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Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
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expect to pay for a vending case of 1964 Topps baseball?

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$31.80

Not very important but I thought I would put it up there?
mike

PS: put me down for 10! image
Mike

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  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    yeah put me down for a truckload too please. image
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    The concept of "silver money" was still
    partially alive then.

    Adjusted for metals prices and printing-press
    inflation, there has been a dramatic fall in the
    wholesale/retail price of casegoods during the
    past 40-years.

    storm
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • onefasttalononefasttalon Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    Wonder if Topps has any records of just how many vending cases were actually sold that year, or any other years for that matter.
    I wonder what year the vending case actually started to grow in popularity? .... junk years of '86 and '87? Is it possible to believe
    there was more of a product produced than 1989 Topps????

    ALWAYS Looking for Chris Sabo cards!

  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Hoping when I die and get to Heaven (or Iowa), a beautiful Vending Case from the 60's will be there waiting....Then I will know that I'm in the right placeimage
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Wonder if Topps has any records of just how many vending cases were actually sold that year, or any other years for that matter.
    I wonder what year the vending case actually started to grow in popularity? .... junk years of '86 and '87? Is it possible to believe
    there was more of a product produced than 1989 Topps???? >>


    Not sure.

    But the only reason they would want/need them would be if one owned vending machines.

    I have seen vending machines around in the 90s but not as of late.

    In Murphy's catalog, he states that vending machines became outdated in the 70s - this I wouldn't know for sure.

    Topps, e.g., kept making vending since they knew a lot of collectors wanted them. It's a cheaper way to get a lot of cards.

    Also, hi volume card sellers in the 90s were probably breaking vending by the carload.

    Except if sheets were being cut up - a stack of worthless RC's has to come from some place? image

    Just imagine, if someone found a 64T vending today - legit - what it would sell for?

    mike
    Mike
  • mkg809mkg809 Posts: 1,320 ✭✭
    Time for another "group purchase"??
  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    image


    LOL jk
  • onefasttalononefasttalon Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭
    Did you all see this? '69 Topps Vending Box

    I'd LOVE to know it's real... course, I have no reason to belive it's not. How many of these can possibly still be laying around (legit) ???

    ALWAYS Looking for Chris Sabo cards!

  • montanafanmontanafan Posts: 632
    wow.. what do you suppose that will sell for?
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭


    << <i>expect to pay for a vending case of 1964 Topps baseball?

    image

    $31.80

    Not very important but I thought I would put it up there?
    mike

    PS: put me down for 10! image >>



    Interesting that they use the phrase "per M" which is more of a paper and printing industry term.

    Goes to show that the collectible value (investment?) was not yet a part of the business. They were more interested in the price per card, not how much the hot rookie would book for in a few months.

    Oh to go back to the days of innocence in the card biz.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On the 69T vending...

    That could be the crapshoot of the century! A run of OCs and dings...

    Big chance.

    Heck, I bought two 83Ts that were near worthless.

    mike
    Mike
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