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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Blame it on the meds

I'm still battling the flu. Honestly, I don't remember being this knocked down by an illness in my entire life. I just keep waiting for that night where I make the turn, but it hasn't happened. It's really sapped my desire to blog, that's for sure.

Regardless, I did purchase a card early last week, and once it arrived, the only logical explanation is that I was hopped up on cold meds. Why else would I buy this?
That is one of those Topps Online exclusive 5x7s. It's numbered 9/10, so at least it's fairly rare. But honestly, it's ugly and 5x7s are hard to store. I'm really not sure why I bought it.

Topps has been pumping out these 5x7 sets, and it looks like most people buy them and then break them up on eBay and sell as individual cards. The winning bid on this was well under $2.

I need to set up a rule on eBay that removes all 5x7s from my search listings. That, or just avoid the site when I'm on meds. That's probably the best idea.
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8 comments:

  1. P-town TomMarch 15, 2017 at 8:12 PM

    I'm half temped to buy the Dan Vogelbach red (#/5) 2017 Topps 5x7 that's on Ebay right now, but the asking price is about 25 times what you paid for the Pineda. Sigh...
    Which, in all honesty, is probably a good thing... because as you said, they really are not all that easy to store and it would just frustrate me.

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  2. Collecting CutchMarch 15, 2017 at 8:27 PM

    I purchased 20 pages that store 2 of these per page. I find them to look nice in those pages. My rule for buying 5x7 cards is that they should be cards not featured in standard size. Lately though I have expanded that to include some of these low numbered parallels.

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  3. JediJeffMarch 15, 2017 at 8:43 PM

    If I saw a ChiSox up there for $2, I would be all over it.

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  4. Stealing HomeMarch 16, 2017 at 4:45 PM

    It seems those cards would be great for autos.

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  5. FujiMarch 16, 2017 at 8:44 PM

    I kinda got hooked on their 5x7 Cardboard Icons series last year or the year before. Grabbed the Gwynn, Henderson, and Favre sets. But after they started making 5x7 sets of everything, I stopped searching for them.

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  6. HackenbushMarch 17, 2017 at 6:18 PM

    I don't go out of my way for them but I did buy the Wrigley Field 100 Years Ron Santo. There just aren't many Santo cards around these days.

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  7. Jon OrrMarch 18, 2017 at 7:51 AM

    I'm trying to unload so many Hockey Young Guns 5×7.

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