My name is Grant Parker and I am here to given you the low down on sports card wax. I promise to veer off topic regularly as well to keep things interesting. More →
I’m Done With SportsBuy
I had high hopes for SportsBuy / Naxcom, I really did. When I first heard about them 3 years ago I was convinced that by now they would have eclipsed ebay as the marketplace of choice for buying and selling sports cards. Boy was I wrong.
Read more →Box No-Break
I am really confused by this new phenomenon where collectors pay for sports card boxes and ask other people to break them for them on video. This just seems so stupid to me. Isn’t breaking the box the most fun part of the whole experience?
Read more →My Farewell To Upper Deck Baseball
With Upper Deck’s future as a company in jeopardy and its exclusion from the baseball card industry all but guaranteed, 2010 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball could very well be the last baseball card product ever produced by the once mighty manufacturer. This could very easily end up contributing to the collectibility of it, but [...]
Read more →How NOT To Break Upper Deck Exquisite
Unless you are just now getting into (or coming back to) the sports card collecting hobby, you’ve almost certainly heard of Upper Deck Exquisite. This super premium powerhouse is the Rolls Royce of sports card products, routinely selling for $400-$700 per box. Most any collector would be thrilled to break a box of Exquisite – [...]
Read more →2009 Topps Platinum Football
Its products like 2009 Topps Platinum Football that make me a really pissed off at the NFL for discontinuing Topps’ football card license. But I first heard about Topps platinum I wasn’t exactly impressed as a looked a bit too much like Topps finest. While that may be true to some degree all in all [...]
Read more →2010 Press Pass Bull Riders
I challenge you to find a more unexpected addition to the sports card market then 2010 Press Pass Bull Rider. While I’ve nothing against bull riding, I just never expected to see the day when they would adorn the fronts of trading cards.
Read more →2010 Topps UFC Main Event Box Break
Ok, so in case you couldn’t figure this out from my first post I was really pumped up about the release of 2010 UFC Main Event Uncaged, especially since it seemed to come out of nowhere. A damn nice surprise it was indeed. After breaking a box of it from my local card shop I [...]
Read more →2010 Topps UFC Main Event….Uncaged
Okay I admit that I’m not as up to date on my UFC knowledge and news as I once was but Topps is UFC trading card line was helped me get back in the swing of things quite a bit. The last term ever hearing that was that’s a product called Topps UFC Uncaged was [...]
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