Card companies mass sells?

[Grace17]

Sorry if this has been brought up before, but my question is about extra cards being sold at the end of the season to the bigger dealers by the card companies in mass quantities. When I bought a massive lot of UDs lately from a large shop, he made a comment that he had the thousands of the cards because he bought them directly from UD at the end of the year. Like excess product. We are going back to the 90s. Thoughts??

 

[smapdi]

If it happens today, it's an extremely well-kept secret. Back in the early 90s, dealers could just order blocks of particular cards because they were printing billions of copies. Six-hundred-count bricks of Cal Eldred and Chuck Knoblauch cards weren't accumulated by opening packs. Not so today, especially when base cards are basically toilet paper.

Do certain dealers have ins with certain employees of card companies and get passed high-dollar cards that weren't packed out? I'd find it hard to believe if that weren't true. But it doesn't bother me so long as the cards get into circulation rather than sitting in a box at the card company. Unless it's something like the Correa Chromes or other cards that no one else has seen come out of a pack, it'd be really hard to trace and once they're on the market they just blend in.

 

[mchenrycards]

There is certainly a precedent set for this type of activity by the major card companies going back to the start of the hobby. Back in the day the dealer in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Larry Fritch would by whatever was left in the Topps runs directly from the company. This end of the year runs was typically a train car or two loaded with cards and word has always been that he spent pennies on the dollars just so Topps would get something for their cards.

This was back in the very early to mid '70's and his son who now runs the business still has some of this old, unopened stuff which is now worth thousands and perhaps millions.

 

[PeteD]

in 2010 i opened tons of BChrome and never pull 1 Harper USA BB...not a 1

 

[Grace17]

Thanks. Appreciate the responses. Very interesting.

So I bought a mass lot of my player, simply to find hologram variations. But when I got the cards, they looked fresh off the assembly line, but more strange was of the 4K cards, not one hologram variation in any of them. (I doubt the seller pulled the variations) The same day, I bought. 100 lot of the same card from another person and within those 100, I dug up 4-5 hologram variations. Now this could be that one collector back in the day bought case after case after case and because the cards were all from the same run, it would be likely that they all had the same hologram. Maybe? The only reason I was asking, was a few months back a guy sold me a giant lot of this card and again no variations. When I asked him how he got them he said something to the effect that he got them in a player lot directly from Ud back in the day.

 

[mchenrycards]

I dont doubt his story. UD was known to pull crap like this but only if it was going to make them a nice chunk of change.