Player collectors, 3-5 cards you should be able to find but cant

[meeker99]

Originally Posted by meeker99

Love this thread! I know I'm a little late to the game; I really need to check in more often. I've got my own list of white whales. Top 6 "Most Wanted" Rodney Rogers cards...here goes:

1) 1998-99 SkyBox Thunder Super Rave #58 (#'d to 25) - I see cards from this set on almost every player collector's wantlist. I've only ever seen one of the regular Rave for Rogers and was fortunate to snag it years ago. The Super Rave? Nearly impossible. I've half-thought about going on eBay and buying the first Super Rave I could find and collecting that player instead.

2) 1998-99 UD Choice Premium Choice Reserve #63 (#'d to 100) - The closest I came to this card is the "sold" copy on COMC from 2012. I've never seen one anywhere else and I would LOVE to track down the COMC owner and make him/her a ridiculous offer. FOUND IT!

3) 1998-99 Upper Deck Black Diamond Quadruple Diamond #47 (#'d to 150) - I saw one of these on eBay back in 1999. I lost out on the auction and contacted the winner (back when the winners ID's were actually posted). They wanted double what they paid for it, which was like $150 or something. As a poor freshman in college, there was no way to rationalize spending that kind of money on a card, especially when I just assumed another one would go up for sale and I could get that one. Oh, if I only had a Delorian so I could go back in time and smack that younger version of myself.

4) 2000-01 Fleer Stickers Phoenix Suns Checklist #82 - Another one I've never seen. And considering there's a chance I'm chasing this one with four other player collectors, it just got five times more difficult to come by.

5) 2002-03 Stadium Club Beckett.com Samples #70 - Another card I had the misfortune of losing on eBay years ago. It was listed for something like $0.99 and I was the only bidder. I had put a max bid of like $20 on it, just for a little assurance, but other cards from that set weren't going for a whole lot of money. So I wasn't that worried. Somebody swooped in during the last few seconds of the auction and outbid me. Curses! Never seen one again...

6) 2004-05 Upper Deck UD Promo #128 - Another promo card on my list, but in the 13 years since this card has been released, I've never seen one. I'm not sure what the print run is on some of these promo cards, but I can easily imagine people disregarding them as wanted or valuable and sticking them in a box in the closet somewhere.

So that's my list...three numbered cards from 98-99, a random team sticker and a couple of promo cards. I hold out hope that they'll find their way home someday. Thanks for checking out my list.

Finally found one! It's been twenty years since the set was released, but patience has paid off. It's coming in from Japan, so I've got a long, painstaking wait ahead of me. Best of luck to the rest of you in your quests!