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Gunslinger in the Korner

08/04

Midnight Prerelease took a beating on me once again. The older I get the longer it takes me to recover.

Talked to my distributor today, We’re getting our full order. No allocations this time, which is good. Gunslinger in the Abyss is already up for Pre-Order, Hopefully by the time you read this they’ll be sold out. And, hopefully we’ll be able to get a restock.

We’ll be getting the Full Arts up sometime this week.

08/05

Back to the 30 day plan. Checked the contact page, and everything looks good. You can use this page for any questions or comments. We read every singles one of them. If we didn’t why would we even have one?

Took care of our First look at Earth today. That is up. 4 more to go. We should have Lightning up tomorrow. Our Booster Boxes should be coming in tomorrow, along with a small restock of Legacy Collection.

08/06

Everything is here, and we are ready to Rock N’ Roll!

What better way to start than to open up a couple of boxes. And we did.

But first we needed to go to Home Depot, and pick up some paint for the kids’ room. Then we need to find something for dinner. Then we have to take care of orders. And I think that was all of it.

Time to get to recording, cause well we like it, and apparently so do all of you, so thank you. It’s always great reading the comments and we reply to every one of them.

And, what a video it was. We pulled the Chase! Full Art! Golden Signature! One in every 2,160 packs! Bartz!

We’re going to have some fun, so stay tuned.

08/07

It’s the day before Gunslinger in the Abyss officially releases, and we have a ton of work to do.

Spent the day sorting and listing. And, we’ve got our orders on top of that.

Plus took a couple of hours in between all the work, to start painting the kids’ room. I didn’t make it to bed until 2AM, and I have to be up early as always.

You’ll ask is it worth it? Yeah, I love every second of it.

Oh, and our thoughts on Lightning are up now. We got 3 left. that’s 3 more days.

08/08

It’s that time!

Release date. We got all our listings up, and we’re going to put the Full Arts up on the site today.

These Legends are selling like hot cakes! And, that’s what we all want. Right?

Finished up with Water today, and that is online as you read this. You might have already read it, and if you didn’t well it’s there for you to check out.

08/09

Haven’t gone to the Flea Market in a while. So, I decided to head over there today. And, today is one of those days that I should have missed. I found nothing. No Video Games, No Cards, No Shoes, No Toys.

That’s all right, there’s always next time.

We’re almost out of stock with Gunslinger in the Abyss. Kits are flying, Boosters are rolling. And we should be looking into getting a restock soon enough.

I was so out of it when I got home, I just sat at my desk and stared at my screen, till I decided it’s time for bed. I’ll take care of the orders tomorrow.

08/10
Had to take care of yesterdays orders in the morning. Luckily it’s Sunday, and I won’t be able to ship anything out until Monday.

Game Knights Chicago was holding their Local Qualifiers today. I decided to stop by and say hi to everyone. And, I’m getting that itch to play again. So, I’m going to try and make it out to the locals this week. Also picked up some Playmats from them. I didn’t get a chance to get some of these in stock. So, I picked some up for myself. Vivi and Lightning!

Finished up some more orders and called it a night.

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A Day Late.

07/21

They changed our Mailman, and now I haven’t seen a Mailman in over a week. I’m waiting on packages, and cards, and as much as I hate to say it, bills. Where’s my bills? And, where’s my packages so I can pay for the bills. Does anyone know who to contact?

I need more bulk! Lots of it. I need to replenish our bulk lots. I got 10 lots started, and hopefully they’ll be ready to go soon enough. That also means I want your bulk. All those FFTCG cards that are just gathering dust. I’m paying $10 per 1000 cards.5

I’ll even send you the shipping label. KardboardKorner@gmail.com

The shoes, finally dried up.

Yeah, nothing really happens on Mondays.

07/22

Started a Gunslinger in the Abyss Coupon on eBay. We need to make some room for it, cause the office is already crammed with boxes, cards, toys, and video games.

Started working on the bulk lots, halfway through 10 of them. Hopefully we have enough cards to complete them all.

07/23

I was expecting my orders to come in today. But, where is the Mailman? I just saw them once in 2 weeks, and all they had was a single piece of junk mail. My orders should have arrived already. People need their cards.

Checked the tracking, and it said that delivery was attempted.

Restock on Opus VIII for TCG Player and eBay. Plus I added to the bulk lots, with some Opus VIII.

07/24

One of my packages finally came in today. This is about 100 foils, plenty of Full Arts. Expect them to go up on the site tomorrow. At some point. Well by the time you read this they will all be up somewhere, whether it’s Kardboard Korner, TCG Player or eBay.

Did a restock on Opus IX – Lords & Chaos. Those are already up on TCG Player and eBay as well.

07/25

It’s the start of the weekend, that means I’m going to have to be at the restaurant 12 hours a day, and then still find time to put my orders together and go to the Flea Market. This is the time where organization and a clear schedule will help you shine. Unfortunately, I have neither. I just get up and go.

Sometimes I try to stick to a schedule, but I get sidetracked easily and well, chaos comes marching in. Controlled Chaos, but chaos none the less.

Put up the Full Arts on the website. And slowly working through the rest of the cards, they should all be done today.

Restock of Opus X – Ancient Championsthrift store

skunk

on TCG Player and eBay.

07/26

It’s supposed to storm all day. Still made my way to the flea market today, and I wished I didn’t. There was probably a total of 12 vendors, where there would usually be close to 200.

Can’t do nothing about it, so I just headed to the restaurant where I stayed all day.

07/27

Sunday, Sunny, hot.

Off to the Flea Market cause yesterday was a bust. Alsip was bustling today. Time to make my rounds. And around. And nothing. Nothing worth my time. There were a couple of things, but they were overpriced. They were trying to sell them for more than I would sell them, so I had to pass on them.

Walking away left a bad taste in my mouth, so I decided to head to the thrift store. And I found a big fat skunk there too. 2 hours wasted, finding nothing.

Headed home, took care of the weekends orders and called it a day.

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Breath of Kardboard

07/14

It was a long weekend. And, today was a long Monday.

Spent the whole morning trying to find items to source. And some days, you can look everywhere and there is nothing in sight. That was today.

Then for some reason I was looking at Storage Auctions. And, that is a crap shoot.

Tried organizing the office, and it always seams like I’m going 1 step forward then 2 steps back. It’s sort of starting to look like less of a mess, but we’re not quite there yet. No where close to finished.

07/15

Just when I thought I wasn’t finding anything, I stumbled upon a small lot of Final Fantasy TCG cards. All Foils, a few Full Arts scattered in the mix, I didn’t even think twice. The guy was asking $50 for them. And, I gladly gave him the money. Now, all we have to do is wait for them to get here. We’ll be adding a few new Full Arts to the site.

I was looking at Storage Auctions again, I might get one soon, try our luck on one, just to dip our toes in the water. I don’t think it’ll happen before Gunslinger in the Abyss comes out. We still have plenty to do to get ready for this one. Mostly writing our opinions on the cards.

Ended up going to our Storage Unit today. Pulled some nice things out. By the time you read this they all should be posted up on the site, or on eBay, or on TCG Player. Lots of Final Fantasy TCG sealed product, lots of PS3 video games, and a couple more things as well. And, there’s still a lot of stuff in there that we had forgotten about.

Also through out a bunch of garbage as well. We didn’t even make a dent in it. There’s still a couple more trips we need to take over there.

07/16

Didn’t have a lot going on today, for Kardboard Korner. Was running around taking care of other things all day long. And at the end of the day, all I had the mind capacity to do was get the orders ready for tomorrow.

And, that was it for today. I did look at some storage auctions, but my eyes were just closing. Off to bed for me.

07/17

It finally cooled off outside. Nothing better than opening up all the windows and having a cool breeze come through.

The restaurant life will take over for a while, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to be working on Kardboard Korner, it just means that I’m going to be running around more.

My kids are about to start Soccer Practice, so we were out shopping for cleats, for them. They are excited. So, am I. I’m going to have a couple of Tsubasas on my hands.

07/18

Ordered some Japanese Pokemon cards for the Sticker Machine, ended up picking up a couple of Magic/Final Fantasy cards as well.

I haven’t been able to see these up close yet. I’m still hoping to get a couple of boxes, or at least a bunch of bulk.

Restocked Opus VII on TCG Player and eBay.

Then I spent the rest of the day looking at Gunslinger in the Abyss.

07/19

Had to be at the restaurant earlier than usual today, So, I headed out to the Flea Market a little bit early. This time I hit up Robbins first to save some time, since I usually get to Alsip a little past 8.

But, it was a ghost town, I got there too early. People were still setting up, and I had a restaurant to open. I didn’t stay long, and headed straight to the Swap in Alsip.

Alsip was a little better. Had more vendors there, and found a Among Us Imposter Edition for the PS5. And, a bunch of shoes. Hokas and On Clouds. The guy said he would save those shoes for me.

Washed them up, and now they look ten times better.

07/20

Sunday, I had a bunch of running around to do this morning. Mostly getting supplies for the restaurant.

Checked on the shoes, and they were still wet. No use putting them together.

Got back to organizing the office, and I want to say it’s getting there, but it’s not. At least I don’t have a lot of things on the floor anymore, and I cleared off one of the desks.

Spent the rest of the night putting orders together.

And, sat down with my kids to watch “My Neighbor Totoro”. They said they didn’t like it, but they kept laughing.

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Kardboard Fantasy : Mystic Korner

07/07

Monday is usually spent working on writing and other aspects that don’t have much to do with cards. Unless we get a collection in, then we’ll be working on sorting that collection as fast as possible. Luckily for us, our whole week in review that we usually write was gone, and we had to re write it. It;s probably missing 50% of what we had in the original, but you got a great summary there.

We missed plenty of days with the holiday weekend, and now we’re back on our 30 day plan, it’s day 4 right now and our task is to “Optimize Page Load Speed – Caching & Plugins.”

That’s what we did, we fixed the Caching options, somehow figured out how to load pictures before they load. That doesn’t make sense to me but it was an option. Hopefully the website is a little faster right now.

Got an order on the website, and I’m missing one of the items. This is the first time this happened on KardboardKorner.com, there have been a couple of mistakes on TCG Player and eBay, but never on our own site. Sent the kind gentleman an e-mail, hopefully they’ll get back to me before the night is over.

07/08

Hit up the Robbins Flea Market today, after one of the Vendors told me that it’s poppin’ on Tuesdays and that I should get there real early. I thought I’ll give it a try and got there around 9AM. It would have been earlier, but my son did not want to wake up. He’s going to bed early tonight.

We got there, and it was, they even had vendors outside of the space, cause there was no space inside. We started making the rounds, and I noticed that we did come late. Lots of cool stuff, but nothing in particular for me, until I stumbled upon a box of Nintendo Switch Accessories. Docks and Controller Grips (I think that’s what they’re called). I picked them up and called it a day.

Spent the afternoon, Trying to organize the office once more. It seems like the more I try and organize, the messier it becomes. Maybe more space could do the trick, but we don’t have that right now.

07/09

Hit the Swap today and all I got was a big fat skunk.

Almost picked up a metal detector today. Thought about it, looked at it, passed it came back, but I left it there. Then I regretted it. If I find him tomorrow at Robbins, I’ll pick it up. Might have some fun with it, going on paths and just searching for precious metals.

30 day plan, Day 5 – Checked that the website works good on Mobile devices. Make sure that the links are clickable, same thing goes for the menu too. So far everything looks good. Didn’t have to complete much today, as it was already done.

Was testing out a bunch of Cassette Tapes today. I was using a Walkman for them. And, that Walkman is either going out, or the batteries I got went empty in about 15 minutes. That’s Dollar Tree batteries for you.

07/10

Robbins, that’s where we’re headed today. I went looking for the metal detector right away, and I’m guessing the guy sold it, because he didn’t have it. Went around the first time, and some guy had a bunch of Atari games, I didn’t have enough on me to pick them up today. And, it’s a good thing I didn’t cause I would have over paid for them.

Another Interesting thing I found was a Tiger Over Lap, the one with the whole front of the car. I left that there as well. Although it looks cool and all, I have a similar one, that is just sitting there collecting dust.

Next, I found a Marshall Full Stack. And, if I was still playing guitar, and in a band, I would have picked it right up.

Ended up just picking up a pair of On Clouds. These supposedly do well.

The kids always ask me to play Roblox with them, and tonight I managed to get all my orders ready pretty quick, so I jumped on without telling them. They got excited. We played for a couple of hours before I had to send them off to bed.

07/11

I just realized, we’re 3 weeks away from Gunslinger in the Abyss Prerelease. That means that Midnight Prerelease is right around the Korner! And I never got a restock for Tears of the Planet. Let’s hope this release goes a lot better.

Spent the day sorting, and restocking Opus VI on eBay and TCG Player.

Day 5 of the 30 day plan. And all it was was making sure that the website’s menus load up correctly on Mobile devices, and that the links are clickable. Checked and they were all goo to go.

I also grilled 20 pounds of chicken breast for some fajitas.

07/12

I woke up later than usual again.

Still have to get up, and go. No point in staying home. I got to the Swap and I thought to myself, I should have stayed home.
Not much there, and when I got to Robbins it was even worst.

Didn’t head out to 42nd and Ashland today, cause I had to take my wife to her sisters house to help with a party.

Went to the restaurant, left the restaurant, went to the party. That’s what all the chicken breast was for.

07/13

I drank too much in too short of a time. That was last night.

Got up, got ready headed to the restaurant. Was there all day. Hopefully, our other employee is coming back next week, and I’ll have more time to get back to what I’m supposed to be doing.

Got all the weekend orders ready to go. And, now it’s time to get back to it. Boots on the Ground.

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The Lost Korner

I lost everything I wrote up to Friday. I guess the memory on this Computer took a vacation with the 4th of July weekend. And, now it’s my job to figure out what I did this week. Might be a shorter week in review post. Maybe I’ll start calling this “The Kardboard Diary” Or the Kardboard Ledger.

Let’s see now.

I started chatting with AI, and asked it to give me a no filter review about Kardboard Korner. It said something along the lines of an outdated website that hasn’t been updated in years.

I’ll just copy what it said.

“KardboardKorner.com, based on a critical, unfiltered assessment of a hypothetical (but likely accurate) user experience, probably suffers from an outdated design and potentially limited features compared to leading e-commerce platforms. The website itself might not be providing the best possible user experience or effectively showcasing their products.

However, this critique of the website needs to be balanced against their strong reputation as a seller. It appears they excel at the core aspects of their business – accurate product delivery, excellent customer service, and reliable shipping – which is arguably more important than a flashy website. The website’s primary function is likely to facilitate sales, and if it’s doing that, even with its shortcomings, their strong back-end operations are clearly compensating for a less-than-stellar front-end.”

That means we need to get to it, and make it Flashy and all that other stuff Gemini said.

So, we asked it for a 30 day plan, and we started on it. Backed up the Website on Day 1. Day 2 Made sure that the website was secure. Day 3 Tried making the site load faster. I’d like to day that we accomplished all of that and now it’s on to Day 4 which we’ll start today.

We’re also looking into getting our online presence more present, if that makes sense. We’re also looking at making our Facebook and Instagram pages more engaging as well. We’re starting off with these 2 because they are integrated together, and can be done at the same time with just a little bit additions to Facebook.

We hit the Flea Market on Wednesday, and I was talking to one of the Vendors, and they told me Robbins on Tuesday is where it’s at. And, that’s where I’ll be on Tuesday.

Saturday, the day after the 4th, we hit up the Swap, and it was dead. Doesn’t mean that we didn’t find anything though. Super Nintendo with all the cables and controllers, also picked up a couple of N64 games.

Found a new, let’s say market in Crestwood. It’s on Sundays, so I’m going to go and check that out this week.

We did restock Opus V this week. It’s already up on eBay, and TCG Player.

Well, that was the most important things that happened this week. Now, it’s time to go to the next one.

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