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ALL PAID<> 1979 TOPPS HOCKEY BOX GROUP RIP. BBCEXCHANGE. GOOD LUCK TO ALL!

Hey everyone,

The last time we did a 1979-80 topps hockey group rip it sold out in a very very short time so I've decided to try it again for the night people.

Steve at BBCexchange has told me this is the nicest unopened box that he has ever had. The cost of this box is $2500. Thats $69.44/pack.

For those that don't know how this works....Just reply to this thread and tell me how many packs and when the packs are all sold out you will pay your total to BBCexchange.

Shipping and handling for 1-5 packs is $4.00 usps
Shipping and handling for 6 packs or more go UPS for $8.00 (insurance INCLUDED in this up to $200.00)

USPS Insurance

.01 to $50.00----$1.85
$50.01 to $100.00-----$2.35
$101.01 to $200.00-----$2.90
$200.01 to $300.00----$4.85
$300.01 to $400.00---$5.95
$400.01 to $500.00---$7.05

Don't pay Baseball Card Exchange until we sell out. You can call them and pay or easily send PAYPAL to bbcexchange@sprintmail.com

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Thanks everyone.

Mike
Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
I know it's going to be tough!
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    I'd like to open a few, can you put me down for 6?

    Thanks for the rip.
  • MacrosBMacrosB Posts: 525 ✭✭✭
    I will take 2.

    Jim
    Looking for 66 and 69 OPC baseball
    60's OPC packs
    72 BB, 60's FB, 71FB, 73FB, 74FB, 75FB, 76FB, 78FB Rack Packs
    72 and earlier BB cello
  • I'll take 7 please.
    Miconelegacy Auctions
    "Live everyday, don't throw it away"
  • Got em! Thanks for the help.

    Mike
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    Cool, I will take 2 packs.


    Joe
  • I'll take two!

    Thanks!
    Brian
    I have no collecting direction. I just buy stuff!
  • PROMETHIUS88PROMETHIUS88 Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I haven't done a rip since some 76 Topps football packs a few months ago and I am itching... and I've always wanted a Gretzky rookie. Problem is that i HATE hockey. Can you please guarantee me Wayne rookie?
    Promethius881969@yahoo.com
  • ssdawg77ssdawg77 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    4 packs please
  • Maybe Steve@BBCE will give your money back if you don't find one.
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • Im not a hockey guy either but this will probably be my only shot at pulling a pack fresh Gretzky! I'm excited!! image
    I have no collecting direction. I just buy stuff!
  • Ill take the last three packs Mike! Now I'm really ready to rip! image
    I have no collecting direction. I just buy stuff!
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    47 minutes to sell out. WOW

    Just about to go out for dinner, glad I checked in. image

    Good luck everyone with the packs.

    Joe
  • Thanks everyone and good luck.
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • ssdawg77ssdawg77 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Payment sent, thanks for setting this up.
  • Sent $500, thanks for putting this together.
    Miconelegacy Auctions
    "Live everyday, don't throw it away"
  • epatmythesepatmythes Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭
    Good luck to the SEVEN of you on your (err, umm, GROUP?) rip!
  • Nascar360Nascar360 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭
    Good luck to the SEVEN of you on your (err, umm, GROUP?) rip! +1

  • mikliamiklia Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭
    yeah, the 2 for first 24 hour rule would have been great here. i'd been waiting to get in on a 79 hockey rip for a while...
  • If anyone wants packs please PM me. You can paypal me, and notify Steve before they are shipped out. I've already paid, but all 7 packs are available for whomever wants them.. image
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  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭

    Anyone can take the initiative to start a rip. If you feel a need for rules, that's your choice.
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the break,

    Paid

    Joe
  • Payment sent! Bring on Gretzky!!
    I have no collecting direction. I just buy stuff!
  • I'm paid. Sold a bunch of opened stuff just to buy unopened stuff and then start the process over and over again. everytime losing 50% of value at least.

    Can't wait till we do it again.

    Mike
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    I'm paid up.

    Thanks again.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Anyone can take the initiative to start a rip. If you feel a need for rules, that's your choice. >>



    What, this wasn't a sanctioned box group rip??? I'll have to report this to the proper authorities. Trent, you have the emergency number, right?
    "The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep."

    "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

    Collecting:
    Any unopened Baseball cello and rack packs and boxes from the 1970's and early 1980s.
  • MacrosBMacrosB Posts: 525 ✭✭✭
    Paid,

    Jim
    Looking for 66 and 69 OPC baseball
    60's OPC packs
    72 BB, 60's FB, 71FB, 73FB, 74FB, 75FB, 76FB, 78FB Rack Packs
    72 and earlier BB cello
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm paid. Sold a bunch of opened stuff just to buy unopened stuff and then start the process over and over again. everytime losing 50% of value at least.

    Can't wait till we do it again.

    Mike >>




    image

    Joe
  • MeferMefer Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭
    This should be a fun one to watch. I would have liked to have joined in had I seen the thread in time. These fill up quick!

    Out of curiosity, what is the reasonable number of Gretzky's one can expect from the box?

    Matt


  • << <i>

    Out of curiosity, what is the reasonable number of Gretzky's one can expect from the box?

    Matt >>




    One or two from the factory, if you're getting a box that was never tampered with. Meaning, someone bought a few boxes, pulled the Gretzky,
    and then combined packs from other boxes. Then you're looking at one per box if those shanannigans took place.

    Then you have to consider that 79 Topps sitting in packs that long "COULD" have snow on cards from sticking together.
    Also consider the chances of pulling an o/c Gretzky. Chances are 50/50.

    In my opinion anyone who pulls a PSA 8 or higher like Gretzky is going to be very lucky, and very happy.
  • Thanks to all that helped sell out this box, hopefully we can do 2 boxes next time if they ever come available. These are getting very hard to find still sealed.

    Everyone is paid. Now becomes the fun part....RIPPING THEM!

    Mike
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭


    << <i>Trent, you have the emergency number, right? >>



    I have it somewhere, it's a 900 number. image
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    cant wait to see scans! Break a leg to all of you!
  • ssdawg77ssdawg77 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Received my packs today. No Gretzky, an OC Howe and not much else to speak of. 2 backs were decently centered the other 2 were OC. Good luck to the rest of you.
  • MacrosBMacrosB Posts: 525 ✭✭✭
    Got my 2 packs today but not opening them. 4 down and 32 to go.

    Jim
    Looking for 66 and 69 OPC baseball
    60's OPC packs
    72 BB, 60's FB, 71FB, 73FB, 74FB, 75FB, 76FB, 78FB Rack Packs
    72 and earlier BB cello
  • Jim,

    Wouldn't it be funny if you pieced your 79 box together in bits, and your box ended up yielding about 5 or 6 Gretzky rookies.

    Sorry, but I just find that too funny. image
  • Jim it's called a pack rip. If you had no intension of ripping then maybe you should have let somebody else get in instead. I know you paid just like everybody else but that's why it's called a pack rip.
    Not trying to start an arguement with you but other people wanted in the rip to open the packs. I had no interest in this rip but other people did.
    Just saying,
    Steve
    Die Hard Toronto Maple Leafs Fan !!
  • Steve,

    I think many "rips", "box breaks" and the such have occured here with some people not ripping the packs. I'm sure
    Jim has participated in other breaks where he and others either kept them closed, or submitted the packs to PSA for pack grading.

    I'm not sticking up for Jim, or saying you're wrong. Just saying what I've experienced in the past.
  • I don't have a problem with it personally. Just that alot of people wanted in on this one who were going to rip the packs but sold out very quickly.
    Cheers, Steve
    Die Hard Toronto Maple Leafs Fan !!
  • ToroToro Posts: 1,515
    Is the snow caused during the manufacturng process or is it from sitting in the packs and sticking together?
  • tsalems1tsalems1 Posts: 3,459 ✭✭✭✭
    My guess "from sitting in the packs and sticking together"
    opcbaseball.com
  • Opened all ten of my packs today and got no Gretzky so now you people who are waiting to see if someone pulls a Gretzky before you open yours.. it's time. 50% chance almost now.

    I was happy with the corners and centering. Not much wax on front of top card. I would say these are nice packs.

    I did find some gradable cards. Remember that I'm paying $50-$200 for PSA 9's and 10's that I don't have.

    Thanks to everyone who helped get this box sold out.

    Mike
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!


  • << <i>Steve,

    I think many "rips", "box breaks" and the such have occured here with some people not ripping the packs. I'm sure
    Jim has participated in other breaks where he and others either kept them closed, or submitted the packs to PSA for pack grading.

    I'm not sticking up for Jim, or saying you're wrong. Just saying what I've experienced in the past. >>



    I still have the packs from the last Topps Hockey box that was done, along with 98% of packs from the few hundred I have bought from all the group box/case breaks.

    Some people rip, some people don't, some sit on the sidelines. Either way there is no right, wrong, or have to's. If you want to buy some packs to rip let me know...
    Miconelegacy Auctions
    "Live everyday, don't throw it away"
  • I'm out here in So. Cal. and haven't received my 5 packs yet but believe me those suckers don't stand a chance once they reach my front door! They're getting ripped!!!! image
    I have no collecting direction. I just buy stuff!
  • Anyone get the Gretzky?
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
  • Ripped my five packs today and man were they brutal! No Gretzky image and everything was OC left to right and the backs were just as bad! I got one really nicely centered HOF'er Bobby Hull but it was the gum card with a nice fat stain on the back! image Better luck next time I guess!

    Brian
    I have no collecting direction. I just buy stuff!


  • << <i>Jim it's called a pack rip. If you had no intension of ripping then maybe you should have let somebody else get in instead. I know you paid just like everybody else but that's why it's called a pack rip.
    Not trying to start an arguement with you but other people wanted in the rip to open the packs. I had no interest in this rip but other people did. >>



    Keep in mind that some people, like me, have them sit on their shelf or desk with the intention of opening them but life happens and they get put in a closet. For instance, I had a box of unopened football and baseball from a group rip that I found while I was moving. I thought about keeping them sealed but I decided to grade them. They were all PSA 's 4's IMO and not worthy of staying sealed. haha. I busted them all one late night. 1974 to 1977 BB wax, 1981 Topps FB, 1984,etc.....Pulled nothing out of BB but got a Montana RC, Marino RC and Rice RC.

    Lastly, there will be more rips in the future. I dont think Steve can keep up with demand here.
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭
    I'm really stoked about getting to my packs now. I should have them in a couple days. image







    << <i>I had no interest in this rip but other people did. >>





    << <i>I don't have a problem with it personally. Just that alot of people wanted in on this one who were going to rip the packs but sold out very quickly.
    Cheers, Steve >>



    So you have no interest in the rip, and you have no problem with it... but just felt a need to whine and complain?

    image


  • << <i>

    So you have no interest in the rip, and you have no problem with it... but just felt a need to whine and complain?

    image >>




    Steve's had a tough week with extremely poor poppage at a very high cost. Let's cut him some slack here.
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭


    << <i>Let's cut him some slack here. >>



    Steve's an awesome guy, I know. But anyone who likes ripping misses out sooner or later.

    I'd like to mention is that sometimes I save packs for gifting later on. I don't feel any obligation to rip everything I buy. But I usually rip everything I keep.
  • Anyone find the Gretzky?
    Working my way to #1 1979 Topps Hockey
    I know it's going to be tough!
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