2012 Topps Heritage

[bradmar48]

I was in the checkout lane today at Wal Marts and saw the new 2012 Topps Heritage baseball. Before I knew what was happening I had 12 Jumbo Rack
packs (16 cards per) and 2 Blaster boxes (8 packs each) Total price was $115.
Here's the breakdown on what I pulled;

9 Short Print high numbers with Prince Fielder probably the best
3 Blue Border
1 Chrome "Dustin Pedroia"
1 Chrome Refractor "Michael Young"
3 New Age Performers (Doubles of Chipper Jones)
4 Then and Now
6 Flashbacks
4 Checklist
4 Peel and Stick Stickers (Doubles of Jacoby Ellsbury)

No autographs and no Clubhouse Collections or Stadium Relics
Not much for $115. It just wasn't my lucky day

[39special]

I don't collect modern stuff,but I'll get a blaster box every now and then.It's fun to rip through them.I have about the same luck you have!

[Leon]

Ok, anything with new collecting is cool in it's own right. That being said, I really don't know a lot about it. Isn't this kind of like regular ole gambling and not so much about collecting baseball cards? Please don't take this the wrong way. BTW, even though this is the correct section I am going to move this to get some more feedback. It's interesting. (this was first posted correctly in the sports - water-cooler section)

[zljones]

Originally Posted by Leon

Ok, anything with new collecting is cool in it's own right. That being said, I really don't know a lot about it. Isn't this kind of like regular ole gambling and not so much about collecting baseball cards? Please don't take this the wrong way. BTW, even though this is the correct section I am going to move this to get some more feedback. It's interesting. (this was first posted correctly in the sports - water-cooler section)

Good comparison to gambling. These packs these days cost more than a meal at a fairly decent restaurant or a case of beer. With that high of a cost, it is just like purchasing a lotto ticket, they should put warnings on the label for people to call gamblers annonymous if they feel they have an addiction.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by zljones

Good comparison to gambling. These packs these days cost more than a meal at a fairly decent restaurant or a case of beer. With that high of a cost, it is just like purchasing a lotto ticket, they should put warnings on the label for people to call gamblers annonymous if they feel they have an addiction.

? A pack is $2-3, racks 5-6 and the "blaster box $20

Where are you getting a case for under twenty bucks? Maybe generic beer, or something like red,white and blue. But Those barely count as beer.

A decent meal can be had for under twenty for sure.

This year they stopped putting the "better" inserts in the blaster boxes, at least for the regular Topps set.

Steve B

[Matthew H]

I agree with Leon's gambling analogy; however, how is it different then 1989 when people were spending $15 on packs of '84 Donruss looking for Mattingly rookies?

I know some modern card collectors who are very knowledgeable about today's game and get very excited about cards of prospects that most people have probably never heard of.

[zljones]

Originally Posted by steve B

? A pack is $2-3, racks 5-6 and the "blaster box $20

Where are you getting a case for under twenty bucks? Maybe generic beer, or something like red,white and blue. But Those barely count as beer.

A decent meal can be had for under twenty for sure.

This year they stopped putting the "better" inserts in the blaster boxes, at least for the regular Topps set.

Steve B

I am basically averaging the cost taking into consideration some of those packs that can run $50 a piece or more or a little less. Of course those are not sold at the grocery store. I even heard of some that cost $200 a pack. A case of Miller Lite cans is about 14.99 a case up by me.

[jalex]

Red, White and Blue? That was definitely a gamble when i was in college at Indiana. You might wake up in an unfamiliar place... Do they still make that? Way off topic, but I was joking around with friends at work the other day about getting a case of red, white and blue in Bloomigton for about $6. We had to sneak it onto campus.

Blasters, racks... I remember rack packs at Toys R Us, you could see the fronts and backs, so you might get lucky and find a Mike Greenwell rookie on the back and buy it for $.99. I have glanced at the ball cards at the store now and again, but the price and the gambling factor is a turn-off. The whole baseball card thing went out the window in the late 80's. Can't imagine buying the new stuff...

What the heck is a blaster...?

Cheers,

Jim

Originally Posted by steve B

? A pack is $2-3, racks 5-6 and the "blaster box $20

Where are you getting a case for under twenty bucks? Maybe generic beer, or something like red,white and blue. But Those barely count as beer.

A decent meal can be had for under twenty for sure.

This year they stopped putting the "better" inserts in the blaster boxes, at least for the regular Topps set.

Steve B

[okmaybent@aol.com]

Original post: "I was in the checkout lane today at Wal Marts and saw the new 2012 Topps Heritage baseball. Before I knew what was happening I had 12 Jumbo Rack
packs (16 cards per) and 2 Blaster boxes (8 packs each) Total price was $115."


I have had that same experience with cards all my life. Somehow before I knew it a bunch jumped into my cart or whatever and I owed someone $100.

[ScottFandango]

Originally Posted by bradmar48

I was in the checkout lane today at Wal Marts and saw the new 2012 Topps Heritage baseball. Before I knew what was happening I had 12 Jumbo Rack
packs (16 cards per) and 2 Blaster boxes (8 packs each) Total price was $115.
Here's the breakdown on what I pulled;

9 Short Print high numbers with Prince Fielder probably the best
3 Blue Border
1 Chrome "Dustin Pedroia"
1 Chrome Refractor "Michael Young"
3 New Age Performers (Doubles of Chipper Jones)
4 Then and Now
6 Flashbacks
4 Checklist
4 Peel and Stick Stickers (Doubles of Jacoby Ellsbury)

No autographs and no Clubhouse Collections or Stadium Relics
Not much for $115. It just wasn't my lucky day

would have been better off with a $100 Pujols graded rookie card..

why try for todays prospects? are you looking for the next PUJOLS? there isnt going to be one...just go for the greatest right off the getgo...

remember Ruth Williams Pujols, then the rest...
best righthanded hitter EVER