Sportlots Success! Part 1

First off, can anyone tell me if these images are sized ok on this page? I’m trying to blog from my phone and I’m not sure how they really look.

Last week I finally placed my first order on Sportlots.com and I was able to complete 3 sets, 2008 Upper Deck X, 2000 Skybox Metal and 1995 Pinnacle Series 1. These 3 were just a few of the 10 or so I needed to complete the set. It took 3 half-price blasters and a handful of 99¢ packs from the supermarket. The last blaster I bought only gave me two base cards I needed, I was pissed.

A few months ago, I busted a cheap hobby box of these I found on eBay and only needed two more to finish the base set.

Oh wow. Almost two years ago, when I just got back into collecting, I was checking Craigslist daily for listings of free cards, and found this guy 15 miles away with a huge stack of 5000 count boxes to give away and I came away with 3! They were full of cards from the mid 90’s like Pinnacle, Score and Upper Deck. This was the only one missing from this set.

Soon, I’ll post the Ichiro and Drexler cards I picked up along with these.

Craigslist Luck

If you’re looking to expand your collection, subscribe to a “cards” search feed on craigslist, and you might come away with some great free or cheap stuff! This guy had 40 of these in his garage and he was GIVING them away! Oh snap! It was probably a blessing he didn’t give me all 40, in order to be fair to everyone, or they would be the death of me, like my wife has always threatened me with. These boxes were full of cards straight out of packs.. probably looked through once and then put away. Mostly sets from ’95 to ’99.. but some nice cards so far. It was obvious he didn’t pick out the good ones. Plus he was using unopened packs as dividers. I got 4 packs of ’92 Pacific NFL and 2 ’96-’97 Fleer Basketball Series 2 packs, all of which I’ll be opening over the next several days for the blog of course.

I’ll post an update on the best cards out of these boxes.. probably as soon as I find myself a flatbed scanner any day now.