So close and yet sooo far...

scooter2374 · Jul 19, 2010

I decided to try my hand in the Longoria superfractor hunt tonight and nearly had a heart attack. I'm in the middle of my 2nd box and I see a shiny. I move the other cards out of the way and see his name on the shiny background. I then see said card is Auto'd.... and it just turns out to be a /500 ref. Damn you baseball card gods!!!

So close but yet sooooooo far

blanning71 · Jul 19, 2010

You pull a Longoria refractor auto and you're cursing the baseball gods? Not smart buddy. Not smart at all.

scooter2374 · Jul 19, 2010

I thought that the smiley would negate all negativity towards said gods, lol

blanning71 said:
You pull a Longoria refractor auto and you're cursing the baseball gods? Not smart buddy. Not smart at all.

PaulKonerkbro · Jul 19, 2010

Your title is so misleading. You really weren't close at all.

Nice hit.

LaneyB · Jul 19, 2010

Okay, nice pull - what exact box are these supers in so I can buy one or two and pull it so we can end all the speculation? Thanks.

scooter2374 · Jul 19, 2010

The real box will only show itself on the second wednesday of next week, when the moon is super-full. Or it is super-new....

LaneyB said:
Okay, nice pull - what exact box are these supers in so I can buy one or two and pull it so we can end all the speculation? Thanks.

coltsnsox07 · Jul 20, 2010

It's funny I just now did some late night ebay buying and put my ebay bucks towards 2 boxes of 06 Draft( I'll let you know whats in them) and I come here and read this! I also bought a Ginter box from this guy, he has a Strasburg mini for sale and reading his feedback comments, he sold a box with one in it too.

jesrockz · Jul 20, 2010

How much have you guys paid for the hobby boxes? I bought a case for $640 a few months ago. Nothing worth a darn in it. I have another 7 boxes that should be at the post office now.

jesrockz · Jul 20, 2010

scooter2374 said:
I decided to try my hand in the Longoria superfractor hunt tonight and nearly had a heart attack. I'm in the middle of my 2nd box and I see a shiny. I move the other cards out of the way and see his name on the shiny background. I then see said card is Auto'd.... and it just turns out to be a /500 ref. Damn you baseball card gods!!! So close but yet sooooooo far

So where's the scan? And are you going to sell it?

scooter2374 · Jul 20, 2010

jesrockz said:
scooter2374 said:

I decided to try my hand in the Longoria superfractor hunt tonight and nearly had a heart attack. I'm in the middle of my 2nd box and I see a shiny. I move the other cards out of the way and see his name on the shiny background. I then see said card is Auto'd.... and it just turns out to be a /500 ref. Damn you baseball card gods!!! So close but yet sooooooo far

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So where's the scan? And are you going to sell it?

I don't have a scanner yet or I would have plastered my neighborhood with copies

Does anybody on here have a recommendation on one? Or ones to avoid? Dunno about if I'm selling yet. I'm not really a Rays/Longoria fan but I do understand that /#'d auto cards of his caliber don't exactly grow on trees. I just recently got back into the hobby and that's a nice place to start a new-er collection.

jesrockz · Jul 20, 2010

Does anybody have any idea how many of these were made?

It kinda blows my mind when you start thinking about how many cards a guy signs. The auto refractor was numbered to 500, the auto xfractor is numbered to 250, etc.......and how many of these were signed? 1,000?? How can a man sign that many without his hand falling off?

http://cgi.ebay.com/2006-BOWMAN-CHROME- ... 335e6d978f

yankeesfan24 · Jul 20, 2010

awesome pull, congrats

LaneyB · Jul 20, 2010

I was having a drink last night (apparently too many) and ordered a box of this stuff; it should be here on Thursday - will post results then too.

jesrockz · Jul 23, 2010

I've opened 2 more boxes and I have 5 more to open. Nothing yet!

LaneyB · Jul 24, 2010

I got my box in and nothing spectacular that I know of - scans on Sunday when I get back home.

scooter2374 · Jul 24, 2010

jesrockz said:
How much have you guys paid for the hobby boxes? I bought a case for $640 a few months ago. Nothing worth a darn in it. I have another 7 boxes that should be at the post office now.

I think I paid $300 or so for 4 boxes so about 75 per

LaneyB · Jul 28, 2010

This is what was in my only box, the scanner is horrible and I don't know how to use it completely yet.

brouthercard · Jul 28, 2010

I haven't pulled a Longoria in my last 3 cases of 2006 bowman draft, and i've seen two other case breaks that did not have a Longoria either.

Be happy you actually pulled one!

lkk116 · Jul 28, 2010

I pulled a Rowell Gold Ref as well a few months back and all I could say was UGH

brouthercard · Jul 28, 2010

LaneyB said:
This is what was in my only box, the scanner is horrible and I don't know how to use it completely yet.

Man, it's a shame to see that this would have been a $300 box back in the day, and now it won't even yield $30 back.

Most cases of 2006 bowman draft won't yield you more than $150 nowadays, when back then, you were averaging around $350 or more in return.

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