As someone who has never been the "shop-around" type, I stick to the online card outlets that work for me and go back to them again and again and again. If it works, why do I need another option? Ebay and COMC and sportlots have inventory so vast and my interests are so wide that it's difficult to see a time when I won't be able to find what I want with that trio. I've heard about Card Barrel before, once called "Just Commons," but never felt it necessary to check it out. Maybe it was the original name: Just commons?? Nothing else? Hey, I champion the cause of the common player a lot but that didn't sound attractive to me, let alone the Stars & Rookies collector crowd. Probably why the name was changed. After seeing a few people getting some fairly interesting cards from Card Barrel, and knowing the prices were right, I decided to make a quick trip over there for a trial order. I didn't look around hardly at all -- so I have no all-enc...
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