It's been a while since much happened with cards. This year there has been an increase in orders on sportlots for the baseball cards I have listed. It had been pretty quiet there for a while. Maybe with the 2020 pandemic and the lockdowns some people had more time on their hands and were dusting off old sets, trying to finish off o-pee-chee baseball collections from the late 1970s - early 1980s era.
With the recent sales I noticed my balance on sportlots is now over $30. I could cash it out to Paypal, it's over the threshold of $25. Then I thought on Paypal it would just be used for monthly Netflix or some such. So basically it would just be consumed with nothing to show for the baseball cards I'd listed, packed, mailed and sold.
That didn't seem very satisfying. Instead I decided to restart the long delayed hockey cards project. Figure out which sets were close to being complete. List the rest of the cards for other collectors.
It turns out a bit to my surprise the 1980-81 o-pee-chee hockey set was only 5 common cards from being finished all these years. I was able to find them at the local dealer Strictly Singles and finish the set. There are some good cards in that set. The Wayne Gretzky are his second year cards, not the famous and very valuable rookie cards from 1979-80, oh well.
The other hockey sets I'm in the process of listing on sportlots. The sets aren't close to being finished, or in some seasons I just have a small number of cards.
There is one set I'd originally found in a shoebox of cards I bought for $3 from a yard sale in the early 1980s. The 1973-74 o-pee-chee hockey set is more than half done, about 100 cards from being finished. There are a lot of familiar names in that set from growing up and Hockey Night in Canada. So I think I will put my sportlots credit towards that set.
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| the Wayne Gretzky second year hockey card. it is worth about 5% of the rookie card |
