Testing the waters on insert/parallel TEAM TRADES

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mrmopar

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Thought I would toss this out here to see if there was any potential interest.

I uncovered a couple large boxes of COMMON inserts/parallels (maybe 5000 total) mostly from the late 80s & 90s and a much smaller amount of early 2000s. There are no stars in this batch, unless I flat out missed them. These are the Joe Blo players on CC Silver signatures, Score gold rush and other inserts and parallels, including some trades sets, Tiffany cards, etc. Most major brands represented (Topps, SC, Score, UD, Pinnacle, Score, Donruss, Fleer, Ultra, etc).

The thought of trying to list them is daunting and what I would most like to do is make some easy trades on a card for card team trade basis. No tedious book values (these are all commons), no specific lists, just a simple trade of your team for my team.

For example, if you told me you like the Cincinnati Reds, I would go through the box and pull the Reds. I would then tell you I had 76 cards. You in turn would trade me 76 Dodger insert/parallel cards.

If anyone wanted to get more specific as to card types, I am open to that, but I am mainly interested in helping other team collectors get some insert/parallel lots and build my Dodger collection and don't want to spend a ton of time with this stuff.

I would accept ANY insert/parallels in trade as long as they were Dodgers. Any year, any brand, any set...and duplication if not excessive

The following teams would not be available due to similar trades made in the past, and others may be a little more sparse once I start pulling/sorting, but I figure I could make lots of 50-100 or more cards for most teams with very little to no duplication:

Yankees
Twins
and of course Dodgers
 
in the process of organizing roughly 16 triple shoes of parallels ....not sure how many dodgers i have available , but i'm interested in your braves and MAYBE giants (if i can find enough dodgers)
 
cmc...I would certainly offer you a Braves and/or Giants lot for Dodgers. I don't mind mixing them either if you would like, but I would prefer a lot that is sizable enough to make the package worth the postage (single card trades don't seem to be worth the $1.71 anymore), but not too large that the postage out values the lot, like Priority shipping for a small stack of cards worth $5!!

I have decided that I will sort the lot out by teams regardless and see what happens. Right now they are mainly by set, but I see team lots as a better way to move more cards, faster.
 
just let me know roughly what quantity you have of those two teams and i'll check and see if i can match you.....fwiw , my PREFERENCE is to do lots small enough to fit in a bubble mailer (up to say 50-60 cards) OR big enough to both fit in and justify the use of a small flat rate priority box (150-250 cards depending upon card stock)....
 
I'd be interested in trying to do a deal with you for the REDS. Not sure how many Dodgers cards I can muster but I'll start on it for you. BTW, if possible I'm more interested in the 2000 time period than the 80's. Thanks.

DAVE
 
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Dave,

I'd love to be able to offer newer inserts/parallels, but to be frank I stopped buying packs right around 2000, so any newer stuff I do have is sparse and came in lots or in scattered packs I have received or bought in the last decade or so. I bought a lot of stuff in the late 80s, quit and then came back stronger than ever from about 1993-2000 (like many older collectors did). I know a lot of people only have the newer stuff, so that is why I am mainly focusing on commons and I certainly will take ANYTHING Dodger (and dupes) as long as it was an insert or parallel.

I am really hoping to find those team collectors like me that don't care what they get in a package as long as it's their team. By exempting stars, hopefully it makes the value issue moot as well, because I don't subscribe to any price guides and don't plan to, nor do I really want to bother looking up .10 - .50 cards. I will put together sets as much as I can and have no real use for the other teams except to trade them off.

and cmc, I totally agree. The postage is a factor on both ends of a LOT trade due to the weight. I'll see what I have and let you know.
 
1993-2000 will work. I moved over here in 1998 so cards prior to that don't really hold as much meaning as those post-98. Are we good to go?

DAVE
 
I'm sorting them by teams today to see what kind of quantity I have of each team. So far, I have a nice distribution, with a couple of teams taking the lead (Mets, Brewers, Giants, Angels) to name a few. As I noted earlier, the Twins, Yanks and Dodgers are a no go and I have fewer of the Marlins/Rockies than the other teams, but not a bad quantity. I have almost nothing of the D-Backs and D-Rays, so those teams are out as well.
 
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