The 1998 Topps Tek Thread

Scoop!

bigunitcards said:

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NICE!

Congrats!!

Nice find on a poorly listed Tek!

Nice cards. Congrats!

A nice surprise today at a local shop I visit every month or so here in Houston area. He has an area in his store of singles by players and in the years of coming here I've never really took the time to go digging though through but for some odd reason while we were doing our usual reacquainting and our baseball chatter about the Astros and talked about the 2014 Tek cards flying out of his store as collectors there seem to love them (I'm not getting sucked in this time) I decided to spend 30 minutes and go through and much to my surprise when reaching the Ms there was a familiar sparkly sight with a two dollar sticker on it.

1998 Topps TEK Pedro Martinez card# 41 pattern# 43 Diffractor....

Fits nicely in my Ultra Pro 90 card 10 sheet binder for Diffractor Set # 3

First 1998 TEK Diffractor in quite a while...

Congrats. Nice pickup.

corockies said:

Those are definitely 3 diffractors, including a pattern 1. I hate to ruin your day, but read the negative comment left for the seller. It was for a Jason Kendall diffractor that the seller had pictured yet sent a regular card. I hope you get what is pictured - for $10 that's amazing. If anything you can get a refund for item not described if he sends you base cards.

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I am lucky. I got the 3 Thome diffractors in the picture. They were sent in soft sleeves and a sandwich baggy; and luckily were in great shape. These cards are so awesome looking! They are patterns #1 , 52, and 74. Not for sale or trade as they are the only diffractors I have.

Congrats Toga! Huge find. Crazy you needed it.

u2me57 said:

I am lucky. I got the 3 Thome diffractors in the picture. They were sent in soft sleeves and a sandwich baggy; and luckily were in great shape. These cards are so awesome looking! They are patterns #1 , 52, and 74. Not for sale or trade as they are the only diffractors I have.

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Congratulations! WOW, what a find!

MansGame said:

Congrats Toga! Huge find. Crazy you needed it.

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Well considering I only have around 450 to 500 98 TEK diffractors (less than 6%) it was highly likely (94%) that any diffractor I find is one I do not already have.

u2me57 said:

I am lucky. I got the 3 Thome diffractors in the picture. They were sent in soft sleeves and a sandwich baggy; and luckily were in great shape. These cards are so awesome looking! They are patterns #1 , 52, and 74. Not for sale or trade as they are the only diffractors I have.

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Sweet!

Thanks guys.

The 3 Thomes were originally being offered on facebook for $5. Really sad I missed them, but glad they made it in to a collector's hands. I am in talks with the seller to see what other TEKs he has.

awesome, nice guys!

Anyone on here win that box that ended tonite?


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Can't believe that box ended at $298 shipped! Any Thome cards in there?

I have an opportunity to buy 5 complete sets (1-90) for $50 per set. I don't think this is even close to a good price. What should I try to grab these at?

tonsofcommons said:

I have an opportunity to buy 5 complete sets (1-90) for $50 per set. I don't think this is even close to a good price. What should I try to grab these at?

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Been a while since I've seen any 1 to 90 98 Tek sets on eBay, but earlier this year I saw them sell between $65. and $80. or $85. I think $50. per is a very good price. I would go for it. Just the McGwire, Jeter, Griffey, and Ripken base cards each sell for a minimum of $5. per with many cards selling for $10. to $15. each. The Beckett 'book value' for the individual cards in a 1 to 90 set is over $150. The possible bonus here is also that this seller was clueless about base vs. diffractors as our Thome collector discovered. If she won't budge on the price, and you're not interested, please give her my name, e-mail [email protected] !

My 1998 Topps Tek diffractor collection is at 3168 out of the 8100. Don't see a lot of diffraator action out there. If you have any diffractors, and want to trade for others, here is what I have to trade. (I believe the dupe list is cotrrect and up-to-date.) NOT looking to sell, but TRADE. I also am willing to BUY. I'm willing to trade for diffractors in at least 'exc' condition -- nothing way off center or heavily spotted or heavily scratched. If you have something I need, I'm more than willing to trade in your favor. send a list of what you have and what you are looking for. Make me a trade offer at [email protected] or PM. (This is a long post, so if you respond on the list there is no need to repeat the whole post!)


RinkRat38 – 1998 Tek Diffractors to Trade

B. Grieve 1– 1, 18, 55, 63, 70, 74, 80
K. Wood 2– 10
B. Bonds 3–
J. Olerud 4– 12, 79, 84
I. Rodriguez 5– 40, 79
F. Thomas 6– 37
B. Williams 7– 18, 29, 38, 56, 79, 84
D. Bichette 8– 15, 25, 39, 63, 70, 74, 77
A. Rodriguez 9– 18, 24
T. Glavine 10– 24, 56, 75, 87
E. Karros 11– 7, 78
C. Biggio 12– 4, 5
M. McGwire 13– 10, 28, 56, 70
D. Jeter 14– 3, 56, 70, 72
N. Garciaparra 15– 2
B. Anderson 16–
V. Guerrero 17– 42
D. Justice 18–
Ch. Jones 19– 4, 13, 17, 31
J. Edmonds 20– 15, 20, 43
R. Clemens 21– 1,12, 44, 55, 72, 77
M. Kotsay 22– 45, 52, 54, 56, 75, 86
T. Gwynn 23– 1, 9, 25, 52
T. Walker 24– 3, 87
T. Martinez 25– 10, 65
A. Jones 26–
S. Alomar 27– 72, 74
S. Sosa 28–
G. Sheffield 29– 10, 13, 48, 65, 67
K. Griffey 30– 1
A. Ramirez 31– 80
C. Schilling 32– 1, 17, 27, 32, 42, 43, 51, 80
R. Ventura 33– 52, 67
L. Walker 34– 10, 31, 59, 65
D. Erstad 35– 20
T. Dunwoody 36– 1, 15, 17, 38, 39, 63, 79
P. O’Neill 37– 31, 74
V. Castilla 38– 42, 48, 52, 65
R. Johnson 39– 38, 45, 59
R. Palmeiro 40– 1, 10, 40, 63, 72
P. Martinez 41– 1, 20, 27, 42, 45, 48, 67, 77, 79
D. Bell 42– 11, 17, 63
C. Delgado 43– 1, 9, 30, 40, 77
M. Williams 44– 54
K. Lofton 45– 1, 79
E. Renteria 46– 13, 18, 40, 66, 86
A. Belle 47– 1, 69
J. Burnitz 48– 32, 51, 79
A. Beltre 49– 12, 39, 51, 54, 55
G. Maddux 50– 5, 32, 65
C. Ripken 51– 48
J. Kendall 52– 70, 75, 80
E. Burks 53– 1, 26, 27, 31, 42, 84
P. Molitor 54– 39, 72, 75, 84
M. Alou 55– 38, 63, 70
R. Mondesi 56– 7, 10, 20, 21, 30, 36, 37, 45, 50, 52, 59, 63, 72, 77, 84
B. Larkin 57–
T. Clark 58– 1, 6, 9, 11, 18, 20, 25, 37, 44, 48, 63, 65, 83, 88
T. Lee 59– 1, 15, 17, 29, 60
J. Gonzalez 60–
T. Glaus 61– 1, 4, 6, 40, 78
J. Cruz 62– 12, 25, 31, 37
P. Konerko 63– 29, 52
E. Martinez 64– 66, 70, 73, 81
J. Lopez 65– 10, 15, 28, 40, 42, 54, 87
M. Ramirez 66– 36, 46, 55, 58, 72, 74, 78, 79, 86
R. Alomar 67– 1
K. Caminiti 68– 31, 50, 74, 86
T. Helton 69– 77
C. Knoblauch 70– 15, 31, 43, 73, 78
K. Brown 71– 6, 21, 25, 37, 39, 48, 52, 63, 75
T. Salmon 72– 56, 63, 73
O. Hernandez 73– 10, 12, 23, 58
J. Bagwell 74– 79
B. Jordan 75– 1, 13, 15, 27, 36, 39, 75, 85, 88
D. Lee 76– 1, 15, 45, 55
B. Fullmer 77– 5, 52
M. Grace 78–
J. King 79– 17, 25, 59, 65, 77, 84
M. Mussina 80– 5, 73, 79, 89
J. Buhner 81–
Q. McCracken 82– 1, 6, 15, 20, 32, 38, 61, 79
A.J. Hinch 83– 1, 10, 16, 45, 59, 84, 86
R. Hidalgo 84– 1, 12, 27, 66, 75
A. Galarraga 85–
M. Piazza 86– 1
M. Vaughn 87– 13, 21, 37, 66, 80
S. Rolen 88– 10, 85, 86
J. Thome 89– 42, 63
R. Lankford 90– 59, 79

Rich