Collectible Card Club

 Where oh where to begin?

Many card collectors maybe aware of Collectible Card Club a subscription box service. As a member each month they will send you a box of unopened packs of cards. They have the 4 major US sports: Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey plus Soccer and Gaming. They offer a selection of 3 membership tiers: Silver 5 packs $24.95, Gold 10 packs $42.95, Platinum 15 packs $60.95. You can choose which individual sport flavor you want or a 3 sport Baseball, Football & Basketball box. Plus you choose from Vintage (1999 on back to probably early 1980s. I think they have stated 1983 is as far back as they have gone), or Modern (2000 and up), or a mix of the two.

Now here is where things get interesting. Almost 3 years ago, back in Sept 2019 I received a box from The CCC. I did not order the box it was sent to me as a sort of promo for bloggers I think. I don't recall if I received an email or responded to some promo they were having but anyway I currently have a box sitting unopened still in it's yellow/orange mailing package. I had planed on doing a spectacular blog post about opening it that was to include a video busting the box and the subsequent packs inside, including scans of everything during the process. I nixed that idea due to all the time it would take to work on it. 

Flashforward to recent months as I have seen more and more UTube videos and blog posts of others busting these boxes and repack products like Repacked Wax and well I got the bug for it. So I set up a Platinum Vintage Baseball sub and a Gold Vintage Football sub. This way it is less likely I will get brands that I don't particularly like such as Chrome, & Draft editions. There may be a few as those trends started in the 1990s. Anyway for brands I don't like I will put those packs aside as traders or toss them up on Ebay maybe.

My first two subscription boxes arrived Friday 10 June. So now I am a Collectible Card Club Card Carrying Member even though I probably shouldn't spend so much on it..

I was going to include one of my first CCC Box Breaks for this post but I haven't started opening them yet. I have 3 to do sometime soon.

Losing Interest A Little Bit

Lately I have been losing interest in collecting a little. As the end of February was approaching I was even losing a little interest in blogging a bit. Of course some of this was my renewed efforts to get back into selling on Ebay. This month I have concentrated on my Ebay. As a result of making an effort to list new items and actually get them up on Ebay I went from having 6 stale listings and a last sale about 3 or 4 months ago for a 3 inch button that sold for $1.50 with Free Shipping to 30 listings. Over the last few weeks I have sold 5 items from 4 listings. I sold 2 books, and 16 packs of Football Cards (11 packs of 2016 Leaf Draft Football and 5 packs of 2018 Leaf Draft Football) I didn't know those things were so popular. Personally I don't like the Draft cards since they are undrafted players in college uniforms. Eventually some of those guys go on to have professional careers but many don't.

To reflect my Ebay sales I have tried to update my trading posts on this blog. I think they are current now. Anyway it is almost midnight on 29 February and I need to get this posted to make the deadline. For the full details (or at least what I could recall) check out my post over at my regular Blog "Kirk's Knook": Back To The Swing of Ebay Selling

Box Break UPDATE: Videos

Blog Group Box Break: Basketball

Update: The Videos

Sorry for the delays. Most of my nights I have just been extremely tired or had other things on my mind or got very distracted. Plus scanning things has always been my downfall. I've been a bad box break host. Yet another reason for retiring from the whole hosting thing after this one.

I have a ton of scanning to do. Each box as a bunch of inserts I need to scan and rookies as well as the 3 or 4 hits. The Jumbo Box has a ton so even with just scanning the claimed teams there is a lot to scan. This scanning is part of what is delaying me. Sorry for the wait on this I know some people are more detail oriented and prefer seeing the scans rather than sitting through a boring half-hour video.

All boxes except for the Past & Present box have been opened, their breaking videos and recap videos recorded and uploaded. The videos of the box openings and the following recaps have been uploaded to my YouTube here are the links to them for those who want to see the raw poor man's footage what has been pulled. Sorry it isn't the best quality but you get the general idea and some progress on my part gets done. 

Update: 27 May 15: All videos have been uploaded to my YouTube Channel klandersen42.

The Videos:
2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops Freebie Bonus Packs

2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops 11 pack box 1 - Recap

2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops 11 pack box 2 - Recap

2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops 11 pack box 3 - Recap

2012-13 Panini Past & Present Hobby Box - Recap

2012-13 Panini Prestige Hobby Box - Recap

2013-14 Panini NBA Hoops Jumbo Box - Part 1 - Part 2 - Recap

2014-15 Panini NBA Hoops Hobby Box - Recap

Blog Break Randomization Video

I have the posts for the 2nd box of 2012-13 Hoops 11 pack box scheduled to post later tonight: Part 1 at 5:00 PM and Part 2 at 6:00 PM. I hope I didn't screw them up. So far I think the only things messed up in this whole process are the ding-dang videos.

Blog Basketball Group Break: Freebie Packs

2012-13 NBA Hoops Basketball: 7 Freebie Packs

Here is the detailed listing of the pulls from the 7 Freebie Packs of 2012-13 Panini NBA Hoops Basketball for my Group Break from D&A Card World, pack-by-pack as pulled. I did this as a preview for the break, before sign-ups in the hopes that some nice pull would entice people to join the break. Unfortunately since these are retail packs they didn't have any special hits. I think it is possible to pull autos from these packs but difficult since they are retail. Hopefully the boxes in the break will have some inserts at least.

 SAMPLE OF BASE FRONT

There are some cool vets, and possibly some of the Rookies from these packs are now cool vets, but basically "It's all about the Base 'bout the base no autos".

Pack One:
288 Moe Harkless RC 76ers
173 Trevor Booker Wizards
280 Damian Lillard RC Trailblazers
14 Avery Johnson Coach Nets
75 Derrick Rose Bulls

Pack Two:
284 Austin Rivers RC NO Hornets (Pelicans)
107 Scott Skiles Coach Bucks
176 Kevin Seraphin Wizards
157 Dwyane Wade Heat
14 Avery Johnson Coach Nets

Pack Three:
284 Austin Rivers RC NO Hornets (Pelicans)
107 Scott Skiles Coach Bucks
260 Elliot Williams Trailblazers
152 Tracy McGrady Hawks
246 JaJuan Johnson Celtics

Pack Four:
256 Jeremy Pargo Grizzlies
292 Bernard James RC Mavericks
33 Calderon Raptors
160 Joel Anthony Heat
208 Steve Nash Lakers

Pack Five:
248 Cory Joseph Spurs
212 DeMarcus Cousins Kings
180 Stephen Curry Warriors
291 Perry Jones III RC Thunder
8 Deron Williams Nets

Pack Six:
236 Kawhi Leonard Spurs
211 Marcus Thornton Kings
270 Justin Harper Magic
260 Elliot Williams Trailblazers
116 Kevin Love Timberwolves

Pack Seven:
66 Monty Williams Coach NO Hornets (Pelicans)
105 Mike Dunleavy Bucks
164 Dwight Howard Magic
188 Chauncey Billups Clippers
161 Udonis Haslem Heat

SAMPLE OF BASE BACK

PULLS:
7 Packs (5 cards/pack) = 35 Cards Total - 4 Duplicates
Rookies - 6 Cards - 1 Duplicate
Coaches - 5 Cards - 2 Duplicates
21 Teams

Link to video on YouTube.There are still some good teams available Sign-up before they are gone.

UStream UGH

I recently checked up on my account at UStream to review how to do stuff there. It had been several months seven to be exact since I had last "broadcast" according to my account. I discovered that with the changes I had noticed a few months back that now my archived videos were GONE. I don't recall getting any notice that things would disappear after the changes, if I did get them I just thought it was typical updating with no real action required. I was wrong. With my BASIC account after 30 days any videos are automatically deleted. If you pay for a premium account you can keep whatever. So now any of the box break videos I had done here and the pack breaks I had done, anything I had UStreamed is GONE. I never thought to save my broadcasts offline. Why should I when the server that broadcast them in the first place was storing them?

The thing that really sucks is all the links I had made on this blog, and on some of the trading card forums now lead to an error page. **Sigh** I suppose I should do something about the links on my blogs that I can fix. Everything else OH WELL.

This reminds me of a few years back when Yahoo got rid of the personal photo albums. I hadn't backed up all of the photos I had there (most of them were stuff from emails that had been long deleted and swimsuit pics I found on the web) and so after the shut down anything I didn't have saved any where else was gone. Occasionally when I remember an image and can't find it anywhere maybe it was something from there.

This comes after I noticed that my Logitech webcam wasn't doing offline videos. Apparently as of 31 July 2013 Logitech no longer supported the software for my particular webcam for making videos. They suggest using Skype. Well I don't want to do Skype I don't even know how to use it. It is on my cellphone, not on my laptop. In someways with online videoing I am a super amateur newbie.

I toyed with the idea of using one of the box break services like UStream, but Blog.TV is now part of something else (YouNow?) and doesn't look like you can actually record what you broadcast. I looked into how to record on YouTube and it looks like that will work. I might need to do some practicing, and eventually I should get a better quality webcam. Who am I kidding so long as the cheap webcam works and as long as what I record isn't anything that would totally devastate me if it were lost I'm not going to get a new one.

This checking up on video making came about because I got word that a package I am expecting the sender wants the mailday opening to be video taped. The packaging has a surprise or a story or is in some special kind of order or some such nonsense like that. I was told the package was shipped out on Tuesday, so I should get it today or tomorrow (Saturday)