What’s your best pack pull ever?
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I pulled a hot Fultz Rookie this weekend and flipped it on eBay for $130 an hour later which covered my costs of packs. Never have I pulled anything better. Got me wondering, what have you pulled and what was it like?
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I pulled an aroid auto out of 1993 classic four sport. My brother pulled one out of the same box and was numbered sequentially to mine. Was pretty cool back in the day
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I pulled 3 Mario RCs. Will see if any pull a ten over the next few weeks. I’m hoping one for sure, 2 at best.
Kevin
Kevin
This, back in 1986 when you could buy .50 packs all day long:
Bought a case of 2001 UD just this summer for something fun to open. Pulled this in the second box. I like that its numbered card #1
I bought 2 boxes of 2012 Topps Archives on ebay in 2014. I Sat on them for over a year. I didn't open them until May of 2015..... I was 3 weeks past the redemption deadline. I still contacted Topps because these were such high dollar redemptions and I've heard that their competition, Panini, sometimes honors expired redemptions. I was hoping maybe Topps might do the same..... They told me too bad.
Quite possibly this one, just in November a few weeks ago. https://cardboardhistory.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-i-really-just-pull-this-card.html
Back when 1992-93 Finest basketball came out I pulled a Shaq refractor. At the time is was a $400 card.
James
I pulled eight 86 Fleer Jordan rookies in 1986 and my dumba$$ sold all but one to my shop teacher in high school.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Had 5 packs of 86 fleer basketball I bought 12-15 years ago and thought they were fake reseals pretty much the whole time I owned them. Once I read about the possibility of the packs being faked I was turned off enough to put them in a box and forget about them for over a decade.
Later on I became much more comfortable with packs of all other sorts and during the buyers group rise in cards a while back I bumped into them in my collection. They looked okay on the seals, but quite smashed. I happened to read online about the sequencing so I thought I would try to see the top card for fun and the bottom sticker. I tried pretty hard to see them and couldn't identify a jordan sticker back and the top cards were extremely tough to where I couldn't see anything but on one I did see "ams" in the name label. By comparing this to the set list it left me with the potential of that card being Alvan Adams #2 (Kareem, Checklist, Worthy, Malone in same sequencing) or a Williams last name (Gus, Buck, Herb which are all in the Jordan sequence). This all banked on the pack being real of course anyway.
I thought about sending the packs into PSA to verify they were real, but didn't want to waste like $200 to find out they were fake yet again. I got to thinking that if I do hit either sequence correctly, then it virtually authenticates the other 4 packs for me due to the source being the same. The risk was worth it by far at this point with Jordan being on my mind and so I opened it one night and the top card was Gus Williams. I waited for quite a while to slide to the next card dying for it to be Clark Kellogg (next in sequence), and it was! I still thought the pack was fake at this point and set it down to further convince myself I knew what was going on here--the person who re-sealed it took out the jordan and left the rest so the next card being Buck Williams would come as no surprise. I decided to rip the bandaid off the next one rather fast after seeing Buck Williams and I was stunned to see the blazing Jordan staring back at me. A card I have owned several of, but nothing ever compared to that moment I pack pulled this one grade regardless. It was like I was thrown back in time and the sequence holding true was just amazing to me that it sat in my house for a decade and I even shaded it away from my central collection because the packs I feared were fake. Since I owned others of the card, and had this amazing experience to remember, selling the card was a no brainer when the market was so hot. I sent it into PSA that next day and it landed 8.5 and I sold it right at the height of the Jordan boom for 4.5k (insane price now). What's nice is even if it were bumped to a 9 someday soon, I wouldn't have achieved that price so I can safely say that was the best pack pull and sale I ever made.
The 4 other packs graded out of course. I sold all 3 PSA 8s but still have one (PSA 7) and I never could read the front nor back on it. I kept it because it gives me the impression another Jordan could be there for another decade someday.
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I pulled 4 or 5 1993 Upper Deck SP Derek Jeter cards back in the day, and I'm sure they would have all graded PSA 10, but alas!, I sold all of them by the end of the 90s for probably under $20 each as I was preparing for the Y2K disaster! Haha!
The best cards that I've ever pulled (that were commanding significant dollars on the day I pulled them) occurred within minutes of each other. Back in 1994, I was opening a box of 1994 Upper Deck SP Football, and first pulled a Dan Marino die cut holoview. Within a few packs, a Joe Montana followed. I'm sure any of you that have some old Beckett magazines could confirm this, those cards were smoking hot, with something like $300-$400 price tags for each. I immediately sold the 2 as a package deal for something like $450 total and reinvested that money into more cards, likely 1994 Upper Deck Collector's Choice football and 1994-95 Fleer basketball! Haha!
Bird/Johnson rookie back in high school. It was a GEM with sharp corners and no print lines. Sold it in the early '90s. Wish I hung onto it.
If I knew then, what I knew now... to think of the '86 Fleer basketball boxes I could have gotten when working in a card shop at that time. Being in Chicago and Jordan, I remember them being fairly popular, but still. Ah well.
My best personal pull was back in '87 or so, getting a very nicely centered '85 Donruss Puckett from a wax pack bought at the store.
Sweet pull, sale and story! Congrats! To think that the timing of the hot market worked well with your decision to pull off the bandaid. "I love it when a plan comes together!"
Wow, congrats on a nice Gretzky!
Thank you! I'm still sort of in shock that I pulled that. It's definitely the best hockey card in my small but ever growing collection.
In 2011 I busted a box of the 1986 Panini Supersport Italian and pulled two Tyson's. Both graded a PSA 9 Mint and are still in my collection.
March 2016 I bought three loose packs of 2004 Heritage at a card shop and pulled this.
2014-2015 National Treasures basketball pulled a Kobe Bryant Logoman autograph. Most valuable card I’ll probably ever pull.
Appreciate today-
Bill
Definitely Jordan back when. A Crosby RC SPX patch auto was pretty cool. Nothing crazy lately but a McDavid YGuns
Two cards come to mind. 1996 Spx Jordan Auto redemption. The odds were listed on the packs at roughly 1 in 37,000. I sold it for $3500. I think this was the first Jordan auto inserted in packs. The other was a 1999 Spx Tim Couch Winning Materials Ball/Jersey auto # 2/2. I sold it on Ebay for $2025.
I bought a box of the Parkhurst Original Boston box and pulled a Bobby Orr GU sweater card.
Pulled a Bird/Magic/DrJ back in late 2016 that graded a PSA 9... by far my best pull. As a kid, I did pull a Bonds 91 Donruss Elite and accidentally stepped on it within 30 minutes... so a good pull, but short lived, lol.
Best pack pulls for me have been:
1970 Munson RC PSA 8 from cello pack
1970 Mays PSA 8 from cello pack
1971 Blyleven RC PSA 8 from rack pack
1972 Rose PSA 8.5 from wax pack
1972 Ryan PSA 7 from wax pack
1975 Brett RC PSA 8 from rack pack
1986 Fleer Jordan RC PSA 8 from wax pack
Have a 1962 cello series 1 that I would open if it didn't have Gil Hodges's on top. That could yield some major winners, as could the 1962 series 1 rack i have (but it's the only known survivor so I can't open that either)
Dave
2001 Topps Triple Jersey Patch Card #KKGE Hank Aaron / Nolan Ryan / Rickey Henderson. These were 1 in 9000 hobby packs or something ridiculous like that. Put it on eBay and someone hit the BIN the next day....$1200.00! He was mad because I held it before shipping as he sent me a personal cheque and I wanted to make sure it was legit and cleared. I'm sure it might go for a couple hundred at most now. I think it had one of those pointy finger notations they used to put in the price guide of BBCM showing verified sale prices of low printed cards.
Wow on couch
bought this rack pack on ebay for $37
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Here is the thread from my biggest pack pull. After sending it in it came back a PSA 9 which I plan on sending in to review at some point.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/916903/to-rip-or-not-to-rip-update-big-hit/p1?new=1#pagetop
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