Ok, I Checked Out Your Cards....Now They Are Mine!

     While you may not see it right away, CheckOutMyCards.com has quickly become one of the best trading sites on the web. What's that? You can't trade on COMC? Balderdash, I say! Maybe I can't trade one card directly for another, but so long as my cards are being traded for other people's store credit, I can then trade that credit back for cards I want. So there's a monetary middle-man involved, but the fact remains, I'm able to unload cards I don't want, and in return, pick up cards I do want. I guess it's akin to a three-way trading site.

     Maybe I can't actually find a collector that happens to need a bunch of Ryne Sandberg's old Topps and Panini stickers or minor league cards of Juan Gonzalez or everything I happen to find of Shigeo Nagashima, but it is thanks to COMC that I've been able to "trade" a very eclectic assortment of stickers (American and Japanese) and Japanese cards for a much more useful (to me anyway) stack of Dave Winfields, Roberto Kellys and an assortment of odds and ends for my "All Things Presley, But Not Elvis" collection.

     Thus far, I've unloaded 133 cards on COMC (with another 345 looking for a good home) and picked up 150 cards. The lastest batch shipped brought the following gems:


     This batch put me over the 850 mark for different cards, coins, patches, photos and cups of depicting Dave Winfield. Sadly, I'm still not really making much progress, as each time I manage to pull in a catch like this, Topps issues another dozen cards of Winnie. This year he's got some 20 new cards in the just-released Topps Triple Threads and Topps Update sets. Give it a rest, Topps!

     But back to the progress side, though, that puts me at:
43/100 of Dave's Yankee Stadium Legacy cards (100 Winfields in that set...not a single Hensley Meulens or Roberto Kelly among thousands of other cards to work with!)
12/23 Upper Deck Heroes base cards
4/7 Upper Deck 20th Anniversary cards

     While I'm not usually enamored of game used cards, I was happy to knock several of them off my want list for relatively little. When you really get down to it, I just traded a bunch of Topps, Fleer and Panini stickers for them!