One box of 2009 Topps Heritage high purchased from my local card shop for $69. Was hoping for an auto but no such luck. The Branyan is numbered 485/560; the Pavano is 014/560. Pulled 7 other Chromes all numbered to 1960.
Next up a box of 2008 SP Auth football. I had sworn these boxes off but I couldn't help adding one to my order.
One box of 2008 SP Auth football purchased from my local card shop for $119.95. I had been planning to no longer open 2008 football since I wasn't getting very many good cards, glad I decided to change my mind with this box. Joe Flacco redemption auto patch; Jack Long auto patch #/999 and an SP Auth gold auto numbered 07/25 of Chris Ellis (whoever he is).
One box of 2009 Topps Heritage high numbers left to go.
One box of 2009 Heritage high purchased from my local card shop for $69. Pulled another black but no auto. The Cabrera is 23/60; Rivera 053/560; Tillman 498/560; Giambi 124/560. Pulled 8 other chromes all numbered to 1960.
One 1973 Topps football rack pack purchased from BBCE for $175. I have all the HOF RC in PSA 9 for my personal collection already but this seemed like a good chance to pull a Harris or Shell in high grade. The racks were in decent shape, really molded to the cards. There was some corner damage to several of the top and bottom cards in each rack very similar to cellos. No big hits in this first rack. Hoping for a HOF RC or two in the next.
Edited to add grades: 16360516 MINT 9 1973 TOPPS 51 HUGO HOLLAS 16360517 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1973 TOPPS 395 CHARLIE SANDERS 16360518 NEAR MINT 7 1973 TOPPS 377 BOBBY JOE GREEN Date Received: 12/30/2009
One 1980/81 Topps basketball box purchased off ebay from Kruk cards for $979.99. I've bought plenty of unopened from Kruk cards in the past so was not overly concerned about authenticity of the box. Very happy with the results. Will look to buy another 80/81 box sometime soon. Three of the Bird/Magic rookies have a slight indentation on the bottom edge under the letter L in "Larry Bird". Not sure how that will affect the grades. Plan to send in 3 on my next sub to PSA.
The dent in the Bird/Magic is pretty common. The last one I sub'ed with a dent got an 8. The card would have also been an 8 without the dent. No, it did not effect the grade.
I've opened probably a case worth of these boxes over the last 10 years and 4 Bird/Magic RCs is a lot for one box. I was very happy with the centering and corners. Two would have very legit shots at 9s depending on the indent. I have an 88 OPC Shanahan that got an 8 with a more pronounced indention and a Bird/Magic RC that got a 6 with a deeper longer indent than these cards have. Will be interesting to find out what PSA grades them. Cards are being shipped today to PSA under the $14 set registry special so should find out in a week or so.
you don't have a spare 80-81 set minus the bird/magic lying around do you ?
Fred
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
Your pack/box ripping is incredible!! Thank you for sharing. You ever consider making a youtube video of any of your rips? People would love to see them! Take a look at my youtube videos (see link below). One of the videos is of my vintage sealed pack collection and i rip a pack of 74 topps at the end!! Pretty fun stuff. Hope you enjoy! DZ
I have twelve Sports Cards videos on youtube w/ over 75,000 views in total!! Vintage cards like 1951 Mantle, 33 Goudey Ruth, T206 Cobb, etc (copy and paste link below):
One pack of 1974/75 OPC hockey purchased from BBCE for $110. I need every HOF RC in PSA 9 from this year. Sadly I didn't pull any of them. No submittable cards from this pack.
Five packs of 86/87 OPC hockey purchased from BBCE as part of group rip for $19.69 per pack. Didn't pull anything of note. Maybe one common will be sent off for grading after I check VCP to see if it would be worth sending.
Next up a box of 2001 Playoff Contenders football.
Four packs of 1979 Topps hockey purchased from BBCE as part of a group rip for $65 per pack. Sadly didn't really pull anything. I feel like I get a Tony Esposito in every 79 Topps rip I do.
Next up a box of 1991 Topps Stadium Club football.
One box of 1991 Topps Stadium Club football purchased from BBCE for $65. Always enjoy opening these boxes. The Favre is probably an 8 with an outside shot at a 9.
Next up six packs of 1977/78 Topps basketball. I still need a Dantley in PSA 9 for my PC.
Edited to add grades: 16360525 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1991 STADIUM CLUB 94 BRETT FARVE Date Received: 12/30/2009
I just looked through your entire thread, and I am still in shock at all the packs you've opened in the last year. Amazing luck on the Jordan's...not so great on the 79 opc.
A couple of things to add- I just opened a full mint box of 78-79 opc hockey, and there wasn't 10 cards above near mint in the entire 48 packs. Not one star card to sub and I am sure the box was legit.
With the 74-75 opc, I've found its about 1 in 100 cards are centered better than 55-45. If you ever get your PSA 9 HOF rookies from that set please share pics of them.
I purchased the 78-79 opc box from a good hobby friend who bought the box in 1979. Cards were all clean- I got the major rookies and the sequencing was typical opc.
78-79 opc centering is brutal, the rough cuts seem more pronounced, and the corners are sometimes not even there due to being ripped apart instead of cut. There are decently cut cards out there, but 90% of the cards that came out of packs were not nm-mt.
I've found that for modern cards 70s OPC hockey is far and away the most difficult to find PSA 9 conditioned cards from unopened. I typically hope for one well centered card per pack and then you need to hope that the corners are good for that single card. Fortunately not too many people collect Hockey so the prices are not really reflective of how difficult true mint cards are to find.
Sub popped. Pretty annoyed with the Bird/Magic N8 designations. I will just sub these individually over the next couple of months. Not sure what I missed on the Bossy RB thought that was a pretty nice card. Other grades were about what I expected, was hoping the Jordan stickers were both at least 8s but I seem to do a terrible job on pre-grading Fleer basketball stickers in general.
16395634 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395635 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395636 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395637 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395638 NEAR MINT 7 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395639 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON 16395640 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON 16395641 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON 16395642 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 161 MIKE BOSSY RECORD BREAKER 16395643 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 18 WAYNE GRETZKY Total Items: 10 Date Received: 12/19/2009
<< <i>Sub popped. Pretty annoyed with the Bird/Magic N8 designations. I will just sub these individually over the next couple of months. Not sure what I missed on the Bossy RB thought that was a pretty nice card. Other grades were about what I expected, was hoping the Jordan stickers were both at least 8s but I seem to do a terrible job on pre-grading Fleer basketball stickers in general.
16395634 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395635 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395636 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395637 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395638 NEAR MINT 7 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN 16395639 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON 16395640 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON 16395641 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON 16395642 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 161 MIKE BOSSY RECORD BREAKER 16395643 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 18 WAYNE GRETZKY Total Items: 10 Date Received: 12/19/2009 >>
Three packs of 1975 Topps mini baseball received for Christmas. No star power but a couple of nice commons I will send in for grading.
Next up a box of 2008 Leaf Certified Materials football.
Edited to add grades: 16360529 NEAR MINT 7 1975 TOPPS MINI 564 TOMMY DAVIS 16360530 MINT 9 1975 TOPPS MINI 391 DON DeMOLA 16360531 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1975 TOPPS MINI 401 MIKE WALLACE 16360532 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1975 TOPPS MINI 489 CECIL COOPER Date Received: 12/30/2009
Nice job on the Jordan 9's! I was wondering if you keep track (spread sheet) of what you open?
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I keep track of what I spend. Almost everything I open ends up on ebay in the end. I have a spreadsheet for most of what has been sold on Ebay this year. I could probably put in some time and come up with amount spent on unopened, cards kept and cards sold. Unfortunately it would not be a pretty picture (probably negative $20k or so) but it would be interesting to know. Might be my project for tomorrow while watching football.
I have really enjoyed this thread Robb. It is also cool that you have been giving out a bunch of the cards you are not that interested and others are (like the Heritage box, minus hits) and the Young/Rice card you sent me like 7-8 months ago. Thanks again.
Keep up the great job and here is a little hope your next box has "The Hit."
Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards. Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
So pulled my records of all the unopened material I purchased this year. I think for the most part I scanned the results from most every one of these purchases.
2008 SPX FB, 2008 Topps Heritage, 2006 FB Playoff Contenders $345.35 2003 Topps Heritage Hobby box $90.00 2006 Topps Heritage Hobby box $69.98 2005 Topps Heritage Hobby box $109.95 2004 Topps Heritage Hobby box $99.90 2001 Topps Heritage, 2002 Topps Heritage, 2007 Topps Heritage, 1979 OPC Hockey GAI 9 $685.90 2005 Topps All Time Fan Favorites box $90.00 2006 SPX FB, 2006 Bowman Chrome FB, 2007 Artifacts Bskt, 2007 Co-Signors Football, assorted single packs $377.00 1970 Topps Basketball Series two GAI 7 pack $450.00 1972 OPC Baseball Series 2 two packs $75.00 2001 UD Golf SP box $175.00 1979 Topps Hockey box, 3 1986 Fleer Basketball packs, 3 1979 Topps Hockey packs $3,510.23 1975 Topps Mini pack GAI 9 $39.61 2001 Topps Heritage box, (2) 2005/06 UD hockey series two boxes, (3) 1979 Topps Hockey packs $484.50 1998 Playoff Contenders box $184.50 2008 Playoff Contenders box $105.65 (2) 2008 SP Auth fb boxes, 2008 Playoff Contenders, 2007 Co-Signers football box $458.85 (2) 1986-87 Fleer basketball packs $552.00 1989 Score Football Box $223.99 2008 Playoff Contenders Football box $139.65 (3) 1986 Fleer basketball packs, (1) 1986 Topps football box, (3) 1990/91 UD hockey boxes, (5) 1977 Topps basketball packs, (5) 1979 Topps hockey packs, (2) 1991 Stadium Club football boxes, (5) 1978 OPC hockey packs, (3) 1976 OPC hockey packs $1,976.31 1977 Topps football vending box $385.00 2000 Playoff Contenders football box $195.50 1970 Topps football GAI 8 pack $123.48 3 1986 Fleer bskt packs, 2 2009 Topps Heritage boxes, 2 2005 UD series II hockey boxes $804.00 (4) 1979 Topps hockey packs, (6) 1985 OPC hockey packs, (3) 1984 Topps football packs, (4) 1986 Topps football packs, (2) 1974 Topps basketball packs, (1) 1979 OPC hockey pack PSA 8, (3) 1980 OPC hockey packs, (3) 1981 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1968 Topps baseball series 1 pack PSA 7, (1) 1972 Topps football series 2 pack PSA 8, (5) 1982 OPC hockey packs, (2) 1990/91 Score hockey boxes, (1) 1973 Topps baseball series 5 pack PSA 8 $1,879.75 1971 Topps baseball pack PSA 7 $307.00 2009 Heritage box, 2008 Leaf Limited Materials FB box $149.74 1971 Topps football pack series II PSA 7 $255.50 1971 Topps hockey pack PSA 6 $89.87 2 2009 Goudey boxes, 1 2008 Co-Signers Baseball box $275.00 1 1975 Topps mini box, 4 1975 Topps mini packs, 3 1972 OPC baseball packs $1,219.00 2 2009 Goudey boxes, 1 2009 Encore $254.10 (5) 1978 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1986 Fleer bsk pack, (1) 1972 Topps football series I pack, 2001 Topps Heritage box $678.00 2008 Goudey, 2009 Goudey, 2007 SP Legendary Cuts, 2009 Bowman football $317.97 3 1991 Topps Stadium Club football boxes $230.00 2 1986 Fleer basketball packs $470.00 1 2009 Topps Heritage box $84.00 2 2009 Allen & Ginter boxes $158.00 2 2008 Heritage update boxes $110.00 1 2001 Topps Heritage box $235.00 1 2001 Topps Archives Football box $60.00 2005/06 Upper Deck the Cup box $550.00 (1) 1986 Fleer bskt pack, (5) 1977 Topps bskt packs, (1) 1978 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1979 OPC hockey PSA 8 pack, (1) 1972 Topps football series 1 pack $752.20 1975 Topps baseball box, 2001 Topps Heritage box $3,485.00 (1) 1979 OPC hcky PSA 9, (1) 1979 Topps bsk box, (1) 1981 Topps fb box, (1) 1991 Stadium Club fb box, (10) 1983/84 OPC hky packs, (7) 1982/83 OPC hky packs, (2) 1980/81 OPC hky packs,(3) 1981/82 OPC hky packs, (1) 1976 Topps fb rack pack, (1) 1979 Topps baseball vending box, (10) 1987/88 OPC hky packs $1,356.75 (1) 2009 Allen & Ginter box, (2) 2009 Philadelphia fb boxes, (2) 2007 SP Legendary Cuts boxes $370.00 (2) 1986 Fleer basketball packs $598.65 2008 SP Auth fb, 2008 Leaf Limited fb, 2008 Leaf Certified fb, 2009 Goodwin, 2009 Philadelphia fb, $467.25 2008 SP Auth fb box, 2008 Donruss Elite fb box, 2008 Leaf Limited fb box, 2008 Leaf Certified Materials fb box $455.57 2008 Donruss Threads fb box, 2008 SP Rookie Edition fb box, 2008 Topps Chrome fb box, 2008 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia fb box, 2008 Leaf Stars & Rookies fb box, 2005 Leaf Certified Materials box, 2008 Goudey box $554.38 2 2008 SP Auth football boxes $257.14 2008 SP Auth fb box, 2009 Topps Chrome fb box, 2009 Topps Triple Threads bb box $372.59 (2) 1973 Topps football rack packs $358.00 2008 SP Auth fb box,(3) 2009 Topps Heritage High boxes $342.30 1980 Topps basketball box $1,009.98 (4) 1979 Topps hockey packs, (3) 1982/83 OPC rack packs, (5) 1986 OPC hockey packs $448.90 2001 Playoff contenders box, 1991 Stadium Club football box, (6) 1977 Topps basketball packs, (1) 1974 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1972 Topps football pack PSA 7 $615.00
Grand total spent on unopened for the year ~$30k. I think the two biggest changes I will make in 2010 are no boxes over $1500 (the 79 Topps Hockey and 75 Topps baseball boxes were both disappointments and both very pricey) and a lot less modern football. I spent enough on 2008 SP Auth football and 2008 Playoff Contenders to buy all the key rookies already graded.
Ebay sales were just over ~10k and I kept a handful of cards:
PSA 9, PSA 8, PSA 8, PSA 5 1986 Jordan #57 PSA 8 1986 Jordan Sticker PSA 8 1979 Topps Gretzky PSA 7 1979 Topps Gretzky PSA 9 1980 OPC Messier 2008 SP Auth Joe Flacco auto RC 2008 SP Auth Desean Jackson auto RC 2008 Leaf Limited Matt Ryan auto 13/50 3 1980 Bird/Magic RCs (N8 Miscut on first grading try) A handful of PSA 9 1986 Fleer basketball commons for my self graded PSA 9 86 Fleer bb set
All in all I think I did the best with 1986 Fleer basketball unopened packs from a return standpoint (got incredibly lucky pulling 4 Jordan RCs). I got utterly crushed on my 1975 Topps baseball box, literally $3250 down the tubes with 2 or 3 PSA 9 commons to show for it. My 1979 Topps hockey wax box was also very poor, one PSA 7 Gretzky pulled. The 1985 OPC box was fun but the Lemieux's graded PSA 8 and PSA 7 so definitely a big money loser. The 1986 OPC box was also fun but the Roy's are 8s at best so another big money loser.
For 2010 I don't plan to buy quite as much unopened. I will buy a bunch of 2010 Heritage boxes, some 80s Football boxes (81,84,86) and early 80s Hockey packs. I plan to buy half a dozen 79 OPC hockey packs looking for the Gretzky, a box or two of 1980 Topps basketball, a box of 75 minis and hopefully a bunch of 1986 Fleer basketball packs. I will continue to post what I pull in this thread but a much larger percentage of my sports cards budget will be dedicated to completing my PSA 9 HOF RCs collection, hoping to find 71 Bradshaw, 71 Greene, 79 OPC Gretzky, 71 OPC Dryden, 70 Maravich this year.
It was very interesting to watch your rips over the year. Wishing you all the best with your 2010 rips and hoping that your ROI is a little better than last year.
Have a HEALTHY NEW YEAR.
Doug
STAY HEALTHY!
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Thanks for the summation Robb - you are right on that 75 box - big blow to the ROI. You did pull some beauties though. Have you been selling the raw commons? There is sometimes more value there than you might think.
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Next up a box of 2008 SP Auth football. I had sworn these boxes off but I couldn't help adding one to my order.
One box of 2009 Topps Heritage high numbers left to go.
Edited to add grades:
16360516 MINT 9 1973 TOPPS 51 HUGO HOLLAS
16360517 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1973 TOPPS 395 CHARLIE SANDERS
16360518 NEAR MINT 7 1973 TOPPS 377 BOBBY JOE GREEN
Date Received: 12/30/2009
Edited to add grades (or lack thereof):
16395639 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395640 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395641 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
Total Items: 10
Date Received: 12/19/2009
Edited to add grades :
N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
Total Items: 10
Date Received: 3/2/2010
"Molon Labe"
Robb
congrats.
you don't have a spare 80-81 set minus the bird/magic lying around do you ?
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
Your pack/box ripping is incredible!! Thank you for sharing. You ever consider making a youtube video of any of your rips? People would love to see them! Take a look at my youtube videos (see link below). One of the videos is of my vintage sealed pack collection and i rip a pack of 74 topps at the end!! Pretty fun stuff. Hope you enjoy!
DZ
http://www.youtube.com/user/dzolot
Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed!!
- I would encourage all collectors to post a video of their collection - I have found it to be a very rewarding way to share my sports cards!!
Congrats! It couldn't happen to a better ripper!
Next up 5 packs of 86/87 OPC hockey.
Next up a box of 2001 Playoff Contenders football.
Next up four packs of 1979 Topps hockey.
Bosox1976
Next up a box of 1991 Topps Stadium Club football.
Next up six packs of 1977/78 Topps basketball. I still need a Dantley in PSA 9 for my PC.
Edited to add grades:
16360525 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1991 STADIUM CLUB 94 BRETT FARVE
Date Received: 12/30/2009
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Next up 3 rack packs of 1982/83 OPC hockey.
Edited to add grades:
16360526 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1977 TOPPS 111 ROBERT PARISH
Date Received: 12/30/2009
Next up one pack of 1972 Topps football.
A couple of things to add- I just opened a full mint box of 78-79 opc hockey, and there wasn't 10 cards above near mint in the entire 48 packs. Not one star card to sub and I am sure the box was legit.
With the 74-75 opc, I've found its about 1 in 100 cards are centered better than 55-45. If you ever get your PSA 9 HOF rookies from that set please share pics of them.
Thanks again for sharing,
Nathanael
78-79 opc centering is brutal, the rough cuts seem more pronounced, and the corners are sometimes not even there due to being ripped apart instead of cut. There are decently cut cards out there, but 90% of the cards that came out of packs were not nm-mt.
Robb
16395634 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395635 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395636 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395637 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395638 NEAR MINT 7 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395639 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395640 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395641 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395642 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 161 MIKE BOSSY RECORD BREAKER
16395643 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 18 WAYNE GRETZKY
Total Items: 10
Date Received: 12/19/2009
<< <i>Sub popped. Pretty annoyed with the Bird/Magic N8 designations. I will just sub these individually over the next couple of months. Not sure what I missed on the Bossy RB thought that was a pretty nice card. Other grades were about what I expected, was hoping the Jordan stickers were both at least 8s but I seem to do a terrible job on pre-grading Fleer basketball stickers in general.
16395634 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395635 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395636 MINT 9 1987 FLEER 59 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395637 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395638 NEAR MINT 7 1987 FLEER STICKER 2 MICHAEL JORDAN
16395639 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395640 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395641 N8: MISCUT 1980 TOPPS SCORING LEADER BIRD,ERVING,JOHNSON
16395642 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 161 MIKE BOSSY RECORD BREAKER
16395643 NEAR MINT 7 1979 TOPPS 18 WAYNE GRETZKY
Total Items: 10
Date Received: 12/19/2009 >>
That's cold!!! Those were some sharp pulls!
Any plans for the Gretzky?
"Molon Labe"
Received some packs and boxes for Christmas so on to the ripping. First up a box of 2009 SP Authentic baseball.
Robb
Next up 3 packs of 1975 Topps mini baseball.
Next up a box of 2008 Leaf Certified Materials football.
Edited to add grades:
16360529 NEAR MINT 7 1975 TOPPS MINI 564 TOMMY DAVIS
16360530 MINT 9 1975 TOPPS MINI 391 DON DeMOLA
16360531 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1975 TOPPS MINI 401 MIKE WALLACE
16360532 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1975 TOPPS MINI 489 CECIL COOPER
Date Received: 12/30/2009
Bosox1976
Next up 2 packs of 1977 Topps basketball.
Lastly a box of 2005/06 Upper Deck hockey series II.
Edited to add grades:
16360533 NEAR MINT 7 1977 TOPPS 56 ADRIAN DANTLEY
Date Received: 12/30/2009
Edited to add grades:
16360535 NEAR MINT 7 2005 UPPER DECK 443 ALEXANDER OVECHKIN
Date Received: 12/30/2009
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Keep up the great job and here is a little hope your next box has "The Hit."
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
<< <i>It is also cool that you have been giving out a bunch of the cards you are not that interested and others are >>
I agree. I love this thread and quite often, cards of former LSU players mysteriously appear at my house.
2008 SPX FB, 2008 Topps Heritage, 2006 FB Playoff Contenders $345.35
2003 Topps Heritage Hobby box $90.00
2006 Topps Heritage Hobby box $69.98
2005 Topps Heritage Hobby box $109.95
2004 Topps Heritage Hobby box $99.90
2001 Topps Heritage, 2002 Topps Heritage, 2007 Topps Heritage, 1979 OPC Hockey GAI 9 $685.90
2005 Topps All Time Fan Favorites box $90.00
2006 SPX FB, 2006 Bowman Chrome FB, 2007 Artifacts Bskt, 2007 Co-Signors Football, assorted single packs $377.00
1970 Topps Basketball Series two GAI 7 pack $450.00
1972 OPC Baseball Series 2 two packs $75.00
2001 UD Golf SP box $175.00
1979 Topps Hockey box, 3 1986 Fleer Basketball packs, 3 1979 Topps Hockey packs $3,510.23
1975 Topps Mini pack GAI 9 $39.61
2001 Topps Heritage box, (2) 2005/06 UD hockey series two boxes, (3) 1979 Topps Hockey packs $484.50
1998 Playoff Contenders box $184.50
2008 Playoff Contenders box $105.65
(2) 2008 SP Auth fb boxes, 2008 Playoff Contenders, 2007 Co-Signers football box $458.85
(2) 1986-87 Fleer basketball packs $552.00
1989 Score Football Box $223.99
2008 Playoff Contenders Football box $139.65
(3) 1986 Fleer basketball packs, (1) 1986 Topps football box, (3) 1990/91 UD hockey boxes, (5) 1977 Topps basketball packs, (5) 1979 Topps hockey packs, (2) 1991 Stadium Club football boxes, (5) 1978 OPC hockey packs, (3) 1976 OPC hockey packs $1,976.31
1977 Topps football vending box $385.00
2000 Playoff Contenders football box $195.50
1970 Topps football GAI 8 pack $123.48
3 1986 Fleer bskt packs, 2 2009 Topps Heritage boxes, 2 2005 UD series II hockey boxes $804.00
(4) 1979 Topps hockey packs, (6) 1985 OPC hockey packs, (3) 1984 Topps football packs, (4) 1986 Topps football packs, (2) 1974 Topps basketball packs, (1) 1979 OPC hockey pack PSA 8, (3) 1980 OPC hockey packs, (3) 1981 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1968 Topps baseball series 1 pack PSA 7, (1) 1972 Topps football series 2 pack PSA 8, (5) 1982 OPC hockey packs, (2) 1990/91 Score hockey boxes, (1) 1973 Topps baseball series 5 pack PSA 8 $1,879.75
1971 Topps baseball pack PSA 7 $307.00
2009 Heritage box, 2008 Leaf Limited Materials FB box $149.74
1971 Topps football pack series II PSA 7 $255.50
1971 Topps hockey pack PSA 6 $89.87
2 2009 Goudey boxes, 1 2008 Co-Signers Baseball box $275.00
1 1975 Topps mini box, 4 1975 Topps mini packs, 3 1972 OPC baseball packs $1,219.00
2 2009 Goudey boxes, 1 2009 Encore $254.10
(5) 1978 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1986 Fleer bsk pack, (1) 1972 Topps football series I pack, 2001 Topps Heritage box $678.00
2008 Goudey, 2009 Goudey, 2007 SP Legendary Cuts, 2009 Bowman football $317.97
3 1991 Topps Stadium Club football boxes $230.00
2 1986 Fleer basketball packs $470.00
1 2009 Topps Heritage box $84.00
2 2009 Allen & Ginter boxes $158.00
2 2008 Heritage update boxes $110.00
1 2001 Topps Heritage box $235.00
1 2001 Topps Archives Football box $60.00
2005/06 Upper Deck the Cup box $550.00
(1) 1986 Fleer bskt pack, (5) 1977 Topps bskt packs, (1) 1978 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1979 OPC hockey PSA 8 pack, (1) 1972 Topps football series 1 pack $752.20
1975 Topps baseball box, 2001 Topps Heritage box $3,485.00
(1) 1979 OPC hcky PSA 9, (1) 1979 Topps bsk box, (1) 1981 Topps fb box, (1) 1991 Stadium Club fb box, (10) 1983/84 OPC hky packs, (7) 1982/83 OPC hky packs, (2) 1980/81 OPC hky packs,(3) 1981/82 OPC hky packs, (1) 1976 Topps fb rack pack, (1) 1979 Topps baseball vending box, (10) 1987/88 OPC hky packs $1,356.75
(1) 2009 Allen & Ginter box, (2) 2009 Philadelphia fb boxes, (2) 2007 SP Legendary Cuts boxes $370.00
(2) 1986 Fleer basketball packs $598.65
2008 SP Auth fb, 2008 Leaf Limited fb, 2008 Leaf Certified fb, 2009 Goodwin, 2009 Philadelphia fb, $467.25
2008 SP Auth fb box, 2008 Donruss Elite fb box, 2008 Leaf Limited fb box, 2008 Leaf Certified Materials fb box $455.57
2008 Donruss Threads fb box, 2008 SP Rookie Edition fb box, 2008 Topps Chrome fb box, 2008 Playoff Absolute Memorabilia fb box, 2008 Leaf Stars & Rookies fb box, 2005 Leaf Certified Materials box, 2008 Goudey box $554.38
2 2008 SP Auth football boxes $257.14
2008 SP Auth fb box, 2009 Topps Chrome fb box, 2009 Topps Triple Threads bb box $372.59
(2) 1973 Topps football rack packs $358.00
2008 SP Auth fb box,(3) 2009 Topps Heritage High boxes $342.30
1980 Topps basketball box $1,009.98
(4) 1979 Topps hockey packs, (3) 1982/83 OPC rack packs, (5) 1986 OPC hockey packs $448.90
2001 Playoff contenders box, 1991 Stadium Club football box, (6) 1977 Topps basketball packs, (1) 1974 OPC hockey packs, (1) 1972 Topps football pack PSA 7 $615.00
Grand total spent on unopened for the year ~$30k. I think the two biggest changes I will make in 2010 are no boxes over $1500 (the 79 Topps Hockey and 75 Topps baseball boxes were both disappointments and both very pricey) and a lot less modern football. I spent enough on 2008 SP Auth football and 2008 Playoff Contenders to buy all the key rookies already graded.
Ebay sales were just over ~10k and I kept a handful of cards:
PSA 9, PSA 8, PSA 8, PSA 5 1986 Jordan #57
PSA 8 1986 Jordan Sticker
PSA 8 1979 Topps Gretzky
PSA 7 1979 Topps Gretzky
PSA 9 1980 OPC Messier
2008 SP Auth Joe Flacco auto RC
2008 SP Auth Desean Jackson auto RC
2008 Leaf Limited Matt Ryan auto 13/50
3 1980 Bird/Magic RCs (N8 Miscut on first grading try)
A handful of PSA 9 1986 Fleer basketball commons for my self graded PSA 9 86 Fleer bb set
All in all I think I did the best with 1986 Fleer basketball unopened packs from a return standpoint (got incredibly lucky pulling 4 Jordan RCs). I got utterly crushed on my 1975 Topps baseball box, literally $3250 down the tubes with 2 or 3 PSA 9 commons to show for it. My 1979 Topps hockey wax box was also very poor, one PSA 7 Gretzky pulled. The 1985 OPC box was fun but the Lemieux's graded PSA 8 and PSA 7 so definitely a big money loser. The 1986 OPC box was also fun but the Roy's are 8s at best so another big money loser.
For 2010 I don't plan to buy quite as much unopened. I will buy a bunch of 2010 Heritage boxes, some 80s Football boxes (81,84,86) and early 80s Hockey packs. I plan to buy half a dozen 79 OPC hockey packs looking for the Gretzky, a box or two of 1980 Topps basketball, a box of 75 minis and hopefully a bunch of 1986 Fleer basketball packs. I will continue to post what I pull in this thread but a much larger percentage of my sports cards budget will be dedicated to completing my PSA 9 HOF RCs collection, hoping to find 71 Bradshaw, 71 Greene, 79 OPC Gretzky, 71 OPC Dryden, 70 Maravich this year.
Overall it was a pretty fun experiment.
Robb
It was very interesting to watch your rips over the year. Wishing you all the best with your 2010 rips and hoping that your ROI is a little better than last year.
Have a HEALTHY NEW YEAR.
Doug
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Bosox1976