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Thursday, August 3, 2017

The other 5%


Any player collector can relate to this.

Recently, I purchased a lot of 212 Tino Martinez cards, knowing full well I had nearly every single one. However, this was a calculated purchase, as:

  1. All 212 were Yankee cards, so I wasn’t getting extra Mariners or Cardinal cards.
  2. Some of the cards were pictured in the eBay listing, and I knew I needed them.
  3. The price was just $.49, but had a shipping price tag of $5.95. I was the only bid.
All in all, I needed 11 cards (just over 5% of the lot), which I don’t think is a particularly bad percentage.
Could I have gotten the cards I needed for less than $6? Maybe. But probably not all together in one place. So it was basically a COMC order, with about 200 Tino dupes thrown in. Who knows, maybe I’ll bundle them in a lot together and make that money back, as I don’t really need 15 1997 Zenith cards.
Some of the dupes were cool too, and ones I don’t come across frequently. I think I only had one of this 1998 Topps Stars N Steel in my collection, so that’s a productive dupe.
As is this Leaf State Representatives insert.

Overall, a fun and useful Tino purchase. I’m not sure I would have pulled the trigger had I not seen the images from the listing, but I think it worked out well.

And if anyone needs some Tino’s, let me know. I have a lot of dupes.

And I already found a use for four of the dupes – coasters!
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5 comments:

  1. FujiAugust 3, 2017 at 12:35 PM

    Nice lot. I've purchased card lots like this before specifically for the handful of cards in the photos (sometimes less than 5%).

    Always liked the 1998 Leaf State Representatives set. Shame there weren't any Padres or A's in the set.

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  2. Collecting CutchAugust 3, 2017 at 3:52 PM

    I've purchased a bunch of lots like this and actually have a post scheduled for this weekend relating to the same thing. I often look at the individual cards I need and ask can I get them for cheaper and how hard will they be to track down.

    For instance the average Cutch printing plate starts at $35. If I can get a lot of cards with the plate and the B-I-N is $40 I normally just pull the trigger regardless of what duplicates I will be getting. I'm lucky in the sense that I can unload my dupes to Matt at BWTP.

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