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Originally Posted by crdbored
Fanatics has been manipulating it's releases lately. The most obvious one being the '24 Heritage High.
At release, boxes dropped on the Topps site for $100 and quickly "sold out."
Secondary prices subsequently shot up. Some time later, Fanatics must have found extra stock lying around or printed more (sarcasm) and put it up on their Fanatics site for $159.99 adjusting it to the secondary prices they fueled.
It basically ensured that HN would not go down in price.
HN is still up and readily available.
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Fanatics has been running releases the same since they took over regardless of product. High Number had massive hype because it was Skenes AND the 1975 year. Started around 200, got to 220 or so, now its 150.
As a store owner I see it every release. Topps does their little EQL drops on their website but they have no say on what the price to customer is going to be on products that sell out on their website(which is like 90% of them).
I don't care what cost is from Topps for my cases, I have to wait to see what the Big 3 price stuff at for sports or TCGplayer for gaming to see whether I'm going to make a profit or lose my ass.
MSRP on Veefriends is like what...120 bucks or something? Far as I can see its places like Dave and Adams and BO that put boxes up for pre-order at 400 dollars and everyone just kind of follows suit. It isn't Topps/Fanatics manipulating at that level. Now talking bounties/artificial scarcity is a different story. Thats just good marketing on their part and people seem to drink the Kool Aid. Don't hate the player hate the game.