@PROMETHIUS88 said:
I'm going to end this argument. Someone send me $101 and I'll send them a box of 1987 Topps wax. Then the answer to the op will be....TODAY!
Tempting, but I think I'd rather send @doubledragon $300 for his left thumb.
Sometimes I need a ROTFLMFAO button instead of the pedestrian LOL.
@Tabe said:
Forget 1987 Topps - when is 1988 Donruss hitting $100 a box?
Scientists were recently debating this but all agreed that it would be a close race between '88 Donruss hitting $100 per box or the sun dying, both of which they estimate to be at about 5 billion years from now.
Fair question, and I'd have to agree with you that it most likely will happen. Set registry collectors are responsible for driving up the prices of 83, 84, 85 and 86 boxes.....I assume there are a handful of poor souls who are doing the same thing for the 87 set.
That’s interesting, I had not heard or even considered that set registry was driving the explosion we are seeing in 80s unopened! I had just assumed that we had a wave of unopened collectors enter the market and people like me hoarding more of the stuff.
While I guess I should be happy for what I have got in my collection, I missed out on some big deals. I fully blame Aaron Judges 2017 season on splintering my focus from 80s unopened to modern.
John
Conundrum - Loving my unopened baseball card collection....but really like ripping too
My guess is about the same time Starbucks coffee is $75 per cup due to inflation. If I had to guess a year, I would say somewhere in the 2090-2100 range
While I think the OP is being a little overzealous, I also think there are some here that are underestimating his sentiment. A year ago, a PSA 10 Bonds was a $33 card and now they're $50+. Yes, it's Bonds, but that type of increase on a card with that much supply in the market is pretty impressive. With an increased adoption of the Beckett rookie card rules I think we'll see more attention paid to the 1987 issues of players like Bonds, Bo, McGwire, Canseco, Clark, etc.
For the record, I'm putting my money where my mouth is and just bought 4 87 topps wax boxes.
Will hopefully buy many more in next 3 years as budget allows.
A 71 rack pack went from 2K to 5K seemingly overnight so anything is possible in the unopened market lol..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
@Darin said:
Sir, it will be a pleasure to revisit this thread in 3 years.
Happy three years! So last we visited this thread, we've had the greatest run-up of pricing in the hobby's history. Inflation is tracking at its highest point in 40 years. And, looking at eBay, you can still get a box of '87 for $30-$35.
Still a slog to go to reach $100. Talk to you in another three?
@Darin said:
Sir, it will be a pleasure to revisit this thread in 3 years.
Happy three years! So last we visited this thread, we've had the greatest run-up of pricing in the hobby's history. Inflation is tracking at its highest point in 40 years. And, looking at eBay, you can still get a box of '87 for $30-$35.
Still a slog to go to reach $100. Talk to you in another three?
I mean if you're talking about BBCE FASC boxes they're consistently selling for $50-$60 shipped, but point taken. See you in another three years! lol
@Darin said:
Dennis, prices are already going higher on the 86 product, especially FASC, it will go up on the 87 product as well, mark my words.
Your words have been marked. I’ll try to remember to bump this thread every 3-5 years to mark them again when it doesn’t happen.
Green Sneakers, right after the Chiefs traded Alex Smith, after having recorded the best QB rating in the entire
NFL, I wrote what is currently in my sigline, about how Patrick Mahomes was the next great QB. And I started buying
all the Mahomes rookie cards I could afford. My words were marked in my sigline, but alas, how many read my
sigline but did not foresee what had become clear to me.
Sir, it will be a pleasure to revisit this thread in 3 years.
It's 3 years later... Even COVID and rampant inflation could not move those BBCE FASC boxes above $50-$60 shipped. Accounting for inflation the going rate is pretty much the same as they were in 2019 perhaps even a tad less.
As it turns out there were many, many , many good investments in Trading cards since May 2019 unopened 1987 Topps Baseball was simply not even close to being one of them.
@Darin , If you show up to eat a bit of crow in good nature, I for one will respect that.
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
@Darin said:
Dennis, prices are already going higher on the 86 product, especially FASC, it will go up on the 87 product as well, mark my words.
Your words have been marked. I’ll try to remember to bump this thread every 3-5 years to mark them again when it doesn’t happen.
Green Sneakers, right after the Chiefs traded Alex Smith, after having recorded the best QB rating in the entire
NFL, I wrote what is currently in my sigline, about how Patrick Mahomes was the next great QB. And I started buying
all the Mahomes rookie cards I could afford. My words were marked in my sigline, but alas, how many read my
sigline but did not foresee what had become clear to me.
Sir, it will be a pleasure to revisit this thread in 3 years.
It's 3 years later... Even COVID and rampant inflation could not move those BBCE FASC boxes above $50-$60 shipped. Accounting for inflation the going rate is pretty much the same as they were in 2019 perhaps even a tad less.
@Darin , If you show up to eat a bit of crow in good nature, I know at least i for one will at least respect that. As it turns out there were many, many , many good investments in Trading cards since May 2019 unopened 1987 Topps Baseball was simply not even close to being one of them,
Yes, I appear to have been incorrect on that bit of prognostication.
Kudos to Green Sneakers for resurrecting this thread exactly 3 years later, well done Sir!
I have been exposed as both a charlatan and a miscreant, and deserving of the full wrath of the board.
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I wonder if Green Sneakers would have spent all 3 years marking the calendar and waiting to pounce back into this thread if Darin's prognostication had come to fruition?
At least now he can throw away that little reminder piece of paper that he taped to his computer monitor 3 years ago.
@nam812 said:
I wonder if Green Sneakers would have spent all 3 years marking the calendar and waiting to pounce back into this thread if Darin's prognostication had come to fruition?
At least now he can throw away that little reminder piece of paper that he taped to his computer monitor 3 years ago.
In the last 3 years we have had near historic inflation + A COVID driven Trading Card (and Collectible) All-Time high bubble. If that could not boost the going rate of those boxes above $100 even if BBCE FASC then nothing would have since 2019.
BTW a buddy of mine owned a Comic Book shop in the 90's and 00's. I visited him him last night and posed the 1987 Tops baseball question. He still has 5 cases of the 6 he purchased circa 1995. I do wonder if overall there are hundreds of thousands of these cases still unopened...?
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
Full disclosure- Since I started this thread 3 years ago, I will say I no longer collect unopened
except for a few items I didn't sell to Phil from BBCE a couple months ago.
I did keep the 4 boxes of 87 topps I mentioned in a post along with a little 82 and 83 bb unopened.
The best boxes I had that I sold to BBCE were Mahomes rookie boxes, 2017 panini prizm.
Comments
Sometimes I need a ROTFLMFAO button instead of the pedestrian LOL.
Andy
Forget 1987 Topps - when is 1988 Donruss hitting $100 a box?
1988 Donruss should already be at $100 because of the chase to find that 2nd PSA 10 of Devon White.
buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball
Scientists were recently debating this but all agreed that it would be a close race between '88 Donruss hitting $100 per box or the sun dying, both of which they estimate to be at about 5 billion years from now.
Andy
Careful. We don't want the market flooded.
It's a pop 1, the market already is flooded.
Arthur
Fair question, and I'd have to agree with you that it most likely will happen. Set registry collectors are responsible for driving up the prices of 83, 84, 85 and 86 boxes.....I assume there are a handful of poor souls who are doing the same thing for the 87 set.
That’s interesting, I had not heard or even considered that set registry was driving the explosion we are seeing in 80s unopened! I had just assumed that we had a wave of unopened collectors enter the market and people like me hoarding more of the stuff.
While I guess I should be happy for what I have got in my collection, I missed out on some big deals. I fully blame Aaron Judges 2017 season on splintering my focus from 80s unopened to modern.
John
My guess is about the same time Starbucks coffee is $75 per cup due to inflation. If I had to guess a year, I would say somewhere in the 2090-2100 range
While I think the OP is being a little overzealous, I also think there are some here that are underestimating his sentiment. A year ago, a PSA 10 Bonds was a $33 card and now they're $50+. Yes, it's Bonds, but that type of increase on a card with that much supply in the market is pretty impressive. With an increased adoption of the Beckett rookie card rules I think we'll see more attention paid to the 1987 issues of players like Bonds, Bo, McGwire, Canseco, Clark, etc.
Arthur
For the record, I'm putting my money where my mouth is and just bought 4 87 topps wax boxes.
Will hopefully buy many more in next 3 years as budget allows.
I just bought a factory sealed 1987 topps for 4 bucks..here in south Florida .at a card show..I doubt it's that high...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_players_from_Panama
A 71 rack pack went from 2K to 5K seemingly overnight so anything is possible in the unopened market lol..
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Happy three years! So last we visited this thread, we've had the greatest run-up of pricing in the hobby's history. Inflation is tracking at its highest point in 40 years. And, looking at eBay, you can still get a box of '87 for $30-$35.
Still a slog to go to reach $100. Talk to you in another three?
The only day they’ll see $100 is when the electric grid permanently fails in January and February.
😎
Maybe when a 12 oz coke cost 20.00 at a 7eleven. But not at a nfl game or airport! That was like 5 years ago when that started.
I mean if you're talking about BBCE FASC boxes they're consistently selling for $50-$60 shipped, but point taken. See you in another three years! lol
It's 3 years later... Even COVID and rampant inflation could not move those BBCE FASC boxes above $50-$60 shipped. Accounting for inflation the going rate is pretty much the same as they were in 2019 perhaps even a tad less.
As it turns out there were many, many , many good investments in Trading cards since May 2019 unopened 1987 Topps Baseball was simply not even close to being one of them.
@Darin , If you show up to eat a bit of crow in good nature, I for one will respect that.
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
I wish I could get a PSA 10 1987 Topps Bonds now for $55 like the guy in 2019 claimed.
Will these boxes sell for over 100 if Bonds makes the HALL?
Terry Bradshaw was AMAZING!!
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Yes, I appear to have been incorrect on that bit of prognostication.
Kudos to Green Sneakers for resurrecting this thread exactly 3 years later, well done Sir!
I have been exposed as both a charlatan and a miscreant, and deserving of the full wrath of the board.
@Darin, you’re a good dude for taking this one in the spirit of fun as it was intended.
But I’m telling you, another 3 years ain’t gonna help the cause getting ‘87 to $100.
You never know with unopened!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
I wonder if Green Sneakers would have spent all 3 years marking the calendar and waiting to pounce back into this thread if Darin's prognostication had come to fruition?
At least now he can throw away that little reminder piece of paper that he taped to his computer monitor 3 years ago.
In the last 3 years we have had near historic inflation + A COVID driven Trading Card (and Collectible) All-Time high bubble. If that could not boost the going rate of those boxes above $100 even if BBCE FASC then nothing would have since 2019.
BTW a buddy of mine owned a Comic Book shop in the 90's and 00's. I visited him him last night and posed the 1987 Tops baseball question. He still has 5 cases of the 6 he purchased circa 1995. I do wonder if overall there are hundreds of thousands of these cases still unopened...?
It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)
Full disclosure- Since I started this thread 3 years ago, I will say I no longer collect unopened
except for a few items I didn't sell to Phil from BBCE a couple months ago.
I did keep the 4 boxes of 87 topps I mentioned in a post along with a little 82 and 83 bb unopened.
The best boxes I had that I sold to BBCE were Mahomes rookie boxes, 2017 panini prizm.