First Buzz: 2020 Topps Series 1 baseball cards

[yrocks2001]

Originally Posted by premium1981

The release week prices are not worth the price difference in most instances.

Use my 2019 Update for an example.

Guy #1 buys at the $1,200 presell price. Sell it all and gets back to his break even point.

Guy #2 buys at $750 and is patient, and returns $900.

Who wins? Yea, Guy #2 made $300 less in his sales, but he is the clear winner. I know these numbers are just hypothetical, and it is different for every release and every breaker. But I am a math guy and just follow the numbers. The numbers don't add up enough for me to jump on at those first prices. Additionally, by waiting, you also get in low enough to save some cases and see if they trend up, where Guy #1 has to dump as fast as possible and hope for the best with his results.

So check my hypothetical math...

Guy #1 buys at the $700 presell price. and returns a bajillion dollars

Guy #2 buys at $600 and is patient, and passes away never having sold a card and now his family is burdened with all of these tiny baseball pictures that they don't know what to do with so the throw them all away including a 1/1 platinum Yordan Alvarez rookie card that will now decompose in a garbage dump in southern Ohio under a pile of old spaghetti.