need a critical evaluation

thehallmark

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=004&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&viewitem=&item=140135809536&rd=1&rd=1

Anyone here deal with this seller before? This look legit to you?
It just seems an odd way to sell wax.....spread out like that for the picture. No box.


ugh. I wish I wasn't so easily hypnotized by 1982 Topps. They came out before I was had any clue what baseball was. The color scheme is reminiscent of a bag of skittles. There's that sissy swoosh in the design. I have no rational reason for liking these so much.

sigh.

Barfvader

Here's the link.

(36) 1982 TOPPS BASEBALL UNOPENED WAX PACKS = TO 1 BOX



Jeff

Bosox1976

I imagine he opened boxes until he got a ripken, then put the remainder of each unopened, ripken-free box in this lot. Bid as if you are 100% certain that no ripkens will appear.

thehallmark

Ahhh...so that's how it works. I suppose I should've been able to piece that together by myself.

Thanks for the lesson, sir.


~Dallas

jrinck

He says "clean and untouched". So who arranged them in that square pattern?

CDsNuts

Topps came over his house and did that in 1982 and they haven't been touched since.

msassin

Not everything on the market has been searched or tampered with.

I recently sold some 1980 football wax this way on eBay (from a larger lot I purchased - no wax box) and the buyers were happy.

bifff257

<< <i>Not everything on the market has been searched or tampered with. >>



I agree and with this sellers feedback I doubt these are searched and re-sealed.

However, I tend to agree Bosox1976 on this item.

jrinck

<< <i>Topps came over his house and did that in 1982 and they haven't been touched since. >>



I would have paid thirty-five cents per pack for that instead of twenty-five. Donruss did come and clean my room, though, in 1983, before the '84 set gave them all big heads over there.

stown

<< <i>I imagine he opened boxes until he got a ripken, then put the remainder of each unopened, ripken-free box in this lot. Bid as if you are 100% certain that no ripkens will appear. >>

basestealer

<< <i>I imagine he opened boxes until he got a ripken, then put the remainder of each unopened, ripken-free box in this lot. Bid as if you are 100% certain that no ripkens will appear. >>


That's certainly how some do it, BUT the last box of '82 wax I opened, I found 4 Ripken rookies. And of course there are boxes that contain no Ripken rookies. I think each pack has the same chance of having a Ripken rookie regardless of what the other packs from the same box contained.

Houston

6100+ feedback, 99.9% positive and he has some REALLY high end cards for sale. I dont think he would waste his time searching 82 topps cards. Im naive, but with all of the above, Id be fine with it.

Estil

Just remember even if the packs were totally legit, unsearched, you can only get at most, 540 out of possible 792 cards, so that still leaves a fairly sizeable chance of no Ripkens. So the guy who said to buy it and not hope too much for a Ripken is absoultley right.

thehallmark

Oddly enough, Ripken is not even one of my reasons for wanting to get this. I just really like 1982 Topps and I've always wanted to open a box of it. If I happened to pull a really nice Dawson/Raines/Murphy/Brett...it would be infinitely more fun for me than if I got two Ripkens.

When I see a Ripken RC, all I see is $$ to buy other things.