Taking inspiration from the Hairylemon

A few days (weeks?) back, Simon AKA the Hairylemon posted on his blog 7 Hours from Tampa Bay a really nice James Shields card that he picked up. Click on the link to see that post and the card.
The card he posted about was a Shields Sweet Spot 2006 Leather Auto 5/20. I really liked the look of the leather inside the card and the autograph worked really well with it. Unfortunately I couldn't find the Adam Lind equivalent. He does have a few 2007 Sweet Spot Leather cards available, all of which have fairly low print runs.

I did however find this little beauty sitting on eBay.com a few days ago!

This is a 2007 Sweet Spot Signatures Black Bat Barrel Silver Ink numbered 9/15.

Like I said this came from eBay.com as opposed to my usual haunt, eBay.co.uk. Ebay.com is a much better site for cards but I'd say around 75% of the sellers will not ship outside of the country and most don't even respond to a question about shipping which is a real pain in the arse. The sellers that do send overseas charge anything from $1 (in a PWE) up to $24.99, which in most cases is double or even triple the cost of the card they are selling. The seller of this card charged a little more than I like to pay, $6.50 but the chances of me seeing this card again is pretty slim so I was happy to pay.

I actually had to let a few other cards in my watch list end without bidding on them in order to go after this one. I even let what could have been my first and only 1/1 slip through my fingers so I had to make sure I won this card and thanks to a little sniping in the closing seconds this baby is making its way to Wales!

This card is number 125 in my collection, hope to get to 175 by Christmas but its getting harder to find newer cards at reasonable prices or to trade.

Does anyone out there have any Lind cards that they want to trade or even sell? I'm looking for everything, not just autos and GU. Please get in touch if you have something you think I may like.