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05-21-2020, 06:55 PM
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Matt The ebay sellers who buy 100 cards get perks from Topps. Because as you point out margin is slim and when you add postage and ebay and paypal fees any profit is small BUT THE PERKS ARE BIG.
First perk among the base cards sold is a 1/1 gold framed edition. So if they sell 8k of a card and seller buys a hundred then he has 1/80 chance of getting the gold card. Take that times all the cards he buys and the chance he gets one are pretty good. The first Trout Gold sold for $7,000.00 And most are in the 3k to 8k range. On top of that Topps has a premier club for sellers who are among the top 25 spenders. They get a package with 25 Autographed cards. Plus other cards and sets all year. Plus the topps now card of the month and discount coupons that can add up to Hundreds. Topps is decent to sellers not so decent to collectors...😥🤔😥 
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05-21-2020, 09:41 PM
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I picked up the last henderson & mays that just came out, thought they were good lookin cards
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05-21-2020, 10:23 PM
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Ah thanks Jonathan now it makes sense. I like many have pulled a complete 180 on this. I’m now kinda obsessed with the project, reading about the artists, waiting for the next day’s cards to drop, tracking prices on EBay. I admittedly did splurge for a few early run cards that I thought were the coolest and worth the investment but now am just content to buy direct the new releases I like and nothing else on the secondary market. Cool to see the article on ESPN today and the discussion over on Blowout is pretty entertaining.
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05-22-2020, 08:37 AM
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I ended up joining the fray and bought a Blake Jamieson's Big Mac card.
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05-22-2020, 08:55 AM
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I feel like I am late to the party, but I keep trying to convince myself to start picking up the rest of the George Brett cards for my PC
Or would I be better off waiting till later and picking these up for $5 a pop in a couple years? I just checked PSA Population reports and there are already 2 Project 2020 cards graded. PSA 8 Cal Ripken Jr./Fucci and a PSA 10 Ermsy/Ichiro. Slightly interesting that the Ripken card has the player listed first, but on Ichiro's card, the artist is listed first. I wonder if that is how it will show on the flip? Last edited by Farm_kid; 05-22-2020 at 09:06 AM.
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05-22-2020, 09:56 AM
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Yea the problem I’m gonna have is the discipline to really limit myself to the new releases I love from the get-go (like the Jamieson McGwire) with about 300 still to go but unfortunately finding the more I look at ones I may not instantly want (like Ermsy Gibson) and learn about the artist, the more I want those too!! Damn you Topps and damn myself for being so impressionable!
I do agree though the ship has sailed on the >$100 cards with runs over 10,000 so I think there’s pretty low risk to passing now and buying later if I’m still haunted by having to have one. That being said, I don’t think they’re ever gonna be $5 a pop, should at least retain their $20-30 original price unless truly 400 was too many and big time fatigue sets in when we get into the 200-300 range. We’ll see- wild ride!
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05-22-2020, 11:03 AM
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Really good point. I like that idea of waiting until the fatigue sets in and the print runs start dropping. That would be the next time to get in possibly. Of course at that point, you would have to wait years before the hobby comes back to revisit the set. Could be 5 years, could be 20 years.
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