is what the damage looks like on most of the cards, but the cards have corner issues in varying degrees

Some of the cards have multiple corners that have issues. So what should I do?

You will be entertained by this auction

stusigpi — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:40:00 +0000

Really?

Joy of a Complete Set – 2008 Masterpieces Football Red Parallel Set /199

stusigpi — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Honestly I thought this set was going to take much less time. First, the set is only 86 cards due to 4 not being made. Second, there were many more cases of Baseball than Football, thus the insertion rates of reds is higher. Some boxes have 2 and you end up getting about 20-24 per case. In baseball you get 16 and the set is 120 cards.

Regardless I ran into a speedbump when I opened 1 case of Masterpieces Football and the only reds I got were of Early Doucett III. I bought huge lots of these but made little if any headway toward the set and spent hours on end cruising ebay to find them. I have 8-12 of many players and I average 4 of most players.

I have no idea how some of you do it. Sets like the Black border A and G minis that are 350 cards? No way I can do that, I am having enough issues with my Mayo Mini set and Murad, although I am sure I can finish them on comc at any time. Not so with these sets. Sportlots, COMC, EBAY, Blowout Forums, etc

I have been actively working on the set for well over a year and for the record, the final card was James Hardy #33. I got it for free off of Freedom Card Board.

So now I have completed 07 BB both Greens, 08 Baseball and Football Black and Red. The Baseball reds are not numbered and the Football is /199

Anyway, here they are:

Topps Jumbo Group Break auto/Jersey assignement

stusigpi — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:25:00 +0000

Let me know what else you guys want to know that you got. Golds, 52's?

1.7. Red Bird (Colts and Rams Team set) (paid) Tim Tebow
2.3. Darkship (Vikings team set)(paid) - Jordy Nelson
3.2. Captain Canuck (cowboys team set) (paid) - Ben Tate
4.5. HEB (No Team Set Requested) (paid) - Dennis Dixon
5.9. Shane (Lions Team Set) (paid)- Marques Colston
6.6. Rich R (Steelers Team set) (paid) - Chad Henne
7.11. Voluntarheel (Panthers team set) (paid) - Nate Burleson
8.12. Gellman (3 rookies base) (paid) - Riley Cooper
9.10. Colin (Giants team set) (paid) - Jordy Nelson
10.1. Fieldlevelview (requested team set of Texans) (paid)- Michael Jenkins
11.8. Pop startled (ravens team set)(paid) - Joe Webb
12.4. HEB (No Team Set Requested)(Paid) - Jacoby Ford

Jerseys
1.7. Red Bird (Colts and Rams Team set) (paid) - Joe Mcknight
2.8. Pop startled (ravens team set)(paid) - Kevin Kolb
3.5. HEB (No Team Set Requested) (paid) - Lee Evens
4.1. Fieldlevelview (requested team set of Texans) (paid) - Steve Breaston
5.6. Rich R (Steelers Team set) (paid) - Brandon Marshall
6.12. Gellman (3 rookies base) (paid) - AJ Hawk
7.3. Darkship (Vikings team set)(paid)
8.4. HEB (No Team Set Requested)(Paid)
9.9. Shane (Lions Team Set) (paid)
10.10. Colin (Giants team set) (paid)
11.11. Voluntarheel (Panthers team set) (paid)
12.2. Captain Canuck (cowboys team set) (paid)

Rookie Variation
Ndamukong Suh - Fieldlevelview

I was just messin with you

stusigpi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:02:00 +0000

That is not the code for Beardy's Wieters auto. I wanted to test out my photoshopping (MS Publisher) skills and see if I could integrate a piece of a pic into an existing scan and have it look real. That is the code from my Dustin Keller SPA RPA.

Did anyone actually buy that I had done such a thing. I ship all redemptions unscratched and guard them with my life from coming close to exposing the code unless a participant specifically asks me to redeem a card for them and then ship it later. Some people live in areas where they don't want UPS and Fedex laying on their doorstep so its easier for me to ship it USPS. Anyway....

Topps Jumbo Group Case Break Brought To You by Atlanta Sportscards

stusigpi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:19:00 +0000

2009 Sweet Spot Baseball 2 Box Break – September Group Break

stusigpi — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:22:00 +0000

T-206 should be here any day. The Sweet Spot Football releases September 15 so be patient on that.

The Red Sox get the dual card.

I did an actual pic instead of a scan because the scan didn't do justice to the color depth of the patch.