2025 Topps Chrome VeeFriends

[Chrominator]

Let's see some pulls!

[PumpnDumpling]

Originally Posted by Chrominator

Let's see some pulls!

lol, yeah lets

[bub838]

Hobby prices dipped over the weekend.

[dd316]

Once the product dries up and is no longer actively being opened by breakers, I suspect interest will fall off a cliff.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by bub838

Hobby prices dipped over the weekend.

Not sure what you are looking at but D/A went through - again - all their hobby supply at $600 per box. They are now aggressively buying at $450 per. That is the true barometer of current market conditions.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by premium1981

Here is my questions though. when something is this obvious and people still refuse to admit it, why is that? Is it a fear of admitting being wrong? Is it an ignorance towards reality? I really don't understand. There are people out there who still refuse to admit our Earth isn't flat, so I guess no matter what the discussion is there will always be people who refuse to see reality. To each their own.

Yup, all you have to do is read through the 2023 Disney thread to see this weird phenomenon in an even more egregious and shocking light.

[bub838]

Originally Posted by Tim

Not sure what you are looking at but D/A went through - again - all their hobby supply at $600 per box. They are now aggressively buying at $450 per. That is the true barometer of current market conditions.

I'm just looking at ebay completed and current asks.

DA's buy price isn't new, it's been $450 since at least Wednesday of last week. We also don't know if they sold out or "sold out" over the weekend. The quantity buying was 33 hobby heading into the weekend and it's down to 9 as of right now, so someone decided over the weekend to unload at $450.

I don't know if its going up, down or leveling off. I don't have any boxes so I don't care either way. I'm just following it for fun.

[crdbored]

Boxes will surely go up singles will not.

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by premium1981

Here is my questions though. when something is this obvious and people still refuse to admit it, why is that? Is it a fear of admitting being wrong? Is it an ignorance towards reality? I really don't understand. No one knows what the future holds 6 months, a year, or 5 years down the road, but if this was strictly a pump and dump it would have shown itself already. As stupid as the product is in my mind, the demand is there. There are people out there who still refuse to admit our Earth isn't flat, so I guess no matter what the discussion is there will always be people who refuse to see reality. To each their own.

The irony of this paragraph is quite amusing. If you cant see that so much of a release like this is artificial- not sure what to tell you. I disagree with you. It does serve its purpose of the usual gambling and flipping though.

Who are you collecting in this- Fearless Fairy, Hustling Hamster, Empathy Elephant? Who is anyone collecting in it, and why is there essentially no talk of that anywhere in this thread? It’s oddly all just about who got in during the box drops, what box prices are doing. Dealers and people from sports. I’m debating this with someone presumably from sports whether this is product is being manipulated by the usual sports crowd…sigh. Check out most sellers on eBay of this stuff and what else they are selling: hint it’s very commonly ultra modern sports across the board hopping onto a Chrome release whatever it is. (I’m half convinced you could have “Topps Chrome Sack of Dirt” as a new novel set and it would eventually get the usual box escalation game and flipping treatment, and go through the artificial cycles.)

There is the usual contingent of a small few posters who will fully support such a release since it can make them a buck. It’s the same thing from them in all these nonsports Chrome threads. One important thing to remember: collectors don’t want high prices- they want low prices. The glee at rising prices of boxes etc in such threads is very telling in itself, whether these people are actually collecting this stuff or not.

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Who are you collecting in this- Fearless Fairy, Hustling Hamster, Empathy Elephant? Who is anyone collecting in it, and why is there essentially no talk of that anywhere in this thread?

Here is your flaw my friend. Blowout is an antiquated message board. It does not represent the hobby anymore. A huge chunk of what is left are the collectors from yesteryear. They don't like change, they don't like new things, they think everything is wrong because it doesn't fit into what has always been. I've been here longer than almost anyone, I know what the board is and who is here. Don't believe me? Find some "new and hip" discords or facebook groups and compare the topics and people posting. You think the Vee cult doesn't exist because they aren't posting here? Tom Brady doesn't post here either, but it doesn't mean he isn't actively participating in the hobby. Things are so much bigger and wider than what blowout posters with blinders on like to accept. And once more, as I feel like it needs to repeated, I think this product is ridiculous and shouldn't have demand. But my opinion doesn't change the facts. And neither does a yard full of "true collectors" out on the lawn shaking their fists at the clouds as they roll past.

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

collectors don’t want high prices- they want low prices.

We get it, collectors want rock bottom prices and for everyone else to stay out of their sandbox. If "true collectors" had their way the hobby would only have about 100 people in it total and they would be able to buy all the products they want for $25 a case with every case yielding an abundance of everything. Also, no one new would ever be invited into this exclusive club of 100 people full of such knowledge and wisdom that no one else could ever match.

[DynaEtch]

Better things to do than debate with a sports seller who thinks “Chrome VeeFriends” is mostly organic demand. Keep thinking this is the case…I disagree

[Xiarmadillo]

going down the rabbit hole:

https://mariolongtin.substack.com/p/...rchuck-exposed

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by Xiarmadillo

going down the rabbit hole:

https://mariolongtin.substack.com/p/...rchuck-exposed

Way too much info in there, but I will absolutely agree with anyone and everyone who says he is a scamer, grifter, fraud, and any other word you want to use for him. I wouldn't trust him with anything. But, as we have all seen through time, these kinds of people often have a whole lot of people who believe them and believe in them. You can throw the cult leaders who claim they are Jesus, and are so good at their deception that people will literally kill themselves because they are told to. Or someone like Bernie Madoff who was the same type of person, just better at hiding it for a period of time and milking his investors into bankruptcy. The list goes on and on. But all of these type of people have something in common. A group (or cult) that fully believes in them. I feel like that is similar to what has happened with VeeFriends.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by bub838

I'm just looking at ebay completed and current asks.

DA's buy price isn't new, it's been $450 since at least Wednesday of last week. We also don't know if they sold out or "sold out" over the weekend. The quantity buying was 33 hobby heading into the weekend and it's down to 9 as of right now, so someone decided over the weekend to unload at $450.

I don't know if its going up, down or leveling off. I don't have any boxes so I don't care either way. I'm just following it for fun.

Another case listed and sold instantly today, and this one at a higher price point. Ditto for their blaster case today too.

[bub838]

Hobby boxes selling $500-$550, while blasters are touching $160. DA still buying at $450 without much movement.

[sketchopolix]

Blaster case sold for 7k

[Tim]

Originally Posted by sketchopolix

Blaster case sold for 7k

That was mine. Sold one for 6k and then7k. Made 5k not counting fees in a month's time on 2 blaster cases.

Have ZERO interest in these cards or brand but saw this coming. Happy to move on!

[Chrominator]

Originally Posted by Tim

That was mine. Sold one for 6k and then7k. Made 5k not counting fees in a month's time on 2 blaster cases.

Have ZERO interest in these cards or brand but saw this coming. Happy to move on!

[Tim]

Originally Posted by Chrominator

Opening verse:


Same theory applies

Really? How so?

[Chrominator]

It was just a compliment to your gangsta ways, that's all.


Bold moves = bold prizes

I wasn't trying to be confusing — it was just the first thing that I thought of.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by Chrominator

It was just a compliment to your gangsta ways, that's all.


Bold moves = bold prizes

I wasn't trying to be confusing — it was just the first thing that I thought of.

I'm old, need an 80's reference instead lol.

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by Tim

I'm old, need an 80's reference instead lol.

Or did you mean 1980’s?

[bub838]

Blasters hitting $175 and hobby hitting $600 on ebay. They're still rising but slowly. Buffalo finally raised their hobby buy price to $480.

Side note, every single hobby box on auction has been won and paid for by the same bidder.

[Xiarmadillo]

Originally Posted by bub838

Blasters hitting $175 and hobby hitting $600 on ebay. They're still rising but slowly. Buffalo finally raised their hobby buy price to $480.

Side note, every single hobby box on auction has been won and paid for by the same bidder.

A true veefriend, deserving of a 1/1 in the next set, and maybe a special dinner