Yeah, they are still tough and still sell for a decent amount on ebay. Usually $30-50 on buy it now if you are willing to wait a little while to sell. Not sure I'd risk an auction since most people have probably forgotten about this set or are working on something a little newer.
This break was actually done about a week and a half ago. Just haven't had the chance to post it until now. Most of these are already in my ebay store (some have already sold).
I don't know how common it is but I remember seeing a box of 1982's back in '82 that were sealed that way. The printing on the fronts of the cards would often stick to the cello wrapper when the pack was opened.
I remember when an ungraded set of 93 Finest refractors would set you back $25-30k, so $8-10K may not be a great price for the seller depending on where he bought in.
Go ahead and add the following to my previous Royals and Johnny Damon selections:
Sammy Sosa 25, Wade Boggs 12, Mike Mussina 16, Yankees 18, Red Sox 13.
Apparently Topps did send Beckett a loaded box. Or Chris Olds is the luckiest guy on earth, his personal box of ginter + this one -- 2 glossy 1/1's.
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I have one at home that I bought from Wal-Mart that i need to take back. I bought 10 of the 2012 Topps Series 1 blasters that were marked down $12. 9 of them were fine but one had been taped back together and filled with at least one empty pack of marlboros (I didn't open si further since the...
No wrapper redemption for series 2 really hurts. A wrapper redemption isn't really needed for series 1, everybody's desperate for new baseball cards to bust at that time of the year. Series 2 would have really been helped out by a bonus program.