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#1151 |
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Location: TN
Posts: 15,843
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Topps has to start doing better w/ QC. The centering on all releases this year is atrocious. Base cards...whatever. Low numbered parallels need serious love. Most low numbered stuff Im seeing across Topps is barely 80/20 much less 70/30. Its awful!
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#1152 |
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Join Date: Sep 2021
Posts: 450
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#1153 |
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 13,967
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Yeah, about the only thing that has tainted this product for me. Several nice low-numbered hits but all severely O/C. Probably 60/40. The Wanders in Finest Flashbacks were just atrocious but I did hit one nicely centered.
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#1154 |
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 17,573
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I’m sure that with increased capacity and investment in technology that grading standards are about to get much easier, again.
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#1155 |
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 12,372
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I'm also noticing Topps must have used the same "chrome" printer as 2010... some of these cards are already about bent in half coming out of the pack.
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#1156 |
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 41,308
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Quality will worsen until revenue takes a hit. No reason for Fanatics to spend more for better quality when it sells regardless.
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![]() ![]() Got 10 boxes from topps.com thanks to heads up from this forum on availability. This was in box 7. I was initially thrown off because the first Logofractor pack only had 4 cards and no parallel. This was in Logofractor pack number 2 along with a blue. Nothing to speak of in the base packs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 51,344
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Truly riveting discussion: that’s what your wife/girlfriend/sheep said.
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#1160 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 51,344
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Thought mine was coming today. Turned out to be my Gallery monster.
Now I have to wait another day while prices go up higher.
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Truly riveting discussion: that’s what your wife/girlfriend/sheep said.
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#1161 |
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That’s it guys - keep ripping’ and buying this Product. There is no need to keep any of your boxes Sealed
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#1162 |
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Opened 3 today. Here are my hits. 3 more on the way. The regular chrome packs were garbage which was expected. Best was a Cruz rookie.
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Updating tracking of lowest eBay BIN pricing including shipping::
- 10/5 a.m. $90.00 (n.b. didn't check lowest in hand price) - 10/6 p.m $109.74 (lowest in hand $114.99) - 10/7 a.m. $116.90 (lowest in hand $129.99) - 10/7 p.m $125.99 in hand - 10/8 p.m $126.50 in hand
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Always looking for Tristar Obak variations, short prints, parallels, and autos. |
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Looking to trade for Panini Points! |
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#1165 |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 6,497
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#1167 |
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Join Date: May 2020
Location: OH->MI->MD->VA
Posts: 6,893
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Got my 3 boxes today, already sold em on eBay. No ragrets.
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: From the 508 to the 707
Posts: 5,393
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Congrats on the great boxes guys! Unbelievable cards. My 5 are supposed to be here tomorrow…can’t wait. |
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#1169 |
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Didn't do great on my five boxes despite hitting three autos. Altuve base auto, Burger rookie stars auto, and a Tim Anderson Green auto. Nothing much on the color front and no Wander or SP
Trying to complete a set though and would love to trade with someone to check off most/all of my missing cards with my doubles and triples Need: 4, 6, 12, 16, 21, 23, 33, 37, 49, 50, 55, 56, 64, 66, 68, 73, 75, 87, 90, 94, 96, 105, 110 Available: 2, 5, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 29, 30, 38, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 52, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 84, 93, 98, 102, 108 |
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#1170 |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 14,904
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Don't feel I did too hot on my 10 boxes. Got a Wander logofractor and a Oneil Cruz Logofractor. Got future stars inserts of Wander and Cruz too. Got the following parallels
Club Plaques Orange (/25) JD Martinez (of course it wasn't someone good) Purple (/250) Kershaw Luis Robert Vidal Brujan RC Trevor Story Cedric Mullins Nick Castellanos Pink (/199) Kershaw Vidal Brujan RC Trevor Story Nick Castellanos Luis Gil RC Ketel Marte Ryan Mountcastle Blue (/150) Walker Buehler Manny Machado Future Stars Green (/99) Cal Raleigh Green (/99) Zack Wheeler Bryan Reynolds Jose Ramirez Jarren Durran RC Green Auto (/99) Eloy Jimenez Gold (/50) Max Scherzer Red (/5) Luis Gil RC Meh |
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#1171 |
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: ATX
Posts: 3,870
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Opened the first 6 of my 10.
Autos: Gil Color: best was Ohtani Gold (sold for $380 and immediately regretted it - I like collecting key cards from seasons I consider to be fairly historic so I'll place a premium on Judge, Pujols and Ohtani 2022 from certain releases). Wander and Wander plaque rounded out the key "hits" |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: D.C.
Posts: 6,871
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Saturday imagination:
I pull the Julio Rose Gold on Monday, then immediately book a flight to Newport Beach for Premium* (1/2/3) service. Three business days of cold sweats, no sleep, and heartburn are spent pacing the hallway like an anxious father-to-be, waiting for the proverbial bubblegum cigars and balloons announcing "It's a 10!" Hospital bills abound, I'd then orphan the priceless fruit of my non-labor, telling a heart-soaring story twinged with the taste of lingering lifelong regret. I insist that I'll always have the HQ scans and the memories, though. I'll see everyone on Monday. 😅 |
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 12,372
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More like you'll hit the Rose Gold and then it will get a 6 like the Jasson papadopolous... |
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Just kidding. It's not going to be the first or last graded 1/1, but I can't think of a justifiable reason against encasing it as "Authentic" without a number grade. Definitely clearing the grading costs, and transferring the risk of secondary value to the next buyer. Foolish? Mayhaps. Leaving money on the table? Very probably. But could a 10 base Logofractor be valued higher than the Rose Gold?
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