Some new additions to the Lind collection

Hi folks.

I have picked up quite a few cards over the last week or so. Most of which were for the sets that I'm working on but there were four new Lind cards.


First up from the Hairylemon we have a 2010 Bowman numbered 125/520.

My pictures suck! I really need to get a new lead for my scanner. Anyway that's the Bowman. Its a nice simple design, which I like. The red 1/1 hit ebay this past weekend and went for only £15. I didnt bid and now regret it. Thanks Lemon for my first Lind Bowman, hope to get some more.

Next we have a card that I featured a few days ago but didnt go into to much detail about it.

2010 Allen and Ginter Adam Lind game used pants. I got this very cheap with shipping to the UK. My only issue with the card is the tiny scrap of fabric you get in the frame. It looks really loose inside and does not fill the whole window. I have since learnt from Captain Canuck that this is very common with this years A&G. I'm not complaining though, it is after all another Lind for the collection and only my second stand alone jersey card of his. Next to the relic is the A&G auto that I wrote about a while back. Speaking of that auto the buyer refunded my shipping costs and then yesterday left me positive feedback. Just waiting for the refund to clear, its only $4 but it will go towards something nice.

Next up, another piss poor picture.

This is my Finest gold refractor. Its numbered 6/50 and looks great with the other 3 that I have. I was going to leave the 'rainbow' at this but have since decided to go for the red /25. I wont be going for that for a while though because my next few pick ups are going to be just trade bait.

And finally we have this little beauty.

2010 Allen and Ginter Adam Lind mini NNO short printed to 50 copies. Picked this up on the bay about a week or so ago. Very pleased with this pick up and didnt expect to get it as cheaply as I did. Not the best picture to have on the card. Lind's glove is covering his face and he's also more know for his hitting than fielding so a batting picture would have been better.

Whats also cool about the card is the mini toploader. I knew you could buy mini pages but had no idea there were also penny sleeves and toploaders available. I will need to be on the look out for some of them at some point to because the other minis that I have don't look to good in the full size toploaders.

That's it until next time. Thanks for reading.

More minis!

Part two of my recent trade that I made on CCW with Dlacky contains more minis! Also I got a few more minis from redsox101 from sports card radio, he also sent a lot of other things that deserve their own post, so we'll just focus on the minis.

Last time I showed off the inserts that I was sent now its on to the rest of the minis, the regulars, A&G backs and black bordered.

Here are the black bordered cards. I already had the Randy Wolf (anyone else find that name funny?) so the other three were new to me. The Hawpe card, on top, doesn't look too good. The picture is way to small. They should have blown it up a bit so there isint a HUGE white space between the pic and the border. I also received another few black bordered cards from Redsox101.

We have Chase Utley and Nyjer Morgan. The black bordered cards are very nice, I would love to put a set of these together! I think I will stick to the regular minis for now though.

I also got a bunch of A&G backs from Dlacky.

The fire card in the bottom left is sweet! Ginter is such an awesome set, I love the non sports cards... so far! I'm sure I'll tire of them eventually, especially when I get the revolving door or Regis Philburn

I also got a bunch of base minis from Dlacky and some more inserts from redsox101

I got another dinosaur card and a cool Nemesis. I enjoy the subsets much more than the regular set. I cant wait to get my hands on more.

So far I haven't 'paid' for a single mini (except one, that I'm going to show in another post soon and I don't include the 6 packs I bought). It would be great if I could finish this set off without having to pick up any on ebay. I need to update my lists now with what I need and then I can start hitting the forums and trying to work some trades.

On another note, the Hairylemon is fed up with all the criticism that the Rays and James Shields have received over the last week. Well I can think of one guy who thought that the Rays and Shields did great against the Blue Jays

Incidentally that Ginter jersey is the most pathetic jersey I have EVER seen! The jersey is far to small for the card and doesn't even fill the whole window on the card. Is this normal for Ginter relics?

Next up we have heritage...

Minis!

Been a few days since I last posted. I had a few posts planned but the cards I was going to write about didnt arrive until today. Its always great getting home from work and finding new cards!

I'm going to break the posts up over the next few days. This first part is all about minis. Its actually two parts, I'm going to show the inserts first and then tomorrow I'll show the black bordered, A&G backs and base. Then over the next few days I'll show what else I got, I'm also expecting a few more things in the post soon so I'll share that too.

Anyway onto the minis. I'm trying to complete this years mini set. I think they look a lot cooler than the regular sized ones. I'm going for the base, SPs and inserts and leaving out the rip card minis and whatever SSPs there may be.

In the pictures I have included the cards that I have already, so they wont be listed in the text below.
I received :

• Three worlds biggest insert set - Tree, Skyscraper and Animal

The Skyscraper is the best out of this insert set so far.

• Two Sailors of the Seven Seas - Francisco Vasquez De Coronado and Christopher Columbus.

These are interesting, as are most of the other mini inserts.

• Two Lords of Olympus - Gaea and Persephone.

The second and third additions to the set.

• Three National Animals - Camel (Kuwait), King Cobra (India) and Jaguar (Brazil)

They could have made the Cobra card a whole lot better. Its the bottom flag in the top picture.

• One Monsters of the Mesozoic - Megalosaurus.

Cool dinosaur card.

• One Worlds Wordsmiths - Washington Irving.

This dude wrote sleepy hollow.

I'll show you what else I got tomorrow.

Ginter auto has arrived! and another dilemma

Finally my Adam Lind ginter auto arrived!

Well its here! It arrived today at 3pm, very late for the post. I remember when the post would be there before 7am! And then at around 1pm you would get a second post...those days are long gone!

Anyway the card is here and that the main thing! It looks a lot better than I thought it would. The red border is really nice and actually feels like plastic. The card its self is really nice and is only the 2nd on card auto that I have of Lind. Its not very secure though and it actually moves about inside the frame. That's not a huge problem because its not slipping out of view or anything and its not as if I'm going to be shaking it like a magic 8 ball!

I now need to pick up the Lind Ginter relic to go with it. That can wait since it looks like every single box that was opened had one in it and its getting cheaper by the day. I have other cards that I want first.

Now there was a problem attached to the Lind auto and that was the amount of time it took to reach me. I know what your all thinking 'you live in the UK so of course it will take longer to get there' and yes your right it does take longer to reach me here but not by much. Let me give you a brief recap of what has happened.

• Won and paid for auction on the 1st of July
• Item marked as shipped on the 10th July
• Contacted seller on the 22nd of July to inform them that it still had not arrived and that it had been nearly two weeks
• Seller replied on the 23rd of July to confirm card had been shipped and I should have had it by now
• Card received today on the 28th of July (insert happy dance of your choice)
• Postage said it was shipped on the 20th of July

So it was shipped TEN days after the seller had told me it was shipped and a full 19 days after I paid for it. 19 freaking days! What's that all about?! Why didnt the seller just tell me he couldn't get it out to me in a reasonable amount of time? I would have been ok with that or could have asked for refund and picked up a different one.

Now what do I do? On one hand I'm very happy it got here, I was beginning to think it would never arrive. On the other hand I'm very annoyed that the seller lied and it took him so long to ship.

I see five choices that I can make:

1. Contact the seller and confront them about what has happened, maybe even get a little bit of money back.
2. Leave negative feedback without speaking to the seller (seems a bit unfair).
3. Ignore it and leave positive.
4. Ignore and don't leave any feedback.
5. Claim the card never arrived and get a refund (I would NEVER do this but it is an option).

I'm going to give it a day or so before I take action. I would appreciate your feedback on this. What would you do? One of my five options or something completely different?

Still trading! 2010 Ginter and Heritage.

Yesterday I posted a number of 2010 Ginters that I had for trade, notice I said 'had'. Within 30 minutes of posting I had traded the majority of them away for a number of minis. I'm going to list what Ginters I have left and also my dupes from 2009 and 2010 Heritage. Let me know if you need anything.
I'm looking for Ginter minis, 2010 Heritage (check my needs page) and Adam Lind cards that I dont have.

base - 4, 6, 11, 17x2, 20, 26, 27, 46, 48, 52, 56, 57, 61, 62, 71, 85, 86, 88, 95, 100, 103, 108, 109, 111, 112, 113, 123, 143, 144, 157, 167, 169, 179, 180, 181, 184, 187, 193, 196, 212, 216, 217, 218, 235, 236, 239, 244, 245, 246, 247, 253, 261, 262, 264, 266, 271, 273, 274, 275, 278, 298, 303, 305, 313, 314, 318, 321, 322, 324, 325, 329, 333, 335, 349, 351, 352, 359, 363, 366, 375, 376, 379, 387, 391, 397, 399, 401, 424.

Inserts - NF1

2009 Heritage
Base - 3, 11, 16, 21, 24, 31, 47, 58, 60, 66, 71, 72x2, 88, 91, 93, 103x2, 107, 121, 156, 158, 159, 176, 186, 187, 192, 197, 220, 222, 223, 227, 231, 240, 246, 258, 267, 351, 356, 369, 395x2, 400, 402.

Inserts - NF1

Mayo - Ryan Braun, Dustin Pedroia

Allen and Ginter 2010

Base - 29, 59, 102, 105, 125, 148, 149, 158.

SP - 340.

Baseball sketches - AGHS1 Chase Utley

This day in history - TDH66, TDH68.

There are also a few Heritage chromes and GU from 2009/2010 Heritage. Check the for trade page.

Trading 2010 Ginters

Title says it all. I have the following for trade. I'm only going after the mini set which is going really slowly! So if you have any 2010 minis for trade then let me know, I only have about 10 of them so chances are I need what ever you have.
I'll also want 2010 Heritage, my wants can be found here. Of course I will also trade for Adam Lind cards that I need, for Lind cards I WILL trade in your favor.

Base - 26, 29, 34, 45, 56, 58, 59, 72, 75, 78, 80, 95, 96, 102, 105, 111, 125, 148, 149, 158, 168, 174, 177, 187, 190, 227, 271, 286, 293.

SP - 340, 350.

Baseball sketches - AGHS1 Chase Utley

This day in history - TDH16, TDH46, TDH51, TDH66, TDH68, TDH70.

You can also find more cards for trade here. At the moment I have only listed 2009 and 2010 Heritage and the above Ginter. So if you are building any of those sets then I may be able to help you out.

If another blogger is interested in a trade then I will also include another card. I cant reveal what the card is until the trade is on its way but I will give you a few clues as to what it is.
This card is very well traveled. I believe its been in four different countries (US, Canada, England and Wales).
This card came from a 2009 product. It was a popular product.
This card has been featured on a few other blogs already but has not been seen for a number of months.
This card is mass produced but unique at the same time.
This card is NOT a 'hit'. Its not a GU or an auto (in the traditional sense).
The player on the card is now a Ranger but was an Indian when this product came out.
It will come with instructions, one of which is that you MUST write a post about it when you get it.

Any ideas?

Anyone interested in a trade then either leave a comment or email me. Oh and if your new to this blog the name, Collector from across the pond means just that. I live in the UK so this will be international trade.

Ebay problems

Picked up a card on the 1st of July, an Allen and Ginter Lind auto. I knew the card probably wouldn't be shipped straight away because it was just before the 4th July weekend and I accepted this. So anyway a week went by and nothing arrived, this is normal though because sometimes cards can take up to two weeks or so to arrive. On the 10th of July the card was marked as shipped, a full 9 days after payment. OK people lead busy lives and this may have been the first opportunity to get the card in the mail, so that's fair enough. Its now the 23rd of July and still no card. I didnt pay a great deal for the card, actually I paid more than I should have since I jumped on the card when Ginter had only just been released a few days before. There are Lind autos from Ginter on the bay now for about half of what I paid for it, I'm so impatient when it comes to cards!
Anyway I'm not sure where to go from here. I'm going to wait until tomorrow as that will be exactly two weeks since it was marked as shipped but then what? Should I contact the buyer and explain whats up? I don't want the seller to think that I'm ripping him off. There are many threads on FCB and Blowout about overseas buyers claiming they have never received the cards they bought. Or should I just go ahead and start a dispute and do a chargeback? Or I could just let it go and chalk it up as a loss. Don't think that's a good idea though.
In the time since I bought this card I have received three or four other packages so I know there's no issues with the mail. Do you think I've been ripped off? The seller has 99.9% feedback and about 4000 separate feedbacks left so I think he can be trusted.
What would you do?
Now on to something completely different!
I have read on various forums that sometimes when people buy cards online they stink of cigarette smoke. I smoke (and I like it so don't tell me its bad, I know it is!) I don't smoke when I'm handling cards or near my cards. Do any of you fine folks out there get cards that smell of smoke? and is the smell really that bad? I don't want to send out 'smelly' cards to anyone. Let me know your feelings on this.

Trade with Redsox101 from Sportscardradio

My first trade post! And also my first trade completed on Sportscardradio.


A big thank you to Redsox101 for helping me out with some of my collecting goals. Redsox sent me a few minis from A&G 2010. I only had 5 minis to start with so all minis are welcome here.

First up we have two cards from the national animals subset. We have the national animal of Grenada, I cant really figure out why the ostrich is their national animal and the back of the card does not specify. I'll probably look into this later on when I get bored.

Secondly we have the national animal of Italy, which is the Italian Wolf. I probably wouldn't have guessed that the wolf was Italy's national animal, although thinking about it I cant actually think of another animal that would fit the bill. This card is interesting because apparently the Italian Wolf was not properly identified as a sub-species until 1999. That surprised me because in this day and age you wouldn't think that there would be much more to learn about a common animal such as the wolf. I'm very happy to know this now as I like pointless bits of information (my head is full of pointless crap!) and since I enjoy hitting the quiz nights at the local pub I hope the question comes up. This bit of information may win me a few drinks!

Next we have Barry Zito from the Giants. This is my first 2010 Giant from A&G. If you look closely (and you'll have to since my scanner is out of action and I'm stuck with my camera) at the picture it appears that Zito has a pen in his hand and looks happy. I don't know if Zito is a good signer or not but he sure looks pleased to be doing it.

The last mini was this beauty! Apparently this an ultra SP, but I'm not 100% sure of that. This is from the 'worlds biggest' subset and features the worlds biggest river, the Nile. This is another interesting card. According to the back the Nile is bigger than the Amazon by a hair, how long is a hair? At 4,184 miles long. Wikipedia says 4,132 miles, it also says that the Amazon is actually longer! Which is correct? Topps or Wikipedia? It also says on the card that the river wasn't fully navigated until 2004. I thought it would have been navigated much earlier than that! I'll take their word for it though.

The last two cards are for my Lind collection. The first was the Lind base card from 2010 Topps. I didn't have that card so it was very welcome. This was the second card.

An Adam Lind auto! Sweet! Redsox actually offered me this card a while back and I told him I had it. It turns out I didn't, I just got the card mixed up with another. This will go in with the growing collection of Lind cards The card is a 2007 SP and is a RC. I have a lot of auto RC's of Lind and not that many from other years. Still like the other cards mentioned he is more than welcome.

I was also sent a bunch of 2010 Heritage cards, all Red Sox players. I hope to send this down to John of Pursuit of 80's(ness), as soon as he lets me know which players he needs to complete his set.

So once again thanks alot Redsox101 and I hope you enjoy the cards I sent you.