official Poverty mail-day thread

[buckunteer]

Got a couple new pickups so I scanned all 3 together!




The TC Mitch is /25 and is in this thread somewhere else, cost about $12 delivered, the prizm orange is /65 and set me back $10.50.

Stoked to have my first MJ Power Boosters too, just $20 delivered

[SteveO21]

Nice Mitch's! That Jordan Power Booster is sick. I remember having that back in the day when they were simply trade fodder and might sell for a couple bucks.

Got some pretty cool mail in today. I've purchased from ebay member tntnorthtj on several occasions and always had a great experience, this one was no different. I was initially only purchasing the Joe Young Prizm but then I looked through his BIN items to see if I could find anything cheap to add on to make the shipping price more reasonable. I found the Asik and he had it listed for $0.99. I have no desire to obtain Asik cards but for a card with a print run of /3 I was happy to pay $0.99. Then I saw the unopened pack of Finest and had to have it. I just did a quick pack break and I'll post it here. Some of you might enjoy it.


2015-16 PANINI PRIZM EMERGENT PRIZMS SILVER #5 JOE YOUNG by SMosley21x, on Flickr


2015-16 DONRUSS STATUS #35 OMER ASIK /3 by SMosley21x, on Flickr

[buckunteer]

man KJ special right there! Love the pack break of course- and can't blame you for picking up a card that rare for 99 cents well done!

[AbraCalabro]

Originally Posted by smalltown

$4 counts as poverty right? Panini nailed it with these cards. It's hard work hunting Wiggins at poverty prices. But the rewards are nice. /25

Yeah man, this card is absolutely righteous. Not just for the price, but also for how great it looks.

buckunteer, beautiful cards and I really like those power boosters, I wish they included MORE players for power boosters cards. I think the parallel of the base Jordan is one of my favorites.

SteveO, great Emergent refractor, those are tough to find right? I think there was a thread on them a while back talking about them being scarce. Nice Finest pack, do they still have that "Finest card smell" ? LOVE that smell, I could get high off it all day. I've been hankering to open some old packs lately, thinking of grabbing a cheap box of something from the 90s.

[MyckKabongo]

Some nice cards in here lately as always. Love those Emergent refractors! They're 10x more rare than the regular rookie refractor so definitely pretty rare. I might have something to show the board with that set soon .

That Totally Certified Import is great. TC lowkey has some really cool insert sets and the colored parallels are beauts.

[smalltown]

Originally Posted by MyckKabongo

That Totally Certified Import is great. TC lowkey has some really cool insert sets and the colored parallels are beauts.

Sleeper set of the year in my opinion. Very "Finest" feeling.

[SteveO21]

Originally Posted by AbraCalabro

SteveO, great Emergent refractor, those are tough to find right? I think there was a thread on them a while back talking about them being scarce.

Originally Posted by MyckKabongo

Some nice cards in here lately as always. Love those Emergent refractors! They're 10x more rare than the regular rookie refractor so definitely pretty rare. I might have something to show the board with that set soon .

The Emergent Prizms are 1:720 packs so yeah they're pretty tough to find. I've been wanting to get the Joe Young and Myles Turner but they're hard to come by. The Young popped up and went super cheap. It's also the only one I've seen on ebay. There have been a handful of the Green Prizms but none of the Silver (1:720) until this one. Eventually I'll get a Turner as well. Looks like the only few that have sold on ebay have gone between $5-$11.

[SteveO21]

Got another Immaculate Acetate in the mail today. Paid almost the exact same price for this ($11.51) as I did for the Joe Young. Now I just need the Myles Turner and I'll have the Pacers RC trio for this year.


2015 IMMACULATE COLLECTION COLLEGIATE MULTISPORT #367 RAKEEM CHRISTMAS AU /99 by SMosley21x, on Flickr


Also replaced the Emergent Prizm and Asik /3 with proper scans up there.

[MyckKabongo]

I'm probably overdue to contribute in this thread, but a lot of my buys are being kept under wraps until the set is complete.

A small sampling of the hundreds of dime box treasures I've found in recent months. Many others were just added to my COMC, so check that out if you like 90s low end inserts.



Those Finest reprint refractors are amazing cards. Thats definitely a set I want to build someday.

Panini Complete was a fun set for a lot of reasons. I liked that it had some sneaky rare case hit inserts, so I picked one up.



This next card was near the border of the poverty threshold, but it was a price I was happy to pay for an acetate on-card rookie auto of one the best young players in the league.

[AbraCalabro]

Originally Posted by SteveO21

Got another Immaculate Acetate in the mail today. Paid almost the exact same price for this ($11.51) as I did for the Joe Young. Now I just need the Myles Turner and I'll have the Pacers RC trio for this year.


2015 IMMACULATE COLLECTION COLLEGIATE MULTISPORT #367 RAKEEM CHRISTMAS AU /99 by SMosley21x, on Flickr


Also replaced the Emergent Prizm and Asik /3 with proper scans up there.

Man, college cards sure have come a long way. That's a really nice card, kinda' makes me wish I followed college ball. I also read the information on the Emergent refractors, so those might as well be modern-day rack pack refractors with relation to how scarce they are. Again, very nice addition and a wonderful feeling knowing you have something really special.

Originally Posted by MyckKabongo

I'm probably overdue to contribute in this thread, but a lot of my buys are being kept under wraps until the set is complete.

A small sampling of the hundreds of dime box treasures I've found in recent months. Many others were just added to my COMC, so check that out if you like 90s low end inserts.



Those Finest reprint refractors are amazing cards. Thats definitely a set I want to build someday.

Panini Complete was a fun set for a lot of reasons. I liked that it had some sneaky rare case hit inserts, so I picked one up.



This next card was near the border of the poverty threshold, but it was a price I was happy to pay for an acetate on-card rookie auto of one the best young players in the league.

I don't even know where to start. I was actually blow away by the Curry card...I know it's plain, but that's just it. It has everything I love on a card, what are the odds / details on this Curry card?

The Head 2 Head and Rising Stars in that 90s lot ... brings a tear to my eye. I felt so betrayed when Shaq left the Magic, even though I wasn't a Magic fan, or Shaq fan. I couldn't believe it. Anyway, enough of that, the whole lot is a great pick up.

Also good work on the on card auto of a star player on a winning, possibly the "winningest" team of all time after this season. Full autograph with number is also a plus.

[smalltown]

Originally Posted by SteveO21

Got another Immaculate Acetate in the mail today. Paid almost the exact same price for this ($11.51) as I did for the Joe Young. Now I just need the Myles Turner and I'll have the Pacers RC trio for this year.

The College Immaculate stuff looks great and singles are really reasonable. Gonna post one in a minute.

Originally Posted by MyckKabongo

Those Finest reprint refractors are amazing cards. Thats definitely a set I want to build someday.

They really are! I have a few myself including the one you showed.

[smalltown]

Three bubble mailers in the mail today. Three Poverty postings.

As promised an immaculate college. Cost a cool $7.



A $3 Silo



And $7 worth of autos. Laimbeer base and /25, Dumars /25, Aguirre /99



I got a $30 card too. But i think that's pushing Poverty.

[MyckKabongo]

Thanks for the kind words, Abra. The Complete prime numbers is 1:560 packs so appx 5:4 cases with a 10 card checklist. The Craftsmen set is similarly rare.

Yeah, I was floored when Shaq left the Magic. I just couldn't understand why he would leave Penny and Horace and the rest behind like that.

[SteveO21]

That's a solid mail day for sure. $7 for those Pistons autos is insanely cheap.

That Shaq Rising Stars is sweet too. This thread seems to have been infused with life today.

[AbraCalabro]

ok so it looks like the Poverty thread is real popular today and I also have some additions:

Some numbered Kemps: Credentials, Topps Gold Lablel, no idea what it's called but it's numbered, Panini Prizms die cut, Team Finest base:

A bunch of Kemp commons, cheap inserts and parallels, got these from a variety of sources with some of them being from our very own SPauthentic84, including the Payton and the gold Gill and Johnson!

Finishing up some Uncle Cliffy rainbows, whether with the base version, or parallels. The Flair Legacy is a stunner, now if I could just find Row 0 and Row 2, gee golly I sure would be happy.

And a variety of cards here, some Sabonis, additions to the collection of my man Yinka, including the refractor RC and a couple more el cheapo Legacy cards, now if I can just find the Row 0 Legacy for Childs...

Almost all of these cards were under 3 bucks, with many of them going for change. Awesome.

[AbraCalabro]

Originally Posted by MyckKabongo

Thanks for the kind words, Abra. The Complete prime numbers is 1:560 packs so appx 5:4 cases with a 10 card checklist. The Craftsmen set is similarly rare.

Yeah, I was floored when Shaq left the Magic. I just couldn't understand why he would leave Penny and Horace and the rest behind like that.

Damn, love it when I can get a card so rare and no one even knows. I'm quite fond of all the "obscure" UD parallels I have in my PC that no one seems to know much about, or care about. All the better, I say!

[smalltown]

Originally Posted by SteveO21

That's a solid mail day for sure. $7 for those Pistons autos is insanely cheap.

Ya. I was surprised at the price. Jumped all over it.

[AbraCalabro]

Originally Posted by smalltown

Three bubble mailers in the mail today. Three Poverty postings.

As promised an immaculate college. Cost a cool $7.



A $3 Silo



And $7 worth of autos. Laimbeer base and /25, Dumars /25, Aguirre /99



I got a $30 card too. But i think that's pushing Poverty.

DAMN we are on fire today! YES! Beautiful additions of some bad boys and the three dollar silo. Show us your 30 dollar card, $35 or less is poverty!

[smalltown]

Originally Posted by AbraCalabro

DAMN we are on fire today! YES! Beautiful additions of some bad boys and the three dollar silo. Show us your 30 dollar card, $35 or less is poverty!

Ask and ye shall recieve.

[AbraCalabro]

Originally Posted by smalltown

Ask and ye shall recieve.

Oh man, SOLID. That card is a looker, I recognize that pattern, similar to, or exactly what they used in Totally Certified recently. Excellent.

[SteveO21]

Originally Posted by AbraCalabro

Oh man, SOLID. That card is a looker, I recognize that pattern, similar to, or exactly what they used in Totally Certified recently. Excellent.

Good eye. I wouldn't have even picked up on that but you're exactly right. Make that card foil board and it's very similar to Certified.

Damn good pickup!

Abra, that massive haul you posted is sick. I always forget about Kemp playing for the Blazers so that Credentials threw me for a second. Love the Yinka Dare refractor though. Gotta be one of, if not, THE best Yinka RC year card

[SteveO21]

Got these in a couple days ago but just got a chance to scan. Thanks to the ol' boy Abra for these freebies.


2013-14 PANINI PREFERRED #176 LAVOY ALLEN CR AU/75 by SMosley21x, on Flickr


2013-14 PANINI CRUSADE QUEST MEMORABILIA #93 JASON RICHARDSON /99 by SMosley21x, on Flickr

[buckunteer]

damn nice by any measure, let alone as freebies! Abra's a standout dude!

I actually just picked up the 15-16 Gold Standard jersey auto of Mitch on ebay for a whopping 18 cents!! (Ok, it was 11 and change, but I had 11 and change in ebay bucks, so it came out to 18 cents haha).

[SteveO21]

Originally Posted by buckunteer

damn nice by any measure, let alone as freebies! Abra's a standout dude!

I actually just picked up the 15-16 Gold Standard jersey auto of Mitch on ebay for a whopping 18 cents!! (Ok, it was 11 and change, but I had 11 and change in ebay bucks, so it came out to 18 cents haha).

Abra's a stellar individual for sure.

Love when eBay bucks pay for purchases. On average I'd say I usually have between $10-15 every payout period.

[buckunteer]

Originally Posted by SteveO21

Abra's a stellar individual for sure.

Love when eBay bucks pay for purchases. On average I'd say I usually have between $10-15 every payout period.

I generally just barely make the $5 cut, but they did some INSANE promotions this time around and I bought my wife a birthday present (fitbit charge HR) for $100 when I got 6% so that was over half of my bucks right there! Was hoping to use them towards a larger purchase but I hadn't seen that jersey auto go below $13.50 delivered so my low-ball bid won it :P