Introduction and board rules - please read first - CHANGES MADE 12/29/11

[Admin]

Welcome to Erik's SportsCards of Dover. This forum was created mainly as a result of ebay's unwillingness to allow case and box breaks to be sold through their site. Their loss however is our gain. Since we no longer have to pay the fees of ebay, we can sell these lots to you at a better price. Our feedback on ebay was and still is perfect...100% happy customers. Please know that you will continue to be provided with our best customer service in each and every break. Many of you have followed me here first from ebay and then our email list. I think this forum will make it a great place to do business and allow the members to interact with each other. That in turn should make the live breaks more enjoyable for all!

You will need to register in order to post in any thread. By doing this it will make it much easier for us to track who has which team. Feel free to start with a new userid or if it is easier use the one that you use on ebay. Your choice.

A few simple rules:
1. No profanity, violence, sexual material or any other objectionable material will be tolerated. We have too much to do to play baby sitter. You will simply be banned.

2. This is our forum to do business and although we want you all to interact and even perhaps trade single cards, this site is not for you to recruit buyers to your own site. Any advertising or links leading people to other sites will be removed and the poster banned. If you do choose to trade cards with one and other we are not responsible for cards that don't arrive or bad transactions. Get to know your trading partner. Perhaps start smaller. If a trade is successful let everyone know. That will help to build trust in that poster.

3. Any and all purchases of box/case breaks are through Paypal. Invoice must be paid prior to break or you forfeit your spot. All sales are final. You all understand what a box/case break is...meaning there are no guarantees as to who will get the hits. There will be no refunds due to being unhappy with the card selection. Your payment of the invoice is your assumed agreement to this policy.

***NEW AS OF 12/29/11 - Requests for purchases will be handled in a first come first serve basis...meaning if you request a team I will send you an invoice. Once the invoice is sent you have two weeks to pay regardless of how far out the break is. If you do not pay in two weeks I will remove your name from the team in the break and open the team up again for sale. You can not re-request this team for at least 72 hours. That gives another buyer the chance at this team if they want it. Additionally, if the break is less than 2 weeks away then you must pay within 24 hours or I will follow procedure above. If break is less than 72 hours away I will not mark the team sold until payment is received. During this time if someone else pays before you then they get the team.

4. Tie Breaker Rule -
a. First tie breaker is the buyer with the most players on the card
b. Second tie breaker is between any buyers still tied after #1 and goes to the buyer who paid the most money for a team represented on the card.
c. If there is still a tie after a&b then the card goes to the buyer who purchased the most number of teams for the break.
d. If there is still a tie after a, b and c then the card will be randomed off between tied buyers using random.org.

***Inserts that come up multiple times and are not "hits - meaning not serial numbered, not jersey, not auto, but are just plain inserts" will rotate back and forth between teams on the card.

e. Any unsold team will be considered "sold" to the seller. Seller will be eligible for any tie breakers. This is new, so please make note of this. I need to protect my investment and have lost too many top cards that should have gone to an unsold team. If I don't do this then I must increase prices of the top 20 teams by nearly 15-20%.

5. Most of all have fun.

All breaks will continue to be done live through Ustream and recorded versions will be there as well. I can also load them to YouTube if that helps. I will post a link after the break to the recorded version for those that miss the live break. As time permits I will try to add in a few pictures of our best hits as well.

I hope you all enjoy the forum.

Please feel free to offer your suggestions and criticisms. We want to make this the best experience possible for you all.

Thank you!

Erik

[mariyaana26]

very nice post like this forum

[RedLeader]

I couldn't agree with you more. I've been breaking with Erik since he started a few years ago. He's one of the honest good ones that opens all of his boxes live. A family man that loves the hobby. I would recommend him in a heart beat to anyone interested in a hardworking honest box breaker. And if you need proof, look at his Facebook page for cards that are worth around $3000 that have gone out to us collectors!

[Admin]

very nice post like this forum

Thanks...and welcome to the group. We do have a really good mix of buyers here and they all have been great people to be involved with over the past few years. If you have any questions feel free to post them here on the site for answers or you can email me at dovercards@gmail.com.

[Admin]

I couldn't agree with you more. I've been breaking with Erik since he started a few years ago. He's one of the honest good ones that opens all of his boxes live. A family man that loves the hobby. I would recommend him in a heart beat to anyone interested in a hardworking honest box breaker. And if you need proof, look at his Facebook page for cards that are worth around $3000 that have gone out to us collectors!

Thank you. It's been a fun few years. Hoping to keep it up for many years to come. It's fun to do this when you have such a great group of buyers as we do here, yourself included.

[RedLeader]

I couldn't agree with you more. I've been breaking with Erik since he started a few years ago. He's one of the honest good ones that opens all of his boxes live. A family man that loves the hobby. I would recommend him in a heart beat to anyone interested in a hardworking honest box breaker. And if you need proof, look at his Facebook page for cards that are worth around $3000 that have gone out to us collectors!

Thank you. It's been a fun few years. Hoping to keep it up for many years to come. It's fun to do this when you have such a great group of buyers as we do here, yourself included.

Cool thanks! That's appreciated.  

I hope we can do this for many years to come too!

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