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softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I have gone in just a week from being dubious about all of the Heritage hype to planning on skipping work the MOMENT I hear that Heritage has arrived in retail and zipping around to every Target and Walmart I can find. image

ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Save some for the kids.
    Good for you.
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    win...I think we are the kids here!!

    Walmart will get theirs first. If you do your homework you can find out when your particular walmart gets their cards in and you can be there
    to suck them up. My first retail heritage of 04 came at about 1:30 at night!!

    JS
  • easttexascardsandgameseasttexascardsandgames Posts: 550
    Save some for the kids.

    You mean for the pack searchers, when it hits here if I don't get it it will end up in the hands of a local dealer.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What kind of homework are we talking here? Calling the store and asking questions?

    ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My first retail heritage of 04 came at about 1:30 at night!! >>


    Now that's dedication!

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    Mike
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What kind of homework are we talking here? Calling the store and asking questions? >>


    Dan
    I go to the walmart and target employees and be as affable as possible and get them to help. They will know when they come in and when they will get around to stocking the shelves. I know my target vending rep by name! We talked for an hour one day....he was very helpful.

    I have not had good luck with the managers, in general, as they are very busy and cards seem more of an annoyance to them. I also talk to the check out kids - sometimes you can find someone friendly who is dating Johnny the head honcho of the "underground" stockboys fraternity who will help.

    Last year, I gave one of the kids a couple of movie passes that I keep in the office as presents. They then become your long lost buddy - but of course all my buds are gone this year and I'm back to square one!

    your friend
    MIke
    Mike
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    interesting........ and what section of the stores are the cards stocked? Besides the pillow section image

    ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    At least here, the targets and walmart have them stocked up front by the end of the registers...and I was at target a few days ago, and it wasn't target employees who were stocking the cards, it was some outside guy. I didn't get a chance to ask him how he worked with target, but it seemed like he brought them in on his own to stock the shelves.
  • easttexascardsandgameseasttexascardsandgames Posts: 550
    Target used to use Vintage as their distributer, not sure who it is now, but it is an outside company that does it. They are in my local store about 9am on Fridays.
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  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    we actually had a pack searcher stocking the cards for us here..can you believe that? You know somethings wrong when you are the
    first guy into target in the morning and all you find is 23 count boxes! Luckily you can't feel short prints and you can't feel autos!!!

    Target actually puts their cards in a holding area up front, many times on the side of the last, almost never used, register. Look for boxes
    with a yellow rectangle on them. Those are it and you will be able to get the cards before they are put out. This is usually a way to one up
    the pack slime. I hide them and buy a few at a time...this may seem unfair but I buy quit a bit throughout the year so I feel it is worth it. Make
    sure you keep track of which packs come from which boxes..I often rip one box before I hid it and them put a small rip in the packs Im about
    to buy so I know they are from that box, that way when if I pull a bunch of good stuff I can go on to another box..of course I almost always
    buy everything!

    Of course it never hurt to make some manager friends!

    Kevin
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    you guys are too sophisticated for meimage

    ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    image No Targets here in Canada.. At least not here. No sportscards for sale at the walmarts here image
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image No Targets here in Canada.. At least not here. No sportscards for sale at the walmarts here image >>


    Knuckles
    Between THAT and the subzero weather...welcome to the southland!!!

    your friend
    Mike
    Mike
  • MajorDanbyMajorDanby Posts: 1,343
    i might just visit my local card shop instead. Damn searchers make me too antsy!
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  • boggs301012boggs301012 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭
    I went to Walmart they had a few loose boxes . THe packs looked like they were from 1956 beat up and searched . I layed off.



    James
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  • easttexascardsandgameseasttexascardsandgames Posts: 550
    I went to Walmart they had a few loose boxes . THe packs looked like they were from 1956 beat up and searched . I layed off.

    They had them already?? Musta been 2004 Bowman Heritage.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I went to Walmart they had a few loose boxes . THe packs looked like they were from 1956 beat up and searched . I layed off.

    They had them already?? Musta been 2004 Bowman Heritage. >>


    Actually the 2004 BH was the 55B design; if it reference a 56 design it is from the 2003 B Heritage where they had the 1956 Bowman design of the year that "never was."

    your friend
    Mike
    Mike
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