Saturday, July 13, 2013

The return of You Complete Me! Part 2: a big Score

Today's package actually came at least a week before I was even considering the return of YCM and picking things up on COMC and SportLots.  You all know that I bought a nice number of 2013 Score football racks plus a hobby jumbo, and I decided that I wasn't going to make any further progress with packs at this point.  Still, I was in need of a LOT of the short-printed rookies.

Enter eBay.  For about $33 delivered I nabbed a lot of 99 different rookies, which was huge since there's 110 overall.  Granted, I already had some of these, but the purchase still paid off handsomely, as you'll see shortly:

Package #1 (eBay):
Out of the 99 I needed 73, which was still most definitely worth the money.  Since I didn't feel like scanning that many, I decided to show some of the higher-profile players, or guys with interesting names (hey, I mean Slay is a Lion, how good could he be?).  This group includes five first-rounders and a couple QBs, including the vastly overrated Geno Smith.  It also features a pair of stud RBs that were chosen lower than they were expected to go before the 2012-13 college season kicked off.

Oh yeah, there was another pretty significant card in the bunch, which ended up being my favorite:
This is my first ever Denard Robinson card, and I'll have you know that I'm duly excited.  I'm also happy to have a college shot of him, even though there's no iconic winged helmet to cement the deal.  It's certainly going to be strange seeing him playing for Jacksonville, a team with much different colors, but I think Shoelace will make the rest of the league look ridiculous for choosing him so low.

Just as significantly, my wantlist went from this,
to this:
I now need just six of the rookies!  By the way, if anyone else is working on this set, not only do I have a nice number of base for trade, I also have a pretty good cache of the rookies now, so please send me your wantlists.

# of cards:  73
# of sets added to:  1
# of sets completed:  0

Stats for the day:
  • Packages:  1
  • Total cards:  73
  • Sets added to:  1
  • Sets completed:  0

Total You Complete Me stats:
  • Packages:  2
  • Total cards:  76
  • Sets added to:  2
  • Sets completed:  1
I'll be back earlyish this week with another SportLots package that arrived on Friday, which ended up being a large one.  Tomorrow you'll be treated to a trade post with some very timely content!

2 comments:

  1. Dennis -

    I have the following that you are looking for:

    34, 56, 68, 75, 125, 134, 160, 163, 169, 170, 189, 238, 239, 242, 246, 248, 250, 251, 290, 304, 315, 318, and 324.

    I bought a second blaster that was almost identical to the first one I bought so I have dupes on over 90% of my base and would love to trade for some cards I actually need My want list is on my blog.

    Thanks

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    1. I'm looking at your list right now. You list some needs as "...30, 31, 32, 22, 35, 36...." Do you need #33 or 34? I'll get you the rest of the list shortly, just let me know!

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