Eight Packs Of Bowman Chrome Football Cards I Will Be Giving Away In Future Contests

Before I run off to work today I thought I put up one more post. In an effort to get enough merchandise together for my first world community grid research advertising blitz I have been buying more football and baseball cards. These are eight bowman chrome football card packs that I just bought yesterday. There are 7 cards in each factory sealed pack, of course if you pull a relic card or an autograph there might be fewer cards in that pack but that's pretty much what most people hope for when they tear open packs these days. I bought these in a blaster box but I wanted to open them to get rid of all the empty space that the cardboard box takes up. Don't worry, I'm not searching the packs, I just plan on only giving away three to five packs as prizes in most cases and I want to be able to keep all my sealed trading card packs and other sports packs in the treasure chest. I like this particular series of football cards because they have a lot of autograph and relic cards in them. Hopefully this box will have at least one pack with something interesting in it. Maybe you'll pull a rookie card that could be worth hundreds or even thousands in a few years.

I really have more than enough packs to launch this project but I like to have lots of variety for people to pick from as well. I have been hitting walmart about twice a week and every time I go through the checkout line I see the area where they keep all the retail packs and the blaster boxes. The shelves are packed full of merchandise from half a dozen types of sports. I just cant resist buying something when I see all this stuff, even though I know I could get a better deal online or even at a local card hobby shop. I just keep buying this overpriced stuff.

What's really bad is that most people by football cards and baseball cards because they love collecting trading cards or because they are a big fan of a particular sport and they like opening packs in the hopes of finding rookie cards or autograph cards of their favorite players or maybe just relic cards from their favorite teams. Some just do it because it's something they have enjoyed doing since they were kids or maybe they buy them for their own kids because they want to pass on the tradition of opening packs and pulling out great cards that they can keep and pass on to their grandchildren. I just buy these packs to give away. I buy them because I want to encourage people to run programs like world community grid on their computers so we can find cures for diseases.

For me it's a very strange obsession and I am fully aware that it is an obsession but there is a method to my madness. I know I could give away many things as prizes and that using something simple like gift cards would be much more affective in getting people interested but by giving away sports related merchandise  I have a chance to be part of a community of athletes and people involved in the sports entertainment community. You see by giving away football cards I can use different keywords in my posts and interact with athletes, coaches, trainers, sportscasters and sports fans on social media outlets. This gives me the potential to reach out to celebrities in the world of competitive sports and that could be huge for programs like world community grid and folding@home.

I'm really just trying to advertise grid computing and show its potential for finding cures for disease or at least finding new drugs that can alleviate human suffering. I think there is a great future for programs like these that let home users become part of the disease research community. If through my efforts I can increase the amount of people using this program by just one percent I will have accomplished something great.

For those of you that are truly interested in trying to help find cures for diseases like cancer or for the readers of this post that want to get some great sealed packs of football cards just read this post. You will need to be a member of my world community grid team and actively running the program if you want to win any of the prizes I will have up for grabs in the future. Please take the time to read through that post. I think it explains a lot to those that are unfamiliar with how grid computing works. If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to ask below in the comments.

22 Packs Of Vintage 1990 Score Football Cards I'm Adding To The Treasure Chest

I'm going to keep this post short as this is just a repeat of the post I made just a few hours ago. Here is another lot of football cards I've been hoarding since I was a kid. I think I bought these when I was in the 8th grade or maybe when I was barely a freshman in high school. I was an impressionable young lad that thought these cards would make me rich some day. I probably paid about fifty cents a piece for these way back when and now they are probably worth half that. All kidding aside there are still some great cards in these. These can be fun to open when you don't have to worry about reducing the value of your cards plus you can find a few keepers like a Troy Aikman, Joe Montana or Kevin Butler along with a dozen or so other cards. Until these sealed vintage packs make it into your hands they will be added to the treasure chest.

If you are interested in adding some of these cards to your collection or you just want to help with my cancer research project just visit this link below and read up about how world community grid works.
http://endthedisease.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-run-world-community-grid-on-your.html

Nineteen Packs Of Vintage 1991 Bowman Football Cards I'm Adding To The Treasure Chest

Way back in the late 80s and early 90s I went to the local hobby shop and spent a few hundred dollars on boxes of football, baseball and basketball cards. It was a lot of money for a kid like me. I thought it was a good investment though. I figure by the time I became an old man I would at the very least be able to buy a house. Unfortunately for me the time that I bought these was during the years that the card industry overprinted its merchandise. If I would have just spent a little more money and bought vintage cards from the 60s and 70s I would be sitting pretty right now.

Right now if you factor in inflation most of the older packs of cards I have are worth less than what I paid for them back in the day. That's not to say that they don't have value and now that I can can give these away in my world community grid project I can find people to dump my old wax packs on. You can pretty much pick these packs up online for less than a dollar each and you will probably be tossing a lot of these cards in the trash because over printing means that they will never be worth anything, however the good cards still have some value so maybe you can grab an Emmitt Smith, John Elway, Barry Sanders or Joe Montana to add to your collection. I would say there are about 20 cards you could pull from one of these packs that would be worth sticking in a toploader. Maybe you will just keep these packs in a safe place or give them to your kids. One idea might be to open them on a youtube video, if you;re into vintage cards it could be a good conversation piece for some of your viewers. For now these will sit in my treasure chest until they are pulled for prizes or bonuses.

Whatever you do just be sure to join my world community grid team because by running this program you are actually helping find cures for many diseases and getting a reward or some free packs of cards is just a bonus. The real benifit is living in a future were disease like cancer are just a memory. Visit this link below to learn how the program works and if you have any questions at all don't be affraid to ask.
http://endthedisease.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-run-world-community-grid-on-your.html

One Pack Of 2013 Topps Platinum Football Cards And One Pack Of 2010 Panini Crown Royal I'm Giving Away

 

This is going to be a really short post because I only have two packs of football cards to post right now. One of these came in the big variety pack box I bought at walmart a few days ago and the other I won in an online auction. Both packs will be added to the treasure chest.

The first pack is 2013 topps platinum. There are 5 cards in this pack and I feel that these are higher quality cards than your standard packs, not top shelf or anything but I'm sure this will go fast once it's up for grabs.

The second sealed football pack is one I won on a listia auction. It's a pack of 2010 panini crown royal football cards. These have a high chance of having relic and auto cards in them and the seller says this is a guaranteed relic card so who knows what might be in it. There are 5 cards in this sealed pack as well.

I don't have a contest ready to run yet but I have an interesting youtube project that will lead up to my first contest. I should have a post up about it in less than a week.

Learn more about what I'm doing in this post.
http://cardsforgood.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-win-free-autograph-relic-cards.html


Here is a post with commonly asked questions about world community grid. You can find out most of what you want to know here. If you still have an unaswered question you can ask it in the comments there. I might even add your question to the post and update it.
http://endthedisease.blogspot.com/2014/07/how-to-run-world-community-grid-on-your.html

Nine Packs Of Prizm 2013 Football Cards I Bought To Give Away In Future Contests

I know I haven't made a post on this blog in at least a week but I've been busy and I've really just been waiting to get the search engine traffic coming in before I really go any further with this. I don't know what wrong but it's never taken me this long to get indexed by the major search engines. I will probably concentrate on building up my social media sites and posting on my endthedisease blog until I can see some outside traffic to this blog.

Until then here are 9 packs of 2013 prizm football cards I bought at walmart this weekend. These are the 4 card retail packs. I think these will go in the treasure chest which is starting to fill up with lots of sealed packs of cards. I'll try to take a picture of the big plastic storage unit I'm keeping them in when I get a chance. These came in packs of three with chase cards in each one. I will save the chase cards to give away as well but they will be kept separate. I will also make a different blog post for these. I also bought a couple of older packs of cards in an online auction a few days ago and I already got them in the mail today. I'll have a post coming up that will show you what they are. As I said I will be concentrating more on my other blogs until I start to see some organic search engine traffic from this one so I will probably only be doing one or two posts a week here until that happens. I'm sorry I can't do more but I need to concentrate on my other projects for now.

4 Packs Of Score 2013 Football Cards And 2 Packs Of Topps Strata I'm Placing In The Treasure Chest

I'm pulling out some more football cards that I got from the walmart variety box I bought. I'm adding these to the treasure chest. The chest is getting pretty full now. I will probably reach over a 150 factory sealed packs by early next week. I guess I really need to get around to launching the first contest. I'm working on this behind the scenes. You guys can't really see what I'm doing but I'm in talks with several big sports hobby forums. Many of these sites have thousands of visitors a day and I'm hoping to lower the number of cards in my possession very soon. I'm also going to be concentrating on making more posts on the main blog. The endthedisease blog really needs more work, I can do a lot more serious posts there that explain more about what I'm doing. I will also do a lot of posts about cancer as a disease and how we can work towards a cure. I might even gets some guests posts from people in the research community or posts from cancer research advocates. Just be on the lookout for a lot of new content on that blog. I will still be posting here but just not as often as before.

For this post we have four packs of Panini Score football cards from the 2013 season. There are twelve cards in each pack with a chance to pull rookie signatures.

Next up we have two packs of Topps Strata 2013 football cards. These are great cards and there are six individual cards in each sealed pack. Wouldn't it be great to pull a Geno Smith low numbered autograph card out of one of these packs? You might think it's possible to pull a card like that out of a reatail pack but I have seen it happen before.

If you want to try and win some of these cards in the near future all you have to do is follow the simple instructions below. This will only take a minute or two to set up.

First you need to run the world community grid disease research program. You can download it through this link.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamIDha=2H274R71S1

Click this second link and join team Endthedisease. It's really that easy. Now just keep visiting this blog and wait for the next contest to begin.
 http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=2H274R71S1

11 Packs Of 2013-2014 Score Panini NHL Cards And 7 Packs Of Prizm Cards I'm Adding To The Treasure Chest

 

Today I picked up some blaster boxes of NHL cards but I decided to pen them and put the sealed hockey card packs into the treasure chest for random pulls and for the comment contests. I'm not a big fan of hockey but I do have some friends online that are obsessed with the sport. I know more than a couple of guys in Canada that will want to try and win some of these.

The score cards are from the 2012-2013 season and there were eleven packs in the blaster box along with a clear see-thru pack that looks like it has three cards in it. I don't know if this is a hit pack or just base cards as I can't see what the third card is. I will keep it safe and use it as a bonus prize at some point in the future. There are twelve cards in each of these packs and there is a chance for autograph cards with these.

The prizm cards are from the same NHL season as above. There are seven packs here with four cards in each pack but you can always pull an autograph from one of these packs.

As far as hockey goes I will not be adding as many packs from this sport as I do for football or baseball. The main reason is that I like to try and focus on the types of sports that are most popular in America. I will mostly be shipping to the 50 U.S states to save on shipping. I will try to ship to Canada at some time and if the costs of mailing cards isn't too high then I might start purchasing more Hockey cards.

As always to win some of these great prizes you need to be running world community grid. You can still win a few packs from commenting during a contest but the big prizes are for running this program and doing disease research that could lead to cures for cancer. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamIDha=2H274R71S1

This second link allows you to join team Endthedisease. You need to be a member of this team so I can calculate your points and see who wins when a contest is running. http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=2H274R71S1

8 Packs Of Panini Prestige Football Cards For 2013 I Bought To Add To The Treasure Chest

I'm doing one more quick post before I go to bed. I have to work tomorrow so I wanted to get this done tonight in case I don't have enough time to add more cards before I go in. I've got eight packs of Panini prestige football cards from 2013. I believe this was the year when their base cards had the all white backgrounds which wasn't too appealing to me but all their insert cards looked awesome. In the past prestige has put out some really beautiful cards and they have the advantage of being among the first product to hit the market each year that shows new rookies in their player uniforms. If you want a chance to get the first ever autograph card of a freshly drafted player these are cards you want to buy. I will be adding all of these packs to the treasure chest and I'm thinking of buying even more of these early next month.

If you want to win these cards while helping find cures for diseases like cancer and HIV then you need to visit this link and read the majority of this post. It should explain to you what I'm doing or at least give you an idea of what you need to do. If you have any questions feel free to comment on that post or in the comment section below this one.
http://cardsforgood.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-win-free-autograph-relic-cards.html

4 Packs Of Panini Football 2013 Prizm Cards I Got In A $20 Variety Box I Bought At Walmart That I'm Adding To The Treasure Chest

I've just bought another value pack box at walmart. Finally they have some football cards. I swear I went into work yesterday and walked across the street to see if they had anything new before my shift started. I didn't see any kind of mix pack football boxes but 12 hours later when I got off they had just one 13 pack box left. I guess they must have put a bunch of them out while I was on the clock and they had already sold them all but the last one. These are great variety packs to get if you see them on sale. They only run about twenty bucks and you get mostly high end packs that have high hit ratios. The only thing I don't like about them is the sticky glue they use to keep the front cards stuck against the cardboard. This is to insure that the best three packs in the box remain viewable by the customer. Unfortunately some of the glue remains on the packs so you end up with two or three packs that are going to stick together if you try to store them like I do. When I place these in the treasure chest I will just wrap a piece of paper around them. I have never had a problem with this adhesive hurting the cards inside the pack though. They will be just fine when you open them.

I'm going to split the packs up and make three separate blog posts for them. It's an excuse for me to have more activity on this blog and it will great more search engine food for Google. If you are reading this in late July I am still waiting to get this blog picked up by the search engines. I've had many blogs in the past and I really don't get motivated until I see the traffic coming in from the big search engines.

So from the variety pack I bought I've scanned the four packs of Panini 2013 prizm cards that were in the box. I know that the 20 pack hobby boxes guarantee you will get two autograph cards and I have seen people pulling signed rookie cards out of packs they got in variety boxes just like this one unboxing videos on the web. I also know that you get at least one rookie card in each of the bigger packs but since these are 4 card packs I don't know if you'll pull one in every pack. I assume not as that would be a rookie card in every four cards but who knows. No matter what you get these prizm football cards look great and have really nice borders on the cards. Some of the cards are low numbered die cuts and you could pull some valuable limited edition cards and maybe even an autograph rookie from the 2013 season.

As always if you want the best chances of getting these cards you need to be running the world community grid program on your computer. Download it below. It's easy and I promis you won't get any popups on this site and there is no danger of viruses.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamIDha=2H274R71S1


Click this link and join team Endthedisease. You can post a comment below if you need any help setting this up.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=2H274R71S1