The 1998 Topps Tek Thread

[rinkrat38]

I have a fair amount of turnover of extra '98 Teks. Still have probably 4000 cards. Player collectors are invited to send me a PM or e-mail to [email protected] with your player '98 Tek want list (or collection list--whichever is easier). The answer may be a quick "nothing new". I have a few short want lists (I know I don't have extras of the four missing Albert Belle's), but don't have a list for most collectors. I sell at Beckett BV with a discount for quantity. I'll do a PWE for one card if you want, a bubble mailer for two or more. For 20, 25 cards or more, I'll pick up the postage.

 

[MansGame]

Wow, that's a pretty interesting site. I sent him a note to see what patterns are the Belles. Keep our fingers crossed I guess!!


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[brian26]

Never saw this Baseball Only site before but it interesting. Looks like the site owner owns all the cards. You are dealing with one guy and a couple of helpers. Searched his site for Pedro cards with which I am very familiar. He had hundreds of cards, almost all commons, and at prices comparable to what you see on eBay, but nothing that interested me. No high-end cards at all. You can do a player search, and the results are sorted by year and manufacturer. Register with an e-mail address and password, and name and address. He takes PayPal. The site seems fairly user friendly.

You can do a set search by year to pick out 1998 Topps Teks. He lists all the players for which he has patterns on two pages, by card number order. He mostly has cards of the common players with quantities for each ranging from 1 card to about 20. Has cards of 60 to 70 players in the '98 Tek set. No '98 Teks available of Ripken, Jeter, Griffey, McGwire, etc. None of Edgar, Mussina, Bags either. He does have a fair number of cards for some of the players folks on this board are collecting: Albert Belle (3), David Justice (7), Sandy Alomar (5), Ray Lankford (21), Gary Sheffield (21). All of these players' cards are listed at $1.00. You have to email him for the pattern numbers.

MansGame would have a 13.3% chance of hitting one of the four Albert's he needs. Not as good a chance as drawing on the river to an up-or-down straight or to a flush, but certainly worth an e-mail. The Sandy Alomar collector likely needs two of the five that this guy has. The Lankford collector may see Christmas in July!

Thanks for the update. I checked it out as well. No Venturas to be had, but I'll keep an eye on it.

 

[Will Style 13]

Glad I could help with a new resource for you all. I'd say that I wouldn't even been close to getting my Brady set down if it wasn't for all your help.

 

[bigunitcards]

Dear god please let no one tell this guy this is a 98 not a 00 and it's a diffractor!



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[MansGame]

Dear god please let no one tell this guy this is a 98 not a 00 and it's a diffractor!

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Haha! For your sake, hope no one gets tipped off from the post


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[RustyGreerFan]

Delete your post! Even if you trust us there are lots of people that lurk.

 

[BenG76]

I put all my Tek cards in binders today. Realized I have a long way to go with the 98 ones. I'm collecting Wood, Sosa and Grace. To bad McGriff wasn't in this.

 

[MansGame]

Delete your post! Even if you trust us there are lots of people that lurk.

Haha!


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[bigunitcards]

Delete your post! Even if you trust us there are lots of people that lurk.

Eh it's all good, any collector worth their spit who wants/need the card would have found it. Fingers crossed the diffractor whales don't need that pattern!

 

[MansGame]

Eh it's all good, any collector worth their spit who wants/need the card would have found it. Fingers crossed the diffractor whales don't need that pattern!

I tend to agree with this.

 

[rinkrat38]

Eh it's all good, any collector worth their spit who wants/need the card would have found it. Fingers crossed the diffractor whales don't need that pattern!

There are probably a few folks who have a overly narrow search bookmarked like "1998 Tek diffractors" and would miss it, but you really can't miss that scan. As with most of the diffractors that get listed on eBay, COMC, or Sportlots, another duplicate for me. Even that drop-dead gorgeous Griffey diffractor of Fandruw's is a duplicate for me. Topps must be saving a lot of the diffractor patterns to dump into the 2014 release.

 

[MansGame]

[MENTION=8009]rinkrat38[/MENTION] - you going to collect the 2014 release?!

 

[brian26]

I put all my Tek cards in binders today. Realized I have a long way to go with the 98 ones. I'm collecting Wood, Sosa and Grace. To bad McGriff wasn't in this.

Are you going for all the Cubs guys? I'll check my boxes and see if I have any extras.

 

[brian26]

Has anyone found any TEK on the Justcommons site? I took a look at it yesterday and didn't see any.

 

[MansGame]

Has anyone found any TEK on the Justcommons site? I took a look at it yesterday and didn't see any.

No, never seen any.

 

[MansGame]

Wow, that's a pretty interesting site. I sent him a note to see what patterns are the Belles. Keep our fingers crossed I guess!!


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Site shower 4 Belle cards from 1998 but he emailed me back saying none in stock and thinks they might of shipped with a recent order. So which one of y'all took them

 

[RustyGreerFan]

Eh it's all good, any collector worth their spit who wants/need the card would have found it. Fingers crossed the diffractor whales don't need that pattern!

You're right. I didn't recognize the view and thought it was on one of ebay's international sites.

 

[BenG76]

Are you going for all the Cubs guys? I'll check my boxes and see if I have any extras.

Yea I am going after the Cubs ones. I can PM you my needs list if you find any.

 

[u2me57]

No, I haven't.