wax box, vending box?

Clemaz

What is the difference?

Volver

Wax



Vending

HeritageAddict

Do you mean difference in quality of cards, or what is the actual difference between the boxes? A wax box is a box of individual packs of cards, a vending box is what they used to use for filling vending machines like the little quarter machines at the front of Walmart and the like. I don't think I would buy either off ebay as they can be easily searched, a vending box would be really easy because the cards aren't in any kind of packaging. If you were buying from some place like BBCE where you know they haven't been searched then I am not sure which would be better, I'm sure there are some wise folks on here that could answer that one, I've been curious myself.

jamesgotpoorman

Wax is "funer" to open.... RIP on!!!

vend is ...well....

grote15

In General, wax will yield better quality cards than vending, and vending is very easily searched (more so than wax anyway).

RoarIn84

vending isn't that easily searched. those cards are packed in so tight, you almost have to rip the box or hurt the cards getting them out. and putting them back in to make them appear unsearched would be next to impossible. myself, i prefer vending boxes/cases. wax is pretty fun, but 2 cards in each pack will have wax stains and 2 cards may have gum stains, leaving only 8-12 cards worth anything. for condition, i'd say it's a toss up. i've seen many gems come out of each. vending is much more cost effective. example: you can buy a wax box of 83T Baseball for $120 with 540 cards or a vending box for $60 with 500 cards

Clemaz

Thanks,

I was on BBCE's website and noticed that wax boxes were more expensive than vendor boxes. Now I see why.

basestealer

<< <i>vending isn't that easily searched. those cards are packed in so tight, you almost have to rip the box or hurt the cards getting them out. and putting them back in to make them appear unsearched would be next to impossible. myself, i prefer vending boxes/cases. wax is pretty fun, but 2 cards in each pack will have wax stains and 2 cards may have gum stains, leaving only 8-12 cards worth anything. for condition, i'd say it's a toss up. i've seen many gems come out of each. vending is much more cost effective. example: you can buy a wax box of 83T Baseball for $120 with 540 cards or a vending box for $60 with 500 cards >>


Vending is simply too easy to search. It's not difficult to get 20 or so cards out of the vending box, which is all you need to carefully remove the rest of them. They are removed in the exact same order as found in the box, the stack is searched for just the key card, so that only 1 or maybe 2 cards are pulled from the 500 count box, and then they are inserted right back into the box exactly as they came out, with 1 or 2 replacements thrown in to make it 500 cards again. By doing it this way, it doesn't affect the factory "ripple" or pattern found on the edges of the cards are they packed in. If a vending box cannot be traced to its original case, I wouldn't touch it.

grote15

Vending is simply too easy to search. It's not difficult to get 20 or so cards out of the vending box, which is all you need to carefully remove the rest of them. They are removed in the exact same order as found in the box, the stack is searched for just the key card, so that only 1 or maybe 2 cards are pulled from the 500 count box, and then they are inserted right back into the box exactly as they came out, with 1 or 2 replacements thrown in to make it 500 cards again. By doing it this way, it doesn't affect the factory "ripple" or pattern found on the edges of the cards are they packed in. If a vending box cannot be traced to its original case, I wouldn't touch it.

Very true. Vending boxes are also a horror show for dinged corners, etc, as the cards are packed so tight that if that box has been dropped at any point in the past, virtually all 500 cards will be ruined. These are the main reasons why vending is significantly cheaper than wax.

RoarIn84

wow! guess i've just had completely different experiences!

grote15

I'm not saying that a case fresh vending box won't yield a gorgeous run of mint cards, only that unless the box is truly "case-fresh" I wouldn't bother buying it. Roar, it sounds like you've been lucky with vending in the past, and if that's so, stick to that seller(s), because there are many unscrupulous ones out there, too.