Ripped a box of 88 Fleer basketball today - scans!
burke23
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highly motivated by the BBCE group rip, and my desire to put together a psa 10 set since its loaded and relatively cheap. Paid $390 for the box, and will be abusing the $4.50 special now. No dinged packs, and some real good stuff pulled (scanned the best here). Ended up with 5 regular Jordans (none worth grading), 4 Jordan AS that were all beautiful, 4 millers (3 with easy shot at 9's and possible 10's), 4 Pippens that I have no idea how they will grade - 2 could have a chance at 10's given the centering, 3 Stocksons (1 gradeable) and 3 Stockon AS (all gradeable and sharp), and 3 nice Birds (not pictured). Sadly no gradeable Rodman, but overall I could put together some great raw sets from these. Really not one dinged corner in all 36 packs! Stickers weren't that great - 3 Jordan's and all off center. Wish me luck on the grading - no idea how this will come out, but I will have a good 50-60 going in with hopes of 10's.
Jordan AS's - all should be easy 9's
5 regular Jordan's, but none would be higher than an 8 due to centering
Millers - all georgeous, and really hoping for one if not two 10's.
Stockton's - maybe a 10 in one of the AS?
Pippens - hoping for one 10
Jordan AS's - all should be easy 9's
5 regular Jordan's, but none would be higher than an 8 due to centering
Millers - all georgeous, and really hoping for one if not two 10's.
Stockton's - maybe a 10 in one of the AS?
Pippens - hoping for one 10
Looking for rare Randy Moss rookies and autos, as well as '97 PMG Red Football cards for my set.
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The Jordans don't look that bad to me.
Good luck on your sub!
mike
I've had a full set of 1988 fleer in PSA 10 and about 90 or so BGS 9.5's some of the cards are pretty tough.
on the first group sub LSU did I got a PSA 10 clyde drexler which I sold for 750.00 that is a really tough one and most likely the last one you will need to complete a set..
Looks like a pretty nice box you got there though good luck on the grades.
<< <i>Super cool rip. I just bought a box from BBCE a few months ago for nostalgic reasons. The problem with these boxes is that most of the value is in the unopened product itself. You can buy pack fresh complete sets for around $70 all day long. You'll get around 3 sets per box. Thats $210 or about $400 for a box. Im keeping mine intact forever. >>
I think, given the small set size and dupes you get, you can easily make money cracking these open. Grading all potential 10's and the stars, combined with selling extra sets like you mentioned...you may not make a ton, but likely more than you would holding on to it. Plus what fun is that?!!! I probably wouldn't have purchased had I not wanted to put together a graded set - thought this might be a good way to do it on the cheap(er).
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<< <i>Super cool rip. I just bought a box from BBCE a few months ago for nostalgic reasons. The problem with these boxes is that most of the value is in the unopened product itself. You can buy pack fresh complete sets for around $70 all day long. You'll get around 3 sets per box. Thats $210 or about $400 for a box. Im keeping mine intact forever. >>
I think, given the small set size and dupes you get, you can easily make money cracking these open. Grading all potential 10's and the stars, combined with selling extra sets like you mentioned...you may not make a ton, but likely more than you would holding on to it. Plus what fun is that?!!! I probably wouldn't have purchased had I not wanted to put together a graded set - thought this might be a good way to do it on the cheap(er). >>
You can get lucky and get a bunch of 10's from a box but it's not the norm... alot of the commons can be had online for 10.00 or less as the pop reports have grown for many...
Edit to add: some of the cards you posted shouldn't be 10's IMO like the miller rc's all 3 have a big print dot on his arm which would put them at 9's imo..
<< <i>Yes its gambling of sorts, but to me a lot more fun. I'm simply hoping to offset some costs of putting this set together in graded form, and sometimes the cheaper way to to this is ripping and submitting (especially with so few cards in the set). I don't want to pay $90 for a Jack Sikma card, and I got a nice one in the break - real good shot at a 10 (as an example). And if I don't come out even, so be it. I certainly wouldn't buy and rip a bunch of boxes to do this. Maybe one more depending on how these come back, but it is doubtful. I couldn't collect boxes and not rip them myself. >>
Jack Sikma 90.00?? one ended today with no bids.. right now there's dozens of cards from this set in PSA 10 ending in less than 2 hours with no bids (opening price 15.00) I understand "the fun" of ripping and subbing your own stuff but it's not gonna be easy as you think..