Contest Entry - Very Melo Mail

[meloman315]

by Ricky Schroder aka meloman315

I live in Colorado therefor im a Denver sports fan, specifically the Nuggets. Ive been collecting since i was old enough to walk pretty much but I was too young to really get anything nicer then what i pulled in 20$ target boxes and what my dad would give me. Well when the Nuggets drafted Melo i was just a casual collector but when i turned 15 i got serious about getting a nice personal collection. Not having Paypal made it tough for me, i relied on building my collection on trading for game used and saving enough money to go to the card shop and buy a auto every now and again. On the old Beckett Boards i was a member and a regular in the football collecting group "B.A.D" and basketball's "Aristrocrats" there generosity plus my trading turned me into a pretty serious Melo collector. However i was still lacking on "highend" type cards and had only around 5 autos. One lucky day there was a contest made for a person like me. A fellow member (i cant remember his exact username but it had something to do with MJ 23 and the members name was Sean from Washington, big shout out if you read this) posted a contest. He has a Melo auto he didnt want and was going to give it away but had 1 very simple rule. He wanted it to go to a young collector that couldn't afford it but was a Melo fan. I posted as soon as i saw it telling him i was 16 and trying to build my collection. A few others posted there case but read mine and said never mind let meloman have it, he deserves it. If that wasn't enough members of B.A.D. and the Aristrocrats both posted saying i was a good kid and deserves the card more then anybody else they knew. Sean messaged me and said message me your address and i will send you some freebies also to help out with your collection. A few days later the package came...first card was the auto promised to me. A 06 (i think) sp rookie threads auto. Absolutely thrilled i saw 2 more cases in the package. 2nd card was a awesome patch also from threads with a piece of all-star patch! If it couldn't get any better the last card was from a set id never even thought about being able to afford, a 06-07 Exquisite collection base card! I was BLOWN away!! Every time I saw him on the boards I would thank him for his gift and thanks to other members who told him i'm such a big fan that he added those. That was one of the coolest things that has ever happened to me in collecting much less on the internet. Goes to show there are some great people out there! Those are now some of my favorite cards in my collection just because of how they found there way into my hands. Its people like Sean that make collecting and spending time on the boards fun.

[WilyWestbrook0]

Posted! https://www.sportscardforum.com/artic...ery-melo-mail/

Your article is just a bit short of the 500 word count minimum per the current contest rules (through copy and paste on MS Word, it stands in at 466 words), but I can still use it for the SCF magazine. Let me know if you'd like to update the article with any additional commentary to increase the word count so it can be used for the contest as well. Thanks!

[meloman315]

ok i edited it. should be over 500 now :)

[WilyWestbrook0]

Yep, it's over 500 now! I'll update. Thanks.

[meloman315]

very nice!