Value Boxes keep on giving

[alexs64]

Someone on BO has 100 they are breaking...already have an Orange and a Super...

http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball-box-breaks/267901-100-2011-topps-value-box-break.html

 

[Titans74]

Over on BO forums...

http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball-box-breaks/266858-2011-value-box-pulled-1-1-a.html

Apparently some scammers in the making over there... :?

I wonder if there's money to be made by buying a hobby case of 2011 Bowman Chrome and listing the packs individually on ebay saying that they are straight from Walmart and you took them out of the value boxes and only opened the Update packs.

There are Ebay auctions up and running already like this. Pics of vlaue boxes in the background, but only the Chrome packs for sale.

Felt fishy so I passed on buying them. Now I'm sure my gut was right.

 

[markakis8]

Someone on BO has 100 they are breaking...already have an Orange and a Super...

http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball-box-breaks/267901-100-2011-topps-value-box-break.html

Same person who pulled the Hosmer super.

 

[Russ S.]

Someone on BO has 100 they are breaking...already have an Orange and a Super...

http://www.blowoutcards.com/forums/baseball-box-breaks/267901-100-2011-topps-value-box-break.html

Same person who pulled the Hosmer super.

He's a member here as well.

 

[sunojorel]

i have opened 141 of them so far. Been buying them quietly for better part of last 2 months now.

My hits were:

turner gold (non auto)
ackley gold refractor auto (ackley is one of the SSP guys)
lawrie orange auto redemption


some other auto's Havens blue and rest of base auto's but, yeah it was a great break at $11 when the harper refractor and the 2 on average code cards netted you $9 back immediately. But now at $15 or $11 for only $4 guaranteed in value..?
Tough to pull the trigger, (although I have bought 11 of them in the past week...)

Say it with me..." I am an addict, I am an adult who is for some crazy reason passionate about baseball cards... Sometimes I believe this makes me do irrational things in life..."

 

[ChasHawk]

Not sure what the laws are in other parts of the country, but hobby sellers are not allowed to sell retail boxes in Illinois.

 

[ballerskrip]

Well, two more 1/1's pulled

Dee Gordon Chrome retro 1/1

Jake Marinski superfractor

Just nuts

 

[Russ S.]

Well, two more 1/1's pulled

Dee Gordon Chrome retro 1/1

Jake Marinski superfractor

Just nuts

:shock: :shock:

where you see that?

 

[TBTwinsFan]

I gotta find some of these and try again...

 

[rbadger]

I've busted about 10 of these and haven't hit anything more than a base chrome, so I think it's just the volume of these produced/reported that makes them appear to have all the "hits". It does seem like a high proportion, but not knowing the production numbers it's hard to tell is this is just normal odds or what...I know my boxes haven't produced much.

 

[Superfractor]

Well, two more 1/1's pulled

Dee Gordon Chrome retro 1/1

Jake Marinski superfractor

Just nuts

:shock: :shock:

where you see that?

The latter is now on the bay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2011-Bowman-Chr ... 525wt_1163

 

[Russ S.]

Well, two more 1/1's pulled

Dee Gordon Chrome retro 1/1

Jake Marinski superfractor

Just nuts

:shock: :shock:

where you see that?

The latter is now on the bay.

Owings Mills, Maryland

East Coast killing it!

 

[allstarauction]

I have hit Super's of Hosmer Auto, Marisnick, and Higashioka now... These things are crazy.

 

[ChasHawk]

I have hit Super's of Hosmer Auto, Marisnick, and Higashioka now... These things are crazy.

But you've also opened hundreds of them, correct?

 

[Russ S.]

I have hit Super's of Hosmer Auto, Marisnick, and Higashioka now... These things are crazy.

But you've also opened hundreds of them, correct?

400+-

3 supers in 400 packs.. not bad.... :?

 

[mredsox89]

I have hit Super's of Hosmer Auto, Marisnick, and Higashioka now... These things are crazy.

But you've also opened hundreds of them, correct?

400+-

3 supers in 400 packs.. not bad.... :?

If you were just paying for the packs then certainly not. At $15 per, 400 is about $6,000. That's approximately (give or take 1) 10 cases. 3 supers is still good for 10 cases, don't get me wrong. But it's a hell of a risk when you likely aren't going to get that much else to help recoup any funds. Add in the fact that no one really knew these were going to contain hits and it becomes that much harder to accumulate. Though if someone has opened 400 I guess that's not necessarily as much of a problem as I figured

 

[allstarauction]

I have hit Super's of Hosmer Auto, Marisnick, and Higashioka now... These things are crazy.

But you've also opened hundreds of them, correct?

400+-

3 supers in 400 packs.. not bad.... :?

If you were just paying for the packs then certainly not. At $15 per, 400 is about $6,000. That's approximately (give or take 1) 10 cases. 3 supers is still good for 10 cases, don't get me wrong. But it's a hell of a risk when you likely aren't going to get that much else to help recoup any funds. Add in the fact that no one really knew these were going to contain hits and it becomes that much harder to accumulate. Though if someone has opened 400 I guess that's not necessarily as much of a problem as I figured

Here was my post on BO... The idea that these are a huge risk is just wrong...

Rough numbers...

I have opened exactly 480 boxes for a total of $5960.

I have sold my codes for an average of $2.65 each, sold 685 and have 110 more to sell that will go for at least that. That is $2106

I have 450 Red and Silver Harpers, at minimum they are worth $675

I have 30 Gold Harpers, at minimum they are $6, that is $180

So that is $2960 just from codes and Harper's, basically 1/2 my money that was guaranteed.

Here are some of the bigger hits I have got...

Harper Throwback /99
Harper Refractor /500
Matt Moore Auto
Dykstra Printing Plate Auto
Dykstra Orange Auto
Ethan Martin Gold Auto
(2) Chris Archer Blue Auto's
Aaron Hicks Blue Auto
Aroldis Chapman Chrome Orange
Starling Marte Ref Auto /500
Manny Banuelos Auto
Albert Almora Orange Auto
Elmer Reyes Plate 1/1
Yovani Gallardo Plate 1/1
About 20 other chrome Auto's
About 15 Chrome Parallel's that were $10-15

Thats another $800+ from just those cards

Now I am down to $2000

From Topps Update
Koufax Auto
Hosmer Auto
Lincecum/Wilson Dual Jersey
15 Hope Blues
20 Jersey's
3 Crap Auto's

Thats around $400, so down to $1600

About 3,000 Topps inserts, at minimum that is $500, so we are to $1100

Topps Variation inserts, about 100 total counting diamonds, that is $200 at least, so now $900

So for the final $1,000 lets say, I have all of the base Chrome, Chrome Inserts, Base Topps. From Topps update I hit about 40 of each player, so for example 40 Trouts is $50. 80 total Hosmer's is close to $100. I have around 10-15 Chrome and Chrome inserts of Harper, Lawrie, etc.

All of that is not even counting the 3 super's which included the Hosmer Super Auto.

Hope I didn't make anyone's head pop off, but I have been asked about 10 times why I keep opening these and thought I would type this out. Even if I don't factor in the Super's I am still WAY ahead of the game. Of course that is at $12.50 a box, and when most of the codes were good.

 

[mredsox89]

At this point, yes. Knowing everything about them there wasn't all that much risk. Forgot about the codes because they had expired so thanks for that.

 

[Russ S.]

^ :shock: Congrats bud :shock: ^

 

[MartinFFcollector]

Been looking for these locally for awhile now. Never seen 1. Only Football. Just saw BO has some back in so I ordered 20. We'll see...