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[aceecards]

hey at least the tornados stayed away from st louis but my backyard is a pond.. now if it would just get cold...

[redwing40]

hey at least the tornados stayed away from st louis but my backyard is a pond.. now if it would just get cold...

Thunder in Michigan and 62 outside today, rained all day with snow tonight, highs of 22 tomorrow, what a great state!!

[aceecards]

misery is not much better

74 yesterday morning tornado warnings in afternoon, torrential rain all night

and 22 and windy with snow flurries now!

[Zimbow]

"canucklehead"

This

[19th Century Indiana Jones]

cause then my bestest friendie here would be a "canucklehead" LOL

Hey! I like that!

[redwing40]

Hat trick! That's all I'm saying!

[bajmurray]

Thining about the weekend!

She Who Must Be Obeyed has been invited to a Super Bowl Party at Jumer's casino in Rock Island, Illinois. She is not a football fan, but she does get to invite a friend, so I'm it!

Went last year and saw my Patriots lose, but they do things first class! Huge projection screens, open bar , stadium food, prizes and more. Even though my team is not there, I'll be wearing my Tedy Bruschi Super Bowl jersey!

[aceecards]

Hat trick! That's all I'm saying!

blues screwed thats all im saying!

game misconduct and 5 minute major for a clean hit. and the ref who called it couldnt even see it!

Game should not be affected by some blind call!

[redwing40]

blues screwed thats all im saying!

game misconduct and 5 minute major for a clean hit. and the ref who called it couldnt even see it!

Game should not be affected by some blind call!

Honestly that was a bad call,,clearly was not a head shot!

[Zimbow]

Thinking how thankful I am to not watch the super bowl.

[redwing40]

Wings game tonight with my wife, been awhile since I been to one, Box Break Saturday, whoot! It's a Hockey weekend.

[aceecards]

blues got back to winning ways in the Loooo...LOL

[sahetu]

I'm just hoping the Sabres will stop skating like geriatric gastropods.

[redwing40]

Wings got ducked lol but was cool being at the Joe again; )

[northicehero99]

Where is the current state of the hobby and where will it be in a few years?

Looking at the economy, the overproduction, the overuse of Event Used, current postal rates, etc. I am not seeing much of a hobby in the future. Current postal rates have all but killed low-end traders, as if it wasn't bad enough that Ebay and Paypal had sucked the life out of low-end selling and even mid-range selling. The postal rate to Canada doubled to $6.55 for a bubble mailer, that is going to pretty much kill my hockey trading, unless a lot of people move south of the border (not Mexico ).

[captkirk42]

"I'm thinking the same thing we are always thinking Pinky.."

"Watz That Brain?"

"Not now Pinky you've just given me a headache"

[redwing40]

We need to make a toploader that can handle PWE's on one card trades!

[captkirk42]

We need to make a toploader that can handle PWE's on one card trades!

UHOH That sounds like you received a dead soldier, or a severly wounded one.

I don't know if this will help but I've noticed that some of the sportlots dealers I get cards from (who always seem to send everything in PWEs) will sandwich the card in heavier cardboad stock. Usually from a post office priority envelope or some common breakfast cearal box and sometimes from heavier corrugated boxes.

Of course what really drives me nuts is the ones (and ebay sellers) who will put the card in a "card saver" w/no penny sleeve and TAPE the saver closed with regular tape and no barrier to prevent the tape from sticking to the top edge of the card(s).

[urbanmonk]

Seen ones shipped that way reinforced, but it doesn't always work and have seen too many messed up bubble mailers even that got stuck in the sorting system. Also GU cards crease (around the window of piece) real easy as they not uniform in thickness always, so shipping that way it goes thru their rollers on the sorting and as they don't bend it puts pressure on the card and can cause it to crease even in a toploader, hence why I go overkill on my packaging. Not worth the risk to me, so just puts a major damper on low end trading out of country, as not worth $7 in postage for $15 in cards even let alone less than that.

[redwing40]

just wish it was cheaper to make one card trades, dont mind trading in the states, but out of state trading for me is done unless worth it, so yeah, PWE for out of the USA will be my only option, hate to start charging shipping on trades, not right as I would make a trade to Canada and it will cost me $6 something and when my card comes, it only cost them $2 to mail to me, dont get it!