TTM & IP Success/Failure Thread for July - September 2013

[BrewerSuperCollector]

How do you guys ship OMLBs through the mail? Whats the typical cost? I have a few partial team balls burried in a closet I'm either gonna send out or dump on others and have never shipped a (cheap or low value) ball

(2) #5 bubble mailers with the tear off self adhesive. cost is $3.06 outbound and 6 stamps on the SASE. Ball, pen, note, sometimes fee, go into ziplock bag(tab type). Fold SASE in half and insert with the zip lock bag into your bubble mailer.

I use a #5 on the return because I'll reuse it on another shipment.

 

[BrewerSuperCollector]

Make sure you check the postage. The info from Muskiesfan may prior to the last rate increase. After each rate increase I get re-weighed for baseballs and for 8x10's.

 

[Brewer Andy]

Thanks again gentlemen!

 

[Lancemountain]

 

[muskiesfan]

[MENTION=2212]Brewer Andy[/MENTION] - You're welcome. As BrewerSuperCollector said, it would probably be best to check the postage to make sure.

[MENTION=2420]JackLondon[/MENTION] - Nice haul! Do you ask them to personalize them or do they just do it? I like it when they personalize it. I know that they at least took the time to read the return envelope. :lol:

Successes from yesterday

Les Lancaster
c/o home
1/1

Kelly Paris
c/o home
2/2

Giovani Bernard
c/o Cincinnati Bengals
1/1

He has such a small signature. Even his certified 2013 autos are small like that. G into the B with a d at the end. I'm not complaining, I appreciate that he signed. I just joked with my wife that he had the entire card instead of a sticker and chose that small part on the side. :lol:




These I won in a contest on Twitter. I got them awhile ago but finally scanned them.

Roy Hibbert

 

[JackLondon]

Joe, I always ask them to personalize the card. Since these are all PC items, I prefer them personalized.

Probably 75-80% of the players add the personalization.

 

[muskiesfan]

Joe, I always ask them to personalize the card. Since these are all PC items, I prefer them personalized.

Probably 75-80% of the players add the personalization.

I'm going to start doing that as well. I prefer personalized as well. Some do and some don't on their own. I want to say that I used to always ask for it. I probably got lazy and stopped.

 

[RNCoyote]

From Sugarland Skeeters game

 

[muskiesfan]

Got another nice football one back today.

Bjoern Werner
c/o Indianapolis Colts
1/1

 

[dano7]

Kyle Zimmer on a 2013 Topps Pro Debut card, signed in black sharpie, sent to the Northwest Arkansas Naturals on 7/29/13.
DANNY

 

[BrewerSuperCollector]

Willie Lozado...OMLB

 

[clarkzac]

Dan Jansen 1/1
Brings me to 31 signed 2008 Ginter cards. He is also my 4th Olympic gold medalist from the set

 

[BrewerSuperCollector]

Chris Demaria...OMLB

 

[deerfieldtaz]

Does anyone ever have any luck sending to NFL training camps like you do MLB spring training?

 

[muskiesfan]

Does anyone ever have any luck sending to NFL training camps like you do MLB spring training?

I got Giovani Bernard of the Bengals and Bjoern Werner of the Colts by sending to their training camps this year. I only send out a handful to NFL camps each year though, so I don't know if returns are common or not.

 

[MrMet]

 

[dano7]

I like the inscription on the index card!


Robbie Ray on a 2009 USA and a 2012 Topps Pro Debut card, signed in black sharpie, sent to the Harrisburg Senators on 7/20/13.
DANNY

 

[MrMet]

I like the inscription on the index card!


Robbie Ray on a 2009 USA and a 2012 Topps Pro Debut card, signed in black sharpie, sent to the Harrisburg Senators on 7/20/13.
DANNY

Yeah, I'm collecting index cards signed with big mets firsts/lasts in their history. Actually have a bunch of cool ones already.

 

[dano7]

From the Potomac Nationals @ Salem Red Sox game of 7/24/13:

Sammy Solis of Potomac, who signed prior to the game as he was getting ready to chart behind home plate.

Salem:
Deven Marrero and Keury De La Cruz on the 2013 Topps Pro Debut cards.
Matt Price on the 2012 Elite card, though it has the other Matt Price's photo on it. The correct info, but still incorrect picture, are on the back. He laughed.
Matty Johnson, Matty Ott and manager Billy McMillon on Salem team set cards.
DANNY

 

[dano7]

From the Frederick Keys @ Salem Red Sox game of 7/26/13:

Blake Swihart on a 2013 Topps Pro Debut card

Frederick:
Matt Price....this is the correct picture of the correct Matt Price
Matt Hobgood...signed on his way to the bullpen...I also had him sign a card that showed him and Ben McDonald, which I have sent TTM to Ben
Michael Ohlman
Jason Esposito
DANNY