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2010 Topps Chrome Question: edit Baseball not Football

MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
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I bought some packs last night thinking they were $5 each and not realizing they were $9 per until I got home -- otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.

Don't know a lot about these but one thing I want to ask is about the curling and bending -- almost every single one is curled like a taco...normal?

Doesn't look like I pulled anything "nice" I don't collect baseball so I have no idea what or who I'm looking for -- according to eBay most are worth about a buck and the green xfractor Sanchez is a few bucks. There is a regular Kepler too.

Some cards are purple...some are refractory rainbow looking...too much for me.

Does PSA slab these and does the curl go into the grading?

Thanks in advance

edit to add: if PSA grades these are there any players worth sending in?

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  • eagles33eagles33 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭
    i wouldn't bother grading anything other than a numbered rookie refractor. bradford, suh, or tebow ect.. the curl usually doesn't matter.. put it in a penny sleeve and in a rigid holder or under something heavy.. they will flatten out.
    Scans of most of my Misc rookies can be found <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forums.collectors.com/m...y&keyword1=Non%20major">here
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Wow...amazing the packs are that high.

    A few thoughts...

    Still looking for the Tony Gonzalez superfractor, or whatever the base 1/1 is, and two of the printing plates.

    Perhaps not so related, the 2005, 2006 & 2008 TC boxes have been dropping in price pretty well the last year. Not sure if Bradford can keep the '10 up and don't expect Tebow to be able to.

    I think it is the only Topps football product they did not make the ebay blank back 1/1's for.

    Dez Bryant (Cowboys WR RC) also does well graded right now.

    And speaking of RCs...they will announce the NFL Diet Pepsi ROY shortly. I will guess they pick Bradford, the bigger name RC on the list, as fans get to vote, but I am going with Devin McCourty, Patriots CB. He started all 16 games and made 80-something tackles with 6-7 interceptions, plus a few other stats. Not a good resale canidate I imagine...

    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.
  • jlzinckjlzinck Posts: 910 ✭✭
    Wait...what?

    You THOUGHT they were $5 and they WERE $9 ea? For Topps 2010 Chrome FB?

    You can find them at overpriced shops for $3 ea all day.

    STHTY
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You must have bought fat packs. Even the 4-card packs at retail are only $2.99.

    I made the mistake of buying this product pre-sell. I will never make that mistake again since it seems like the new Topps management is bent on destroying the Chrome brand.

    The 2008 Topps Chrome FB boxes and cases are a pretty good deal IMHO. The rookie card list is very deep and each box still has a topper, unlike 2009 and 2010. Plus I believe this was the last chrome FB product before Eisner took over the company, so the value per box should still be pretty good.

    Mike
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
    Sorry, I should have said this is BASEBALL -- I see how the Sanchez could have thrown you guys off.

    They are the rack pack style with three packs per rack each containing three cards plus an "xfractor green pack"
  • Bigjohn69Bigjohn69 Posts: 737
    my walnutmart convienetly left the rack pack price off this brand only, i also did not catch it until the 3 or 4th time buying this carp,, i feel your pain,,, i think if you put the cards end to end you can get a circle in,,, oh,,, about 5 or 6 cards,,, j
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