Crazy unopened? wax box break.

Vintagegolfcollector

Have you ever busted a wax box and several packs into the bust wondered if you should just sell the rest of the unopened packs individually or as a group due to their quality?

Last summer I bought an unopened? box of 1982 Donruss Golf wax. These boxes are rare and the cards are normally very off centered. Anyway, after opening about a third of the packs I was kicking myself for wasting $300 on the box and wondering if I should sell the rest of the unopened packs individually to cut my losses. The cards so far had been all 70/30 centered at best and plenty had rough cuts. I've opened about 10 boxes of these cards in the past and these were by far the worst. Whenever I get started opening packs I just can't seem to stop so I continued opening packs. Unfortunately, each opened pack just put me into a fouler mood. I doubt there was one card in the first 33 packs that would have graded a PSA 9, and that's without there being any corner damage. I was down to my last three packs and considered sending them into GAI for pack grading. As I said, once I get started opening packs I just can't stop. I opened the last three packs and the cards were all well centered with no rough cuts. The quality of the first 33 packs were nothing like that of the last 3 packs.

I sent in 5 cards from the last three pack and received the following grades.

# 20 Ben Crenshaw PSA 10
# 25 John Cook PSA 10
# 32 Hubert Green PSA 9
# 40 Leonard Thompson PSA 9
# 53 Fred Couples PSA 10 (Rookie card and still 1/1)

Does anyone else have a similar story they would like to share?

Remember, it only takes one pack to give you that gem.

Peter

ArnyVee

I've done that quite a few times. You sit there and debate....but, you can't help yourself!

I know what you mean.

Great luck with those last three packs though! Congrats!

ldferg

i opened an 80t baseball wax box and was hoping for a henderson..got down to the last pack and i was very depressed. as i was looking at the last pack , WOW!!! the henderson card was there on the back...i was debating whether to open or not (for about 5 seconds)

came back an 8...

Boopotts

That, IMExperience, is just an amazing story.

I've broken more '89 Donruss cases than I can count, and every time I got into an OC case the whole f'in thing ended up off center. I never--and I mean never- tripped into that 'miracle box' in a case of dogs.