At what point do you stop ripping vintage and start holding onto the unopened?

Rofles

All the recent discussion surrounding this has had me thinking. I have some ‘81 and ‘82 (baseball) on the way, and I’m starting to wonder now if it’s worth more to just hold onto the unopened and just rip say, ‘85 and later. Would you be better off just buying early 80’s slabbed 9’s, cracking and resending it to see if you can get a 10 out of it (which doesn’t seem right)? Anyone else kind of feel this way?

rcmb3220

Always better to keep it unopened and buy singles, but not nearly as fun

Rofles

@rcmb3220 said:
Always better to keep it unopened and buy singles, but not nearly as fun

Is that starting to apply to the ‘80snow though?

lightningboy

I think on the whole, the answer is yes to holding onto unopened. I remember getting involved in group purchases from BBCE about 7 or 8 years ago and you could realistically make money opening the packs as they were not terribly expensive and the pops were considerably lower on the graded cards. But that has certainly reversed since then. Packs/boxes have conservatively increased 3 to 4 times and the pops on cards have also gone up dramatically. Therefore you really have to hit one of the couple big cards from a set and have it centered to make money. The junk era packs (late 80's - early 90's) are worth it to open as they are inexpensive and you could still hit several cards that would be worth the pack.

ndleo

I think you can start applying that logic to certain 1990's - mid-2000's boxes.

Right now I don't see the upside in cracking 2000 FB with Bradys RC, late 1990's Skybox BKB, 1993 SP Baseball, 1996 Topps Chrome BKB, and 2003 Topps Chrome BKB.

alifaxwa2

When you realize ripping is almost always a losing proposition