Got quite a few cards this week. First, let’s start with my eBay purchases:

1995 Signature Miracle On Ice #23  Jack O’Callahan /2000

1995 Signature Miracle On Ice #8 Steve Christoff /2000

These two bring me to a total of eight for the set. This is much easier and cheaper to build than the Upper Deck Legendary Signatures set.

Today, I went to two card shows (one local and one 1.5 hours away) with a budget of $100. Before I get into what I picked up, let me remark on some things that I’ve noticed at shows:

1) SOOOOO many high end patch cards numbered to /25 or whatever. It all looks like garbage and holds ZERO value to me.

2) Cards without prices on them. Am I supposed to guess? Should I bring my own Beckett? I don’t get it.

3) I overheard one dealer say, “Oh, I don’t even want to sell that card.” Then don’t bring it! This isn’t a show and tell. You are here to buy, sell, and/or trade. I don’t care about your 1/1 autographed relic card of *insert random hot player here*. Stop showing off. And stop talking about how you just bust cases.

4) $5 or less boxes are my absolute favourite. Everything I got at this show came from these sort of boxes.

From the show 1.5 hours away:

1974-75 O-Pee-Chee #232 Guy Lafleur

1976-77 O-Pee-Chee #67 Bryan Trottier Record Breaker

1984-85 O-Pee-Chee #388 Wayne Gretzky Record Breaker

1984-85 O-Pee-Chee #70 Ron Francis

1986-1987 O-Pee-Chee #250 Cam Neely

1994-95 Be A Player Autographs #5 Dale Hawerchuk

Grand total for these six cards: $19

I could probably get a low end John Tavares rookie for $19 or I could get an on-card autograph of a Hall of Famer, three 80′s O-Pee-Chee cards of HOFers including Gretzky and a (Whaler card!), and two 70′s O-Pee-Chee cards of HOFers. I find it plain ridiculous. What would you rather have?

The local show, well, I didn’t think would still be going on by the time I drove through town but it was. This was the same show I picked up some OPC HOFers at a few weeks back. I had very low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. There was a new dealer and he had quite a few things I was interested in.

I got the following:

1999-00 Upper Deck Retro Inkredible #BoH Bobby Hull

1999-00 Upper Deck Century Legends Epic Signatures #PE Phil Esposito

2004-05 Upper Deck Legends Classics Signatures #CS55 Larry Murphy

This stack ended up costing me $62 which is a random number, but whatever.

Between the two shows, I was able to pick up a pile cards to fill my HOF autograph and HOF O-Pee-Chee collection and come in under my budget. Overall, a good day to end a good week. I think I’m going to take it easy for the next few weeks in terms of spending money. I’ve been hemorrhaging cash and that needs to stop.

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