still here, very inactive

Limited progress since last year.

Recently acquired a Lindros master photo.

Also found a few cards on COMC.  Roenik and Hasek award winners and Sullivan and Drury master photos.

They have several more but nothing I need.

Sports lots has several listed but these I do not need as well.

I am always watching eBay but the jump in shipping cost to Canada have hurt the hobby.

The Beckett community has yielded very little in recent years.  Burbank is the only shop that consistently has inventory of my interest.  Years ago they were the best peer to peer trading site.

I'll update counts later.

Sportlots

I bought the follow that I needed:

2001 Stadium Club Award Winners #76 Mike Comrie HK   
2001 Stadium Club Award Winners #78 Tie Domi HK   
2001 Stadium Club Gallery Gold #G11 Roberto Luongo HK

Added these because I was paying shipping anyway:


2001 Stadium Club Award Winners #23 Maxim Afinogenov HK   
2001 Stadium Club Award Winners #30 Roman Cechmanek HK
2001 Stadium Club Award Winners #95 Rod Brind'Amour HK   
2001 Stadium Club Award Winners #120 Milan Kraft HK   
2001 Stadium Club Master Photos #57 Rob Blake HK   
2001 Stadium Club Master Photos #77 Jason Arnott HK

They ship from three different vendors so I comment back on how well it worked out.

I didn't want the Comrie and Domi to disappear.

In the mail a lot of master photos, Mogilny MP, Weight MP.

Status:
MP2:110/140 - 30 needed.
AW: 104/140 - 36 needed.
Gallery gold 21/40

Oct 23/2013- Success, mail , the Bump , etc

First off.  Today is the anniversary of the Bump.  The Springhill mining disaster occurred 55 years ago today. So dust off the U2 records and cassettes and listen to their song about the event.

I have a full set of 2001-02 Topps Stadium Club hockey Master Photos.  I acquired the last one needed and it arrived today.  Card number 40 , Teemu Selanne was very elusive but I did finally get it.

So what next??

I have more than 100 of the award winners.

Plus the deal that brought me the Selanne netted numerous additional Master Photos.  I currently have 70/140 towards a second set plus some trips and quads.

Other mail today:

Saku Koivu - Gallery gold from Parallel Dave

Markus Naslund- Award Winner from COMC.  The ship out of Canada and the US depending on where the cards are warehoused.  The balance of the order will arrive later.

Status:
Oct 23/2013
MP: 140/140- complete
MP2: 70 /140
AW: 99/140 
GG: 20/40 + ( 1 in transit)

Currently on Ebay and COMC

Master Photos:
ebay:
Havlat 064/100
Arnott 049/100
Denis 096/100
Parssinen 077/100
McCarty 097/100
Klesla 063/100
Fernandez 093/100
Hejduk 089/100

COMC:
Shanahan 050/100
Alfredson 005/100

Award Winners:
ebay:
Kiprusoff 047/100
Clemmenson 061/100
Sullivan 095/100
Heisten 022/100
Heisten 037/100
Isbister 009/100
Dagenais 058/100
Kariya 080/100
Sykora 021/100
sutherby 087/100
McCarty 049/100
Klesla 070/100
COMC:
Shanahan 089/100
Mario 034/100
Dunham 051/100

Gallery Gold:
ebay:
Amonte 40/50
Guerin /50
COMC:
Amonte 44/50

sportslots

An auction site I used a few years ago - bidville is now gone.

There is a site called Sportlots that has a few AW, MP and a Luongo GG.

shipping seems reasonable from most sellers.

2001-02 Stadium Club set values - Oct 14/2013

I bought a one month Beckett OPG subscription.  I had to turn off the auto renew from my end on my Paypal account.

Base:
1-100-$48.35
101-110-$5.05
111-120- $33
121-140-$77.50
Total- $ 163.90

Master Photos:
1-140 - $1,979.00

Award Winners:
1-140 - $925

Gallery Gold:
1-40- $ 1130

These are the high prices from the guide.

Beckett Trade

Back in the 2002 and 2003 time frame Beckett had a forum area which had a great trading community.  I made numerous trades, sending cash in the mail at times and never had a problem.  Compared to some of the scammers i have experienced on ebay and those on some of the trading boards who I have been lucky to avoid.

I sold an extra Datsyuk master photo on Ebay and it never arrived in Hawii. I refunded but was out the card. . Another person promised to send extra cards on an ebay side deal, seemed to good to be true and was.  The Master Photo set that I bought on Eay then the seller disappeared was sad because I wanted the cheap set but I did get refunded through Paypal thankfully.  I guess I was scammed in all of these deals.

So skip forward to today and Beckett has a new trading system that can be linked to your inventory.  So card value are auto populated if you have an OPG subscription.   I had some difficulty using the inventory correctly there are several views to use to set cards for trade.  Eventually figured it out and sent the 2 cards to Finland at a cost of $3.08.

2001-02 Pacific #453 Timo Parssinen RC 1 Near Mint/Mint $5.00 $5.00
2003-04 Topps Gold #212 Luc Robitaille 1 Near Mint/Mint $8.00 $8.00
Traded for (from xxxxxxxx):

2001-02 Stadium Club Award Winners #94 Keith Primeau 1 Near Mint/Mint $4.00 $4.00
2001-02 Stadium Club Master Photos #59 Patrick Lalime 1 Near Mint/Mint $8.00 $8.00

COMC, toploader and penny sleeves

COMC:

I found a new online card selling site.  It is called Check out My Cards, Comics and Collectables.  It is alternative for collectors and the high shipping fees.  Sellers physically send all of their for sale items to COMC- they scan, insure and do some background, the seller prices and then they are sold.
The benefit of all the sellers have the cards in one location is that they all get shipped together so you can save big on shipping as opposed to being $3ed to death.  Top loaders are an option for each card at $0.20 / card.  The seller pays fees to COMC.

I was able to pick up a few more 01/02 stadium clubs there and they have a few more listed.


This is what I bought:

2001-02 Stadium Club Gallery Gold #G26 -            Zigmund Palffy #32/50
2001-02 Stadium Club Master Photos #133 -         Ivan Ciernik #12/100
2001-02 Stadium Club Master Photos #130 - Scott Nichol #31/100 
2001-02 Stadium Club Award Winners #9 -    Peter Bondra #35/100
2001-02 Stadium Club Master Photos #134 -         Scott Clemmensen #39/100
2001-02 Stadium Club Master Photos #35 -   Alexei Kovalev #15/100
2001-02 Stadium Club Award Winners #49 -        Markus Naslund #20/100
2001-02 Stadium Club Award Winners #139 -      Pavel Datsyuk #100/100



Several Needs and a few good priced extras,  There was a Mario Award Winner and both AW and MP for shanahan and a few others including an Amonte GG. I am Pleased with the Datsyuk - Detroit star players are hard to get.

Supplies:

I picked up some top loaders and penny sleeves.  These things are not cheap.  So the are a cost that sellers have that people sometimes do not recognize.

After an expensive card collecting weekend now I'll watch the mail for the next few weeks.

I bought a one month Beckett OPG (online price guide) subscription so if you need something looked up i can do so.  The Sports Card Forum has a good trading/inventory data base system set up for people looking for a place to organize their collections.

big deal

I'll report the end result when it arrives.

I found a Roy Award winner that I acquired but never made to the set.

Also bought a lecavalier Gallery Gold.



Anyone wanna buy a completed set of Master photos?

I'm looking for interest in case I do complete it.

Oct 12/2013
MP: 139/140
MP2: 29 /140
AW: 98/140 (needs a recount)
GG: 18/40

Making a push

It has been almost 4 years with no progress upticking from 139/140 to 140/140.

Selanne remains ever elusive.  I have ebay alerts set up.  I search foreign ebay sites.  I use various search engines.  I troll the trading sites and beckett.com.  But I am yet to have success.

I have started trading at Sports Card Forum.  The have a good trading system and excellent card organizer.

I landed an Allison Award winner that i needed and an extra Jeff Friesen.

Agreed to buy a Koivu Gallery gold from Parallel Dave.



Working on a big deal ATM plus some ebay bids and maybe shop purchases.  So all in all lots of action

Oct 11/2013
MP: 139/140
MP2: 29 /140
AW: 97/140
GG: 17/40

Other Award Winners wanted

Another collector is looking for the Award Winer cards also. Check out his site at: http://rene-73.tripod.com/id17.html He Needs: 2001 – 2002 STADIUM CLUB - AWARD WINNERS xxx / 100 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 90, 92, 93, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140 I have dealt with him several times over the years with great success.

Award Winners- May 25/2011

(Originally published 5/25/2011)
The Award Winner set has really come along with a lot of focus.

Current status is 93/140. (101/140)

Cards to complete that set are:

5-Modano, 7-Allison, 9- Bondra, 10-Messier, 14-Lecavalier, 16-Bure, 26-Salo, 32-fedorov, 36-Demitra, 38-Theodore, 40-Selanne, 41-deadmarsh, 42-satan, 49-Naslund, 52-Belanger, 55-Amonte, 57-blake, 60-Oates, 68-Tanguay, 69-Dumont, 72-Sykora, 75-Richards, 76-Comrie, 77-Arnott, 78-Domi, 79-Havlat, 83-Savard, 87-Roy, 91-Thornton, 92-Potvin, 99-Isbister, 100-Denis, 101-Lindros, 102-Yashin, 103-Hasek, 104-Peca, 107-Weight, 110-Roenick, 116-Beech, 121-Kovalchuck, 123-dopita, 128-Hagman, 129-Salomonsson, 132-Huselius, 133-Ciernik, 134-clemmensen, 139-Datsyuk

Certain cards will be near impossible to get. Roy, datsyuk, Kovalchuck and Messier.

(5/25/2011)
(10/19/2013)