First Buzz: 2023 Topps Series 2 baseball cards

[ClevelandIC]

Originally Posted by SupermanBrandon

I’m dead. This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen on Blowout.


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Why? Have you ever listed Topps flagship on release day?

[fightfortheuser]

Originally Posted by SupermanBrandon

I’m dead. This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen on Blowout.


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would you say it's funnier than 99% of stuff you've seen on Blowout?

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

That’s what I thought.

Make an outlandish claim that the return on flagship is greater than the hourly wage for 99% of us, and then get triggered and refuse to back it up when challenged. Typical Blowout loudmouth.

I think the entire board knows who the loudmouth is here. And it has nothing to do with me having no desire to post my personal finance information on a public message board. You should make a post demanding Chris from Blowout to post their financials too. Then call him a loudmouth when he declines. You truly are in a league of your own. On the highest of all high horses you sit by yourself judging all of us beneath you.

Let us all not forget, that you are making these claims and demands of others when you don't even bust this. That's the worst part of it all. Its not like you opened a bunch and lost your money and have a reason for your nonsensical opinions. This is the same as everything else you post. You think you are better than everyone, know more than everyone, and the whole world owes you a debt of gratitude for gracing us with your presence. I'm done. You are a tool amongst all tools and I am not wasting any more of my time.

PS. For those who have an interest in opening flagship, do it fast and put the time in for whatever amount you feel like you want to open. You will be pleasantly surprised. Don't listen to the ones who don't know what they are talking about.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by ClevelandIC

You're right, it could be even more. I know I paid $950 for my case but I was the fourth person to touch it, direct cost was $685 for hobby and $661 for Jumbo. Adley base rookies would bring back 7% of the initial cost if sold opening week. This release had a ton of hype with a lot of notable rookies. The first listings of Golder Mirror SSPs were pretty nuts, too. Those probably brought back another 7% - again. Imagine if he pulled ANY card over $300 which he did, what about a $500 card? What about $1,000?

$45,000 might be low. I did some rough math - what do you think he made? How many hours do you think he spent? And stopping at 40 may be an arbitrary number that he chose. I can make money on a case, why not do two? Why not three?

I go through flavor fatigue when I do too much of one product. There are other ways to make money in this hobby that he may be spending his time on. I could probably scroll through Blowout offered products right now and find 5+ that I could rip right now and make money on, I don't care what's inside. The floor of these products, if listed properly, is higher than current market price. I have 100,000 unlisted cards that I need to get through first or I would do that all day long.

I have no idea what he made. I wouldn’t even know where to start. I have zero experience ripping and flipping Flagship. If an experienced seller can net an average of $500 on each of 40 cases, than any bozo should be able to yield a profit from a couple of cases.

I get what you’re saying, but when you’re talking about nearly doubling your money on every case, it does become a question of why stop.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by premium1981

Let us all not forget, that you are making these claims and demands of others when you don't even bust this.

Can you share with us the claims I made other than pointing out how bogus your 99th percentile claim was?

In the amount of time it took you to post that dribble, you could have just provided a few rough numbers. But you won’t, because they’ll embarrass you.

[bub838]

So, you guys think they'll do the super boxes again? Those pins were kind of neat.

[ClevelandIC]

Originally Posted by bub838

So, you guys think they'll do the super boxes again? Those pins were kind of neat.

I hope so, those were the best retail version they've made since making Mega Boxes with 16x 16-Card packs. I wonder what the cost of making those were though, I'm curios about their margins with so much extra material and making/printing variations.

[bub838]

Originally Posted by ClevelandIC

I hope so, those were the best retail version they've made since making Mega Boxes with 16x 16-Card packs. I wonder what the cost of making those were though, I'm curios about their margins with so much extra material and making/printing variations.

They could definitely reduce the packaging. So much extra plastic and the way the retail packs were glued together was annoying.

[Seitas]

I can’t even imagine what the bedside manner is of a ‘doctor’ when they’re this off putting on a sports card forum. Embarrassing.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by Seitas

I can’t even imagine what the bedside manner is of a ‘doctor’ when they’re this off putting on a sports card forum. Embarrassing.

Well that settles it. Premium is right because I'm a big meanie on the card message board.

[Astros19]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

What do you think I expect though? See how I haven’t thrown out numbers or made any claims other than refute the outrageous 99th percentile that he threw out there? I know there is money to be made ripping Flagship in bulk. I’ve never refuted that. I’ve asked repeatedly for someone to show how much can be made ripping in bulk (talking dozens of cases). But nobody ever wants to, even though the discussion could be ended by taking a couple minutes to do so.

It could be that no one likes you enough to take the time.
Between you and Superjerk, I wouldn't give either one of you the time of day.
Perhaps try not being a jerk and maybe someone will give you the time of day.

Edit to add....I see I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by Astros19

It could be that no one likes you enough to take the time.
Between you and Superjerk, I wouldn't give either one of you the time of day.
Perhaps try not being a jerk and maybe someone will give you the time of day.

Edit to add....I see I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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Think of how much satisfaction everyone here would get if premium backed his words up, completely embarrassed me, and got me to shut up for once!

[21Pittsburgh58]

Originally Posted by Seitas

I can’t even imagine what the bedside manner is of a ‘doctor’ when they’re this off putting on a sports card forum. Embarrassing.

Yes, let's compare a professional work place to an on-line sports card forum. I'm sure most BO member's forum personality matches perfectly to their personal/professional work place personality.

And putting doctor in ' ' means what?

Your post should be deleted by the mods and then they can then delete this one as well.

[ThoseBackPages]

Originally Posted by bub838

So, you guys think they'll do the super boxes again? Those pins were kind of neat.

SKUs rarely disappear int he new age, so i cant see why there wouldnt be

[21Pittsburgh58]

Originally Posted by Astros19

It could be that no one likes you enough to take the time.
Between you and Superjerk, I wouldn't give either one of you the time of day.
Perhaps try not being a jerk and maybe someone will give you the time of day.

Edit to add....I see I'm not the only one who feels this way.

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Are you serious? Kettle, meet pot. Pot, meet kettle.

[Astros19]

Originally Posted by 21Pittsburgh58

Are you serious? Kettle, meet pot. Pot, meet kettle.

Yes I'm serious Mr. White knight.

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[oldgoldy97]

[Yanks23]

It is still crazy to me the premium that buyers pay for base topps products year after year when it is clear that prices fall so much after just a week of release. I have never understood this for buyers. At least in past buying quantity of raw rcs to graded made sense but today it is a terrible return on investment to even do that. I cant even imagine the number of people needed to open 40 cases, sort, list, sell and ship that many cards but more power to premium for doing this. I have to figure at some point that margins will continue to get squeezed as fanatics keeps raising prices on wax.

[StlBen]

Any chance we could just move along....

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by StlBen

Any chance we could just move along....

Since you asked nicely

[zworykin]

Originally Posted by StlBen

Any chance we could just move along....

You've been around far too long to think these people are capable of that.

[njsportscardguy]

[ThoseBackPages]

#ThanksTopps

[UCCF]

Originally Posted by StlBen

Any chance we could just move along....

Just put everyone on Ignore. It makes the site much more pleasant.

[bub838]

So, Walker and Volpe. Probably Carroll, Jung and Outman?