More Check Out My Cards Cards
January 29th, 2010 by slangon

Back around the holidays I had made my first checkoutmycards.com purchase. Shortly after that, I tried my luck with sportlots.com. Then I wrote a post comparing and contrasting the two experiences. My initial verdict was that Check Out My Cards seemed a bit more suited to scoring relics and refractors and autographs and fancy cards […]

Christmas Cards (The Kind Without Glitter) Part III
January 5th, 2010 by slangon

Man, I feel like I might need to change the name of this string of posts to something less Yuletidy, or else I might still be doing Christmas posts well into March. I still got them two boxes to post up along with my Check Out My Cards swag. On top of that a bunch […]

Three More Mets TTM Successes
December 22nd, 2009 by slangon

2009 SlangKo Heroes of the Diamond Jim Fregosi Of course, the man that was Nolan Ryan was traded for, along with 3 other players. A 6 time All-Star, all before coming to the Mets. Like a lot of guys the Mets pick up, he was really good with the Angels, not so much with the […]

eBay Stuff: The 1971 Version, Part A
August 26th, 2009 by slangon

I ended up scoring a gaggle of ’71 Topps Mets off of eBay. I’m going to break these into 2 posts, though, since I didn’t have the time or inclination to scan them all at once. I’m not sure what the consensus is on the 1971 Topps set, but for me, it’s one of those […]