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.

Purchased a Naslund Master Photo off ebay plus an extra Marleau and Blake.

2001-02 Stadium Club master photo needs (29)

6    Curtis Joseph
9    Peter Bondra
10   Mark Messier
14   Vincent Lecavalier
15   Marian Hossa
17   Daniel Sedin
26   Tommy Salo
28   Claude Lemieux
29   David Legwand
37   Olaf Kolzig
42   Miroslav Satan
46   Patrik Elias
49   Markus Naslund
50   Mats Sundin
53   Darren McCarty
55   Steve Sullivan
66   Jeff Friesen
76   Mike Comrie
82   Simon Gagne
84   John LeClair
93   Chris Drury
103   Dominik Hasek
108   Alexander Mogilny  pending
113   Pavel Brendl
117   Pierre Dagenais
121   Ilya Kovalchuk
128   Niklas Hagman
129   Andreas Salomonsson
131   Dan Blackburn
138   Brian Sutherby
140   Niko Kapanen

111/140 - 29 needed.

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

Mail - Oct 24&25/2013

I had a couple of cards arrive in the last few days.

Yesterday a Sports Card Forum purchase arrived.  I received two Award Winners, an Allison and a Friesen.

Today a Beckett Trade arrived. My cards had made it to Finland yesterday.  I received a Lalime Master Photo and a Primeau Award Winner.

The only outstanding transaction is the balance of the COMC order coming from the US.

I purchased a Doug Weight Master Photo from a trader on Ebay.

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.

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

Master Photo Needs:

Numerical by Card #
MP1: 139/140
MP2: 29/140
AW: 96/140
GG: 15/40

Card #	Player	Team	Master Photo	Award Winner
1	Martin Brodeur	New Jersey Devils
2	Peter Forsberg	Colorado Avalanche
3	Chris Pronger	St. Louis Blues	(079)
4	Paul Kariya	Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim
5	Mike Modano	Dallas Stars		need
6	Curtis Joseph	Toronto Maple Leafs
7	Jason Allison	Boston Bruins		pending
8	Brendan Shanahan	Detroit Red Wings
9	Peter Bondra	Washington Capitals		need
10	Mark Messier	New York Rangers		need
11	Owen Nolan	San Jose Sharks	(010)
12	Saku Koivu	Montreal Canadiens
13	Tony Amonte	Chicago Blackhawks	02/09/08
14	Vincent Lecavalier	Tampa Bay Lightning		12/1/2011
15	Marian Hossa	Ottawa Senators
16	Pavel Bure	Florida Panthers		need
17	Daniel Sedin	Vancouver Canucks
18	Mario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins
19	Rick DiPietro	New York Islanders	(020)
20	Zigmund Palffy	Los Angeles Kings
21	Ron Tugnutt	Columbus Blue Jackets	(013)
22	Ron Francis	Carolina Hurricanes
23	Maxim Afinogenov	Buffalo Sabres
24	Steve Yzerman	Detroit Red Wings
25	Ray Ferraro	Atlanta Thrashers	(061)
26	Tommy Salo	Edmonton Oilers		need
27	Marian Gaborik	Minnesota Wild
28	Claude Lemieux	Phoenix Coyotes	04/05/09
29	David Legwand	Nashville Predators
30	Roman Cechmanek	Philadelphia Flyers
31	Jarome Iginla	Calgary Flames	(018)
32	Sergei Fedorov	Detroit Red Wings		need
33	Bill Guerin	Boston Bruins
34	Brian Leetch	New York Rangers
35	Alexei Kovalev	Pittsburgh Penguins		02/10/08
36	Pavol Demitra	St. Louis Blues		need
37	Olaf Kolzig	Washington Capitals		dupe
38	Jose Theodore	Montreal Canadiens	(036)	11/07/2011
39	Johan Hedberg	Pittsburgh Penguins
40	Teemu Selanne	San Jose Sharks	need	need
41	Adam Deadmarsh	Los Angeles Kings	02/10/08(085)	need
42	Miroslav Satan	Buffalo Sabres		need
43	Henrik Sedin	Vancouver Canucks	(068)
44	Ed Belfour	Dallas Stars
45	Sean Burke	Phoenix Coyotes	(097)
46	Patrik Elias	New Jersey Devils
47	Daniel Alfredsson	Ottawa Senators
48	Evgeni Nabokov	San Jose Sharks
49	Markus Naslund	Vancouver Canucks		need
50	Mats Sundin	Toronto Maple Leafs
51	Milan Hejduk	Colorado Avalanche
52	Eric Belanger	Los Angeles Kings	(083)	need
53	Darren McCarty	Detroit Red Wings	09/17/2009	05/05/09
54	Keith Tkachuk	St. Louis Blues
55	Steve Sullivan	Chicago Blackhawks		need
56	Mark Recchi	Philadelphia Flyers	(057)
57	Rob Blake	Colorado Avalanche	(007)	need
58	Manny Fernandez	Minnesota Wild
59	Patrick Lalime	Ottawa Senators
60	Adam Oates	Washington Capitals		need
61	Joe Sakic	Colorado Avalanche	(090)
62	Lubomir Visnovsky	Los Angeles Kings
63	Jeff Halpern	Washington Capitals	(010)
64	Shane Willis	Carolina Hurricanes	(036)
65	Todd Bertuzzi	Vancouver Canucks
66	Jeff Friesen	Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim
67	Mike Dunham	Nashville Predators
68	Alex Tanguay	Colorado Avalanche		need
69	J-P Dumont	Buffalo Sabres		need
70	Patrick Marleau	San Jose Sharks	(085)
71	Martin Straka	Pittsburgh Penguins
72	Petr Sykora	New Jersey Devils		need
73	Arturs Irbe	Carolina Hurricanes
74	Patrik Stefan	Atlanta Thrashers
75	Brad Richards	Tampa Bay Lightning		need
76	Mike Comrie	Edmonton Oilers		need
77	Jason Arnott	New Jersey Devils		need
78	Tie Domi	Toronto Maple Leafs		need
79	Martin Havlat	Ottawa Senators		need
80	Roberto Luongo	Florida Panthers
81	Nicklas Lidstrom	Detroit Red Wings	(075)	05/25/2011
82	Simon Gagne	Philadelphia Flyers
83	Marc Savard	Calgary Flames		need
84	John LeClair	Philadelphia Flyers
85	Gary Roberts	Toronto Maple Leafs
86	Ryan Smyth	Edmonton Oilers
87	Patrick Roy	Colorado Avalanche
88	Petr Nedved	New York Rangers
89	Brent Johnson	St. Louis Blues
90	Scott Gomez	New Jersey Devils		01/27/08
91	Joe Thornton	Boston Bruins	(005)	need
92	Felix Potvin	Los Angeles Kings	(056)	need
93	Chris Drury	Colorado Avalanche
94	Keith Primeau	Philadelphia Flyers
95	Rod Brind'Amour	Carolina Hurricanes
96	Joe Nieuwendyk	Dallas Stars	(060)	02/10/08
97	Espen Knutsen	Columbus Blue Jackets
98	Adam Foote	Colorado Avalanche	(042)
99	Brad Isbister	New York Islanders	12/01/09	12/1/2011
100	Marc Denis	Columbus Blue Jackets		need
101	Eric Lindros	New York Rangers		need
102	Alexei Yashin	New York Islanders		need
103	Dominik Hasek	Detroit Red Wings		need
104	Michael Peca	New York Islanders	(055)	need
105	Brett Hull	Detroit Red Wings
106	Pierre Turgeon	Dallas Stars	(057)
107	Doug Weight	St. Louis Blues		need
108	Alexander Mogilny	Toronto Maple Leafs
109	Jaromir Jagr	Washington Capitals	(068)
110	Jeremy Roenick	Philadelphia Flyers		need
111	Dany Heatley	Atlanta Thrashers
112	Rostislav Klesla	Columbus Blue Jackets
113	Pavel Brendl	Philadelphia Flyers
114	Barrett Heisten	New York Rangers
115	Miikka Kiprusoff	San Jose Sharks	(016)
116	Kris Beech	Pittsburgh Penguins		need
117	Pierre Dagenais	New Jersey Devils
118	Bryan Allen	Vancouver Canucks
119	Jason Williams	Red Wings
120	Milan Kraft	Pittsburgh Penguins	02/10/08
121	Ilya Kovalchuk	Atlanta Thrashers		need
122	Peter Smrek	New York Rangers
123	Jiri Dopita	Philadelphia Flyers		need
124	Jeff Jillson	San Jose Sharks	(019)
125	Jukka Hentunen	Calgary Flames
126	Vaclav Nedorost	Colorado Avalanche
127	Timo Parssinen	Anaheim Mighty Ducks
128	Niklas Hagman	Florida Panthers		need
129	Andreas Salomonsson	New Jersey Devils		need
130	Scott Nichol	Calgary Flames
131	Dan Blackburn	New York Rangers		02/10/08
132	Kristian Huselius	Florida Panthers	(076)	need
133	Ivan Ciernik	Ottawa Senators		need
134	Scott Clemmensen	New Jersey Devils		need
135	Pascal Dupuis	Minnesota Wild
136	Jason Chimera	Edmonton Oilers
137	Erik Cole	Carolina Hurricanes	(098)
138	Brian Sutherby	Washington Capitals
139	Pavel Datsyuk	Detroit Red Wings		need
140	Niko Kapanen	Dallas Stars

Strange turn of events.

Well the complete set of 2001/02 Stadium club master photos were listed on ebay.

text of add:
"THIS AUCTION IS FOR A 2001-02 STADIUM CLUB MASTER PHOTOS COMPLETE SET ALL 100
2400$ BV EVERY CARD SERIAL NUMBERED TO 100 1-140

WE ARE HAVING A PROBLEM WITH OUR CAMERA SO YOU WILL NOTICE SOME OF OUR LISTINGS EITHER CONTAIN A FEW PICS WE ALREADY HAD ON OUR DESKTOP,STOCK PHOTOS OR NO PICS AT ALL WE ARE TRYING TO FIX THIS SO WE CAN ADD THE PHOTOS FOR OUR SETS AND HIGHER END INSERTS ETC

2001-02 STADIUM CLUB MASTER PHOTOS COMPLETE 140 CARD SET

EVERY CARD IS SERIAL NUMBERED /100 AND ODDS WERE 1/45 OF FINDING ANY PARTICULAR PLAYER

EACH CARD PARALLELS THE BASE SET EXCEPT FOR THE MASTER PHOTO WORDING STAMP

CARDS ARE NRMT-MT

THIS IS A VERY TOUGH TO ASSEMBLE SET

WE ARE AND HAVE BEEN LISTING VERY TOUGH TO FIND SETS ALL WEEK AND WILL CONTINUE,VERY LOW PRINT RUN SETS,PARALLEL SETS VERY TOUGH TO FIND IN SET FORM AND WE HAVE MANY TO LIST FROM OUR RECENT BUYOUT

IF YOUR LOOKING FOR PARALLEL SETS COMPLETE PARALLEL SETS LOW PRINT RUN SETS TOUGH TO FIND INSERT SETS PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR LISTINGS AS WE WIL BE LISTING THEM AS TIME PERMITS

WE HAVE OPENED A LARGE QUANTITY OF DIFFERENT CASES AS WELL AS A LARGE BUYOUT OF SETS RANGING FROM 10-11 DOWN TO 70-71 SO PLEASE CHECK BACK OFTEN AS WE WILL BE LISTING THEM AS TIME PERMITS OVER THE NEXT 2 WEEKS,MOST OF WHICH WILL BE VERY NICE CONDITIONED VINTAGE AND NRMT-MT NEW SETS/INSERTS JERSEYS PATCHES ETC

ANY GLARE OR ANYTHING IS CAUSED BY EITHER THE CAMERA OR THE PLASTIC

FEEL FREE TO ASK ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS.

SHIPPING COSTS

WE DO COMBINE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING WE ASK WHEN BIDDING ON MORE THAN 1 LOT TO INQUIRE ON THE DISCOUNTS AS THEY VARY ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF TOTAL CARDS.

OVER 100$ ITEMS REQUIRE 10$ SHIPPING FEE WITH INSURANCE AND TRACKING NUMBER AS WELL AS EXPEDITED DELIVERY

WE COMBINE SHIPPING ON ALL ITEMS,IF YOU PURCHASE MORE THAN 1 LOT PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE BEFORE PAYING AS WE ONLY CHARGE OUR SHIPPING COSTS

TO CANADA

15.00$ EXPEDITED,WITH TRACKING NUMBER AND INSURANCE"

Well I ended up buying it.

So now I need a Selanne Master Photo to complete my second set.

Does anyone have any 2001/02 Topps Stadium Club - Award Winners?

I guess I'll turn my attention to them.


Update: as of Aug 20/2011 the set has not arrived. Seller now on vacation.

I hope it does show up.

_________________________________________________________________________

I never received the cards but i got a refund through Paypal. Seems the person
never sent several items they were selling.