The Great Mouschi Flip Quest of 2015

FLIP QUEST IS OVER! SEE THE RESULTS BELOW - THANKS FOR FOLLOWING ALONG, AND SEE YOU IN 2016!

On opening day, you may recall a story I wrote about my latest million card acquisition that flopped, but as a consolation prize, I got this:



I love the card so much, and it has a very interesting story to it. During the home run race, this card, when coupled with Big Mac's 1985 Topps card sold over $1,000. I'll spare the other details, as it is in my story, but to make a long story short, someone asked if I would sell the fruits of my otherwise fruitless outing. I did, and thus begins the great Flip Quest of 2015!

Step two has officially begun today, and I am at $21.55. I have until the end of the baseball season, or whenever the A's are knocked out - whichever comes first. The Flip Quests from the last 2 years have been a blast, and I got some mega awesome stuff, along with some pretty fantastic stories. Let's see how this pans out!

WHAT IS A FLIP QUEST???

For those of you who don't know, it is a fun way to start out with something small and end up with something big. The first year I did this, I started out with a 1989 Fleer factory sealed set that I got for free from a friend's dad and ended up with a 1999 Topps Traded Josh Hamilton autograph. Last year, I started off with a custom 89 UD style Puig and ended up with a million card inventory when all was said and done.

Last year was a bit inflated, because I allowed myself to make more than one custom, so this year it won't be as high flying, as I will be sticking to a single item - the McGwire - and go from there.

What is the end game this time? To find something really cool for my Canseco PC. I'm probably going to go hard for one (or a few) of my white whales. Here is a list of what I would like (though in the ocean of collecting, I'm sure there are plenty more white whales out there that I don't even know about!) I may be picking up things along the way as well. Here are some of the more sought after cards I'd like though:

1989 Donruss & Leaf Blue Chips
1990 Donruss Aqueous
1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold
1997 Pinnacle Totally Certified Platinum Gold
1998 Donruss Crusade Red

So with all that said, let's get started!

4-6-15: $0 (Starting w/McGwire Card)
4-13-15: $21.50
4-13-15: $1.50
4-13-15: $106.25
4-15-15: $14.75
4-16-15: $131.50
4-19-15 $65
4-20-15 $107.75
4-25-15 $17.75
4-25-15 $117
4-28-15 $166
5-1-15 $286
5-2-15 $284
5-6-15 $344
5-13-15 $459
5-28-15 $422
5/29/15 $449
6/3/15 $646
6/5/15 $321
6/7/15 $303
6/10/15 $423
6/13/15 $448
6/20/15 $597
6/28/15 $747
7/2/15 $858.75
7/11/15 $784.75
7/22/15 $855.25
8/1/15 $1,046.75
8/8/15 $1122.75
8/24/15 $1277.75
9/18/15 $1473.75
10/6/15 $38.75

INVENTORY
Monkey statue
Indoor Smores Machine
AP US History Book
2 ft long canoe
Build a bear lot (have some left) and elf on the shelf
Yacker Tracker
Soft tea set
Kids Easel / Desk
Clemens Bobblehead
Vintage Train
Microsoft CDs
Nearly 50 dragons & wizards
driver ed in a box
12 game used Astros pants
13 or so Video Games / Movies (PSP lot is gone)
Wood Gas Station Play Set
Several new in box dolls
Trivial Pursuit

KEEPERS
2015 Heritage Kershaw Relic
1990 DONRUSS AQUEOUS JOSE CANSECO !!!
14 PS3 games (I may end up getting a ps3, so I don't want to sell these just yet!)
30 low numbered patch/auto/etc. Canseco Cards!

Pics of the goods:

1990 Donruss Aqueous


2003 Donruss Recollection autograph #/12


Very difficult to find minor league card (generally goes for $40 to $100)









Quite possibly my favorite patch card of him ever!












How can you not love this card? Dual check cut auto book














You've heard of a button card ... what about a button hole card?


Another one of my favorites












Another hard to find pricey minor league card

That needs a bigger case

Ryan

....and just like that, we are out of the batter's box!

A fellow cardboard fiend just texted me with a nice $50 lot of cards. BUT this also came with a $30 gift certificate to a major restaurant chain here, which we will put to good use soon I'm going to parcel out the cards from it for $20, so it leaves me with $1.50 and these cards ....









Oh, and I got this Kershaw, but I have a few of his autos on some blanks from some TTM's, so I'm going to be ripping out the jersey piece to make an auto relic custom.



..... BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!!

They already have sold. Every single card ... within 3 hours.

The first card sold for $57 and the rest at $47.75 altogether.

well only about $1950 more to go!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPRING-SALE...606?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33a0c77a36

I'm getting there! Lol

Today I picked up a resale lot that included a Kobe Autographed Redemption card, and some other goodies. In addition to this, the wifey and I went to HEB while our son was at his youth group, to do some shopping.

We ran across a boat load of t-shirts for $1 each. They were all JJ Watt shirts, and there were 21 of them. If I can't sell these here locally for more, then I'm doing something wrong!

We bought some other groceries as well, but the shirts came out to be $21 ... I love seeing in print that we saved nearly $300.

All the cards I picked up last night just sold - after shipping fees, $116.75 to add!

Thanks to this flip quest, and it being garage sale season, I decided to hit it full force yesterday! There were some pretty cool pickups for $66.50 total.

Rifle Scope - $5


My Little Pony Items - $5


Sand & Water Table $5


Discs $1 (includes the others below as well)


Gaming Chair $6


Fisher Price Train set $5


Gator Mount Motor Guide for boat w/digital Display $10


4 ft long body pillow of $100 bill 50 cents




Bobblehead of Clemens $3


Tail Light for Trailblazer + boot & Dave Ramsey financial set below for $15




Beanie Babies $1 (some of these might be worth something ... cool!)




Vintage ride on train "Mighty Kacey" - came with a large track - may be a good sell too $5




Picked up 2 of these for $2 each


$3


Some highlights of the day:

- I asked the owners of a garage sale how much a tie cost - when another buyer already had it around his neck. The buyer's wife said I could have the man if I bought the tie. While we were all laughing, I declined questioning how much she thought I could get for him.

- We went to one sale that said "POWER RANGER TOYS". The dude had a boat load of star wars, star trek and power ranger toys. Vintage, etc. He was mega high priced, and I struck up a conversation with him. When asked why he was selling, he said with a straight face "The apocalypse is coming. Have you heard of the blood moons? We are 3 deep now, and have one more to go." I would have thought he was messing with me, but everything about him and his body language showed that he was being serious. LOL!

Here is the latest -
Yesterday, the Dell disks sold for $17.75 and the gaming chair for $25.

You could sell a fire extinguisher to a self-immolater.

Nice work!

A stormy saturday morning foiled our garage sale plans, but I did pick up a nice card lot last night. I picked up a previous card lot, but it was over my budget, so I didn't throw it into play with the flip quest.

.....so the wife decided to brave the weather and see if anyone else did at all, and have garage sales. They did!

I drained the rest of my money on these beauties.

Mainly because they looked so nicely with my latest Canseco Custom ...



Oh, and I forgot to mention ....






The two dragons above






came with ....







a few friends ....







Nearly 50 dragons and wizards. Yeah, everyone looked at me crazy, but I think I can flip 'em!





















The Gator Mount Motor Guide just sold as well!

Great buy on the dragons and wizard!

It has been slow going lately, but today, I told another CD for $9 and the Dave Ramsey kit for $40.

Ahh yes, and I gave the beanie babies to my dad to sell, so I'll gotta take those off the list as well.

Here is the latest - the JJ Watt shirts sold for $120.

So after a long night of fun, picking up 220,000 cards ...



and secretly going to my parents house around midnight to setup some christmas reindeer...



then posting on facebook so they and their friends can see it ....



we went to bed, and got up (not so) bright & early to hit the garage sales. We didn't get much at all, but here are a few things:

115+ DVD's (the pic doesn't show all of them) for $20


Driver Ed in a Box $5


And finally, a binder of baseball cards. The binder was one of several plus some boxes that the seller had marked for $5 each. I quickly thumbed through all of them, all while the seller was insisting that they are really good cards, etc. Mostly commons. On the front page of one, I spotted a Jeter dugout which I figured I could at the least make my money back on it here locally by itself, so I said what the heck ...



When I got home, I saw it had Bo Jacks & Nolan Ryan gold signature cards (Nolan showed below)



Not a huge pickup by any means, but hey, after dealing with NON cards all morning, i had to get a fix!

That means my total investment for the day was $30. I sold the 2 memory cards also for $28, so my $1 or so investment from a week or two ago nearly funded all of what I got today

Awesome stuff. If you find any puckett in that massive collection feel free to contact me.

Sounds like you're off to a good start.

A buyer came over for the DVD's for $60. Things have been slow as molasses, but at least we have progress in going forward an not backward!