Junk wax anyone?

[EvilKing00]

Lmao 1 million bucks??

Jesh the way i see it you would have to pay to rent a dumpster and pay to toss it all in.

[slidekellyslide]

counterfeiters? Why would there be loads of uncut sheets in a Detroit warehouse?

[D. Bergin]

An old Krukscards warehouse?

If as many people have been in there as they say, if there was anything worth anything, somebody would have backed a moving truck up to that building and removed those cards long ago, especially in Detroit.

Cool pictures though. Take a little piece of that, and that's what my bedroom looked like in the early 80's. Drove my mom nuts.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

counterfeiters? Why would there be loads of uncut sheets in a Detroit warehouse?

I'd guess they're those Junior Hockey League sets that they overproduced in the early 1990's.

[bbcard1]

for it to truly be worth 1 million I think you would need around 25,000 cases.

[mrvster]

THIS SUCKS! now all my 80's and 90's rare baseball cards are worth crap with this find! THANKS ALOT urban explorers.....you just shot my 401 k

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

Lmao 1 million bucks??

Jesh the way i see it you would have to pay to rent a dumpster and pay to toss it all in.

Exactly right they actually have negative value.

[philliesfan]

At least one man, who goes by the name of Slanks, regularly frequents the factory to find cards to sell, claiming it has been his primary source of income

I really feel bad for Slanks on this one. What does he eat with his profit? Dog food?

[Enfuego]

Originally Posted by philliesfan

At least one man, who goes by the name of Slanks, regularly frequents the factory to find cards to sell, claiming it has been his primary source of income

I really feel bad for Slanks on this one. What does he eat with his profit? Dog food?

Probably goes food shopping at the local Dollar General...

[packs]

I don't think it does anyone any good to mock the poor guys.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

I don't think it does anyone any good to mock the poor guys.

Agree.

[deucetwins]

Someone needs to volunteer and open every single box and look for the Frank Thomas NNOF.

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

Exactly right they actually have negative value.

That's just simply not true. You put that as one lot with hundreds of cases in an auction and it will fetch several thousand dollars.

[PM770]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

That's just simply not true. You put that as one lot with hundreds of cases in an auction and it will fetch several thousand dollars.

The question is how much to ship hundreds of cases?

Wait I have an idea - site of the next National!

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

That's just simply not true. You put that as one lot with hundreds of cases in an auction and it will fetch several thousand dollars.

That might be true but unless you pick them up you will have to pay more in shipping than they are worth and I know I wouldn't rent a truck and drive to Detroit to pick up a bunch of 1987 vendor cases. A vendor case costs over $100 to ship, a 1987 vendor case is not worth 100 you can't sell one of those 1987 vendor boxes for $5.00 i don't believe.

Just looked on ebay an 87 topps case just went for $59.00, http://www.ebay.com/itm/1987-Topps-B...item5422f573d5

[Peter_Spaeth]

And at the same time, a card of a guy with a .258 average and 20 home runs at age 23 sells for 15K.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BGS-9-5-KRIS...item1ea1ee4440

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

And at the same time, a card of a guy with a .258 average and 20 home runs at age 23 sells for 15K.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BGS-9-5-KRIS...item1ea1ee4440

I don't think that one sells for 15k. It looks like he has one from 2013 that did last month though. What do you think the odds are that card is even worth 1500 in 10 years?

[Peter_Spaeth]

I don't understand the shiny market but it seems to be driven by two things: manufactured scarcity (although there seem to be innumerable barely distinguishable "scarce" versions of the same rookie card) and speculation on players who have in some cases not even put on a uniform, as if they were lock first-ballot HOFers.

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

That might be true but unless you pick them up you will have to pay more in shipping than they are worth and I know I wouldn't rent a truck and drive to Detroit to pick up a bunch of 1987 vendor cases. A vendor case costs over $100 to ship, a 1987 vendor case is not worth 100 you can't sell one of those 1987 vendor boxes for $5.00 i don't believe.

Just looked on ebay an 87 topps case just went for $59.00, http://www.ebay.com/itm/1987-Topps-B...item5422f573d5

The auction house I work for sells warehouse lots all the time. There is no shortage of people willing to drive hundreds of miles to pick them up.