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2021 AND TIME TO GET WITH THE TIMES

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2021 AND TIME TO GET WITH THE TIMES

All the best to everyone for 2021! Incredibly 21 years since all that Y2K silliness, i preferred the Y2J stuff(wrestling fan here) NOW we are old and old-fashioned too, HOWEVER we have been doing the ebay thing for over 25 years and thankfully no longer do the fees the nonsense the Maury show- You are NOT my site of choice for selling any longer. Actually it's been about a year and a half that we stopped grinding our gears there and decided to "upstart" our own way i mean seriously to pay you for me to sell on your tired...

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AT A WALMART IN CANADA?

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AT A WALMART IN CANADA?

Frequently this cardboardthirsty couple will take long drives to the next province over(Ontario) and now moreso since 19 won't let us cross over into the USA. Why the frequent drives? -  well Quebec Walmarts for the most part only ever stock hockey. Rarely will we ever find baseball basketball or football. Wrestling sneaks in a tad, so in todays 6 hour drive we were fortunate to land on a Wally that had that 2020 Topps factory set. It is THE absolute first time I have ever encountered a Topps or any baseball factory set at a Canadian WM. I'll check...

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Jackpot By The Box

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Jackpot By The Box

The cardboard quest even early on was always on.  After exhausting the corner stores of their inventory I discovered a place that was more of a wholesaler yet open to the public. It was a bit longer than the usual 1 block trek and through a high traffic artery but being 11 I could handle it despite it being unsettling. Once inside there was a rack that had full boxes of baseball cards(1978 o-pee-chee) priced at $4.69 Not that it mattered but it represented a savings of 71 cents buying by the box versus the 36X 15c per pack.  Funny...

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How Much Is This Worth?

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How Much Is This Worth?

It's worth fun, not nowadays where too much of life is quantified in do$$ar terms. Before the wrapper even comes off they're uttering How much, whoa! try enjoying it breathe in the fumes of a freshly unwrapped pack of 1 card and ahhhh yeah. Back to the 70's again yes and we'll go there often to emphasize how the card bizness has evolved from innocence to the money machine it is today. We actually played with the cards, 2 main games- 1 was flinging your card to land it on another card and if you did you got all the...

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Early days early ways

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Early days early ways

Growing up in the district of Park Extension in Montreal in the early 70's was a magical time like there can never be another.  So fortunate and blessed in every way but especially for cards! There was not just that 1 corner store there were several all within minutes of 1 another that were often frequented by me in my quest for glorious cardboard and boy did they all cater or try to at the very least. Not just Hockey though, there would be baseball , wacky packages and stickers by Panini(1976 olympics), the corner BP gas station(animals) and Americana...

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