Series 6 · Baseball Drops Oct 2 · 8:00 PM Central See the tiers
Bubble Gum Stains Card Shop

Collector-run card shop

The hobby, priced
like a hobby.

I'm a collector first. Everything here is card I've pulled, bought or traded that didn't make my personal collection — priced to move, whatever you're doing with it.

The Bubble Gum Stains mascot: a baseball-headed ballplayer blowing a pink bubble and holding a graded card.
Inventory
Updated almost daily
Where to buy
eBay · CollX · TikTok
Run by
One collector, not a corporation

The house product

Big Blowout Packs

"My mission with the Big Blowout Packs is to deliver an experience the average everyday collector doesn't get to have — because sports cards from vendors like Topps have gotten extremely expensive." — Erik, Bubble Gum Stains
  • Built by a collector, not a spreadsheet. Packs are assembled by hand from real inventory — not leftovers nobody wanted.
  • The rip is the point. You get the pull-it-live moment that retail pricing has priced most collectors out of.
  • The $15 Fat Pack is the whole point. It's the cheapest thing I make and I keep it that way on purpose — a good rip shouldn't cost a car payment.

Series 5 sold out in under two minutes. Pick your tier before the 2nd — there isn't time to decide once it's live.

Series 6 — Baseball

Big Bubble, Bigger Hits

Five ways in, whatever your budget looks like this month. Every product on every tier has numbered cards, SSPs and community cards in it — that part is guaranteed. Autographs and the 1-of-1 community cards are the chase. The difference between tiers is how much you're ripping. Packs are sold only through the TikTok Shop.

Three places to buy

Where to shop

Same collection, three storefronts. Pick whichever one you already use — the inventory is kept current in all of them.

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The Bubble Gum Stains mascot
BUBBLE GUM STAINS Card Shop · Collector

Why this shop exists

I'm not in this for the biggest margin.

I came back to collecting after more than thirty years away. The hobby I walked back into was not the one I left. Prices had gone somewhere I didn't recognize, and the simple thing — buying a pack and opening it — had quietly turned into a luxury.

I'm a collector, same as everybody else reading this. The cards listed here are the ones that don't fit my own personal collection. Selling them is how I supplement the budget for the cards I do keep — and for getting into breaks myself.

That changes what the shop feels like. Prices are set to move cards to people who want them, not to squeeze a hobby that's already gotten expensive enough. Inventory gets updated almost every day, because I'm going through cards almost every day.

The name comes from where all of this started: gum-stained cardboard out of a wax pack. That's still the feeling I'm chasing, and it's what the Big Blowout Packs are built to give back to everyday collectors.

Questions? Just ask.

Looking for a specific card, a team lot, or want to know when the next Big Blowout Pack drop goes live? Send a message.