Wednesday, January 31, 2024

i started 2024 with a 20/25

one of my first pick-ups in the new year came via sportlots, and it's not the kind of card i usually find there. as i do maybe once every six months, i searched the site for steve garvey cards on the off chance that a seller added an uncommon parallel to their inventory, and i was surprised to find that exact scenario had played out!

a seller had a 2005 playoff absolute memorabilia spectrum gold card listed and i scooped it up
there in the middle of the back you can see that it is numbered 20/25. this sort of low number parallel is fairly rare on sportlots, at least for garvey cards. the price wasn't bad either - much less than i would have been asked to pay on ebay.

here's the front
spectrum parallels are shiny.

of course, with sportlots there is always the temptation to add cards to maximize value of shipping, and this seller's rate for 10 cards was the same as for 2-4 and not much more than the rate for a single card. so, i added 9 more dodgers to the order and paid with credit that i had from selling a 2023 update set on the site.

i didn't scan all of the additional cards, but i did scan these two 2019 topps allen & ginter ginter greats cards of clayton kershaw
and sandy koufax
that completed the dodger team set for me. i also added a few cards from 2017 topps allen & ginter x, including jackie robinson
not a bad start to the year for my steve garvey and dodger collections!

4 comments:

  1. Cool Garvey! I had a few long-awaited cards finally pop up on Sportlots recently - and I, too, always seem to add cards to my orders to get the most out of shipping costs. With all the good stuff I've been able to find over there, I should've been using Sportlots a long time ago.

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  2. Congratulations! I don't think I've ever purchase a low serial #'d card on Sportlots. Usually they're either set fillers or the occasional cheap prospect or rookie for a local team.

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  3. Do you also regularly check the auctions on there too?

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