I'm not doing the great Diamond Giveaway contest I did last year. It was fun to accumulate all those unwanted cards and trade them for a couple of real winners from 1954. Like I said, it was fun, but it was a LOT of work. Maybe I'll try again next year if Topps is doing it again.
I've been trying to whittle my portfolio down a bit by trading small lots of cards for older cards. It's tougher to do this year, especially with time winding down in the promotion. I managed to get one trade offer accepted over the weekend.
I offered up a couple of '73s and three '80s cards for this beauty from 1959:
I didn't really go on the site thinking I'd make an offer for this, but I didn't have anything special in mind (I've been unable to get any '56 play at the plates this year). When I logged on, this card was in the list of recently unlocked cards and I thought it would make a nice addition to my catchers collection. I also thought it would look nice next to this Frank House I traded for in last year's Million Card Giveaway.
If you're planning on entering any codes or getting your cards, don't forget the deadline is fast approaching.
I saw on topps Facebook that they are going to leave it open until July 2012. I think they sai that series two redemptions were valid until that date while the series one and update codes expired in December.
ReplyDeleteHalf my code cards have 1/31/12 for an expiration of the code. The rest have 6/30/12. I would think it would be kind of hard to redeem them if the whole she-bang shuts down on the 31 of December!
ReplyDeleteI had wondered when I had to have them all shipped by. I better get with it.
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