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Hobby shops or Target/Walmart/etc

Do you buy ur cards at Hobby shops or Target/Walmart/etc? I use to purchase solely at hobby shops, but due to pay cuts, stop buying the hobby boxes. I started buying some blister or retails boxes at Target. However, the price is usually $19.99 for 7 or 8 packs at retail odds, which are lousy. It's a quick fix at Target, but the hobby shop is much better with the wax boxes. So I have been trying to save up for some hobby boxes. Anyone else in the same boat?
Also, anyone buy those repacked items from Fairfield company, usually 10 packs for $9.99 or something like that, some others include a jersey or auto card. I wasted some money on those too, during the quick fix days.
Also, anyone buy those repacked items from Fairfield company, usually 10 packs for $9.99 or something like that, some others include a jersey or auto card. I wasted some money on those too, during the quick fix days.
Running an Ebay store sure takes a lot more time than a person would think!
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IMO, the ONLY thing that Target/Walmart is good for is if you want to build a base set and are just looking for quantity. A&G or Heritage- make your base sets from cheap blasters etc. from those places and don't kid yourself about having any real chances for pulling chase cards and 1/1's.
-Michael
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IMO, the ONLY thing that Target/Walmart is good for is if you want to build a base set and are just looking for quantity. A&G or Heritage- make your base sets from cheap blasters etc. from those places and don't kid yourself about having any real chances for pulling chase cards and 1/1's.
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Even with that, it's still usually cheaper to buy card lots from ebay.
For $9 I got 8 packs of junk and 1 pack with this:
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To be honest, no direction, but...
1966-69 Topps EX+
1975 minis NrMt Kelloggs PSA 9
All Topps Heritage-Master Sets
2. internet (which is really the modern day hobby store)
3. target, etc... which as people have mentioned works for the quick fix
<< <i>1. hobby
2. internet (which is really the modern day hobby store)
3. target, etc... which as people have mentioned works for the quick fix >>
Unfortunately because of financial restraints, mine is the reverse of this.
2. BST Message Boards
3. Shows (small and large)
4. Target
5. Hobby Stores
All of my recent hobby store experiences have sucked. Over priced crap, horrible customer service, etc. And the stores themselves are just dumps. They are dirty and stink. You've always got some fat turd sitting behind the counter on his computer eating some munchies and typing away, too busy to assist. Then there's the Yu Gi Oh contingent of 3rd graders screaming about something.
Kiss me twice.....let's party.
<< <i>Everytime I go to Target or Walmart I usually pick up 2-3 packs of cards. I don't expect to hit anything big but it is fun to open a pack now and then. I collect Yankees so I feel like I am 7 again when I get exited to get a pack with a Yankee in in. I was at Target yesterday and bought one pack of 2010 UD and got the Yankee Stadium card out of the pack so I was very happy even though the card is probably worth about $1.00 if that. >>
Because of pack searchers, you are wasting money by buying individual packs at Target/Wal-Mart/etc. Buy the blasters only.
I long for the days when Toys R Us sold variety boxes with 20 packs of cards for $19.99 + a bonus item. The packs were a wide variety of brands, often hobby packs, and the bonuses could be quite good as well. My friend and I used to buy those all the time and we averaged about 1.5 jerseys/autos per box. I pulled a Walter Payton jersey card out of one that I later sold for $100. The bonus item in another was a Bowman's Best hobby pack - guaranteed auto or jersey. The boxes were always a ton of fun to bust. This would be right around 2003.
As you might imagine, eventually the quality of the packs dropped. First the variety narrowed. Then the hobby packs disappeared. Soon thereafter the boxes started including multiple packs of stuff like Pro Set and other junk wax from the early 90s. By then, we'd stopped buying them.
In all honesty, those boxes were the most fun I've had in collecting since I was a kid. Running to TRU at lunch with my best friend, $20 in hand, and then busting the packs in the parking lot was a blast.
Tabe
Hobby shops - I have to apologize for having good intentions but not delivering.
I should try to see what's around - give it/them a chance.
I guess I got terribly lazy due to ebay.
mike
I too must confess my laziness in using ebay. Today I bought a half case of Heritage from my local card shop. Even though I over paid, I want to really support my friend. In San Antonio, a city of 1.7M, there are 2 or 3 shops in town and that's it!
I also hate Walmart/retail stores where all the packs are searched. I too only buy blasters, not individual packs. If boxes are left out, they will get opened, all five of them. The bottom feeder scum bags don't seem to bother blasters.
To be honest, no direction, but...
1966-69 Topps EX+
1975 minis NrMt Kelloggs PSA 9
All Topps Heritage-Master Sets
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Now a short story about retail: Target's and Wal-Mart's are for pack searchers, I purchased 5 retail boxes of 1997 Bowman Chrome baseball when they first hit the shelves. I began busting them in the car and began to see a pattern of the cards being staggered in the packs, never mind the see through mylar packaging. I realized after getting 0 autos in 3 boxes that they were searched. I tried the fourth box just in case the odds were against me and still got nothing. I sent them all back to Topps and told them what I felt was wrong with the packaging and told them to keep them.
<< <i>All of my recent hobby store experiences have sucked. Over priced crap, horrible customer service, etc. And the stores themselves are just dumps. They are dirty and stink. You've always got some fat turd sitting behind the counter on his computer eating some munchies and typing away, too busy to assist. Then there's the Yu Gi Oh contingent of 3rd graders screaming about something. >>
Do you live in the same town as me?
Our one shop is run by a fat turd fantasy carp nerd. The last time, and I do mean the LAST time, I went in there I needed some CS4's. The conversation went like this:
Me: Do you have any CS4's?
Him: For what?
Me: Never mind
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<< <i>All of my recent hobby store experiences have sucked. Over priced crap, horrible customer service, etc. And the stores themselves are just dumps. They are dirty and stink. You've always got some fat turd sitting behind the counter on his computer eating some munchies and typing away, too busy to assist. Then there's the Yu Gi Oh contingent of 3rd graders screaming about something. >>
Do you live in the same town as me?
Our one shop is run by a fat turd fantasy carp nerd. The last time, and I do mean the LAST time, I went in there I needed some CS4's. The conversation went like this:
Me: Do you have any CS4's?
Him: For what?
Me: Never mind >>
lol. Same thing where I live, but I've built a decent relationship with the owner just because I'm so desperate to have someone nearby to discuss the hobby. He is a good guy, but I don't think he has sold a card in the past year. I have no idea how he can keep his doors open. Every time I walk in, there is group of greasy unkept guys in the back of the store sitting around a table playing some mythological card game.
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