It's National Baseball Card Day!!! Who knew? (I didn't).
So anyway, I found this place on a list that was in my email about all the participating locations. One of the locations ended up putting me in a residential area, Laredo Dr and this place. It was kind of hard to find, it ended up being in like a back alley next to a Theater Box Office place (wonder what they use that building for). Anywho, I end up getting in there and a bunch of employees were playing some sort of roll the dice game. I did not take part. Apparently, the objective was to pay $18( probably to buy the packets opened), open three packets of football cards. If one ended up drafting a team from those cards and beating the other three players, the one player would get all the cards!
I ended up just going to the counter and seeing what they had in the $0.50 piles. I wanted a Marvin Jones football card; however, after looking through all, I ended up with a Denard Robinson, not bad, and a card with Phil Jackson, surrounded by the "dream team": Kobe, Shaq, Artest, and another guy...(pic of card to follow). I ended up also getting 10 free baseball cards that they gave away.
Suggestion: Definitely organize the cards by sport and alphabetical order. I had a tough time finding cards due to baseball, football, and basketball, all thrown in together in the $0.50 area (I guess because they are $0.50, it's really not that big of a deal for them to spend much time on them. For me, I would do it just because I like making order out of disorder...no I am not OCD O_o). I honestly think it would make customers, who want a specific card, be able to find them faster. Also, there were box sleeves labeled UK and Bengals, yet Tom Brady, I highly doubt, was ever affiliated with both teams and neither was JJ Watt.
In the end, it was a nice experience. It has been a while since I really cared about card collecting; however, it was nice to be able to think about something I wanted and then find it. I ended up giving this place $1.06 in business (I really would not pay more than $0.50 for a card). read more