How many OBC member do we have here?

[WWGjohn]

I've been a member of OBC since 98 and have never considered another group. OBC is unique because of the "what goes around, comes around" philosophy. Mostly the group operates by sending duplicates to people who need them, usually without arranging a trade in return. One of our principles, coined by another member, is " I'd rather have a hole in my card than a hole in my binder". The group really is a family of friends who share a common love, old cardboard.

John Harrell "Bama"

[mintacular]

I think I tried to join them once when I was working on a '52 low grade set. The issue I had was that there is no message board for you to post your recent wants or pickups for trade so basically you have to go around emailing people you don't know asking what they have, etc and I wasn't hearing back from peeps so I gave up

[Howe’s Hunter]

Its been a couple years, but I visited the site and found the names and emails of several people who said they collected T206s. Emailed them all, told them my story of I have none to trade, but if you have something I am looking for, please tell me what you would want. Over the next two years, heard back from two of the members who had one each of Howe's cards, arranged trades and added them to my collection.

Never any negative feedback, like "Leave me alone," or anything like that. Heard from almost all saying they would keep an eye out and were all encouraging. Should probably look in to joining again.

[oaks1912]

I think Will Rogers put it best, "I've never met an OBCer that I didn't like". Not only does the group help members fill in holes in their collection, they unwittingly are a part of hobby history. As Joshua referenced above, if they are not the first, they are the longest lasting website dedicated to collecting baseball cards (all eras). They reach back to the old Prodigy days, Kit Young hosting the Hawaii trade show and $1.25 a gallon gas in California. Plus they possess the largest vocabulary of hobby slang

[grainsley]

15 years or so for me....and it has been quite a ride. The generosity of guys in the group just astounds me. As for our slang, I think my fave is "moofy".......you know, that musty smell of carboard that has been sitting in a damp basement for so long..............and yes, I agree that you will get great response from anyone in the group should you drop an exploratory email...........any excuse to talk cards is fine with us!

Grant

[t213]

I've been in OBC since '98. It's a great bunch of guys and when I used to travel a lot for work, I always had a card friend wherever I went, often someone I'd never met in person before, to go to shows and games with. Beyond the cards, it's lots of good times.

Andy

[hangman62]

I also agree OBC is a great club ( along with VCT,and OCT also) ,
loads of great "true" collectors and card traders, I just never was comfortable with the "unwritten rule" of .. go ahead and send a guy a 62T Mays...he will probably send you nothing back,but down the road..somebody ,somewhere will square up with you.. ??..yes.. I get the kindness thing ( I was a member) ...but I did more sending then receiving....the other thing is...90% of the guys WL's are pretty much the same..everybody needs the shortprinted 67T high #s, the 62T Yaz,the 30s40s Foxx,Ott,Greenberg,etc.., and nobody ever has them in their trading boxes to send .

Ral G

[spacktrack]

I joined OBC sometime around 2000 I think but went inactive about three years later as I got more into graded cards. I enjoyed my time in it and met up with lots of guys at shows throughout the years. I still run into a core group at the National every year. I got some great cards as a result of my trades there and hopefully gave out some too.