Topps 582 Montgomery Club

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by hundley

If it's any consolation, remind yourself that you could have gotten Wander Franco as your gold and only one common refractor of someone like Carlos Rodon or something. The floor on breaks of this set is so astonishingly low that I'd be inclined to argue that a gold Yoshida and a silver refractor is a relatively decent break considering how utterly miserable this stuff can be.

It would be a consolation except I've got a case of the stuff coming and now assume I'll hit a box with that exact combo of Carlos Rodon/Wander as my two hits.

[ewokpelts]

Opened my lone box

Jeter gold and Harris refractor. Past that, not much. Very rarely I open boxes that cost $200, but the itch got to me.

[Jmay]

I opened mine too
Looking to move all the base & uncommons in one lot.
Dm me if you’re looking to pick up a lot of finest flashbacks


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[Jmay]

My “hits” were Acuna refractor, Clemens gold rare Sp and someone else unexciting.
Also hit a buxton silver uncommon with a blank box where uncommon should be
Anyone else seen this? Just a common error or something better?


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[Htown1032]

Posted my auto hit in the Finest thread, but want to flex a bit more

Never hit a buyback before

[PumpnDumpling]

Originally Posted by Htown1032

Posted my auto hit in the Finest thread, but want to flex a bit more

Never hit a buyback before

That my friend is freakin' awesome!

Big Unit Lookin' Nasty, incredible card

[Bcr]

Originally Posted by Htown1032

Posted my auto hit in the Finest thread, but want to flex a bit more

Never hit a buyback before

That's a beaut right there! Congrats on the sick find.

[MotorboatJones]

Originally Posted by Htown1032

Posted my auto hit in the Finest thread, but want to flex a bit more

Never hit a buyback before

You love to see that nastiness! Very nice !

[Cincinnatus]

Originally Posted by eldavojohn

Mmmm, hitting a Bench auto is a huge win dude, I would be a lot more happy than you appear to be.



To what degree? I had various levels of centering, some pretty bad. Got a pic?

Topps promises PSA 8 or better centering so if one margin is more than twice the size of the other margin, you can do a return on the whole box with packaging I think.

I would take the Bench and consider myself very lucky but you are free to your own opinion.

I believe when I said that I was "glad that I only bought one box" I was saying that I was very happy with the results. Elated actually. I felt like the gambler who deals himself out after winning big after the first hand. Sorry I wasn't clearer.

Thought that there were more hits in past year's boxes.

I was making the observation that all the silvers and golds were perfectly centered. But the bronzes were off centered left to right or up and down. I was wondering if others thought so or I was just an isolated case. For example, my Corbin Carroll is off-center left to right and my Josh Jung is off left to right and up and down. I'd be lucky to get a PSA 7 on that. Can I really return those? I thought it was just hits and redemptions you could send back to Topps.

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by Htown1032

Posted my auto hit in the Finest thread, but want to flex a bit more

Never hit a buyback before

That's exceptional, right there. Nice hit!

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by Cincinnatus

I believe when I said that I was "glad that I only bought one box" I was saying that I was very happy with the results. Elated actually. I felt like the gambler who deals himself out after winning big after the first hand. Sorry I wasn't clearer.

Thought that there were more hits in past year's boxes.

I was making the observation that all the silvers and golds were perfectly centered. But the bronzes were off centered left to right or up and down. I was wondering if others thought so or I was just an isolated case. For example, my Corbin Carroll is off-center left to right and my Josh Jung is off left to right and up and down. I'd be lucky to get a PSA 7 on that. Can I really return those? I thought it was just hits and redemptions you could send back to Topps.

It's been two years and I think now you have to use their online form for online orders but I think I opened a box of 2021 TCU and the cards were very badly offcentered where the borders were clipping the edge of the cards so I sent the entire box + wrappers (all contents, all wrappers) with a form saying they were miscut because they were. They quickly sent me a new box. You can do the same I think with these but I'm not sure what to expect if you just do one or two cards. Also, again, it has to be badly offcentered.

On the other hand, I receieved some living set cards with no borders on one side and started an exchange a year ago and no movement on that so ... up to you on risking it.

[PDCCollectibles]

Originally Posted by Bcr

That's a beaut right there! Congrats on the sick find.

Are Randy auto's sought after? I never remember him being a big hit in products....unless he's someone's PC guy of course.

[bub838]

Originally Posted by PDCCollectibles

Are Randy auto's sought after? I never remember him being a big hit in products....unless he's someone's PC guy of course.

He signs often and isn't a big chase, but the buybacks to /5 are still pretty long odds to hit in the product.

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by PDCCollectibles

Are Randy auto's sought after? I never remember him being a big hit in products....unless he's someone's PC guy of course.

Investor-wise - not a huge, huge hit.
But as bub838 posted above, it'll be in fairly high demand for Big Unit collectors as it's an auto /5 AND a special buyback in this product.

I also think Randy Johnson's gonna be one of those guys whose value rises in the future. He kind of checks all the boxes (dominant, counting numbers, awards, memorable, bird incident, ASG Kruk incident) with the added bonus of having two under-the-radar RC's that are fairly iconic for junk wax cards: 1989 UD by virtue of being in that set & 1989 Fleer for the Marlboro stuff. I think he's the single most underrated pitcher from a Hobby perspective. I imagine a lot of younger folks going to his BRef page and having their minds blown.

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by BabaORiley

It would be a consolation except I've got a case of the stuff coming and now assume I'll hit a box with that exact combo of Carlos Rodon/Wander as my two hits.

Like clockwork… box 2 of my case yielded zero refractors. An extra Gold but zero refractors: Gold Posey, Mookie, Oswald Peraza.

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by PDCCollectibles

Are Randy auto's sought after? I never remember him being a big hit in products....unless he's someone's PC guy of course.

It's a different product but I believe (IIRC) I sold a 2022 Brooklyn Collection Randy Johnson /75 auto for $100 on eBay (relative to other 2022 Brooklyn Collection autos I sold, it was on the higher end).

[nabzy28]

Originally Posted by BabaORiley

Investor-wise - not a huge, huge hit.
But as bub838 posted above, it'll be in fairly high demand for Big Unit collectors as it's an auto /5 AND a special buyback in this product.

I also think Randy Johnson's gonna be one of those guys whose value rises in the future. He kind of checks all the boxes (dominant, counting numbers, awards, memorable, bird incident, ASG Kruk incident) with the added bonus of having two under-the-radar RC's that are fairly iconic for junk wax cards: 1989 UD by virtue of being in that set & 1989 Fleer for the Marlboro stuff. I think he's the single most underrated pitcher from a Hobby perspective. I imagine a lot of younger folks going to his BRef page and having their minds blown.

As a collector who has built a PC that was exclusively football for about 3 decades now, I can confirm the above. With all the great designs over the years, the higher end sets and rarer limited stuff like this coming to the market - I have been adding cards of my favorites from growing up. Maddux, Griffey Jr. and have been keeping an eye out for a Randy Johnson auto to add, eventually, too. Stuff has 'crashed' back down far enough that I'm not really concerned with much more, if any, dip in some of this mid range stuff. It's getting put away for years since I do just enjoy having autos of guys like this that were just so remarkably exceptional at what they did.

[gkenda01]

Originally Posted by hundley

If it's any consolation, remind yourself that you could have gotten Wander Franco as your gold and only one common refractor of someone like Carlos Rodon or something. The floor on breaks of this set is so astonishingly low that I'd be inclined to argue that a gold Yoshida and a silver refractor is a relatively decent break considering how utterly miserable this stuff can be.

My refractor was in fact Wander......thanks Topps.

[evshingles]

Originally Posted by BabaORiley

Like clockwork… box 2 of my case yielded zero refractors. An extra Gold but zero refractors: Gold Posey, Mookie, Oswald Peraza.

check to see if one of those golds is a refractor.

[eldavojohn]

Originally Posted by BabaORiley

And you two refractors appear to be Machado Silver

No, I double checked, there is no second refractor in my box.

[mkejacques]

Opened my on box Adley rare #3/10. Riley and Nolan are gold border.

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by nabzy28

As a collector who has built a PC that was exclusively football for about 3 decades now, I can confirm the above. With all the great designs over the years, the higher end sets and rarer limited stuff like this coming to the market - I have been adding cards of my favorites from growing up. Maddux, Griffey Jr. and have been keeping an eye out for a Randy Johnson auto to add, eventually, too. Stuff has 'crashed' back down far enough that I'm not really concerned with much more, if any, dip in some of this mid range stuff. It's getting put away for years since I do just enjoy having autos of guys like this that were just so remarkably exceptional at what they did.

Good post and better strategy. I've been doing something similar, on and off, for awhile now.

As to The Big Unit... Fun fact for the younger BO crowd -

Randy Johnson from age 35-38

-4 consectuive NL CYAs
-averaged a touch over 20W, 350K per season with an average ERA sub 2.50

This was during a 1999-2002 run that will definitely not be remembered as an offensively challenged stretch.

[BabaORiley]

Originally Posted by evshingles

check to see if one of those golds is a refractor.

I did. In fact, I was pretty certain I had missed one and was pretty psyched at a Gold Refractor - nope. Then I checked every card, front and back and still no refractor. Ah well.

[lklopfenstein]

Used my $50 Montgomery credit to purchase Mike Schmidt in a 6 case tier one break and lucked out with 2 on card autos. Probably better than I would have done buying an “exclusive” product.

[Scarlet Knight]

Originally Posted by lklopfenstein

Used my $50 Montgomery credit to purchase Mike Schmidt in a 6 case tier one break and lucked out with 2 on card autos. Probably better than I would have done buying an “exclusive” product.

What is Montgomery credit? How and when did you receive it?

I've been a MC 582 member from the start. I've never received any type of credit.

Thanks in advance for your reply.