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Originally Posted by Dbacksbaseball
I will break this down , and this will be my last responce.
So here we go....
It is very simple. If you price a box at higher then what people are willing to pay for it your business will fail! This is simple economics of supply and demand.
If blowout who reaches an international audience is selling at $68, small market economics tell us two things; a you will have to be cheaper or B you will have to have an insane demand.
Insane demand is not sports cards; insane demand is a new underproduced item with a known high demand; in card terms something that a manufacture knows they will be short printing, think first batch of I phones or first Wii.
You closing is the result of one of two things, a. You underestimated your customers ability of finding a better deal B. You overrated the value of service you were providing them to pay the higher prices C. You overrated your customer opinion of buying locally.
Sorry to put it to you that way....best of luck in your card ventures.
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LCS's don't charge what Blowout charges. There's a successful card chain in the Bay Area where the overhead is quite high, and they seem to be doing just fine. Obviously, I don't expect to pay Blowout prices if I can just walk in and buy the product, and I will pay a premium to pick it up there and chit chat with fellow collectors. I expect that their first 2016 Bowman boxes will be in the $60 - $65 range, and I expect that they will sell out. Their first jumbo boxes will probably be in the $125 - $135 range, and again, I expect that they will sell out. Not everyone wants to buy online and have wax shipped to them. There are times that they are actually cheaper than Blowout because Blowout's prices fluctuate so much.