Relatively recent wax boxes that you just can't find?
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Anybody else got boxes of fairly recent vintage (last 20 years) that you simply can't find? For me, I've got two:
- 2003 Press Pass football
- 1998/99 Pacific Hockey
On the Press Pass, I've always liked college football more than the NFL and I liked the design and on-card autos of Press Pass, which just happened to coincide with my return to collecting for a short time in 2003/2004. I bought a bunch of boxes back then but haven't seen one anywhere in quite awhile. DA Card World has 2003 Press Pass JE, which has the same auto cards but isn't the same thing.
For a short while in 1998/99, I decided I liked the design of the Pacific hockey and started buying some blaster boxes at the local KMart. A little while ago, I decided to try and buy some boxes and hobby boxes are nowhere to be found. There's a seller with some blasters on Ebay but that's it.
Neither one of these would have been particularly rare when released but have seemingly disappeared.
Anybody else go similar stories? And, hey, if you know where to get 2003 Press Pass boxes...
- 2003 Press Pass football
- 1998/99 Pacific Hockey
On the Press Pass, I've always liked college football more than the NFL and I liked the design and on-card autos of Press Pass, which just happened to coincide with my return to collecting for a short time in 2003/2004. I bought a bunch of boxes back then but haven't seen one anywhere in quite awhile. DA Card World has 2003 Press Pass JE, which has the same auto cards but isn't the same thing.
For a short while in 1998/99, I decided I liked the design of the Pacific hockey and started buying some blaster boxes at the local KMart. A little while ago, I decided to try and buy some boxes and hobby boxes are nowhere to be found. There's a seller with some blasters on Ebay but that's it.
Neither one of these would have been particularly rare when released but have seemingly disappeared.
Anybody else go similar stories? And, hey, if you know where to get 2003 Press Pass boxes...
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Jeff
Although it's a casual keep an eye out
<< <i>Do you think these are due to scarcity of the unopened product or lack of interest in general on those specific issues? >>
In the case of the Press Pass, it's probably a combination of the two. I know it's not a super-popular product but it does have its fans and continues to sell every year. In the case of the Pacific, I gotta think it's the scarcity of the product. There's plenty of boxes from other Pacific hockey brands from 1998/99 available, just not that one.
<< <i>Do you think these are due to scarcity of the unopened product or lack of interest in general on those specific issues? >>
I didn't mean for this to come off as disparaging for those issues mentioned already, though I could see how it could have. For the Pacific in particular (since I know a bit more about those in baseball at least), with the multitude of variations there are many on player collector's wantlists, it wouldn't surprise me if the bulk of those had been ripped to sell as singles. I'm not familiar with the Press Pass FB issues, but if a box would only sell for say $5-10, shipping can kill making them worth selling at all unless you can fit 3-4 in a flat rate and have the quantity to make it worthwhile.
I'm working on a 89-00 Bowman (base/Chrome/Best) run of unopened in baseball, and the hardest to find reasonably priced are the 90 & 91 since shipping costs are higher than the boxes are worth. Other issues have already been ripped to nearly unavailable, with retail 10-pack & jumbo boxes being the hardest to find unopened and garnering quite a per card premium over a 24-pack hobby boxes. A year ago, you could pick up the 92 Bowman boxes for $125 any day you wanted, they still aren't selling for much of a premium, but asking prices are outrageous and there are far fewer listings. 93 is getting to that point, 100-150 active listings was the norm a year or so ago, now 20-30 is typical.
I think many who were buying 'cheap' late-70s/early 80s Topps several years ago for a good rip value have moved on to a lot of these other products where you can still make money ripping.