Flipping Repack Pulls

My latest COMC order is scheduled to arrive next week, so I should probably recap some recent TCDB trades and clear out the "to be posted" folder while I wait. 

This 1980 Topps Calton Fisk was one of 14 cards I received in a trade with supergajit. This is the fifth time I've swapped cards with Summer, which makes her the 11th member of my own personal "five timers club". I sent her a handful of Red Sox dupes, along with five cards from my recent baseball repack and four cards from the 2022 Sage pack that was included in a football repack I purchased earlier this year.

Here are the equivalent singles I picked out for my repack pulls. I never seem to get any Packers cards in my football repacks, so it was nice to fill some gaps in my collection.

Got some 2022-23 hockey singles in exchange for the Sage stuff. I'm working on a blog post about one of these teams, which will be published in early March. [hint: it's not the Devils]

Not every card I traded was pulled from a repack box, but they gave me enough to build the foundation for a worthwhile trade. Here are two such swaps, including my first one with nannema:

I shipped out three surplus Topps singles along with six basketball cards that didn't come from repacks in exchange for these three. It wasn't quite a 3-for-1 swap; another Hall of Famer was included but I'm holding that one for a fellow blogger 😉

Another stack of Sage singles plus some 2020 Leaf Draft from an older football repack, were sent to Clyntngrffn in a 2 for 1 deal. Here's what I received:

The Browns lineman is newest Hall of Famer Joe Thomas. McCaffrey was the big prize for me; I'm iffy on continuing my CMC PC now that he's a 49er but I couldn't pass up a Prizm parallel in a trade that offloaded lots of unwanted draft pick stuff. There was one more card involved in the trade:

I was happy with this trade and left positive feedback for Clytn.. but when I scanned Peterson for this post I noticed something:

Frickin' thing's creased. Grrr. Which one of you collects damaged cards? Do you want this one?

These next two deals were much better. My fourth trade with dheim1220 involved a couple cards from the baseball repack, plus six dupes from 2022 Topps, and two more basketball dupes. I received these:

If I'm going to build a set of 1994 Leaf I might have to give up on the idea of buying boxes of each series. Lofton is actually an upgrade from the single I pulled 28+ years ago.

The Panini Pedroia/Doerr was one I'd had on my want list for a while. The DK checklist is from 1992. I'm nearly finished with the '93 Diamond Kings insert set so I decided to try and finish its predecessor.

Perkins is an upgrade as well; a lot of my Fleer singles are off-center. The last two are Connecticut cards.


If you're new to TCDB and you have a lot of overproduction-era singles to unload (or you just bought a repack) you can definitely get some great stuff in exchange. In most cases, users prefer to trade similar era/type, so don't expect to get Panini Prizm or Topps Chrome for your '88 Donruss doubles.

If you're willing to receive "junk wax" you might be able to get extra cards for your newer singles. Here's a swap I recently completed with RDGKDHNC. I sent him five cards from the 2022-23 Upper Deck hockey packs I purchased at my LCS, plus three 2020-21 Upper Deck MVP singles.

Instead of an 8 for 8 trade I received 9 cards:

The last two are from 1991-92, which equated to one newer single. Not a hard and fast rule, but it usually works for me. (I was shocked my wife didn't have that Trevor Linden card already.) You'll probably see one of these cards again when I publish that NHL post.

I also shipped out some repack pulls to Matt for his Time Travel Trading.  That's one of three incoming deals I'll include in my next trade recap.


Thanks for reading!




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