Bbce giant unopened purchase

craig44

I see on the Facebook page that bbce has purchased the burbank modern unopened collection. 1987-2012. They said 22,000 unopened boxes and factory sets, 250 sealed cases. Sounds like if you like junk wax or modern that Rick has an awful pile coming in soon.

RedRomad275

From the BBCE Facebook page:



When Rob Veres of Burbank Sportscards - without a doubt the largest sportscards singles dealer in the hobby - decided he needed clear out his unopened inventory to make space in his warehouse, he called his old buddy Reed Kasaoka at Baseball Card Exchange. After two days of cataloging the entire collection and almost two weeks of non-stop pricing, BBCE reached an agreement today to buy one of the largest inventories of modern unopened in the hobby! Next Monday, Reed will be traveling to Southern California with his co-workers Rick and Brett, where for the next few weeks, he'll try to figure out how to get it all back to the BBCE offices, and just maybe pickup several other deals out there too.



Just how impressive is this deal? This collection covers the four major sports from 1987-2012, and we're not ashamed to say that for those years, this inventory is larger than ours - and that's saying a lot. It really is that good! Here's the tale of the tape:



- 22,000 unopened boxes and factory sets

- 250 factory sealed cases

- 1,800 different items (the most impressive stat!)

- 35-40 pallets worth of cards (1 1/2 semi trailers!)

Nathaniel1960

Just in time for Black Friday BBCE Sale.

runningman

Is BBCE selling that much modern unopened, I would think there would be very low demand for about 90% of it.

LarkinCollector

Originally posted by: runningman
Is BBCE selling that much modern unopened, I would think there would be very low demand for about 90% of it.

I've seen them selling quite a bit on eBay auctions, which leads me to believe they don't sell a lot of modern on their website.

Stewie

Nothing bad about inventory. It's what they do. Their warehouse may need its own zip code.

thebaseballcardkid

I thought business's don't want inventory just sitting. Keep it moving, turning over.

Stewie

Um, yeah. But, to move inventory, you need to have inventory.



My head hurt's.

brendanb438

Originally posted by: thebaseballcardkid

I thought business's don't want inventory just sitting. Keep it moving, turning over.

It is a little different comparing a business which is turning over new inventory over and over versus a business that specializes in inventory that is no longer being produced. Even if it is modern junk that seems to be popping up everywhere, eventually even that modern junk will one day dry up. That one day may be 200 years from now but it will happen one day.

BeRoyalKC

Some of BBCE's stuff isn't even on the website. I bought several boxes of junk wax from them on EBay and went to buy more from the store and it wasn't there. They said just shoot an email with what you're looking for and they will see if they have it. Lots of avenues to sell. Gotta keep your eyes peeled to see where they move it all.

LuvOldPacks

Hmmmm, perhaps Mr Hart knows something we don't.... again.

VitoCo1972

I've bought plenty of junk wax from Burbank. It's' all in nice shape and has been well stored. Quite a bit of it was factory bought. Burbank Sportscards has been open since then.

rcmb3220

Originally posted by: BeRoyalKC
Some of BBCE's stuff isn't even on the website. I bought several boxes of junk wax from them on EBay and went to buy more from the store and it wasn't there. They said just shoot an email with what you're looking for and they will see if they have it. Lots of avenues to sell. Gotta keep your eyes peeled to see where they move it all.

Whatever happened to those cases of 82 Topps Traded? I never saw them on the website.

BobH

Whatever happened to those cases of 82 Topps Traded? I never saw them on the website.



Reed said on FB that the 82 TT cases and the 100 or so sets they had never made it to the website.

RookieWax

I'm surprised Burbank sold out to BBCE....which you would expect to be near wholesale prices. I have made them offers on wax boxes in the past and they typically showed little interest in budging much on their price.

PMKAY

Maybe Burbank needed the cash more than they needed the space.

PMKAY

BBCE unopened auctions


I think they have two ebay accounts as well.

Tangalang

They may have a case or two but Steve can validate that assumption himself. That would've been cool to break a case of those and having them labeled FASC! You never know though...we may get that...maybe.

ndleo

Originally posted by: RookieWax
I'm surprised Burbank sold out to BBCE....which you would expect to be near wholesale prices. I have made them offers on wax boxes in the past and they typically showed little interest in budging much on their price.

I happened to stop by Burbank a couple of weeks ago to get a couple of inserts I needed. I mentioned to Rob this was my first time in the store and he took me on a tour of their operation. Very impressive.

Afterwards he mentioned to me that he was getting out of the box and case business because it is just too competitive and his singles business was growing so fast that he needed the space. I did see cases stacked in the back as if there were about to go somewhere. I guess they ended up at BBCE.

Estil

I just did a couple of big orders from Steve to get caught up on something (such as getting 2004-14 Topps baseball factory sets to get my Topps set run caught up among other items). I know unopened boxes/packs seem to be his claim to fame but don't overlook his sets! Maybe I'll do football factor sets from 2001 onward if the price is right (I'd rather do 1974-79 though...)

seebelow

Looks like they're moving some of that inventory and already have..82TT