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How Collectors Feel About a UD-Topps Acquisition
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 9:06 pm | Filed Under Business
Continuing the ongoing mess that is the Topps sale, Upper Deck upped the ante on Monday Upper Deck filed a $427.3 million offer with the Securities and Exchange Commission and claimed that they will be able to overcome any antitrust issues that may arise from having one company own both baseball licenses. By law […]
Sportkings Revived After 73 Years
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:36 pm | Filed Under Cards, Sportkings
Longtime collector Brian Price has decided to resurrect the Sport Kings series. The original Sport Kings were produced by Goudey Gum Company in 1933 and 1934 and featured 48 athletes spanning all sorts of sports like swimming, football, basketball, and boxing. What would motivate someone to dust off and resurrect a popular vintage […]
Upper Deck Makes a Grave Mistake
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:54 pm | Filed Under Cards, Upper Deck
I read the following on Ted Taylor’s Collector’s Corner:
Upper Deck Cards About to Get Scarce
Upper Deck has served notice to its dealers and suppliers that only “bricks and mortar” stores will be eligible to by product from their authorized distributors – and there are only a dozen of them nationwide.
Hobby dealer John Drake, who […]
eBay Sucks for Sellers
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:25 pm | Filed Under Cards, eBay
I’m no eBay Powerseller, but I’ve had an eBay account for about seven years now and I’ve been involved in all sorts of transactions - buying and selling for both collectibles and non-collectibles (although mostly cards/collectibles related stuff) - and I think I’ve had enough eBay experience (and online business experience) to have earned the […]
Underrated Pitching Rotation: Oakland A’s
By Cardcollectingrambler | Posted at 12:43 pm | Filed Under MLB, Cardcollectingrambler
Guest post by Cardcollectingrambler from Break Open Another Box!
The A’s have had one of the best rotations in the majors so far this season, with their regular 5 starters boasting a 25-13 record, around a 2.80 ERA and about 6 K’s/9 IP. Rich Harden (1-1, 1.42 ERA, 9.47 K’s/9 IP in 3 starts), arguably their […]
Upper Deck Looking to Help Young Collector?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:29 pm | Filed Under Beckett, Upper Deck, Business
The following letter was sent to Upper Deck from the older brother of an unidentified collector:
Upper Deck publicized the letter on Beckett in hopes of finding the young man from Georgia. One would think that after leaking the letter to the public that UD would be looking to send the young man a nice […]
Introducing Price Guide Trends, 14-day Free Trial, and More
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 4:20 pm | Filed Under PR, Site News, Price Guide
Today we launched a significant upgrade to our Price Guide, most notably a new feature called “Trends” that enables you to view previous price reports graphically for items saved to your collection. Below is a sample of the trends for a Carson Palmer McFarlane 13 Variant price report, which shows the previous 10 price […]
Topps Buyout Vote Postponed
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under Cards, Topps, Upper Deck, Business
This crazy Topps sale just won’t go away. Last Thursday a judge ruled to postpone the shareholder vote that was scheduled for June 28th (if the Topps sale is news to you, check out our previous Topps coverage to catch up). According to Forbes.com:
In a 67-page opinion issued Thursday, Vice Chancellor Leo Strine […]
2007 McFarlane NFL 3-Packs Intriguing
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:44 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL
Last year McFarlane debuted the unique idea of Toys ‘R’ Us exclusive 3-packs that were a mix of existing figures, variant figures, and brand new figures. This year they mixed it up a bit and are giving us three different types of 3 packs.
Donovan McNabb, Brian Westbrook and Brian Dawkins:
LaDainian Tomlinson, Larry Johnson […]
Our Pricing: McFarlane NFL 14
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:40 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL, Price Guide
To give everyone a flavor for how our Price Guide compares to the more traditional print price guides, we’ve decided to start an “our pricing” series where from time to time we’ll show you how the prices from the SportsLizard Price Guide compare to prices from Beckett or Tuff Stuff for a particular series or […]