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Originally Posted by jfan2024
I disagree with this. Reason being, for the most parts tmall releases have not compared with U.S. retail. Optic tmall is the only equivalent to an orange optic U.S. retail box.
Select was equivalent to regular non-hybrid hobby and select is a hobby only product anyway. Contenders optic is a similar story to select. Tmall lucky envelope boxes across brands are only 2 cards and an entirely different product altogether.
Tmall hasn't negatively affected prices but that's only because it hasn't been produced in formats that directly dilute U.S. retail. The one exception I noted was optic, but optic is now in an entirely different tier of product as 2nd only to prizm, and we know the optic tmall print run was miniscule (~300 cases only) as that was part of the first wave of tmall with select. Panini has now gone nuts on tmall and I'd reasonably assume this should be a massive release for mosaic way beyond optic production
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Definition of Tmall please?