I stopped in the LCS again

Central Florida weather update :)

It was still pretty chilly when the sun came up today (upper 30's), but hey no frost or ice like yesterday morning. By days end we should should hit 75 degrees and back to 80 by this weekend.....yay!

Mark Zentkovich: I need your address please. Thank you    jfmjr1@aol.com

The week after Jeremy came over I was out and about and stopped in Grand Slam. I didn't get much per say. Everything came out of the quarter boxes (5 for a buck), except a few Braves cards.

These Braves were new to me.

I had added them to TCDB 2 weeks ago, so they were included in the numbers I posted yesterday. 

Now the rest of the "cheap" stuff is just more of the same ole same ole, so I will skip posting those. However, there was a handful of cards that do not fall into the aforementioned statement. In fact they deserve a post all on their own. Looks like that will Monday or at least that is the plan. I have a Tampa show haul to get posted, incoming from OCTers and fellow bloggers too. Lots to come and some of it will be fun...sort of   LOL.

Behave, be wise, and if you can't at least have fun!

 

Wacky Wednesday and a TCDB update (and ComC too)

 Burr.....it was so cold today(this morning).

Greg (NO) recently commented about Update here on this blog regarding whether or not Topps would be foregoing the Halloween theme because of it not being released before that holiday. Well.... the checklist is out, and yep Halloween themes/parallels are in there. 

Now that is WACKY.

TCDB Braves (ATL): me and the other guy.

on 10/30 he was at 33,092 and I was at 32, 547.

on 11/10 he was at 33,151 and I was at 32, 634.     I am -517 and it would be great if I could get the 80 or so Braves from my ComC inventory. 

Now for the monthly update on the rest of TCDB stuff.

Baseball unique: I held at #14 344, 985 (I have been pounding it this week though)

Total unique cards: I held at #27 with 381, 705 (I've added here too)

Gaming: I jumped 31 spots to #110 with 4,533 cards.

Non-Sports: I dropped 2 spots #27 with 25, 240 ( I didn't add any here before the update, but I have added a few this week thanks to a fellow blogger.

Yesterday, I got a reply back from my reply to the 1st e-mail I sent. (still nothing on the 2nd). Yesterday, Stacy (the staff) sent me an e-mail thanking me for reaching out (lol), and let me know she forwarded it to her supervisors. Then just before I went to bed last night, I get a comc survey request on how I felt about the service from the staff.... Seriously. Now I haven't filled it out yet. I think I'll wait.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Thank you to all of our Veterans!

 I wish the warmest wishes for all of our Veterans! Thank you for your service!

As tradition here at JohnnysTradingSpot here are some of the athletes that mark this day as their birthday.

Thank you again to all who have served and thank you to their families as well.

God Bless the USA!

Jeremy's visit and a SERIOUS rant on ComC and what should be their "F" rating with the BBB

I need addresses for Zentkovich and KCJays, thank  jfmjr1@aol.com 

Has anyone made a shipment request in the last couple of weeks? Well, I tried and shipping standard was $26.99. That is HIGHWAY robbery, and is a complete ripoff. My order was for 85 cards it should be MAX at $8.35 postage according to my post office to them. Of course they will eventually say handling, BS! I am done with them. Nobody is worth the extra 18 bucks for handling NOBODY! Especially with 1-2 month wait for them to actually ship. I complained last week and never heard back. I e-mailed them again Thursday night too, and I was not as nice. I filed a BBB complaint not that that will do anything to their A+ rating (BS) or change their "policies". No, all of us would have to file complaints about their untimely deliveries and shipping costs to make a difference, and by all means I encourage you too. I don't know how I am going to get my 85 cards but I am not paying that shipping cost. I certainly will not be buying anymore cards from them. It is a total shame that for about 6 months they were actually good. Remember I was praising them. Then the  last order I did was back to their same old stuff. If they can't handle their stuff quicker and more efficiently they need to hire more people to handle the volume they do. UPDATE: On Sunday night I finally got a response to the e-mail I sent them 9 days ago (the 1st one). 

Now for more positive aspect of our hobby.

Awhile back Jeremey had a made a facebook deal and grabbed my Braves Dbacks. He brought them over this visit.

He also brought over some new to me 2025 Braves.

I really appreciate all the help Jeremy provides me in my quest for that #1 spot.

We headed over to Grand slam so he could check out the shop. It is HUGE, and they are remodeling now for doubling the size.

I made some purchases whilst Jeremy dug through the quarter boxes. I found a few in the wooden bin. They are on the pricier side of what they should be, but hey that is why I negotiate which I did with Jeremey watching. Part of negotiating netted Jeremy's stack of 100-150 quarter cards for nothing. Which actually netted me a sweet card for my PC. I'll show that card at the end.

Of course I didn't need the Furcal auto, but snagged it anyways.

I picked up a few more autos and rookies too. I'm pretty sure Jeremy dug a few cards out the wooden bin too and grabbed the same Jeter.

Now here is the card Jeremy showed me first thing when we got in the van. I said ooh I collect him, and then he showed me the back of the card.

Topps Platinum 1/1, whoo hoo. He didn't have to let me have it but he did. Thank you Jeremy this card will sit nicely with Holliday family cards.

The winners

 Okay, I looked at the comments with my tired eyes and thought I was 2 commenters short so I added 2 of the regulars that hadn't commented to the post to the bottom of the list. I then did the random thing, go figure I oopsed. Apparently I was short 3 comments (one of the commenters had not did the follow button (not Brad-we worked that out) DrMustang. Now I have page 30 to award to someone that I haven't thought about yet. But, I will get it done. DrMustang please follow and send me your address and that left over spot is yours.

It made 85 degrees today, so wonderful, but by Monday night we'll be 26 degrees for a couple days. UGH   BURR!

Now the winners list (page numbers).

There were 29 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. derek
2. billk
3. evan
4. coffee matt
5. crocodile
6. mike mattson
7. fuji
8. rod
9. kc jays
10. bo
11. brad c
12. defgav
13. tom t
14. uncle charlie
15. sharp
16. angus
17. m. wilson
18. owl
19. diamond jesters
20. tdk
21. aj
22. rj
23. zentovich
24. ginko
25. jeremy
26. pederson
27. jafronius
28. gca
29. nachos

IP: 71.214.201.94
Timestamp: 2025-11-08 15:26:17 UTC

A couple of you guys still need to email me your addresses, thank you much for playing.

John

Saturday Shadow Shots

 Dang if I ain't done went and got myself sick again. UGH. Hopefully, this one will be over quick. Hitting the shadows first thing this morning. I post the "winners list" tonight in another post. If you haven't sent me your address and I need it....I need it.

I see a bad guy beating someone on the ground with a bat.

I see a turtle trying to catch the bunny (he was too fast and is off the card).

I am going with a carved wooden horse.

Enjoy the day.

Before Jeremy came over

Need 4 more for the giveaway! 

A couple of weeks ago Jeremy (Topps cards that never were) came over to the house. He brought me some cards and then we were heading over to my LCS (Grand Slam). I had just visited the shop the Sunday before and when he reached out on Monday about coming over on Thursday I suggested we visit the shop. I will have the Thursday post up probably Monday, but tonight is what I picked up on that Sunday before he came over.

As is my usual started my dig in the quarter boxes (5 for a buck). Found some more magazine cards.

I grabbed a FB relic and a BB auto out those cheap boxes, figured why not.

I was excited to find the cards below in the boxes for sure.

Many of you may know that I collect the DK puzzles and actual DK cards (They are complete up until the 96 or 97'. I forget at the moment. The serial numbered ones are lacking to say the least in my collection. Yet, I was unaware that the Ted Williams (above) existed. Now to complete it.

I typically grab a handful of non traditional set cards when they are all together like the ones above...... and below.

Those Mantles were nice finds too. So much that I didn't even mind grabbing the Arod's with them.

More cards that I couldn't leave in the boxes. The cards are usually added to every day keeping them full, so you never know what you can find.

Now let's go to the Braves I picked up.

Technically this isn't a Braves relic card, but it is a Braves card that I didn't have, in fact all of the Braves cards pictured tonight were new to my collection.

I didn't need this vintage, but for .20 I wasn't leaving them in the box either. You may recognize that 68' and the Seaver from the giveaway because that is where I put them.

More mag cards.

 I didn't get a bunch of cards on this trip but was content with the few bucks I spent.

Wacky Wednesday

 Need 9 more spots filled on the big giveaway.

Back to our regularly scheduled program.

A little of everything here, ouchies, oopsies, tee shots, t-shirts, posed an dunposed wackiness too.

Tonight it will just be my brother and I at Trivia, and the future for "The Gang" is looking bleak. Jalen and Jared joined an adult football league and their first game is tonight, so Hunter and Mariah will be there with them. :(.

Meanwhile our last time playing was with all 6 of us and we did win. Here is the pic.

I just got those guys their hats too and was going to give them to them tonight :(. Oh well, hopefully the games and any practices will not be standard on Wednesdays. We'll see. That was the 2nd win as a group (my brother and I have countless times of course). I like it with "The Gang" is there quality time, fun, and we're good :).

A Bad News Post

Still need 15 more for the giveaway! 

Not to be one to spread misery, but like they say it loves company. Friday my mailman (Daniel) who is awesome brought me and literally he gets out of his van to hand me my mail when I am outside, but this time he handed me this:

Standard size envelope from the USPS themselves. The tear you see here is one that I did to open it.

The back had a sticker note for me.

This is what was inside.

I was wondering why I hadn't seen a look at what I got post from Dillard's Dugout.

Michael I am so sorry this never made it to you. As you can see it was mailed on 10/3 and I get the front cover only of the bubble mailer on 10/31. I went to my local post office first thing Saturday (after posting), and they said you had to file a claim online. It has been years since I had to that. So I tried, all kinds of problems left and right, up and down, you name it just wasn't happening. Called in to the tech line, a bunch of stuff got worked out, but still couldn't file the claim. Jumped through some more hoops, and when everything seemed to be progressing, "error" call tech support.

I did, and again no help, just would let the "techs know" to check it out. 

After a 2 1/2 hours of trying to get this claim filed, i finally got the website to submit the claim, now it's a waiting game. We'll see how it it all goes. 

Meanwhile Michael I am so sorry you didn't get the cards that I had been setting aside for you. I'll get working on another stack.

The big 350+ card GIVEAWAY

 Okay, let us get the rules for this massive giveaway out first. I am switching things up for a couple of reasons.

1) Every one of these cards are going to be given away!

2) This time it will easier and faster to get them mailed!

3) I can and did already prep the envelopes. All I need to do is put the recipients address on them.

Rule 1): You must be a follower of this blog and be in the 1st 30 to comment (once) on this post by midnight this Friday Nov 7th.  (there will be 30 winners). Our Canadian friends are certainly allowed to participate. 

Rule 2): No one gets to claim any specific cards. There will be 30 scans (yes 30 scans) of the cards included in the giveaway. 

Rule 3): I will randomize the first 30 commenters on random.org and randomize them one time to get everyone's package number assigned. That's it!

Here we GOOOOOOOOO! Again. This time you see mostly baseball, of course magazine cards and other odd balls, some vintage including a 1959, 60's, and 70's including some Kellogg's and Hostess too. Hof'er at that are also in the mix albeit the vintage cards are beat up a bit.

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I believe all of the baseball teams are covered although I didn't check. I will also be posting who won what page so that in case you see something you might want to trade for you'll know who to reach out to.