Found: 1952 Topps Baseball Case High Number

[mcgwirecom]

Retire

[Bestdj777]

I would open every last pack, flip through the cards, and eat the gum. I could only imagine that the gum would make me sick, but after I recovered I'd send the cards off for grading, maybe keep a Mantle if there were one, and sell the rest.

[kneerat]

Does anyone have any guesses as to what the actual empty box is worth? I see there have been many offers. I've never seen another one. $5,000??

[sbfinley]

Originally Posted by kneerat

Does anyone have any guesses as to what the actual empty box is worth? I see there have been many offers. I've never seen another one. $5,000??

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing an empty 52' wax box at a show somewhat recently for ~1k. I couldn't imagine this case being worth more than that if at all. There are a plethora of items I see that I truly have no interest in other than "ehh, if my pockets were infinitely deep - sure." I don't believe this item even falls in that category.

[toyman55]

The way I read the add is it is a Empty Box ONLY. There are no boxes in it so what makes it worth $52,000.00?

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by toyman55

The way I read the add is it is a Empty Box ONLY. There are no boxes in it so what makes it worth $52,000.00?

Until it sells nothing!!!

[perezfan]

It won't sell for anywhere near that amount (or even a fraction of it). Just add this to the infinite list of ridiculously inflated Buy It Now items on Ebay, that never go anywhere.

Ebay has become a Museum in which items aren't really even available for sale. There are random numbers assigned to these artifacts, for reasons unknown. These randomly assigned numbers have nothing to do with Market Value or anything approaching an actual sales price.

My guess is that this empty Topps Case would realize about $1,200 in an actual auction with real bidders.

[thecatspajamas]

I like how the asking price isn't even an even $52k, but rather $52,506.95. Plus shipping. (Well, I take that back, he'll ship it UPS Ground for free, if you don't mind UPS putting a boot through the side of it and stacking a refrigerator on top of it in transit).

The shipping I could understand if he has a standard listing template that applies to all of his items, but what's up with that asking price?