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Friday, January 26, 2018

Cardboard roulette (h/t BWTP)

Matt over at Bob Walk The Plank recently showed a few cards from higher-end products he's picked up for well below the cost of that pack or box. In this case, he was talking about Archives Signature.

It's basically cardboard roulette, Matt says. And I agree. Most of the time, collectors pay top dollar for these higher end products, and then the non-mojo SiCk hItZ end up on eBay for a fraction of the cost of the product.

A small portion of collectors certainly must pull great cards, but the others? Well they list Dellin Betances cards like this for dirt cheap:
This set me back a whole $2, including shipping. It's from Topps Tier One, a product that costs $100 per pack for 3 cards - 2 autographs and a relic.

So like Matt, I'm happy to let other people pay premium prices, and then reap the (cheap) benefits when the cards they don't want hit eBay.
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4 comments:

  1. Collecting CutchJanuary 26, 2018 at 5:28 PM

    Buying singles of high end products is definitely the way to go.

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  2. Brett AlanJanuary 26, 2018 at 5:38 PM

    I picked up a 2016 Tier One relic of George Brett for $4 shipped. Pretty sweet, but, yeah, if a relic of a retired HoFer goes for that, there can't be many people seeing a profit on these.

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  3. P-town TomJanuary 26, 2018 at 9:43 PM

    Thank goodness Vogelbach isn't a big name, because I would have broke the bank last summer. I picked up many high-end singles at similar prices. Thank you, Ebay!

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  4. Zippy ZappyJanuary 28, 2018 at 6:36 PM

    The thing that irks me about these is that for every good deal you get (like $3 shipped on a relic numbered to 399), you start thinking of going after the other serial numbers of the same player. Only to find that they're all from different sellers and charging $3.50-5 shipping. Blasting them all into gray whale territory lol.

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