That happens a lot, some people can see pics I post. Some can't. I'm sure it's my dumbass fault. It's a Jordan Walker Chrome Rookie Auto /150
Hi everyone, I started a sports card business (MidlifeCrisisCards) to support my card-buying addiction. Anyways, I have an auction this Thursday May 2, we are starting pretty much every card at 1$ + shipping. 1980s-2000s cards mostly (Football/Baseball/Basketball players like Kirby Puckett, Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Jeter, Bird, Jordan, and mostly HOF players) You get 15$ of credit on the app just by signing up, so you can basically sign up, use your credit at the auction then get back to your life. Or hang around and we can talk sports, bourbon, why the Falcons should burn the team to the ground, etc. LINK to 15$ credit!: https://whatnot.com/invite/midlifecrisiscards LINK To my auction (Starts 6:00pm EST May 2, 2024): https://www.whatnot.com/live/70c7bd...s&sender_id=10106909&sharing_channel=copyLink Please send this along to anyone you know who loves sports cards from this era. I am hoping to kind of recreate the vibe from TMB tbh. Tiktok - pls help me get to 1k: https://www.tiktok.com/@mlc.cards?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc Thanks gents
The autos are so sexy but I gotta sell about 1k worth of stuff over next 45d to invest in em. Wife s pissed I am just buying in 2024
From The Athletic: Scarcity of sports cards used to be a parent’s job — their spring cleaning, especially when you were at college, took care of that. But in the modern era of sports cards, scarcity is manufactured into the product. Certain cards within any given set are made with purposefully short print runs, some are stamped with serial numbers (to 5 or 25 or 199, etc.) and the odds of finding each type of card in a pack are published by the manufacturer. But the idea always was that anyone anywhere could open up a pack of cards and have a chance to hit that product’s most valuable cards. ADVERTISEMENT A recent spate of “breakers” — live streamers who open boxes of cards and sell spots to consumers (for instance, a breaker opening a Topps Chrome case would sell all the star-laden Yankees cards that come out of the box to one person for $150; the less-sought-after Nationals spot may only cost $40) — getting high-value cards caused an online fervor. There have been widespread accusations within the hobby community that Topps, which is owned by Fanatics, was feeding predetermined (or “loaded”) boxes to breakers who stream on their in-house network, Fanatics Live. Some critics went a step further and accused Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin of supplying celebrities and athletes with loaded boxes filled with hits as clever marketing ploys. That led to a growing number of collectors wondering if the insertion of highly valuable cards was truly random. Do card manufacturers identify which boxes have the hottest cards and set them aside for celebrities and breakers? Or does every box and pack have the exact same stated odds of containing a collecting jackpot? At the Topps Industry Conference in Atlanta on Monday, attended by about 500 industry leaders and store owners, Fanatics announced that the placement of these cards has been independently certified as random. The examination by accounting firm KPMG LLP is the first of its kind in the trading card industry, according to Fanatics — and it won’t be the last. Fanatics says it’s committed to doing this examination annually. The report is available online and concludes that “high-value cards are inserted randomly within the Company’s packaged finished goods and distributed by the Company to its customers in a random manner.” Speaking to conference attendees, Fanatics Collectibles CEO Mike Mahan said, “It is important to confirm for collectors that the process of packaging and distributing our cards is truly random and our employees are unable to direct high-value cards to specific customers.” ADVERTISEMENT According to Mahan, Fanatics Collectibles, “detailed the key areas of the packaging and distribution process, which include controls over governance, physical security, job configuration and review, packing line operation and quality control audits.” Chief Financial Officer of Fanatics Collectibles Greg Abovsky added, “This is part and parcel of our desire to service the industry and the consumer. We are listening to their concerns — addressing them and generally elevating the hobby.” Abvosky provided details of the KPMG audit process to The Athletic, which, he says, began with an announcement last summer. He said the accounting firm, “examined all of our flow charts, our risks and control matrices, our documentation of previous jobs, their professionals visited the factory, interviewed employees and gave us a clean bill of health. “That means that high-value cards are inserted into products in a random manner. No one gets any preferential treatment because it’s not possible for anyone to know where the most valuable cards are. It’s genuinely random.” This leads back to Occam’s Razor. If it seems like breakers are getting a lot of hits, it’s because they’re opening so much more product than anyone else. While an average consumer may only open a few packs or a box or two of a single product, breakers can go through hundreds — if not thousands — of packs and dozens of boxes. Remember Rupert Salt? This KPMG audit verified that each box and every pack has the exact stated odds of containing the most sought-after cards. So you can rest easy with your purchases knowing loaded boxes aren’t being handed out to breakers and there is as good a chance as ever that you can pull a Superfractor from a blaster at your local card shop or retailer. (Photo: Ric Tapia / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images and Topps / Fanatics)
I personally would try to stay away from breaks. I understand the appeal, shots at huge cards that you otherwise might not be able to afford straight up, but your ROI on most products is maybe 20-30%. Not that I don't fall into the trap a few times a year anyway ha
Only reason to enter breaks, IMO, is if you're collecting a specific team/player and don't want to chase via ripping yourself.
It was an image variation. I hadn’t got any shipping notification on it, but had received my hits from them in another break that took place later. Rewatched the break to confirm the hit was there. It was. Contacted them, they looked into it, and claim there was a shipping issue. They 100% threw it in with the base that they don’t ship(no vet base ship, which is fine). Asked what they can do, told them I’d like them to replace it. Lucky for them it’s only a couple dollar card.
Bought the Acuna spot last night in 60 box break of Topps Chrome Black. It delivered- Depth of Darkness insert
Select design this year is ass. Concourse is fine but Courtside is ugly and Premier is an abomination. The Field Level and Courtside designs in football and basketball were such great looking cards in the past. Throw in the 3-5 subset levels and 88 parallels per level and Select has gone from an underrated product to mass-produced garbage. I have a Kelce Select Gold run going and it's really going to suck having to buy these
Myself and a couple of friends are putting together a PSA sub, hope to ship off by end of month. Anyone has cards they are wanting to get graded, DM me (or Andy Reocho)
I didn't get enough traction but I'm going to keep at it. Just need 20+ in each auction to hit my rather meager sales expectations. We did keep it fun though.
Bought one box of select at grocery store, pulled a Premier Wemby. Just sell it now for the $30ish or whatever or worth grading?
i think it would help for purposes of grading the selling you would get the card back a month-ish before the new season started. May be a ton of them out there by then. I'm debating the same issue with the tri color concourse I pulled over him.
So 2024 Bowman coming out soon? Should I buy blasters on fanatics presale now or just wait for target? Just looking for 2-3 value bixes Is blaster and value box the same thing still?
Topps has officially lost the plot https://www.topps.com/products/tom-...arketing - Recent Purchasers or Email Openers
I want to be angry at you for this...but the sex was bad. That's why it was all 86 Donruss Canseco's.
Took me way too long but finally got around to getting our Super Bowl tickets framed with the perfect auto'd photo from Super Bowl LIV.
I'm going to a card show in June and bought a ticket for a Barry Sanders autograph (and Riley Greene and Tarik Skubal). Excited, will be my first Barry signature I think one of the Chicago shows relocated to Detroit because the autograph signing lineup is extensive and I don't remember this show in previous years. Signers include Barry Sanders, Joe Montana, Anthony Richardson, Kirk Cousins, Thurman Thomas, Thomas Hearns, Buster Douglas, Andre Dawson, Mike Modano, Goose Gossage, Steve Garvey and a bunch of local lions, Michigan, and detroit tigers players (including most the 1984 tigers team)
Was going to get a signed Barry jersey, but actually think something like the photo below may look better. Will also be cheaper once you factor in cost of framing the jersey. Lions never used this helmet, but I think it really looks cool. That's what I'm leaning towards right now.
Had to make a diaper run this morning and went to target. Stopped to check card section since bowman is dropping. Two bald 40 something’s had an empty shopping cart and we’re just chillin by the cards…is it 2020 again?
"what do you mean you won't take 1989 topps? there could be ken griffey jr cards in those sick rack packs!"
Unfortunately those guys have gotten smarter. Around me my stores mostly have stuff in them now, but anything good or desirable is almost never there. Noticed a lot of card stores sell blasters too now, which I think may be some of the same guys buying their store inventory
This is a good thing, I have no reason to buy a Panini product, except for a World Cup box every 4 years.
Like. I don’t want to believe fanatics actually makes hot cases and shit. But Blake started breaking on fanatics live this week…
feel mostly vindicated on my Panini >>> Fanatics Topps take though the bar is obviously on the floor for these shit companies