Derek Jeter is my new best friend! OR.........Giant box of lots of work!

[87sluggo]

Hello from Canada! I went to last Sunday's local card show and there it was.............






with this description.............










Now I don't know the first thing about baseball cards, I haven't even watched a ball game since the Expos left Montreal, the day Jeffrey Loria kicks it will be the best day of my life. But.......... I remember all the hoopla when Jeter retired, he was quite the popular player :)


I picked up a handful of the Jeters and saw 2/3 parallels and inserts and did some maths in my head, eBay was offering me 100k free fixed-price listings, if I could blow them out at a buck or two then I could make my money back on that alone. After a bit of haggling, I Mastercard/PayPal'd the guy at the table and went home to go through the stuff. So...... the first row on the left, that's all Jeter. There were more than a few cards worth more than a buck or two! I spent 6 nights listing 803 cards and sold 366 of them, mainly to two guys who were buying them as soon as I punched them in. I'm about $60 shy of paying for the box so far and then there's the eBay fees to worry about, but all in all I'd say great success!

AND I have leftovers................









And this one HAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!












And then there's Topps Tek. I have no idea if any of the variations are short-printed but I didn't want to let them go for cheap by mistake.......










So that's Jeter. There's about 2-3 rows of 70's and 80's hockey. The Gretzky "collection" is utter garbage, 90% 1990's overproduced stuff. And then there's vintage baseball and a tiny bit of modern stuff.............



Six that I'm keeping :)











A Crash The Game set and a brick of Griffey cards......










The only baseball relic card in the whole box!











A small pile of Exhibit baseball and a very old postcard........











A small pile of graded and un-graded 1969 Globe Imports.........












1979 Hostess.........











1978 Your Own Tea discs...........











1949 Eureka.........












ZEE-NUT!!!!!!










And a bunch of 60's and 70's stuff, in all types of conditions............
















Should keep me busy for a couple weeks eh?

[pwaldo]

One nice find! Two is that Action Packed Jeter autographed? Three on those Topps Tek Jeter cards the last one in the second row is a Diffractor. That should go for 10 times what the normal card goes for. It was the parallel version for 1998 Topps Tek.

[87sluggo]

One nice find! Two is that Action Packed Jeter autographed? Three on those Topps Tek Jeter cards the last one in the second row is a Diffractor. That should go for 10 times what the normal card goes for. It was the parallel version for 1998 Topps Tek.

One, thanks! Two, yes that's an auto!! Three, "Diffractor" is not a real word, is it? Nope, it's like diffraction, which kind of applies. SO MANY baseball brands and parallels!!!!

[bblair_2002]

One, thanks! Two, yes that's an auto!! Three, "Diffractor" is not a real word, is it? Nope, it's like diffraction, which kind of applies. SO MANY baseball brands and parallels!!!!

Yeah,they're called Diffractors alright. Killer haul you scored there with some really nice 90s inserts and parallels,aren't they great? Jeter was good to me as well because I picked these 3 up last weekend at an estate auction for less than the price of a 2016 Topps Hobby box:



The Action Packed is not as nice as yours (plus looks like yours is the 24K Gold version) but not complaining one bit.

Again,excellent pickups,
Brett

[pwaldo]

One, thanks! Two, yes that's an auto!! Three, "Diffractor" is not a real word, is it? Nope, it's like diffraction, which kind of applies. SO MANY baseball brands and parallels!!!!

Diffractors was the parallel to the base cards in Topps Tek

[87sluggo]

Diffractors was the parallel to the base cards in Topps Tek

Yeah, I had to look at it on an angle to see the difference........diffraction!!! :D

[creasecollector]

Very nice! I don't know much about the baseball card world, but it seems like you'll have your hands full the next little while.

[palantri]

if those vintage are available, please pm me the #s and prices on them. thanks!
Ed

[87sluggo]

if those vintage are available, please pm me the #s and prices on them. thanks!
Ed

Anything that wasn't completely hooped condition-wise is up on eBay under the user name joeaverage67. So far, only the ZeeNuts have sold, I'm realizing that vintage baseball is pretty worthless unless we're talking the big names :/

Anyways, if you want any or all of it then lemme know and we can work something out. I'm only a couple hundred bucks shy of breaking even and I haven't even gotten to the hockey stuff yet, so I'm easy :)

[mkglamb]

Sell or trade for the 1963 Topps #412 Dodgers Big Three?