1. Reach at least 200 Different non 1/1's Yamon Figurs Cards. Would love to hit 250 if possible.
2. Add at least 2 more 1/1's to my Yamon Figurs collection.
3. Reach 100 Indians Gu/auto and add 1 1/1 to that collection.
Please go ahead and post your own.

I occasionally collect coins - usually anything I get from my grandfather. 

I also have a small pocket knife collection, which was started from both grandfathers on both sides of my family.  My mother contributes to the collection now, usually with one new piece as one of my Christmas gifts.

Why would anyone buy this?  If a seller is guaranteeing a specific card in a pack, tells you the type of card and guarantees it, it is obvious to me that the seller has already opened the pack and has resealed it:

GUARANTEED PACK

I mean if you really think about it, why would a seller guarantee a specific type of card without knowing what is inside?  I can only imagine what the seller would think if the person who buys the pack emails the seller and says that the guaranteed card was not inside.  Do you think he would refund his money?  No way, because he already knows what is inside that pack!

I hate it when people search packs!  To me, it is no different than buying a scratch off lottery ticket with no chance of getting a higher dollar prize.

What are your thoughts? 

Craig in Texas

That's a great memory, Richard! and Richard

Mine is a no doubter...

I can't remember the exact day, but it was a summer day and I used to visit my Granma's once every couple of weeks in the summer and I'd stay the night with my siblings. Well she would usually take us out to lunch or dinner when we went over and this one particular day we went to Target after lunch. I saw some 2002 Donruss Classics baseball sitting on the shelf. I used to be a baseball collector, but now I focus more on football. Ok back to the story, I got like 4 packs of classics and a couple of packs of something else. Caught up with my Granma and we checked out and were on our way home.

See my parents didn't mind me collecting, but they would never really fund my hobby, my Granma spoiled me with cards. I only really got to bust packs when I was with her, and she loved to share it with me. So I'm ripping the packs open on the way back to my grandparents house, and I wasn't too knowledgeable so I didn't really know about the Game Used craze and such, I just wanted base cards of Indians or Ken Griffey Jr.

I get to my last pack, and saw something that was definitely not a decoy...out pops a jersey card of my all time favorite player, Jim Thome!
I hollered so loud my granma freaked out! The smile I had made my Granma's day and my own. Though I don't collect baseball much anymore, and my Granma has passed away (about 6 years ago), this card brings a smile to my face each time I see it.

Earlier today I was browsing Andrew's (sahetu) blog and read his article on 2009 Donruss Americana. I actually didn't even know they made blasters of this product, but after reading his article I knew I had to get one. So, like the addict I am, I went to the nearest Walmart this evening (about 10 minutes ago actually) to see if they had any of these boxes. Luckily for me, they had 2. I assume you thought I was going to say I bought them both, then tell you what all I pulled right? Instead, I'll explain to you what I saw when looking at the boxes.

Box number 1 was already opened!! The top of the box was completely ripped off, and all cards and packaging missing. You wouldn't believe the disappointment, and sheer anger, that went through my head at the very moment I picked that box up.

Well, so much for getting 2 boxes of this stuff tonight! I guess I was just left with 1 box. At least that's what I thought!! Box number 2 was smashed to about 3/4th it's original size! Are you kidding me!! After looking at the boxes for a minute or 2, wondering who in the world would have done such a thing, I took the already opened box to the head cashier and told her that the front end guys might want to keep a better eye on their cards. I also told her about the 2nd box, and explained that she might as well get that box off the shelves too because nobody was going to buy it. Not to my surprise at all, however, she just shrugged it off like she didn't care. By the way, she didn't go get the other box off the shelf either!!

So then I noticed that they had a large box full of loose packs. I know, it's a big time no-no to buy loose packs of cards, especially at walmart. However, I wanted to open some of it just to see what it looks like. So I pulled out about 10 packs and started looking for my wife so that I could put them in the cart. On my way to find her, though, I noticed that even some of those packs were opened as well!! I immediately turned around and marched those packs right back to the box where they were found. Now, I've heard of pack searching before, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that someone would have actually stood there opening a full box and several packs and not have anyone say anything. When I took those packs back, I started looking in all the loose pack boxes. Yes, every single loose pack box on the shelves had packs in it that had already been opened and peaked into.

I came home empty handed tonight, unfortunately. I really had the bug to open something up, but it was completely foiled by some loser, and terrible surveillance. Tomorrow morning, at 8am sharp, I will be making a phone call to speak to the manager of our walmart store to share this exact experience with him as I've just shared it with you. With any luck, he'll care more about what I'm saying than the head cashier did. I generally buy 1-2 (sometimes more) blaster boxes from our walmart every month, but if the conversation tomorrow doesn't go any better than the one I had with the lady tonight, I will not spend another dime on cards here at our walmart. Something has GOT to be done about this!

Alright, maybe I really am a geek, but I have a sports card fantasy....it involves opening what I refer to as a Masterpiece box of Donruss Classics, no base at all.....18 packs, each one with an auto, GU, and GU auto in it.  Wouldn't that be an incredible box to open?  What's your sportscard fantasy geek??

Just curious to see how much the TCC community has invested into cards, throughout their collecting years.
Let the stories come,
Ron.

If there were no....

.... autographed cards.
.... autographed rookie cards.
.... game-used cards.
.... game-used rookie cards.
.... serial-numbered cards below 10,000.

And there were only insert/chase cards.....

What would you be collecting? I already have my answer, but would like to hear others first.

I just received my 1000th feedback, all positive!!!  Very happy about that.

As an update...

1635 members have defined a complete birthday (month, day and year) in their profile.

Of those 1635 members, here's the breakdown:

Under 20: 257 (15.72%)
20-29: 596 (36.45%)
30-39: 478 (29.24%)
40-49: 210 (12.84%)
50-59: 71 (4.34%)
Over 59: 23 (1.41%)

So, based on this sampling of 1635 members, the average age of Collector Zone members is:

30.5

By the way, you can click here to view this data.

-Bob

Ah, that.  I think there were variations like that for a few guys.

What's rare about this one?

It turns out my Wal-Mart is NOT getting rid of cards.  They are simply changing suppliers.