and one last note I have to say, many post bad things about Topps at times but I had a Jason Kipnis chrome that was damaged on the back and sent it to Topps a little over a week ago.....believe it or not I got back a brand new Kipnis Chrome today....bravo Topps.
When you send a damaged chrome in to Topps, is it replaced with the exact same serial number? Just curious...
Craig from Texas
<< <i>and one last note I have to say, many post bad things about Topps at times but I had a Jason Kipnis chrome that was damaged on the back and sent it to Topps a little over a week ago.....believe it or not I got back a brand new Kipnis Chrome today....bravo Topps.
Craig, to be honest I did not pay attention to the serial number on the one that I sent to them that was damaged. In fact I was totally shocked that I actually got a Kipnis card back in return...thought for sure it would be another chrome card or even some other substitution.....It is a great question, does anyone know???
Ad Panels (I'll list by the first card on the left except the WS at the end of the list): 2013 Batting Leaders, 2013 RBI Leaders, 2013 Pitching Leaders, Asche, Capuano, Cuddyer, Fielder, Gyorko, Infante, Latos, Moustakas, Peralta, Santana, Torres, World Series/Kelly/Drew
I saw 11 rack packs at Kmart today at lunch and I couldn't resist them. They called my name and insulted me by thinking I wasn't going to buy them but I fooled them alright
Was at a local Five Below today and picked up a box that had twelve packs in it...first time I ever saw such a small box....anyways opened it when I got home and found nothing worth reporting here on....
<< <i>Was at a local Five Below today and picked up a box that had twelve packs in it...first time I ever saw such a small box....anyways opened it when I got home and found nothing worth reporting here on....
For a bunch of jumbos Mick65, I think it was a winner. Definitely made your money back. You were shorted 1 NAP, 2-3 SPs & got an extra Draft & news flashbacks. I suppose the hits you got substituted for the SPs.
BTW, does anyone really want a hot iron transfer at 1:20,000 odds? It does draw me back though. We were so poor growing up, my mom would hot iron patch our clothes when they got holes…and they were usually hand me downs from some other kid. I remember pulling some topps baseball hot iron transfers and some topps baseball patches one year, and had my mom use those to patch my clothes, so people would think I just decorated them like that. I was pretty proud of them too, and used to hit the boardwalk like that…anyway, I really don't want to pull one.
Out of all the obscure stuff inserted the iron transfers don't have a lot of appeal for me.
I think when I grabbed the jumbos, I bought everything they had at the time. I opened a quite a few of them that didn't have much in them. I believe if I only picked up a few, I would have a knack for leaving the "hits" on the rack.
Side note: not sure if the bazooka are replicating the size of the older issue, but they are a small odd size, I guess I was thinking they were bigger.
I had 2 hot box blasters with a purple chrome in each pack. That was in the 1st bunch. These last 12 were the worst group that I've ever opened, 2 relics (Braun, Terehan), 12 total Target red border, 2 chrome, 2 refractors and a bunch of regular SPs but that's it. Not one purple in the whole bunch.
<< <i>Was at a local Five Below today and picked up a box that had twelve packs in it...first time I ever saw such a small box....anyways opened it when I got home and found nothing worth reporting here on....
al. >>
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threw out box yesterday after opening packs....it was a smaller box with twelve packs in it. It had been opened by the store and was sitting on the shelve so don't know if there was anything else in the box. There is another Five Below near me so I may take another trip today tosee if I can get another box....
Ok, the longoria pennant is different. Big whoops. But is a lot of the set made up of these insignificant differences? Because i dont want to spend time and money chasing these 2 card differences
Depends on what you want kind of set you want to put together. You could put together a complete regular set (1-425, SPs 426-500), a complete set with the inserts (NAP, T&N, etc...) or go more difficult with the chromes, errors, throwbacks, action variations, etc... I don't chase the chrome sets or the more difficult parallels, my pay grade doesn't allow me.
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.
There are about 2 dozen of these "logo" variations among others. They are seeded 1:135 packs. I wouldn't try hunting them down through packs, or you will spend a lot of money.
Good point, Rich, on the codes. Need to find my magnifying glass.
Sure thing! They sure do make them small enough, don't they? Don't need to be trading away a tough to pull variation when you think it is just a regular set card! Now...off to find some more blasters today. Hope the cardboard god has something good for me today.
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.
Anybody know if the purple cards are in just hobby or just retail, or in both? I opened 6 hobby boxes, 2 blasters and a bunch of hangers, and never saw one...
Thanks for the info. Last year I think I bought only 8 blasters and 3 of them were "hot" with a purple per pack. Just picked up 2 Walmart blasters, nothing of note in them except the usual.
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.
Last year I did get purples out of a blaster box. Have not opened any retail yet this year
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Went to one of my local Target's today with the intent of cleaning out their Heritage blasters. They had five on the shelf. The shrink wrap felt funny and was not overly snug as on the other Heritage blasters I've bought this year. Got a real bad vibe about the boxes and moved on...
<< <i>Someone on this board said they got purple refractors in a blaster. I questioned it to myself but didn't say anything.
Craig from Texas
<< <i>Purples are hobby exclusives. And they are only in one box per case. That one magic box will have a purple in every pack. >>
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If these are the Purples, I pulled all from 1 Wal-Mart Blaster. The scanner light is making the borders look multicolored but they are a consistent purple color throughout.
It was me that pulled purples from blasters. They were all from Target and usually they are a "hot box" with one in each pack. I've had them from 3 different Targets in 2 different states so it isn't a fluke or just one order. I've also cracked a "hot" hobby box with one in each pack.
By the way, if anyone has base cards they want to dump, please send me a pm...i will pay shipping as well. I am looking for thousands and thousands of base cards....so no lot is too big.
Bought my second blaster of the year. First one was from Walmart. Decided to go with Target this time. Here's the results:
Base -- 63 cards (no Trout which is the only base card I care about)
Inserts -- 3 cards (The Rolling Stones FB, Frank Robinson FB, Stanton NAP)
SPs -- 2 cards (429 Gray, 460 Hamilton)
Chrome -- 468 Carlos Santana 480/999
Clubhouse Collection -- CCR-JS Jean Segura
Red SP -- 433 Derek Jeter
I did much better with this one than I did last one. Only 2 regular SPs but the Jeter red and Clubhouse Collection more than make up for that omission. I think I will do another one in the coming week. Stay tuned.
Just bought 3 blasters from a stacked Target (about 30 blasters on the shelf) that I made a ride to about 40 miles away. Didn't pull anything of note except a Posey CC jersey card. Starting to pull some of the same SPs so its time to start a trade list tonight.
They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time.
<< <i>Went to one of my local Target's today with the intent of cleaning out their Heritage blasters. They had five on the shelf. The shrink wrap felt funny and was not overly snug as on the other Heritage blasters I've bought this year. Got a real bad vibe about the boxes and moved on... >>
Just a question. Was the TOPPS logo imprinted on the ones with the loose shrink wrap?
Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
<< <i>Went to one of my local Target's today with the intent of cleaning out their Heritage blasters. They had five on the shelf. The shrink wrap felt funny and was not overly snug as on the other Heritage blasters I've bought this year. Got a real bad vibe about the boxes and moved on... >>
Just a question. Was the TOPPS logo imprinted on the ones with the loose shrink wrap? >>
It had the Topps logo printed on it. But there was more than one hem mark if that makes sense. I had bought boxes from that Target only a week earlier and the shrink wrap didn't look or feel like the ones I passed on. Sure enough, went to a different Target in the area and picked up three boxes last night with tight shrink wrap and only one hem mark on the shrink wrap. My guess is it wouldn't be too hard for some scumbag to figure out how to re-shrink wrap those blasters.
On a side note, anyone else finding the card quality bad? I started collating last night and found roughly two cards in every pack had deep imprints on them, including a chrome and a mini. It's almost as if they pressed the rollers too hard when sealing the packs in the factory.
Anybody know how many purple refractors don't have refractor printed on back? I have a glodschmidt that looks like a refractor but not stated on back. Thanks
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al.
Craig from Texas
<< <i>and one last note I have to say, many post bad things about Topps at times but I had a Jason Kipnis chrome that was damaged on the back and sent it to Topps a little over a week ago.....believe it or not I got back a brand new Kipnis Chrome today....bravo Topps.
al. >>
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al.
Chromes: 20, 30, 33, 43, 149, 150, 160, 213, 250, 260, 269, 284, 370, 400, 426, 430, 433, 437, 439, 442, 453, 456, 463, 468, 470, 473, 476, 480, 487, 490, 492, 493
Purple Refractors: 30, 50, 84, 213, 260, 284, 310, 342, 345, 427, 428, 435, 436, 441, 442, 448, 453, 454, 456, 459, 467, 469, 470, 475, 478, 479, 482, 491, 494, 500
Ad Panels (I'll list by the first card on the left except the WS at the end of the list): 2013 Batting Leaders, 2013 RBI Leaders, 2013 Pitching Leaders, Asche, Capuano, Cuddyer, Fielder, Gyorko, Infante, Latos, Moustakas, Peralta, Santana, Torres, World Series/Kelly/Drew
Available For Trade:
SPs: 426, 433, 434, 445, 446, 451, 455, 457, 470, 473, 476, 477, 481, 483, 484, 486, 493, 496, 497, 498, 499
Chromes: 60, 84, 200, 205, 243, 342, 350, 354, 425, 436, 441, 446, 460, 461, 482
Action Variation: 441 Ortiz
Ad Panels: Pastornicky x2, Hardy, Frazier, Altuve
I'll also buy the cards off of my want list if you'd rather do that. Thanks for looking!
Justin
Chrome 43,470.473
I would trade them for 5 sp's #'s 426,433,446,455,496, and chrome 60,84,446, let me know.
Base: 3, 7, 11, 23, 27, 30, 36, 43 (x2), 44, 66, 83, 90, 111 (x2), 125, 151, 162, 185, 202, 211, 215, 222, 224, 227, 241, 249, 263, 269, 302, 304, 310, 337, 338, 342, 360, 374, 405, 420, 424
SP: 461 Longoria
Then & Now: Marichal/Scherzer
Here's what I want:
Rice auto
Other autos (some, not all)
Pedroia relic
I also have a "wish list" BST thread of non-Heritage cards. Let me know what you want/need and what you have. Thanks.
al.
<< <i>Was at a local Five Below today and picked up a box that had twelve packs in it...first time I ever saw such a small box....anyways opened it when I got home and found nothing worth reporting here on....
al. >>
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Thirteen (13) jumbo packs from Wal-Mart. Ended up with a lot of base cards.
Yielded:
4 SPs
2 NAP
3 T&N
2 BFB
3 NFB
3 Draft
Hits:
First Gold Relic (01/99) and first Bazooka:
my 11 packs did have anything. Not even a chrome - just some SPs and inserts
BTW, does anyone really want a hot iron transfer at 1:20,000 odds? It does draw me back though. We were so poor growing up, my mom would hot iron patch our clothes when they got holes…and they were usually hand me downs from some other kid. I remember pulling some topps baseball hot iron transfers and some topps baseball patches one year, and had my mom use those to patch my clothes, so people would think I just decorated them like that. I was pretty proud of them too, and used to hit the boardwalk like that…anyway, I really don't want to pull one.
Out of all the obscure stuff inserted the iron transfers don't have a lot of appeal for me.
I think when I grabbed the jumbos, I bought everything they had at the time. I opened a quite a few of them that didn't have much in them. I believe if I only picked up a few, I would have a knack for leaving the "hits" on the rack.
Side note: not sure if the bazooka are replicating the size of the older issue, but they are a small odd size, I guess I was thinking they were bigger.
Sorting today, I don't have many doubles of the SPs yet, but I came across this (which was cool):
Not sure how I missed it the first time.
<< <i>How about a pic of the box?
<< <i>Was at a local Five Below today and picked up a box that had twelve packs in it...first time I ever saw such a small box....anyways opened it when I got home and found nothing worth reporting here on....
al. >>
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threw out box yesterday after opening packs....it was a smaller box with twelve packs in it. It had been opened by the store and was sitting on the shelve so don't know if there was anything else in the box. There is another Five Below near me so I may take another trip today tosee if I can get another box....
Ok, the longoria pennant is different. Big whoops. But is a lot of the set made up of these insignificant differences? Because i dont want to spend time and money chasing these 2 card differences
I don't chase the chrome sets or the more difficult parallels, my pay grade doesn't allow me.
You don't check the codes on the back when sorting after rips?
Good point, Rich, on the codes. Need to find my magnifying glass.
Especially on the "error" cards.
Now...off to find some more blasters today. Hope the cardboard god has something good for me today.
Anybody know if the purple cards are in just hobby or just retail, or in both? I opened 6 hobby boxes, 2 blasters and a bunch of hangers, and never saw one...
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Craig from Texas
<< <i>Purples are hobby exclusives. And they are only in one box per case. That one magic box will have a purple in every pack. >>
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Just picked up 2 Walmart blasters, nothing of note in them except the usual.
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<< <i>Someone on this board said they got purple refractors in a blaster. I questioned it to myself but didn't say anything.
Craig from Texas
<< <i>Purples are hobby exclusives. And they are only in one box per case. That one magic box will have a purple in every pack. >>
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If these are the Purples, I pulled all from 1 Wal-Mart Blaster. The scanner light is making the borders look multicolored but they are a consistent purple color throughout.
those sure are purples.
WTT: Would trade a blue auto. of Maury Wills for a blue auto. of Dave Concepcion.
Trade a "Action Var." of Puig, and an SP Jeter ( both centered) for a centered Jeter "Action Var."
PM if any interest. All Heritage collectors are nutz, but good spellers. Craig in Ohio
I have for sale:
a complete purple set for $180 dlvd. Nicely centered jeter,puig, trout, all the stars nice.
I also have available:
* Lots and lots of sp's.
* lots of inserts.
* Lots of purple singles....but no trout,jeter,puig
* some refractors and chromes.
Still looking for these:
Real one Blue Ink: Chipper Jones
Refractors (#/565) (12): 20 200 205 250 342 430 442 447 449 458 471 489
Purple Refractors (5): 49 345 432 433 439
Walmart Blue (11): 149 160 275 407 426 432 457 463 475 482 487
Target Red (7): 84 250 320 431 464 480 494
Any Short prints.
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thanks, jim.
Topps Heritage - Trade Page
Base -- 63 cards (no Trout which is the only base card I care about)
Inserts -- 3 cards (The Rolling Stones FB, Frank Robinson FB, Stanton NAP)
SPs -- 2 cards (429 Gray, 460 Hamilton)
Chrome -- 468 Carlos Santana 480/999
Clubhouse Collection -- CCR-JS Jean Segura
Red SP -- 433 Derek Jeter
I did much better with this one than I did last one. Only 2 regular SPs but the Jeter red and Clubhouse Collection more than make up for that omission. I think I will do another one in the coming week. Stay tuned.
Thanks!
Craig from Texas
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SP Needs: 426, 427x2, 430x2, 439, 441x2, 443, 448, 449, 452, 454, 456x2, 461x2, 482, 490, 494
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SP Available: 431, 436, 440, 442, 446, 451, 455, 464, 470, 476x2, 478x2, 479x3, 484x2, 485x2, 486x5, 487, 493x3, 495, 496, 499x4
SP Action Pose available: 140x2, 437, 461
Target Red Available: 53x2, 78, 260, 330x2, 433, 437, 446x2, 458, 464, 470
Relics Available: Pettitte, Bruce, Teheran, Posey, Stubbs, Alonso, Perez, Jones
Refractors Available XXX/565: 43, 60x2, 160, 213, 300, 400, 441, 493, 494, 499
Chrome Available XXX/999: 100, 260, 330, 354, 370, 400, 430, 431, 439, 445, 468, 470, 472, 475, 480, 499
Minis Available XXX/100: Buchholz, Sabathia
Black Back Available: #252 Uggla
Black Border Chrome Available: #470 Strasburg 45/65
Purple Chrome Available: 20, 30, 73, 84, 84, 148, 243, 250, 260, 275, 320, 330, 330, 350, 354, 427, 427, 435, 435, 437, 442, 445, 446, 449, 449, 451, 451, 453, 454, 454, 459, 461, 461, 467, 467, 469, 470, 470, 474, 475, 479, 491, 493, 493, 494, 497
Base -- 64 cards (no Trout which is the only base card I care about)
Inserts -- 4 cards (Willie Mays FB, Gibson/Wainwright TN, Miguel Cabrera NAP, Nolan Ryan 1st Draft)
SPs -- 3 cards (457 Carlos Gomez, 477 Robinson Cano, 496 Tony Cingrani)
Blue SP -- 439 Jose Fernandez
Nothing to write home about with my third blaster. I think I will do another one in the coming week. Stay tuned.
Thanks!
Craig from Texas
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order, noticed that a few do not have the word " refractor" on the back of the card. Keep in mind that I do not
have a complete purple set. Nos. that I have with no refractor are 49, 243,354, & 457. The only one of these
I have in a chrome refractor is # 49. The chrome refractor does not have the word refractor either. Went back
and looked at last year's purple set, and all were stamped refractor. Not that this is a big deal, but thought it
interesting. I would assume they are all the same. Craig in Ohio
SP: 427, 428, 429, 437, 478, 488, 489
BB FB: BF-A, BF-SK, BF-WM
T&N: TAN-CC, TAN-KD, TAN-MV
NAP: NAP-HR, NAP-JF, NAP-YP
1stD: 65MLB-JB, 65MLB-JB2
News FB: NF-MX, NF-TB, NF-TRS, NF-VRA
Walmart Blue: 461
Others:
Chrome: THC-449 Shields #513/999, THC-448 Kipnis #151/999
Refractor: THC-73 Liriano #493/565 (Card is 60/40 off center)
Clubhouse Collection: CCR-ZC Zack Cozart
Needs
SP: 428, 442, 444, 447, 449, 453, 459, 460, 462, 471, 479, 481, 482, 488, 489, 490, 492,497, 498, 500
NAP-MH Matt Harvey
NAP-PG Paul Goldschmidt
NAP-SS Stephen Strasburg
For Trade
SP , 450, 458, 480, 495
Chrome /999 33, 53, 50, 432, 454, 457, 489
Chrome Refractor /565 435, 437, 439, 444, 445,
In Action: 150 Machado, 284 Wright
Logo: 457 Gomez
Target Red: 150 Machado, 84 Ryu
Wal Mart Blue: 468 Santana
CCR: JS, DP, IN, JW
NAP: PA, XB, MWx2,
TAN: CC, KK, GW
Mini Kershaw 02/100
My Sandberg topps basic set
My Sandberg Topps Master set
<< <i>Went to one of my local Target's today with the intent of cleaning out their Heritage blasters. They had five on the shelf. The shrink wrap felt funny and was not overly snug as on the other Heritage blasters I've bought this year. Got a real bad vibe about the boxes and moved on... >>
Just a question. Was the TOPPS logo imprinted on the ones with the loose shrink wrap?
<< <i>
<< <i>Went to one of my local Target's today with the intent of cleaning out their Heritage blasters. They had five on the shelf. The shrink wrap felt funny and was not overly snug as on the other Heritage blasters I've bought this year. Got a real bad vibe about the boxes and moved on... >>
Just a question. Was the TOPPS logo imprinted on the ones with the loose shrink wrap? >>
It had the Topps logo printed on it. But there was more than one hem mark if that makes sense. I had bought boxes from that Target only a week earlier and the shrink wrap didn't look or feel like the ones I passed on. Sure enough, went to a different Target in the area and picked up three boxes last night with tight shrink wrap and only one hem mark on the shrink wrap. My guess is it wouldn't be too hard for some scumbag to figure out how to re-shrink wrap those blasters.
On a side note, anyone else finding the card quality bad? I started collating last night and found roughly two cards in every pack had deep imprints on them, including a chrome and a mini. It's almost as if they pressed the rollers too hard when sealing the packs in the factory.
Would be interested to see a scan if possible. I haven't run into anything like that.
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Tim