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Repacks: Anyone here buy repacks?
Article on the NYT about repacks, veered to negative by the end of the article. This is paywalled. If you want to read it and run into a paywall (generally you get 10 free article from the NYT), PM me, and I will get you a free article.
I don't buy repacks. I hate the gambling aspect of cards. I really enjoy purchasing the exact card of Barry Larkin or Ken Griffey Jr that I want. I don't get that with packs. Does anyone here buy the modern repacks? Repacks: The big-money trend in sports cards prompting calls for transparency - The Athletic https://share.google/GgJYG26tu9MeJRJgw Sent from my SM-S926U using Tapatalk |
No. I don’t even buy packs or boxes these days. I buy singles and sets.
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I'm going to say very very few vintage n54 collectors have/will ever touch them. It's like throwing money into a black hole
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I feel sorry for anyone whose enjoyment of the hobby comes via that method.
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I don't buy repacks nor do I buy/sell on WhatNot, but apparently, WhatNot recently banned selling repacked cards, according to Geoff Wilson (CardsHQ in Atlanta).
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I would have criticism of repacks if buying a simple "regular" pack of cards wasn't already priced at a gambling level.
It's always all been gambling, but the buy-in the past 10-ish years...phew...and some would rightfully argue it's been well more than a decade of this. |
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That business is way to big for them to shut it down but now so big (dollar wise) that they are getting ahead of problems. And I suspect that all of our collective heads would spin if we knew if even half of the dollars involved. From what I have been able to interpret it is 10s of millions of dollars a month all in. |
Sorry, but what's a repack?
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A repack is when people gather up single cards they don't want. They package them in something opaque, typically a bubble mailer or something similar. They'll tell prospective buyers that they have a chance to pull [name of popular card(s)] from the repack product. Then buyers will purchase these mystery packs, hoping to pull something much more valuable than the amount of money they spent. They usually won't; however, there's a gambling aspect of this that keeps the |
I'd consider buying "Re: Packs" if it's a new Bon Iver song comparing the arc of a relationship to the highs and lows of opening wax packs.
Otherwise, hard pass. . |
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Yes, it was a serious question, although I do understand that my snarky sarcastic nature would cause people to think it wasn't. I had a feeling what it was, but was hoping that people wouldn't be stupid enough to buy such a thing, but of course they are. I would say it's closer to a scam than to gambling, but that would be semantics, I suppose. PT Goodman |
Are repacks really any different than what manufacturers are doing these days? - 'Buy this pack of cards and hope for a hit'?
Either way, chances are you get a pile of cards you don't want. |
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Both players are looking to charge more for the product than it cost them to produce it. There's a gambling element to both, as most buyers will get less value than they paid. I suppose there's also a question of how well distributed the winners are, and whether either the repacker or the manufacturer are somehow manipulating who gets the wins, thereby leaving the average buyer with very long odds of getting anything good. So lots of similarities. But it still feels different to me, although maybe they shouldn't seem quite so different? |
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