Everyone knows the phrase, "if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is." It's a word to the wise, and if you don't want to be fleeced alive, you'd better follow it. But that phrase has almost no meaning when it comes to exchanging cards among bloggers. The deals that I have encountered, that six months ago I would have dismissed as some baseball card version of the Pyramid scheme, are indeed too good. But they are also absolutely, 100 percent, bonafide, scout's honor, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die true. I received two card packages today that fall in that category. The first was from Paul of Paul's Random Stuff. The second was from Bailey of The Nennth Inning . Both contained great goodies that I received for next to nothing. I'll start with Paul's cards first. His deal was that he needed to clear out some of his overstock. All I needed to do was request the cards that I wanted from his list, send an SASE, and they were mine. I ...
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