Whats your focus of collecting this summer?

[Zone91]

Going to add as many nice well centered PSA 52 Topps cards as I can (would like to get at least another 20 cards)....but this month I will be doing no buying only in July and August. I will also probably add a few (maybe 2 or 3) PSA 8 Mantle cards to my master set.

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[auggiedoggy]

Sell my remaining T212s and be on the lookout for some higher quality C46s. Unfortunately the ones I find are, more often than not, owned by American sellers who refuse to ship outside the USA and don't get me going about that!!!

[t206blogcom]

Will be selling the bulk of my modern cards, vintage, T206s and anything else I can get out of the house. Mostly to fund a new home purchase, but also to refocus my collecting efforts. I'm not a set builder, nor do I have a passion to collect a ton of this and a ton of that. Suppose I'm more of a little bit of this and that collector, at least for now. Also, I'm not finding a lot of time for collecting these days.

[Seiklis]

Just my normal looking for more Diaz Cigarettes.

Though maybe some more T205 backs and T207 Napoleons

[scooter729]

Geez, seems like everyone is looking to sell here - must be a good buying opportunity for the rest of us!

[Zone91]

auggiedoggy

I find if you are ready to pay for say registered mail, express mail or FeDex most U.S dealers will actually ship to Canada....you can use buy it now Ebay will not block you and then you can work it out with the seller when requesting the total invoice...I have always been lucky and the seller ends up shipping it to me to Canada.

Ebay.com may stop you from bidding on a item that is only shipped to the U.S but does not seem to do so when using buy it now!!

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[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by Zone91

auggiedoggy

I find if you are ready to pay for say registered mail, express mail or FeDex most U.S dealers will actually ship to Canada....you can use buy it now Ebay will not block you and then you can work it out with the seller when requesting the total invoice...I have always been lucky and the seller ends up shipping it to me to Canada.

Ebay.com may stop you from bidding on a item that is only shipped to the U.S but does not seem to do so when using buy it now!!

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Hi zone, saw your PMs and have responded. You can read what I said there but I'll quickly mention that in some cases, US sellers that don't ship outside the USA aren't even reachable via the eBay messaging system so if the reason for their "problem" is shipping-releated I can't even contact them to discuss it. End of story! Some state that they are not "set up for foreign shipping" whatever the hell that means. I'm just a simple collector who sells from time to time and I don't seem to have a problem shipping to anywhere in the world. No special set-up required. Its not rocket science so I'm not sure what their problem is other than laziness.

[7nohitter]

Still working on my '57 set...4th summer in a row! Buying cards in single and low quantities I've probably WAAAAY overpaid for what I could sell the set for...but i'm not collecting it to sell!