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  • recbballrecbball Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭
    auction
  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    It's over $300 in less than 15 minutes.
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  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    Uh...

    Where do I find this product?
  • byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭
    Between created variations and wrapper redemptions, Topps does a good job of getting people opening a bunch of packs looking for cards like this one.
  • miconelegacymiconelegacy Posts: 3,052 ✭
    That's pretty cool. Wonder what the final price will bring?

    I couldn't imagine busting and sorting 30 cases.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's over $300 in less than 15 minutes. >>



    ...and under $50 within 3 months.

    Probably. image
  • chadridgechadridge Posts: 143


    << <i>It's over $300 in less than 15 minutes. >>



    The article makes no mention of rarity, it sounds like this is his standard 2012 card. So WTF?!? Won't there be 100,000 of these out there in a few months?
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  • bkingbking Posts: 3,095 ✭✭


    << <i>That's pretty cool. Wonder what the final price will bring?

    I couldn't imagine busting and sorting 30 cases. >>



    The final price on this auction? I'm guessing $500.

    The final price two years from now?? I'm guessing $5
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  • bkingbking Posts: 3,095 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>It's over $300 in less than 15 minutes. >>



    ...and under $50 within 3 months.

    Probably. image >>



    LOL, I gotta start reading to the end before I chime in...
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  • chadridgechadridge Posts: 143
    Ah, I didnt read to the end, "short print". I'm sure that its limited to the number that they milk it for image
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  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    Now at $631.99 in less than 2 hours.
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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In case I win that card, does anyone know the squirrel's address and if he's a good TTM signer? Would two acorns be enough to send with the card?
  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    I heard a rumor that this year's Allen and Ginter will have Rally Squirrel paw print autographs, as well as cards that contain authentic squirrel fur.
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  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    $631...
  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    Can you pull this card out of retail? If so I think I'm going to go buy walmart out.
  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    Two more are now on eBay and are in the $60 range at this point:

    Auction 2

    Auction 3
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    so this year's Steve Strasburg is a stinky rodent with rabies and 17 pregnant girlfriends?

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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    auction #2 states that you'll only get the SSP variation. Don't think for a second that you'll be entitled to the $.01 base card.

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  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nevermind
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a rack pack with the rally squirrel showing.

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  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    If three of these cards have already been pulled by case breakers before the official release date, I am going to guess that they are not nearly as "super short-printed" as the ridiculous price of the first one indicates.

    The first auction says they are opening 30 cases, the second says 60 jumbo cases, the third says 15 cases, and it is safe to assume that brentandbecca is not done breaking their 60 jumbo cases.
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  • psychumppsychump Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭
    "Now that l'il critter has somehow become big enough to push Schumaker almost completely off his own baseball card. According to Topps, it's the first time in company history that a player's card has not featured the player's face."

    That is not true.
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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭


    << <i>I have a rack pack with the rally squirrel showing. >>



    that's nothing. i already found a vintage pre-war example in a dumpster.
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I have a rack pack with the rally squirrel showing. >>



    that's nothing. i already found a vintage pre-war example in a dumpster. >>



    yea, i tossed it due to the smell after finding it in a burnt out car in the desert
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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,872 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I have a rack pack with the rally squirrel showing. >>



    that's nothing. i already found a vintage pre-war example in a dumpster. >>



    I call BS on that one. The only other variation of this card is the game used version, which has a piece of acorn on it.

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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I have a rack pack with the rally squirrel showing. >>



    that's nothing. i already found a vintage pre-war example in a dumpster. >>



    I call BS on that one. The only other variation of this card is the game used version, which has a piece of acorn on it. >>



    dang it. you caught me.

    but i have it on good authority that the St. Louis organization has petitioned the league to change the name of the Fall Classic to the Squirrel'd Series.
  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
    Another squirrel has landed.

    Auction 4
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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,872 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Another squirrel has landed.

    Auction 4 >>



    Oh man...a 5 day auction to boot.

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    This reminds me of the Jeter/Bush card.

    What a bunch of BS that was.


    Good for you.
  • TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭


    << <i>This reminds me of the Jeter/Bush card.

    What a bunch of BS that was. >>



    I still have some left.... oops... image

    During that craze, someone bought a jumbo box from me and pulled a gold /2007 and a bronze numbered to /55 (or whatever they were numbered to) and sold both for somewhere around $1100 during the craze. image
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  • Nascar360Nascar360 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭
    This is why I don't collect Baseball cards or Topps cards. If it wasn't for them I would have never found NASCAR and Press Pass.
  • ToroToro Posts: 1,515


    << <i>bronze numbered to /55 (or whatever they were numbered to) and sold both for somewhere around $1100 during the craze. >>



    I believe the bronze/copper #/55 is still up there.
  • Probstein123Probstein123 Posts: 1,281 ✭
    should have RC in the title...I don't recall another squirrel card earlier...
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  • neildownneildown Posts: 183
    is this a PETA approved card?

    me? i would stomp that so' a binch in the cranium.
  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bid retractions already starting and three listed so the price will collapse on this auction or the item will be re listed due to a non paying bidder at this price.
  • SportsamericaSportsamerica Posts: 990 ✭✭
    Hope my case comes soon, and I pull one to pay for the case...
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  • EAsportsEAsports Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Between created variations and wrapper redemptions, Topps does a good job of getting people opening a bunch of packs looking for cards like this one. >>



    Their purposefully terrible collation doesn't hurt either.

    The past few years, I would buy Jumbos. (10) 50 card packs.... 500 cards. 330 cards per series. Can't miss, right?

    I'd get about 280 commons, 140 doubles and 80 inserts.

    What a waste.

    This year, I'll be buying the sets already collated.

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  • prthdprthd Posts: 1,323
    Im telling you right now, they are just like football Variations. Probably 150-300 is my guess on production run.

    600 is image insane
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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Thanks, Topps. >>

    heh

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  • 1neatstuff1neatstuff Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭
    this reminds me of the good old days of collecting the san diego chicken rookie cards i think there we in 1982 donruss..lolimage
  • 1neatstuff1neatstuff Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭
    i wonder how much an auto squirrel is gonna go for?image
  • prthdprthd Posts: 1,323


    << <i>i wonder how much an auto squirrel is gonna go for?image >>



    Squirrel event used nut shell card. The back will read "consumed on 7/14/2011 in the Pine Hills Forest in Montego, KY.."

    Series 2 will include event cards featuring fecal matter of the digested nut, along with a piece of Smokey The Bear's straw hat.

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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I dont understand why anyone would pay this much for a new card of a squirrel....
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  • matthewbschultz83matthewbschultz83 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭
    A hundy on retail at Wal Mart and bubkis.
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  • zendudezendude Posts: 210 ✭✭✭

    I think the card is pretty cool but it's still just a shameless publicity stunt by Topps.
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭


    << <i>I think the card is pretty cool but it's still just a shameless publicity stunt by Topps. >>



    Maybe Topps employees are bidding up these cards to add to the hype. Hype= more cases/boxes/packs sold.

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  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah bidding before the release. It would be smart to bid this up to 5k ,,and then watch the cases sell!!
  • ToroToro Posts: 1,515
    The SSP's usually hold around $75-$125, the eBay bump is because of the publicity.
  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
    agree.
    The publicity/public should also see the card sold for x amount and then say man I want to make x amount Ill take 10!!
    JK. Its fun to see this type of action on new product.
  • TmbrWolf22TmbrWolf22 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭


    << <i>auction #2 states that you'll only get the SSP variation. Don't think for a second that you'll be entitled to the $.01 base card. >>



    Yeah....that made me chuckle too.
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