I went to a card shop the other day and I browsed for a while before deciding on one particular card. I paid for the card and turned around and saw a "discount" bin that I had been looking through earlier. I had looked through this bin earlier and had set a side a few things that weren't priced because I wanted to ask for a price. So I grabbed the three items I had set aside and took them to the counter to ask for pricing. One of the items had a price, but the other two did not.
The one that was priced was a 2018 National Baseball Card Day set, or so I thought. It was marked at $2 and then was supposed to be 25% off. As you will see it ended up being one card short. I wasn't expecting it to have the two bonus cards (Aaron Judge and Rhys Hoskins), but card #6 (Jose Altuve) was also missing from the set. I'll have to track that down.
I'm not sure what I was doing back on August 11, 2018, but it doesn't appear that I went to the card shop because I don't think I had any 2018 National Baseball Card Day cards. Well now I do.
Do you collect the National Baseball Card Day sets? Do you have the Jose Altuve available for trade?
I don't collect the NBC Day sets, with no card shop anywhere near me, that stuff is out of sight, out of mind.
ReplyDeleteOne of the benefits of a blog is when someone throws out a random date, I can look up what I was doing. I didn't post on Aug. 11, 2018, but I do know the next day I went to the last baseball game with my daughter before she went off to college. And now I'm sad.
No idea what I was doing on that day, but I didn't go to a card shop. I did participate in 2019. Went to a card shop in Southern California with SumoMenkoMan. We also hit up a couple of card shows that day.
ReplyDeleteI was in Singapore for NBCD in 2018. Got back a few days too late. I did go in 2019, but most of the places in my area which Topps said were participating didn't actually know about it. This year I sat out because COVID. Maybe next year.
ReplyDeleteI do not collect the whole set but I have been able to get the Indians cards from the various sets for National Card Day.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely did NBCD here. One of my kids' favorite days.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been at the LCS for NBCD till this past year, and that was only because I had won an auction they were doing on Facebook so I went in to pick it up. Nice get for less than 2 bucks!
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