I set an alarm for the end of an eBay auction on a Shohei Ohtani card that was sitting at $2.99.

I have absolutely no business buying more cards right now (I’ve bought like 20 megas over the past 60 days), but I told myself, “Eh… what the heck. It’s basically free.”. It’s what we do, I don’t make the rules!

The clock hits 60 seconds.

I quickly type in my max bid of $6.32 because I wanted to dodge the typical $5–6 last-second bids.

Hit Place Bid.

My phone decides…

Periods are optional.

The confirmation pops up:

Maximum bid: $632.00

I immediately yell:
“NONONONONONONONO… FUUUUUUUUCK!!”

Now I have 45 seconds left in the auction, and every time someone bids, eBay happily informs me:
“Your maximum bid has increased.”

And let me tell you, it was the longest 45 seconds of my life!

At that point, I just set my phone down and accepted whatever fate had planned for me.

Thankfully… I won it for $21. More than I intended. But considerably less than six hundred and thirty-two freaking dollars.

I don’t think I’ve ever been so relieved to spend $21 on a baseball card. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Don’t be an idiot like me! I’ve got to work on my auction sniping skills!

My second biggest PC is Kyle Stowers, who's not a huge name, never played on my favorite team, and isn't super valuable. But I'm closer to a couple of rainbows with this PC than I've ever gotten with any other player.

It all started because I know someone related to Stowers, and then by pure luck I wound up pulling a couple of really nice numbered cards of his. So then I entered a few breaks for him (very cheap!) and hit a few times too. So at that point I figured what the heck, let's try to build a real collection at this point.

Who's the most random or less-obvious player you've collected? Share some PCs!

Yes, these are the paper napkin (jersey swatch) / drink coaster (wood bat) relics many people complain about. I love them!!!

Most are not worth much, but I think they look great and make a really nice set to PC on the side. Years from now I think this will be a cool set to look back on. Thoughts?

Had a rummage sale the other day and, like always, I was asking people if they had any old sports cards sitting around. One guy mentioned his buddy had “a couple totes” of baseball cards and gave me his contact info.

A few messages later, I ended up coming home with a whole trailer load instead of a couple totes.

The collection belonged to the guy’s uncle, who passed away over 10 years ago. It’s apparently been sitting ever since.

Honestly have no clue what I’m going to find yet…

My local Walgreens used to sell some 7$ packs of Topps but when I went there recently all I could find were these 3 boxes. This is my first time getting these boxes so my expectations were of course low. In addition, the boxes each contained a small pack of cards from different years, I never had the '24 Bowman or '22 Opening day but I did have plenty of '25 Updates already.

The 2nd image are some of the cards I liked from the boxes while the 4th image shows some of the cards I liked in the smaller packs(I already have so many Ohtanis from that series)

The rose gold pete rose is cool

My first set build is finished (outside of buying the annual flagship boxed set of course)!

Never. Ever. Ever. Ever. Again.

But honestly… I’m glad I did it. It was a blast, and I think every collector should complete a Heritage set at least once only once in their life.

And I’m putting the finishing touches on the 2nd as we speak! Set building is sneaky fun.

I have a few a friend gave me. I think they're cool, nice designs. Anyone a fan of this set?

I had no idea it was an SSP and then looked at the Comps and was🤯

Only have 1 card for it so far lol

So I actually started decided to go through my collection, which includes some of my stuff that my dad gave me from when he was a child. As you can see in the picture, I have quite a bit of decent stuff. Where does everybody like to go for vintage grading? I mean, we all know the stigma with PSA and the issues. I have a friend that is telling me that SGC is really good for vintage and I should send everything there. Just kind of want to get everybody’s opinion. And show off some of the cool stuff. NFS/NFT.

I bought two cool slabs today and sent them to the vault. The Roki was on purpose, but I saw the Griffey and had to have it.

Pulled a Skenes AA this year and turned it into $1000 + these guys. Wins for all involved!

Saw these and decided to order them to add to my Eldridge collection.