2019-20 Panini Chronicles Basketball- Pre-release Thread - Page 137

PSA2Pac · 08-13-2020, 11:07 AM

Chronic L's

daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Greek

Walked into my walmart near me not expecting to see any as the store usually stocks on fridays at random times. What do I see today? Whole cart of 3 trays worth of chroncle blasters, hangers, fat packs, tops chrome baseball in one persons cart having bought all of them up. As the guy walks away having cleaned the whole thing up. I then go to card section couple minutes later and I speak the MJ rep who says that a bunch of kids bought it all up before he could put it out. Complete lie as it was one grown man who wiped the whole thing up. Clearly the guy who bought it all up and Rep know each other as nothing else had been stocked yet but all the chronicles and topp chrome gone.

At least there is something left! My son is building a 2020 big league set and it's been so hard to even get packs of that.

daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by bustsomewax

The whole people camping out for Reps is starting to become a huge turn off for me.

I'm there too. Walmart and Target should not be a personal ATM and I don't really consider that hustling.

Chris P · 08-13-2020, 11:10 AM

Weird..so came to this wal mart and theres a vendor and it looks like shes about to start stocking..i ask her if she has any basketball and she tells me "i cant discuss that with anyone anymore". She then proceeds to take the basket she has and leave the area without stocking anything...

TimBuckTwo · 08-13-2020, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by daktmacfan

What's wrong with 18-19 Chronicles b-ball?? I'd take that any day of the week over 19-20. The RCs in 18-19 are much more proven with guys like Porter Jr and Ayton ready to breakout.

18-19 Chronicles Blasters at 2-300 on ebay !!

Guess I should sit on all of mine.

JRuck504 · 08-13-2020, 11:13 AM

Some shady stuff going on right now. I'm at Walmart and there are 3 MJ holding boxes. A guy walks up with a name tag and says he can't put them on the shelf until Walmart checks them in. He said to come back tomorrow and then takes the boxes in a cart away. Unsure what to do lol

DrZman · 08-13-2020, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by daktmacfan

I'm there too. Walmart and Target should not be a personal ATM and I don't really consider that hustling.

Yep at this point I’m dreaming of finding a place like a couple others Ive heard where they just keep em behind CS and it’s 1-2 of each product per person. Don’t see how anyone could complain, everyone gets some cards and it doesn’t encourage grown ass men camping out or taking the entire section for themselves.

TimBuckTwo · 08-13-2020, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Greek

Walked into my walmart near me not expecting to see any as the store usually stocks on fridays at random times. What do I see today? Whole cart of 3 trays worth of chroncle blasters, hangers, fat packs, tops chrome baseball in one persons cart having bought all of them up. As the guy walks away having cleaned the whole thing up. I then go to card section couple minutes later and I speak the MJ rep who says that a bunch of kids bought it all up before he could put it out. Complete lie as it was one grown man who wiped the whole thing up. Clearly the guy who bought it all up and Rep know each other as nothing else had been stocked yet but all the chronicles and topp chrome gone.

SHould have confronted the rep letting him know the score and work something out for yourself or he would be reported.

TimBuckTwo · 08-13-2020, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris P

Weird..so came to this wal mart and theres a vendor and it looks like shes about to start stocking..i ask her if she has any basketball and she tells me "i cant discuss that with anyone anymore". She then proceeds to take the basket she has and leave the area without stocking anything...

Crazy !

Greek · 08-13-2020, 11:20 AM

Bad enough that its impossible to buy from walmart and target website with all the bots but now you have to deal with these shady crooked reps.

calculusdork · 08-13-2020, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by JRuck504

Some shady stuff going on right now. I'm at Walmart and there are 3 MJ holding boxes. A guy walks up with a name tag and says he can't put them on the shelf until Walmart checks them in. He said to come back tomorrow and then takes the boxes in a cart away. Unsure what to do lol

Sounds like a dude pretending to be a rep

daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by TimBuckTwo

SHould have confronted the rep letting him know the score and work something out for yourself or he would be reported.

That's about all you can do, or just walk away and get on with life. These shenanigans are happening all over the place and it's up to Topps, Panini, & the distributors to fix (funnel the profits made in the secondary market into their accounts). It seems like the system that some Targets have where you go to the customer service and they allow you to buy limited quantities is fair. The lottery Topps did with Finest Flashbacks was fair as well.

bigroger1980 · 08-13-2020, 11:30 AM

I work dsd and mj holding Product is usually stored right Next to my bstock ! I noticed the boxes today and could see thru the clear tape chronicles tags so they are in there ! The misery!! So I finished up and noticed a Anderson rep walk by and I thought yes ! But an hr later she never appeared and the boxes never got put out , so I hit up 2 Walmart’s on the way home ran into a rep stocking a chronicles they gone !! It’s crazy

JRuck504 · 08-13-2020, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by calculusdork

Sounds like a dude pretending to be a rep

I don't think so because he took the cart to the back. I watched him

solt0131 · 08-13-2020, 11:36 AM

Supply up, price down. $79.50 free shipping for blasters on eBay with listing after listing about to undercut each other.

daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by solt0131

Supply up, price down. $79.50 free shipping for blasters on eBay with listing after listing about to undercut each other.

Still a nice flip, or hold until next season and no good RCs to chase at the 20-21 blown-up prices. I still don't get why people are clearing the shelves of blasters that sell on eBay for $30 free shipping. By my calculations there is basically no profit.

daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by bigroger1980

I work dsd and mj holding Product is usually stored right Next to my bstock ! I noticed the boxes today and could see thru the clear tape chronicles tags so they are in there ! The misery!! So I finished up and noticed a Anderson rep walk by and I thought yes ! But an hr later she never appeared and the boxes never got put out , so I hit up 2 Walmart’s on the way home ran into a rep stocking a chronicles they gone !! It’s crazy

The Anderson reps typically stock candy by the checkout isles in Walmart too. Not all Walmarts get trading cards stocked on a weekly basis.

bigjbasketball · 08-13-2020, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by solt0131

Supply up, price down. $79.50 free shipping for blasters on eBay with listing after listing about to undercut each other.

Yep I am seeing hanger box prices dropping quickly as well. The flood is coming, the next few days should be the best time to buy before stock dries up and prices go back up.

WhiteoutJustin · 08-13-2020, 11:45 AM

Crazy out there. Pop into Target about every 2 hours as it’s 5 minutes from my work. First time this morning grab some Starbucks and nothing happening other than 3 guys checking while I’m waiting on my coffee in 5 minutes which didn’t give me much hope for later unless I hit the time right. At 1130 go over and see a cart of boxes there and a lady and son digging through. Walk up and lady tells me the target manager brought them out. Thankfully they were there for baseball only. Grabbed 4 Megas, 6 Hangers, a sealed box of cello that they had to open to scan and 5 blasters.

Let 1 blaster there and some old guy comes up as I’m finishing putting my boxes in the cart and grabs the single then asks me if I’d give some of mine up. I asked him if he resells and he tells me he might open one or two and resell the rest. I told him sorry me and my son open and are collectors so I won’t share.

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daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by bigjbasketball

Yep I am seeing hanger box prices dropping quickly as well. The flood is coming, the next few days should be the best time to buy before stock dries up and prices go back up.

Well said. Buying the correct products in a saturated secondary market can net way more profits than folks buying at MSRP and instantly flipping.

Mmden · 08-13-2020, 11:51 AM

I went to Walmart this morning when they opened and was able to get some Chronicles. There was another guy there so we split most of it. But the rep was still there and told us a crazy story from yesterday. A person pretended to be a MJ Holdings rep and hit up a couple of stores. He apparently had an older shirt that they wear and went into the back and stole most of the boxes from the store. When she came to stock they asked why she was there because someone had already came in earlier. Hopefully they can catch this person from the cameras.

daktmacfan · 08-13-2020, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by WhiteoutJustin

Crazy out there. Pop into Target about every 2 hours as it’s 5 minutes from my work. First time this morning grab some Starbucks and nothing happening other than 3 guys checking while I’m waiting on my coffee in 5 minutes which didn’t give me much hope for later unless I hit the time right. At 1130 go over and see a cart of boxes there and a lady and son digging through. Walk up and lady tells me the target manager brought them out. Thankfully they were there for baseball only. Grabbed 4 Megas, 6 Hangers, a sealed box of cello that they had to open to scan and 5 blasters.

Let 1 blaster there and some old guy comes up as I’m finishing putting my boxes in the cart and grabs the single then asks me if I’d give some of mine up. I asked him if he resells and he tells me he might open one or two and resell the rest. I told him sorry me and my son open and are collectors so I won’t share.

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Good for you! I love hearing people get it in a fair fashion.

calculusdork · 08-13-2020, 12:01 PM

Guys. I can't believe it. I found 24 blasters this morning at Walmart. I wasn't going to post yet so as not to alert the masses to the other 8-10 Walmarts in my area, but I know they already know, so best of luck to them. I got mine.

And it comes with a story.

I'm teleworking today. A lot of my job is (virtual) meetings so I have flexibility at times to leave the house during them. I agreed with my wife to take two of our kids to their piano lessons this morning while on a call. After the first kid finishes and comes out, she and I run to Walmart to do some quick grocery shopping during my son's lesson. This is my local (semi-rural) Walmart, and I know when this rep stocks ... every Friday before the store opens, like clockwork. So you have to understand that cards are barely on my mind.

Regardless, the card section is the first place I stop by. And the rep is there. Stocking. On an off-schedule day.

She is on the phone, I am with my daughter (who talks non-stop). I see a full stock of Topps Chrome BB (left it there), but no Chronicles. So I just glance over into one of the unopened boxes. Sure enough, two full displays of Chronicles blasters.

Once she's off the phone, I politely ask if she has any Chronicles. She rolls her eyes and says "yep, that's the hot one now". I can tell she isn't in the mood for pleasantries, but I'm determined to become her BFF. So I say, "I bet you've really been dealing with a lot of crap, huh?" And that's the trigger.

She says, "You wouldn't believe it. People are waiting for me when I get to the store. Grown men yelling and fighting over this stuff. I've got people following me out of the store to the next store. I've got people literally following me to my car. I'm sick of it. So I decided to just come in on a different day."

As she's saying this, she kindly dumps both displays into my cart. We talk a little more about how crazy it all is. I tell her I hope her work days get better, but she seems succumbed to her fate.

I take my daughter to pick up a few groceries. We hit the self-checkout lanes by the card section. Sure enough ... one of the local flippers has arrived. He is flustered and is giving the MJ stocker grief. He's looking through her boxes to see if she missed any. She didn't. Now he's on the phone. I get to watch this unfold as I and my daughter are scanning these blasters, one at a time. Some real modern-day voyeurism.

The one thing that still bothers me. This flipper would normally be outside Walmart on Friday AM, waiting for the store to open. So how did he know she was here, off-hours on an off-day? Which caused me to ask the next logical question:

What are the odds that somewhere, someone is crazy enough to GPS-track an MJ Holdings stocker's car?

lethalray · 08-13-2020, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bigjbasketball

Yep I am seeing hanger box prices dropping quickly as well. The flood is coming, the next few days should be the best time to buy before stock dries up and prices go back up.

100%.

Still, no luck at retail so might need to pull the trigger soon...

yanksfan1 · 08-13-2020, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by calculusdork

What are the odds that somewhere, someone is crazy enough to GPS-track an MJ Holdings stocker's car?

Some of these crazy people would probably be willing to do that

08-13-2020, 11:30 AM	#3413
bigroger1980 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: New Albany indiana Posts: 1,238	I work dsd and mj holding Product is usually stored right Next to my bstock ! I noticed the boxes today and could see thru the clear tape chronicles tags so they are in there ! The misery!! So I finished up and noticed a Anderson rep walk by and I thought yes ! But an hr later she never appeared and the boxes never got put out , so I hit up 2 Walmart’s on the way home ran into a rep stocking a chronicles they gone !! It’s crazy __________________ http://s1256.photobucket.com/albums/ii485/ROGERC80/ Always looking for vintage sports cards of any sport and auto memorabilia at a good price of course

08-13-2020, 11:45 AM	#3419
WhiteoutJustin Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 658	2019-20 Panini Chronicles Basketball- Pre-release Thread Crazy out there. Pop into Target about every 2 hours as it’s 5 minutes from my work. First time this morning grab some Starbucks and nothing happening other than 3 guys checking while I’m waiting on my coffee in 5 minutes which didn’t give me much hope for later unless I hit the time right. At 1130 go over and see a cart of boxes there and a lady and son digging through. Walk up and lady tells me the target manager brought them out. Thankfully they were there for baseball only. Grabbed 4 Megas, 6 Hangers, a sealed box of cello that they had to open to scan and 5 blasters. Let 1 blaster there and some old guy comes up as I’m finishing putting my boxes in the cart and grabs the single then asks me if I’d give some of mine up. I asked him if he resells and he tells me he might open one or two and resell the rest. I told him sorry me and my son open and are collectors so I won’t share. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

08-13-2020, 11:07 AM	#3401
PSA2Pac Member Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 3,893	Chronic L's

08-13-2020, 11:10 AM	#3404
Chris P Member Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 14,803	Weird..so came to this wal mart and theres a vendor and it looks like shes about to start stocking..i ask her if she has any basketball and she tells me "i cant discuss that with anyone anymore". She then proceeds to take the basket she has and leave the area without stocking anything...

08-13-2020, 11:13 AM	#3406
JRuck504 Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: New Orleans Posts: 689 N/A	Some shady stuff going on right now. I'm at Walmart and there are 3 MJ holding boxes. A guy walks up with a name tag and says he can't put them on the shelf until Walmart checks them in. He said to come back tomorrow and then takes the boxes in a cart away. Unsure what to do lol

08-13-2020, 11:20 AM	#3410
Greek Member Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 144	Bad enough that its impossible to buy from walmart and target website with all the bots but now you have to deal with these shady crooked reps.

08-13-2020, 11:36 AM	#3415
solt0131 Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 9,129 PghSportsCards	Supply up, price down. $79.50 free shipping for blasters on eBay with listing after listing about to undercut each other.

08-13-2020, 11:51 AM	#3421
Mmden Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 16	I went to Walmart this morning when they opened and was able to get some Chronicles. There was another guy there so we split most of it. But the rep was still there and told us a crazy story from yesterday. A person pretended to be a MJ Holdings rep and hit up a couple of stores. He apparently had an older shirt that they wear and went into the back and stole most of the boxes from the store. When she came to stock they asked why she was there because someone had already came in earlier. Hopefully they can catch this person from the cameras.

08-13-2020, 12:01 PM	#3423
calculusdork Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Nowheresville Posts: 26,683 calculusdork calculusdork	Guys. I can't believe it. I found 24 blasters this morning at Walmart. I wasn't going to post yet so as not to alert the masses to the other 8-10 Walmarts in my area, but I know they already know, so best of luck to them. I got mine. And it comes with a story. I'm teleworking today. A lot of my job is (virtual) meetings so I have flexibility at times to leave the house during them. I agreed with my wife to take two of our kids to their piano lessons this morning while on a call. After the first kid finishes and comes out, she and I run to Walmart to do some quick grocery shopping during my son's lesson. This is my local (semi-rural) Walmart, and I know when this rep stocks ... every Friday before the store opens, like clockwork. So you have to understand that cards are barely on my mind. Regardless, the card section is the first place I stop by. And the rep is there. Stocking. On an off-schedule day. She is on the phone, I am with my daughter (who talks non-stop). I see a full stock of Topps Chrome BB (left it there), but no Chronicles. So I just glance over into one of the unopened boxes. Sure enough, two full displays of Chronicles blasters. Once she's off the phone, I politely ask if she has any Chronicles. She rolls her eyes and says "yep, that's the hot one now". I can tell she isn't in the mood for pleasantries, but I'm determined to become her BFF. So I say, "I bet you've really been dealing with a lot of crap, huh?" And that's the trigger. She says, "You wouldn't believe it. People are waiting for me when I get to the store. Grown men yelling and fighting over this stuff. I've got people following me out of the store to the next store. I've got people literally following me to my car. I'm sick of it. So I decided to just come in on a different day." As she's saying this, she kindly dumps both displays into my cart. We talk a little more about how crazy it all is. I tell her I hope her work days get better, but she seems succumbed to her fate. I take my daughter to pick up a few groceries. We hit the self-checkout lanes by the card section. Sure enough ... one of the local flippers has arrived. He is flustered and is giving the MJ stocker grief. He's looking through her boxes to see if she missed any. She didn't. Now he's on the phone. I get to watch this unfold as I and my daughter are scanning these blasters, one at a time. Some real modern-day voyeurism. The one thing that still bothers me. This flipper would normally be outside Walmart on Friday AM, waiting for the store to open. So how did he know she was here, off-hours on an off-day? Which caused me to ask the next logical question: What are the odds that somewhere, someone is crazy enough to GPS-track an MJ Holdings stocker's car?