1 CARD MAIL DAY OF A LIFETIME!

[Alex_H_86]

Nothing needs to be said...

The HOLY GRAIL has come home!!!

 

[Matt26]

Sensational card!!!

 

[Avonc]

A long hunt to land it then.
Does make it all the sweater.
Well done.
My Warriors HG care took me ten years to get.

 

[Alex_H_86]

Been the top of my list since I got seriously into sports card investing (that's what I have to call it to justify how much it cost to myself) - Finally got it with lots of help from GCTC.

 

[jimbo2193]

I haven’t been in the footy card game since the early 90s when Stimorol has gum in the packs. What are the pull odds on something like this? And print run?

 

[Alex_H_86]

It's #/40 and there were 15 of them (it's from 2004) - not sure the odds, but these are practically impossible to find - not to mention bank breakers on the rare occasion that they do show up.

 

[Alex_H_86]

I looked non-stop for years for this, than was lucky because GCTC gave me the heads up when they were getting it in and then they let me pay it off over a few months.

 

[jimbo2193]

Appreciate the info above. I’m building a basketball card set and I haven’t seen a couple cards in the 1+ year I’ve been chasing it, which involves daily searching across all auction platforms and forums. almost resigned to the fact that I may never see it or only see it once more and need to be ready with funds to snap it up. Also good advice on reaching out to shops and letting them know if they see anything you’re chasing to let you know they have it.

 

[Alex_H_86]

Yeah, if you are looking for hard to find grails, I recommend making good relationships with different shops and dealers, and making sure they know you are after it.

I know of another collector who spend a decade looking for the Warriors version of this card - my advice when it comes to hard to find grails would be to alwsyd keep an eye out, but don't obsess too much - you'll go mad if you do.

 

[Brendan_B]

These were a case hit but now those boxes are rare / near impossible to find. This is such a great card

 

[Alex_H_86]

Wish I could invent time travel. Between late 90s Pokemon cards and early 2000s football cards, I could have retired with a bit of foresite.

Also I never realised that it was a case hit - they feel a lot rarer.

 

[Brendan_B]

Wish I could invent time travel. Between late 90s Pokemon cards and early 2000s football cards, I could have retired with a bit of foresite.

Also I never realised that it was a case hit - they feel a lot rarer.

Oh for sure.

I think back to when I first started collecting, 1988. I wish as a kid I had the foresight to put away sealed packets and boxes of the late 80's and early 90's stuff.

I had a hiatus from the hobby between 2002-2009. If I had been active in those years, I would have really gone hard on 02-05 product.

 

[Alex_H_86]

I collected as a kid in the 90s, but just got back into it seriously a few years ago and have managed to get 99% of Roosters cards from 2000 onwards since.

 

[Alex_H_86]

I just bought a 1995 folder with the 3 full sets of 1995 base cards.

That was really exciting to get that, because it was like buying a part of my childhood back.

 

[Darrenemu]

2003 XL i have whole Master set except for Ray Price sig and Simmons / Provan sig.
2004 i have whole Master set (except I have NO Captain sig cards - BUT all the Captain cards non signed)
2005 I have whole Master set except the sig Beetson card, Sonny Bill sig card and Slater sig card and Mason case sig card. I do have many numbered 002 or less than 010 in Future Force and Inspirations.
2005 Tradition - I have whole Master Set except Tupou sig.


So only big cards missing BUT am glad I got them all closely completed in those years. Only very few have been collected last 20 or so years. Don't expect to finish them either.

They were (looking back) great cards to collect.

 

[Alex_H_86]

Good effort. I only collect Roosters cards and maybe a few select others.

I have about 99% of Roosters cards from 2000 onwards.

Just missing a few big ones.

 

[Paul_Ambrey]

Just had a look on Gold Coast Trading Cards website and there are still some of these cards available. If you paid the price of ? what it says the Fittler card sold for,i think it was money well spent. I would like to buy the Barrett, but that's mountain I can't climb.Anyway keep on with your search for Roosters cards.Well done.

 

[Alex_H_86]

Yes, that's the one I got and it's the price I paid for it.

I was honestly expecting to pay a bit more, so I was pretty happy with that price when they told me.

They let me pay it off, so they'll probably let you pay off the Barrett if you ask them.

 

[saintsforever]

These were a case hit but now those boxes are rare / near impossible to find. This is such a great card

A sealed case up there somewhere in the cupboard and a sealed case of 2013 elite starter packs.

 

[ozsportscardcollector]

I just bought a 1995 folder with the 3 full sets of 1995 base cards.

That was really exciting to get that, because it was like buying a part of my childhood back.

I did that with the 1994 set. Got all three series with the folder last year or the year before.

Not childhood for me but 1994 was the one year between 1982 (when I stopped collecting) and 2017 (when I started again) where I had a genuine crack at trying to put a set of anything together. It got too frustrating in the end as I'd buy six packs and not one card could be added to the set. Expensive stuff trying to put a set together pre-internet and no one to trade with.

I pulled 3 of those gold cards from S1....and sold them all in a 3 card lot for $20 in 2015. I wouldn't mind them back. It's tempting to have a go at trying to get the chase cards in that year - minus the gold autos from S1 which seem super pricey.

Come 1995 I'd put it all behind me and considered the whole card business an interruption to normality.

Now I'm well and truly in it like never before.