Monday, April 28, 2014

Mr. 3000 - A Milestone and a Giveaway


Today, April 28th of 2014, the latest incoming shipment from COMC put us over the mark.  We have finally reached 3000 unique Griffeys!

Here's the card of honor:

2008 SPx Ken Griffey, Jr. American Hero #KG43 #/725, we salute you.

This guy.  It's no surprise to me that it ended up being one of these 2008 SPx American Hero insert cards.  I've been powering through the checklist when I can find each card I need for a dollar or less.  I'm getting pretty far, too, as you can now see in The Beast.

This shipment brought us to 7,542 total Griffeys with a total of 3,025 unique cards.  That's a duplicate ratio of 2.493.  The stats of the shipment were 84 added, 76 new, and a dupe ratio of 1.105.  That's the lowest yet from a sort.  There were a few stragglers mixed in there with the COMC purchases, so it wasn't a perfect 1.00, but it's still a massive step in the right direction.

You may have noticed that I blacked out the number of this particular card.  That's because in honor of this milestone I figure it's time to have a giveaway.  Winner gets a prize package of cool stuff assembled by yours truly.  Here's the poop:

Guess the serial number of this card.  Closest without going over (yeah, it's one of those) wins.  Hint: the answer is less than 726.

Comment below with your guess.  I'm going to let this one roll until Friday at midnight CST.  If you are venturing a guess and we haven't traded or communicated via e-mail or anything, go ahead and e-mail me at tjv504 at gmail dot com with your deets.  Good luck!

Don't look for an imprint of the serial number here - I checked.  It's clean.

21 comments:

  1. Man, that's a lotta cards!

    Let's go with The Kid's ol' number 24.

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  2. 101/725, thanks for the contest! Congrats on the milestone.

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  3. #219, thanks for the contest!

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  4. Congrats on the milestone! I'll say 274.

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  5. I'll go with 666. Seems like a nice, fun, palindromic number. Hmmm… didn't expect "palindromic" to be an actual word, but spell check is leaving it alone. Cool.

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  6. My guess is 14! Thanks for the contest, quite an impressive griffey collection

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  7. Numbers taken so far:
    14
    24
    68
    101
    150
    219
    274
    333
    337
    338
    414
    482
    509
    624
    666

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  8. It's clearly #001. Nice try with the "without going over" part, to get out of giving anything away, but I'm onto you.

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