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PSA graded packs - Rip or store

CsmontieCsmontie Posts: 184 ✭✭
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Just curious how the members feel on this topic? I just started collecting unopened PSA graded packs over the last 6 months

I currently have
3 1972 Topps baseball, 1 PSA 8 & 2 PSA 7, do not know what series, any way to find out via the wrapper or is the only way to determine the series is see either a number or reconize a picture/player?
2 1974 Topps baseball PSA 7
2 1975 Topps mini PSA 7
2 1976 Topps baseball PSA 9 and a PSA 8.
1 1979-80 Topps Hockey - PSA 9. I'm thinking this one may be the best to hang onto and left alone, since its Wayne gretzky's rookie year.

Anyway I'm getting an urge to rip but do not want to rip all.

I'm not sure on which packs would have the best chance to increase in value, so I'm just asking all of you out there what are your thoughts?
LMK thank you Craig
Working on 1961 1972 1973 topps sets

Comments

  • 76collector76collector Posts: 986 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I personally wouldn't rip any of them. Once they are in psa slabs, that is what protects them from me. I think most of them are worth more in the slabs, than what you are likely to get from them. I did recently rip a 75 mini pack, but it came from a group rip, where a number of people had mentioned they got well centered cards. I did pull a couple of nice cards, but if I have no idea about where the pack came from, I'm keeping the old one's sealed. Just my 2 cents.
    I cannot hit curveball. Straightball I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid.
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    post world war II HOF rookie
    76 topps gem mint 10 commons 9 stars
    Arenado purple refractors(Rockies) Red (Cardinals)
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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would rip the 7s if you are yearning for a rip, and keep the 8s. You cannot tell by the wrapper which series the 72s are from but you can sometimes determine it by looking for the player showing through the wrapper. Topps also produced mixes series (5/6 and 1/2 for example) in 72, too.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • NikklosNikklos Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭
    You should rip them all!
    Nikklos
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Personally I would open them however chances are the value will go down the drain on most of them unless you end up with a 9 or 10 Star Card.
    Opening them is just like betting on a horse and the horse don't win you lose.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • jmoran19jmoran19 Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭
    Was looking thru my 1972 packs last weekend and the later series wax packs are a little different from the early series. The players face is redder, like the OPC packs, for my 5th/6th pack obtain in a group rip. For The early series packs the middle of the face is whiter.

    John

    Current obsession, all things Topps 1969 - 1972

  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭
    I would open the PSA 7 packs.
  • MrNearMintMrNearMint Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭
    I'd keep them unopened.

    If you're getting the urge to tear into something, buy some cheap wax and go crazy.
  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Was looking thru my 1972 packs last weekend and the later series wax packs are a little different from the early series. The players face is redder, like the OPC packs, for my 5th/6th pack obtain in a group rip. For The early series packs the middle of the face is whiter.

    John >>



    I thought I spent too much time studying my packs. image
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    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.
  • CsmontieCsmontie Posts: 184 ✭✭
    I really don't want to open them but I do have the urge ... lol ... anyway I will stay put for now and maybe buy some rack packs and rip them. Any good dealers around that all of you trust? I saw that there was a unopened sale by Mark out there that offered some 75 minis to the mid 80s. How does one get in that? is it posted somewhere or do I need to continue to watch the boards until it shows up?
    Working on 1961 1972 1973 topps sets
  • TheDudeAbidesTheDudeAbides Posts: 400 ✭✭✭
    Having them graded is a great way to prevent the "MUST OPEN SOMETHING!" impulse. Buy something cheap to open, or come to my house and open box after box of junk wax. You can start with a whole case of 90/91 Topps Hockey and go from there.
    Collecting 64, 66, 67, 70 & 71 Baseball. Cubs, wax, cello & rack baseball.
  • corncobbcorncobb Posts: 516 ✭
    Rip them all. Thats what they were made for
  • SteelernationSteelernation Posts: 362 ✭
    Ugh. That was definitely a tease.
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