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You're right, it's definitely not the absolutely massive amount of product opened during release week and the laser focus everyone has on it leading to the hits being broadcast to huge audiences. Instead it's a big, probably illegal conspiracy with Michael Rubin himself placing the hits into packs and making sure they go to his favorite breakers.
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It could honestly be a little of both and nobody would have a way to easily prove it. It was also really lovely of Topps to imply that the legend autos (Ichiro, Griffey, Bo Jackson, etc) would be in hobby boxes when they aren't. In other vague news, I finally got the last card I needed for a small rainbow from 2023 and sent it all off for grading. I don't think every card's going to come back a 10 but it'll be a lot of fun to display all seven cards in slabs together.
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Me walking out of the store with a Heritage hobby box: hahaha yes! gently caress yes! Me pulling a relic game-used jersey card but it's Anthony Volpe: well this loving sucks
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mdemone posted:Me walking out of the store with a Heritage hobby box: hahaha yes! gently caress yes! Literally me with 2005 Heritage, I've opened 5 boxes of wax in the 19 years since lol.
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  I try so hard not to buy wax, but Costco had those drat flagship boxes so I grabbed one. It was junk until the final pack when I opened this Elly RC /50. That'll pay for that Costco run, tyvm.
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My current pull of the year, linking as I’m phone posting. https://imgur.com/a/AbkMnwp This is my second auto of his that I pulled.
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drat those are incredibly short printed. It’s a 1 in 2160 pack pull for the set with the Gretzky being the only SP in it. Congrats!
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I was in a local antiques store today and one of the booths had a few sealed wax boxes for sale. I looked at the price tag and saw that an absolute crazy person was trying to sell a box of 1989 Topps for $65.
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Jul 25, 2024 04:37
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Gary Sheffield Future Stars RCs are only going up uP UP!
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I really hope the Yankees don't kill my beautiful boy's spirit. Extremely stoked to have a 1/1 especially in such condition, even if it's from a set people look down on for whatever reason
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That's sick dude hell yea. I also love Soto and hate that he's on the dumb Yankees
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If Topps Pristine was called Topps Chrome Pristine it would sell like hotcakes. The "player silhouette over a neat background/pattern" is loving exhausted. Topps Finest, Topps Chrome Black, Topps/Bowman Inception, Topps Pristine, Topps Chrome Cosmic are all the same formula.
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Just found some old Skybox cards and hell, bring that poo poo back.
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For whatever reason when UD bought the Fleer/Skybox license they really did not use it very much at all
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Taking a break from acquiring new Bo Bichette cards, because $$. I'm at 1266. I treated myself to two nice ones on my way out:  
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I finally got around to scanning some of my vintage tennis collection. Thought people might enjoy. Fred Perry (HOF) – 1937 Ogden's Player: Won 8 Grand Slams and was the first player to win the career Grand Slam. Almost certainly more famous for his clothing line these days. Card: Great forehand shot with immaculate white outfit. This set has a very cool Jessie Owens card in it.  Bill Tilden (HOF) – 1931 Wills Lawn Tennis Player: Won 10 Grand Slams. “Tilden spent all of his adult life attempting to create a father-son relationship with a long succession of ball boys and youthful tennis protégés.” Card: Love the overhead smash action shot. Very kinetic. Very cool set with almost watercolor sketches of all the players.  Helen Wills Moody (HOF) – 1934 Gallaher Player: Won 19 Grand Slams. Had a 180 match win-streak and did not lose a single match between 1927 and 1933! She over-powered other women with strong and accurate baseline drives. She beat the 8th ranked male player in 1933! Helen was one of the first global celebrities. Card: Absolutely love the image on this card! The landscape aspect, cool action shot, and bright blue background. A Favorite.  Don Budge (HOF) – RC? – 1934 Mitchell's Player: Won 6 Grand Slams. First person to win all four Grand Slam events consecutively. Card: Awesome popped collars on his outfit. Exudes coolness with his confident vibe. Card is VERY sharp.  Suzanne Lenglen (HOF) – 1925 Turf Player: 8 Grand Slams and No. 1 from 1921-1926. Card: Cool image of a Wimbledon grass court match. Neat crowd details. Almost art nouveau in color.  Rene Lacoste (HOF) – 1931 Wills Lawn Tennis Player: Won 7 Grand Slams. Started his famous polo shirt business in 1933. Card: Love the cap in combination with the lunging shot.  ??? - 1958 Sport Sibice? Card: Weird card that I got in a lot. Really dig the green color and simplified design.  Jack Kramer (HOF) – 1954 Wheaties Player: Won 3 Grand Slams and was one of the first dominant serve and volley players. Card: Hand cut from a 1954 Wheaties cereal box. I really like the bright orange color. The set has a notable George Mikan card.  MayakovskyMarmite fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Aug 3, 2024 |
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I'm going to work on a long-term goal of completing a RainBo, because I'm already at 25/42 just from collecting singles. If anyone has any of the following 2022 Panini Prizm Bo Bichette card # 110 parallels to sell me, please PM me or post here: Black Finite Prizm /1 Black Velocity Prizm /1 (chatting to a guy about this one) Blue Wave Prizm /60 Cosmic Haze Prizm Forest Green Flash Prizm /5 Giraffe Prizm (there's a PSA 9 one on eBay rn, but he wants like $200 USD so, no...) Gold Prizm /10 Gold Vinyl Prizm /1 Green Donut Circle Prizm Pink Prizm Red Shimmer Prizm /7 Shimmer Prizm /7 Teal Wave Prizm Tiger Stripe Prizm White Donut Circle Prizm /5 White Sparkle Prizm Here's a PSA 8 purple shimmer /7 I have, to demo what the card looks like: 
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MayakovskyMarmite posted:tennis cards These are dope
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https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1821608009191321649?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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A memory of mine just popped up of when I was a kid and bought a $5 basketball pack that had 1 card in it. It was crazy expensive at the time and I think I pulled a Stephon Marbury. The card was die cut and had the player name on the bottom. It was damaged out of the pack though, and the shop owner told me to send it in for a replacement, but young me just figured it was a waste of money as they'd probably just throw away my letter. I don't know where the card is anymore but want to track it down and buy another for nostalgia's sake. There are almost 2k cards on COMC for Stephon Marbury and I'm getting real tired of scrolling through. Anyone happen to know what packs in ~1995-1998 were sold one at a time?
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Bank posted:Anyone happen to know what packs in ~1995-1998 were sold one at a time?
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Aug 9, 2024 01:44
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The 1996-97 Upper Deck SPX series was a single die cut card
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i can still taste him posted:Not sure, but if you search MARBURY DIE CUT on COMC there are only 12 results. Is it one of those?  best bale posted:The 1996-97 Upper Deck SPX series was a single die cut card It could just be my memory is bad nowadays. I'm going to dig through all his cards on COMC to see if I can find it though. Edit: Ok, I'm pretty sure the card I was thinking of is a mixup of player and card brand. I'm 99% sure the SPX format is what I was thinking about, but the image of Stephon Marbury is this one:  https://www.comc.com/Cards/Basketball/1996-97/Skybox_Z_Force_-_Zensations/14/Stephon_Marbury/1464336 I clearly remember also owning KG:  https://www.comc.com/Cards/Basketball/1996-97/Skybox_Z_Force_-_Zensations/7/Kevin_Garnett/1464329 I now forget which player I had that was the SPX one. The checklist is pretty small so I'd figure it would just pop out at me. Bank fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Aug 9, 2024 |
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Aug 9, 2024 02:41
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  Got the photos. I will now be selling the yellow set cause the Skenes is currently going for 10x what I paid for it lol.
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Okay, I just completed a huge review & pull of rookie cards from all my old 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s sets, along with the ones I had already stashed at the Old Goon Home. I have a massive number of somewhat-valuable cards in top-loaders. Griffey, Bonds, Maddux rookies, sort of thing -- if you can name a star from that era, I have several RCs probably. (A lot of McGwire and Sosa but nobody seems to care...?) Should I just feed them into COMC a little bit at a time, and see what happens? I don't really have any emotional attachment to these, and if I can get a bit of value then it might be fun. Couple of auto-ed baseballs (Griffey and Nolan Ryan) but I have no idea how to begin selling those for a fair price. edit: I've never used COMC and I'm just now getting started mdemone fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 18, 2024 |
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Aug 18, 2024 21:29
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And then there are these guys:
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That’s a cool Griffey set. Are all your cards baseball? Or other sports too?
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ScooterMcTiny posted:That’s a cool Griffey set. Are all your cards baseball? Or other sports too? I have a bunch of Kevin Garnett rookie cards but most of the basketball is trash. There's a cool Rodman Topps Finest, maybe a few Jordans of varying kinds. It's amazing how much bullshit you pull from wax packs and keep forever. I probably have 100k baseball cards of absolutely zero value, spanning the last five decades. I did find a USA Basketball complete set from the 1992 Dream Team, Skybox production mdemone fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Aug 18, 2024 |
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Also I may have the world's largest collection of Tom Glavine rookies. Me and my dad were really high on him back in the day
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mdemone posted:Also I may have the world's largest collection of Tom Glavine rookies. Me and my dad were really high on him back in the day I feel like that's a Simpsons joke, but I'm not sure which season...
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mdemone posted:I have a bunch of Kevin Garnett rookie cards but most of the basketball is trash. There's a cool Rodman Topps Finest, maybe a few Jordans of varying kinds. If you have basketball organized by team, I’d probably buy the pacers junk wax off of you!
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Is there a story or any paperwork to go with the autos? Unmarked as far as who obtained the signatures, all with the same #/500 has my alarm bells ringing
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Chief McHeath posted:Is there a story or any paperwork to go with the autos? It's got a lil authentication thing, it came as a set back in probably 1999 or so 
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Okay I got this too
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mdemone posted:Okay, I just completed a huge review & pull of rookie cards from all my old 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s sets, along with the ones I had already stashed at the Old Goon Home. All of those Griffeys are really cool, it's crazy what you find sometimes. If you've got Rickey Henderson cards from that era I would buy them, I'm a Rickey Henderson Guy. I'm also curious about the Griffey stuff of course but probably can't afford it
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mp5 posted:
Here's a 1981 Topps Rickey. The top-loader is scuffed up but the card is in good shape. Bottom right corner maybe a bit touched.  I have a ton of Griffeys that I'm probably going to submit to COMC. Will post when they're available.
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Grabbed my first Printing Plate today  Bo collection up to 1311.
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Are printing plates really thin? I feel like it would be very obvious if one was included in a pack. Or are they all redemption?
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The few plates I have seen were thinner than relic cards tend to be.
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everwake posted:Are printing plates really thin? I feel like it would be very obvious if one was included in a pack. Or are they all redemption? I collect printing plates (~80 right now) Some are real thin while others are mounted to a standard card stock. Usually the higher end sets like National Treasure get that treatment.
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