Hardest to find modern boxes?

BBCgalaxee · Oct 3, 2014

From the last 30 years, which boxes do you feel are the hardest to find?

I'll throw some out here....

85 topps traded wax
91 topps desert shield wax
93 finest wax

RStadlerASU22 · Oct 3, 2014

1997 Score Regional Texas Rangers

Ryan

rickeyfanatic · Oct 3, 2014

2005 Prime Patches
2005 Absolute Mem Baseball

smapdi · Oct 3, 2014

Are 1993 Finest boxes hard to find? Expensive, sure, but there are always at least a couple on ebay it seems.

Early-mid 00s boxes from lesser-known, one-off brands are tough, especially Fleer's and Pinnacle's. 2001 Fleer Genuine, 2003 Fleer Hardball, 2000 Ovation, UD Retro in the lunchboxes, 2003 Classic Portraits with the busts, Pinnacle X-press in the home plate packaging, all these increasingly obscure sets. When they are listed they often sell for respectable amounts, but they're just not out there.

The others are ones that are so heavily collected that most boxes sold get broken, and they may not have made a ton relative to other sets. Topps Tek (especially 1998), 2002-05 Diamond Kings, 2001 Topps Heritage. Also 2005 Topps Cracker Jack and Turkey Red (the parallels are heavily coveted).

MansGame · Oct 3, 2014

1998 Topps Tek

pujolsthomefan33 · Oct 3, 2014

1998 Topps Tek
2001, 2004-05 Absolute
2002-05 Diamond Kings
2001-2002 SP Legendary Cuts
2001-2002 Topps Tribute
2001 Leaf Certified Materials
1999 SP Signature
1999-2000 UD Retro
1999 Upper Deck Legends
2001 Bowman Chrome
2002 Topps Super Teams

These may be somewhat easier to find, but prices are high and they dont come around too often
1993 Finest, 1993 SP, 1999 Topps Tek, 2001 SP Authentic, 2001 Fleer Platinum Rack Packs, 2003 UD Portraits, 2004 Absolute, 2001 Topps Heritage, 2000 Upper Deck Legends

Also for complete factory sealed sets, all Topps Tiffany Sets, 1991 Topps Desert Shield, and 2000 Topps Traded are becoming hard to find as well.

bobthewondercat77 · Oct 3, 2014

First few years of Topps Sterling and Pristine, and the whole run of Retired Signatures

1999 UD Encore as well

DeliciousBacon · Oct 4, 2014

I don't know if this product was ever released in any form other than retail gravity feeders, but the 2009 Upper Deck Fat Packs with the Update cards are impossible to find. I remember buying tons of these packs at KMart around mid 2010, but they seem to have all vanished. Back then, the good pull was that Gordon Beckham, but now it's the Matt Wieters RC.

sportscardtheory · Oct 4, 2014

Sounds crazy, but 1995 Stadium Club Baseball Series 3 isn't all that easy to find. Still cheap, but not easy to find.

allstars · Oct 4, 2014

DeliciousBacon said:
I don't know if this product was ever released in any form other than retail gravity feeders, but the 2009 Upper Deck Fat Packs with the Update cards are impossible to find. I remember buying tons of these packs at KMart around mid 2010, but they seem to have all vanished. Back then, the good pull was that Gordon Beckham, but now it's the Matt Wieters RC.

Weiters was as hot as Beckham back then too...

DeliciousBacon · Oct 4, 2014

allstars said:
Weiters was as hot as Beckham back then too...

I wish I still had all my dupes from Update. A few years ago, I blew out 25K cards to a local dealer, including a few hundred Update extras. Except the Beckhams, kept those to sell separate. I might have had as many as 10 Weiters, which is almost as bad as the massive amounts of Clayton Kershaw RCs that were also in that lot...

brian26 · Oct 5, 2014

DeliciousBacon said:
I don't know if this product was ever released in any form other than retail gravity feeders, but the 2009 Upper Deck Fat Packs with the Update cards are impossible to find. I remember buying tons of these packs at KMart around mid 2010, but they seem to have all vanished. Back then, the good pull was that Gordon Beckham, but now it's the Matt Wieters RC.

Was that the year UD's design didn't have team logos or names, and it got pulled halfway through the season due to Topps threatening legal action?

heavy_hitter · Oct 5, 2014

brian26 said:
Was that the year UD's design didn't have team logos or names, and it got pulled halfway through the season due to Topps threatening legal action?

No, that was 2010 UD Series 1.

jbhofmann · Oct 5, 2014

2009 Ultimate

I think AIC busted 50% of the run.

brian26 · Oct 5, 2014

heavy_hitter said:
No, that was 2010 UD Series 1.

Ah, that's right. Thanks.

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