I have received three packages since my peace of mind was broken by Bip. Each sender left their calling card as well as a pile of potential Bippage. I shall show off the unopened package here, and you tell me: Bip or No Bip?
EXHIBIT A: Madding
Madding included a piece of paper with his blog's address and logo: Cards on Cards. On the back is a hand written note: "No funny business, I swear!" Nice try Madding, nice try. I'll be the judge of that. Here is the potential Bip: front, back and a side scan to show the card strata.
Front: an innocent Fleer Braves sticker. YOU'RE FOOLING NO ONE
Back: Some sort of Donruss card. I think it was the shiny one. Legends? Maybe that's Bob Pettit.
Strata: Look at that big swatch of white. That's all 1991 Upper Deck Jack Morris, I can feel it.
EXHIBIT B: Troll
The Collective Troll included a plethora of interesting detritus in his package, including this Pennywise cassette cover (with no cassette), another cassette, this time with tape included but the cover has sandpaper glued to it, a collection of roller derby ads including the "Faster Rollergirl, Hit! Hit!" postcard I coveted, and a really creepy sticker with "I know nothing" written on it. Seriously, that sticker scares me.
Front: Kosuke Fukudome. Is Troll giving me a big Fuku in this package?
Back: Allen & Ginter common off my wantlist. Hmm... does that complete a page? Can I complete a page full of Eatons?
Strata: There's an awful big swath of Topps in there... I'm not sure if Troll has the requisite mass of inventory for such a massive Bip, however.
EXHIBIT C: Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius
Matt sends me a package of completely utterly random stuff every 6 months or so like clockwork. As always, there is a note: "Here are some cards for no particular reason". Ah, BUT IS THERE A REASON THIS TIME MATT? Is there....?
Front: Russ ORtiz looking all smiley on a Bowman Heritage card. Are you laughing at me Russ? LAUGH IT UP RUSS
Back: '86 Topps Gene Garber. Nah, too easy. You don't put your Bip card on the back.
Strata: That's uh, a whole lotta random there. Matt sent several bricks of cards in the box he sent (an old 100-count plastic sheet box which is as neat as the cards themselves) so it wouldn't suprise me if he spread out the Bipping throughout all the packs in a stealth Bip. That would be Matt's style...
So what do you think? Did I get Bipped? Or am I a raving lunatic? OR BOTH??? Let me know in the comments, I'll post the actual results over the next three days.
8 comments:
Hey man, I have a bunch of braves cards for you. If you email me your address, I'll send them over to you.
I have this almost figured out, but only because I have insider information (I have received packages recently from 2 of the 3). So in order:
no bip, no bip, BIP.
I agree with Night Owl on the lack of Cards on Cards bippage. I think he was just feeling particularly generous, or maybe he just wanted to sucker Thorzul into reading all these posts to find out if a Bip had truly happened. If so, niiiice.
I am offended for more than 1 reason... 1. I can't believe that you would suspect the first package I have sent you in a year as malicious
2. I can't believe that you would question the size of my inventory. My inventory is of above average size, thank you very much.
I don't have any inside info here (actually I do) but I think you will be very pleased and not at all threatened by 2 of the 3 packages. Be careful man!
Someone bipped you. I can "feel" it. As for the size of the Troll's "inventory", I hope we're talking about cards.
I have Bipped one person, but he had it coming...
I'm looking forward to finding out too...I've sent a bunch of packages recently and I can't remember if I Bip-ed you or not...Your wrapped package was sitting there for a while before I sent it so it might have been done for Bip-ping was even invented!
"He's kill us if he had the chance."
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