Yeah, I kind of agree with just buying a card you like. With the cost of these boxes nowadays, you could spend hundreds pretty easily. Might as well out that into a nice card.
Honestly my favorite card collector video. You show the process and actually tally the prices. As much as I would love to get into something I love doing in the 1970's, it's a different ballgame out there today. What I wouldn't do to have the 3 Henderson rookies I let go awol...
So happy I grew up in the seventies where I could go use my paper route money to any grocery store or five and dime store in buy cards without having to worry about adults hoarding them
You can't profit from buying either hobby or retail. People buy retail because it's a lesser degree of ridiculous and they actually want to collect cards.
As bad as and as worthless as retail product is, it does accomplish one valuable thing...it exposes local card shop owners, who either buy up all the high demand retail Hanger/Mega/Blaster boxes, themselves or have other people...family and friends do so and then place them in their store at 20%-40% mark up or higher! A month ago, I was in Walmart in Northwest Florida, around 6:30 am, and this guy came up and grabbed all twelve $45 blaster boxes of the Topps Chrome Baseball. Later, that morning, I walked into the first LCS via my GPS and guess who I saw at 10 am when the store opened? That's right, you get an "A" on this pop quiz! It was the same guy and those $45 blasters were now sitting behind his counter and on his shelf for $52.00! Plus, he had $25 Bowman Chrome U Blasters for $80.00. Yes, $80.00 freaking dollars! Why? Simply because of the potential of pulling Caitlin Clark, and Angel Reese cards. THIS rubs me the wrong way, because they are a business, they have the means to order directly, something we cannot. Plus, when they "scalp" up all the retail product from Walmart, Target, Academy Sports, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million and more, they are literally cornering the market(supply and demand)attempting to force locals in their area to have to buy from them, buy via the secondary market or simply do without. Personally, I see this as being dishonest and as soon as I recognized that the guy from Walmart was LCS owner, I didn't even look through his case, or go through his $1 boxes, I turned around and walked out of the store. If a LCS owner will "scalp" up all the retail product from local stores, you must ask yourselves, "What else are they doing?" More importantly, "What won't they do, to get a leg up?" Will they tell some kid, his $300 card is only worth $5 or $10? This is just my opinion, based on my values and morals.
Didnt think this was true until we witnessed a local shops right hand man swoop on all the pokemon product. Keep in mind, we didnt even know he was the "dude" who was scavenging for the local shop. A day or 2 later, we pass by the local shop and the same exact damn product we saw the guy buy at target, was in the glass shelf of the local shop, marketed up in price. 😂 we told the guy, when did your friend drop these off, he didnt even let us have one at msrp.
@@joemama3191 That's what thy do! The either get to the stores first thing in the morning or they knew the restock schedule and/or have hook ups with the distributor guy/girl, and wait to get a text or call, advising them of what store and what time to show up.
I have been buying retail since the early 1990s... That being said, I only bought retail, mostly to get cards to fill in my sets. It was cheaper than the hobby, and until the 2000s, most did not have any auto's or game used in them. Todays retail is much different as you can pull big-time auto's, memorabilia and numbered cards... The problem is you have to hit the right name as most of these hit cards only sell for 5-10 dollars!!!! However, it's just gambling as the odds are probably better going to the casino or buying scratch off tickets. The great thing with the latter is that you get paid right away and good luck selling all those cards you pulled for .25 cents, 50 cents, and a dollar... Unless you own a store...
You'd be surprised but Magic the Gathering can have some crazy retail returns. It's just knowing what you're buying. Wizards of the coast went heavy into exclusivity and started their own serialized magic cards so there is money in buying magic products.
Wembanyama pink sells for $350.. Antman pink sells for $150... chet holmgren pink sells for $35...those are out of blaster packs "retail" ... how much does that box go for again ??? $27??? The chet will rise and so will others.. the 😊hobby is about hype nothing else anymore
@@elitebaseball2041Bought 1 mega box of Prizm for $55 (50 cards) and pulled a damn nice Wemby pink ice. Sold that sucker immediately and got $412 for it raw lol. FF to when value packs came out for $15.99.... My first pack.. Green Prizm Wemby lol.. sold it for $225 raw. That was sick. Although, must mention I did buy more after that Green Prizm and ultimately it just paid for the rest of the packs I bought.
@@elitebaseball2041 Lol do you not understand probability. On average you're going to lose money. That's like saying you can go to a casino and make money LOL.
@@elitebaseball2041 How many blasters do you have to buy for the "struck by lightning" chance you hit one? At least hobby box the odds are a little better
As the other comments have said already. The quick answer is no, but....as a person who does not open many sports cards. This video does a great job of showing you what retail products to stay away from if you're just a casual sports card collector. Becuase most casual collectors just look at the box and go *"This one looks good"* and picks it not knowing that the box they just picked is ass. It's also good for those that do collect a lot, but don't rip much and tend to only do it every now and then when they're at their local Target or Walmart and happen to pass by the card section. That being said stay away from it if you can.
I work at Target and those Prizm Monopoly blaster boxes have been discontinued for months. You could maybe find some sitting on the shelves but be aware that people were opening them from the top and then returning them with opened packs inside. They still look brand new at a glance but at closer inspection, you will see they were opened. Guest services doesn’t inspect them properly and sports cards can’t be returned but the glitch in the system is that these come in as toys since it’s a board game, so people open them carefully, take the good cards out, and then return them.
I've never ever pulled a good card out of the retail pack boxes at Target, etc. and found I'm better off buying "Hobby" boxes from LCS at higher prices with the stated guaranteed autograph hits.
I pulled a 1/1 Lebron James, a 1/1 Wemby and a 1/1 Paul Skenes out of retail boxes at Walmart and Target...then i woke up, slapped myself and went back to sleep!
If you're holding the pack with your left hand, when you grabbed the seam to open with your right hand, go away from the hand that's holding the pack. You will open it much easier that way. Pulling towards yourself is fighting against your left hand. Figured I would put that out there.
Always always appreciate a change of pace, particularly considering this isa data heavy channel some space to breathe is great (and im a nerd and love numbers but it was fun seeing a nerdy perspective on how to buy retail and following your train of thought and how it differs from mine, btw I always questioned why blasters have to be priced the same when we know all products are different and we see every subpar product abandoned everywhere)
Please do more of these… I struggle with the value of Base and inserts especially Baseball cards and nice to see you rip explain and know about MVP Buyback…And really nice to see the variety… Could you do Selects vs optics NBA vs NFL please too?!
Enjoyed the 2024 Topps Chrome. Didn't have much luck with 2 boxes. But decided to go back with one more and hit a Jasson Dominguez 1989 throwback black parallel out of 10. Made it worth it.
Willy T Ribbs raced in the Trans-Am race series and dominated winning 17. 4 of those being for Rousch Racing. He was the first African American to test for F1, and later was the first to qualify for the Indy 500 in a old second hand Volvo car funded in part by Bill Cosby. If he had ever been given a real good ride he could have been very good in open wheel racing had he ever been a real shot. There is a great doccumentary about his life on Netflix called Uppity.
I’ve pulled plenty of big cards out of retail products. I’ve hit a tyrese maxey rookie premier level elephant print from select hanger box, a Anthony Edwards rookie Concorde level /49 from a select blaster box, lamelo ball redemption silver prizm auto from a mj holdings yellow prizm hanger box and a trevor Lawrence nfl debut mosaic genesis from a mosaic hanger box. I also pulled a rajun rondo gold /10 from a select hanger pack which obviously isn’t that big but it shows you they do put golds in retail hangers. Also pulled a Paul skeenes base auto from 2024 bowman blaster box.
Thanks teapot for opening up a wide variety never really get to see some of the cards I don't buy but it's nice to see different car that I might buy thank you
The problem with goingto walmart and Target is all these breakers go in on restock day and clean it out so no one else can get any and you HAVE to go through the online breakers
Dude I went with a tops blaster bc I watched this earlier...Walmart 1045pm...pulled a Michael Harris 2 RC Commemorative father's day patch. Nice big Atlanta baby Blue "A"! Def one of the sickest idc how much it's worth...never would've gone for this box if I hadn't watched this earlier. Thanks bud🎉🎉 🔥 📛 👨🚒 guess what I know? Topps paper blasters yield more than all those other blasters!
Sports cards is a hobby and mainly for collectors the whole “profiting” is too make something back instead of just giving it away. If you go buy a box and resell then u just want money but also depending on how much of a difference what u bought compared to the resell price of a box is. Back in 2020 the market was jacked up and u could get 2x all the way to 100x money back because of the overprice inserts on the qbs cards
Is the spook-a-treak score product a sneaky way to make a lil $$?? I snagged one for $22 and pulled 2 jjs, bo, jayden daniels, penix, and maye. I've seen these go for $1-$5 per rookie qbs. Also had 3 Marvin harrisons and a lot of other rookie first rounders that could easily sell $1
Going back about 15 years when I would open unopened packs from the 70's and 80's I always counted minor stars, semi-stars and unlisted stars if they were .25 or over into my totals. I used to always get the value of my packs back and sometimes double the worth or more in 2011 and before. I remember it was around Sept. 2011 that I started to not get my value back as much. That may be because prices started going up on unopened product and also because more card grading was going on to influence pack prices. I've always kept my cards raw and ungraded for an old school feel. Back then, a 1980 Topps Baseball pack was $10 at BBCE. Now that same pack is $105 on their website.
Pulled a 1:1 Michael Phelps from the Olympic Chrome boxes a few weeks back. That was a retail blaster box. So you can get big hits in retail. It's just rare. Sold it for around $1,400.
In 4 months from Walmart: 1/1 shoei bowman mojo mega box 2024 2023 topps heritage Gunnar RC auto Wemby optic RC orange /99 Wemby optic RC blue /249 Over $5k worth of cards I KNOW I should just stop and never buy anymore…but that run has gotten me a spending a little more than I should from Walmart. Realistic amount spent $2-3k
On a serious note, these products really aren't designed to be profitable. They're more so for little kids to get a lot of worthless cards, and get them addicted to the hobby. Generally speaking the rare, sought after products typically won't be found in value boxes.
I bought a Topps Chrome blaster from Barnes and Nobles and pulled a Mike Trout Image Variation. Profit made. Most of the time, you can't make a profit from retail. If you do sell all the singles, maybe break even.
Great video and great advice! You were spot on with Flux and you remembered correctly, I got absolutely slaughtered on every Flux retail product I’ve ever opened. The chances of hitting anything worth more than the box cost is closer to 0% than almost any other fully licensed product I’ve ever seen. Total stay away!
That one stuck out in my mind! I think I may have actually watched that video on your channel from the aisle at Wal-Mart earlier this year (for a second time) to remember for sure! LOL
I have that same shirt lol. Yeah no Retail boxes are only if you have a YT channel to open but if you’re looking to collect best bet is just to buy and trade for the cards you want.
Pulled a zebra Bryce young from a few value packs and then the next day I opened a contenders mega box that I’d bought for my sealed collection because it had a very noticeable tear in the seal and I pulled a green foil cj stroud /75. Both have sold recently for $300+ so I wouldn’t say you can’t profit from retail. I’ve had a lot of success pulling wemby this year as well from some retail boxes
I pulled a 2018 topps update ronald acuna jr vintage stock from a 20 dollar blaster at Walmart. I sold it for 250 dollars raw. Went up to 2000 dollars 3 months later. 😂 I made out pretty good but should've held out longer... point being, yes, you can make money off retail. Also pulled purple disco ja morant rookie and purple disco lebron from hanger boxes of hoops premium stock at target. Those are just a few examples of some nice retail. Also found topps pristine in a walmart super center once many years ago and pulled a 120 dollar Roger clemens auto...
Ouch...but still a fun rip. When looking at the hobby in regards to it being an alternative asset...ripping wax is gambling plain and simple...and never a safe investment.
The price of Topps chrome does not justify the asking price. Topps has consistently cut back on the product output. Hobby boxes contain just one auto. When it was two. As for the retail, well you can not really complain. It is a retail product. Overall, the grade on the chrome product are poor.
You're right.... But yet almost every single youtube channel will be telling you what a great release Chrome is and all these hyped cards they keep getting. What they don't tell you is a lot of them get free product in exchange for reviews (it's a common practice in the business) and/or hyping the price artificially which benefits them and suckers people into buying into breaks...
@tenfourproductionsllc Amen to that. Preach the truth brother. Hot boxes has been a long practice of the hobby. The breakers gain. And the real collectors get cheated in the end.
I've had massive luck with blaster and monster chrome at Best Buy. I've pulled so many good ones. Also, 2024 topps blasters. S1 and s2. I spent just around 750$. I'm waiting on 6 cards to get back from PSA. If I even get 3 at 10 I'm getting around 900 for them. Also, I have 9 more I need to send off. Elly x fractor, 3 Aaron Judge parallels I will hold for MVP buy back. A few Jackson Holidays parallels.
I mean pre 2020 yes. I was grabbing 20 dollar blasters at target getting rookie giannis. Prizms as well for 20, getting guard duty inserts and green kobe prizm.
I hear tons of people rip on Contenders, but I've had better luck with contenders than other sets as far as value per box. Looking online, there are multiple cards that are over $1000 in that set.
I only rip retail. I’ve gotten a few cool pulls from various different baseball boxes and packs but yeah probably haven’t actually gotten much profit from many of them. Either way though I don’t really rip for profit, I just go for fun and keep even the base cards so maybe I can look through them with my kids in the future and tell them stories about the players I grew up watching.
Man ever since COVID card collecting has just gone downhill, so many people had nothing to do during the pandemic so they got into collecting and now all my old places get cleared out as soon as the shelves are stocked
Those repack baseball can yield some good hits. They put Bowman packs in those and some Topps hobby packs. I hit a Mike Piazza auto /50. Got Bowman autos and # cards as well.
Oddly enough those baseball repacks can be pretty good. I got two packs of 2018 Topps Opening day and some 22 series 2 fat packs with some other halfway decent stuff.
I usually agree with you on what you say but don’t agree on the series 1 or 2 blaster box. Blasters are actually the best value. On release they might not be when hobbies are $80-$85 but when hobbies are $150, blasters at $25 is a good price and a very good entry for releases like this. Just like series 2 hobbies for $100 or less is good but gets very rough when they are $150 or more.
Check out Stryker's channel for full analysis of pack odds. Blasters are brutal based on pack odds, and I don't personally like the holiday parallels. Thanks for watching!
Before COVID stores like Walgreens and CVS used to sell these $5 boxes and u would get 100 MLB or 75 NBA or NFL cards and i found cards from an Autographed Andrew Luck RC that was worth $500 when i sold it, a Kobe that was worth $300 and so many othee great pull, now those same boxes after COVID only have 40 MLB n like the NFL boxes only have 25 cards n u dont find anything good in em anymore.
I'll save everyone from watching the video. The answer is no
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Shocking! Next time, buy a Powerball ticket instead.
Buy a hobby box with guarantee hits for the money. Or better yet buy a card you like instead of unboxing
Blaster boxes and all the others dont guarantee nada better buy a graded card you like
What’s a hobby box?
Agree with the take on just buying the card you want, but hobby boxes are not a guarantee for anything. lol Sure, better odds.
Yeah, I kind of agree with just buying a card you like. With the cost of these boxes nowadays, you could spend hundreds pretty easily. Might as well out that into a nice card.
@@Kronicdice23 why are u even watching this vid if u dont know what a hobby box is.
Honestly my favorite card collector video. You show the process and actually tally the prices. As much as I would love to get into something I love doing in the 1970's, it's a different ballgame out there today. What I wouldn't do to have the 3 Henderson rookies I let go awol...
This video reminded me how much I don't miss throwing money away.
So happy I grew up in the seventies where I could go use my paper route money to any grocery store or five and dime store in buy cards without having to worry about adults hoarding them
First year I bought cards were 1967 Topps 5cents 5 cards
Good video. Now do the same thing with a few hobby boxes. Could have even worse ROI with the inflated wax prices.
You can't profit from buying either hobby or retail. People buy retail because it's a lesser degree of ridiculous and they actually want to collect cards.
I get most of my big eBay singles from retail… definitely profitable I guess I’m just lucky
You get way better value per $ in hobby...
I mean this is 100% false. Are the odds bad of course but to say no one ever profits is just stupid.
@@flyingchimp12 some people don’t collect for profit, that line of thinking is why the hobby is fucked up.
As bad as and as worthless as retail product is, it does accomplish one valuable thing...it exposes local card shop owners, who either buy up all the high demand retail Hanger/Mega/Blaster boxes, themselves or have other people...family and friends do so and then place them in their store at 20%-40% mark up or higher!
A month ago, I was in Walmart in Northwest Florida, around 6:30 am, and this guy came up and grabbed all twelve $45 blaster boxes of the Topps Chrome Baseball. Later, that morning, I walked into the first LCS via my GPS and guess who I saw at 10 am when the store opened?
That's right, you get an "A" on this pop quiz!
It was the same guy and those $45 blasters were now sitting behind his counter and on his shelf for $52.00! Plus, he had $25 Bowman Chrome U Blasters for $80.00. Yes, $80.00 freaking dollars! Why? Simply because of the potential of pulling Caitlin Clark, and Angel Reese cards.
THIS rubs me the wrong way, because they are a business, they have the means to order directly, something we cannot. Plus, when they "scalp" up all the retail product from Walmart, Target, Academy Sports, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million and more, they are literally cornering the market(supply and demand)attempting to force locals in their area to have to buy from them, buy via the secondary market or simply do without.
Personally, I see this as being dishonest and as soon as I recognized that the guy from Walmart was LCS owner, I didn't even look through his case, or go through his $1 boxes, I turned around and walked out of the store. If a LCS owner will "scalp" up all the retail product from local stores, you must ask yourselves, "What else are they doing?" More importantly, "What won't they do, to get a leg up?" Will they tell some kid, his $300 card is only worth $5 or $10?
This is just my opinion, based on my values and morals.
Didnt think this was true until we witnessed a local shops right hand man swoop on all the pokemon product. Keep in mind, we didnt even know he was the "dude" who was scavenging for the local shop. A day or 2 later, we pass by the local shop and the same exact damn product we saw the guy buy at target, was in the glass shelf of the local shop, marketed up in price. 😂 we told the guy, when did your friend drop these off, he didnt even let us have one at msrp.
@@joemama3191 That's what thy do! The either get to the stores first thing in the morning or they knew the restock schedule and/or have hook ups with the distributor guy/girl, and wait to get a text or call, advising them of what store and what time to show up.
I know, amazing hom many retail blasters there are at "hobby" card stores.
Wayne deff the goat. If the man never scored a goal he would still be the all time point leader
“If Geoff is going to give me $200 to spend…you know I’m going to spend it!” 🤣
You know it's going bad when we start counting quarter cards toward the total.
Way she goes sometimes.
You're not wrong...pretty rough when $6 is the most valuable card.
the save from "gotta love pictures of kids" 🤣
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'why don't you take a seat right over there, i'd like to ask you a few questions, i have the transcripts.' - Chris Hansen
gahhhh cmon. I have 4 kids and 1 on the way. Just a sincere reaction. We were all kids once, even this bald data guy 😂
I thought he stumbled upon a Wander Franco card or something...
Hahahah
I have been buying retail since the early 1990s... That being said, I only bought retail, mostly to get cards to fill in my sets. It was cheaper than the hobby, and until the 2000s, most did not have any auto's or game used in them. Todays retail is much different as you can pull big-time auto's, memorabilia and numbered cards... The problem is you have to hit the right name as most of these hit cards only sell for 5-10 dollars!!!! However, it's just gambling as the odds are probably better going to the casino or buying scratch off tickets. The great thing with the latter is that you get paid right away and good luck selling all those cards you pulled for .25 cents, 50 cents, and a dollar... Unless you own a store...
If you bring the portable CT scanner from Cards HQ you can 😉
There not portable yet
@DabCityyy ohhh yes they are. Google it.
Ha yes!
You'd be surprised but Magic the Gathering can have some crazy retail returns. It's just knowing what you're buying. Wizards of the coast went heavy into exclusivity and started their own serialized magic cards so there is money in buying magic products.
Quick Answer: Hard No.
Wembanyama pink sells for $350.. Antman pink sells for $150... chet holmgren pink sells for $35...those are out of blaster packs "retail" ... how much does that box go for again ??? $27??? The chet will rise and so will others.. the 😊hobby is about hype nothing else anymore
@@elitebaseball2041Bought 1 mega box of Prizm for $55 (50 cards) and pulled a damn nice Wemby pink ice. Sold that sucker immediately and got $412 for it raw lol. FF to when value packs came out for $15.99.... My first pack.. Green Prizm Wemby lol.. sold it for $225 raw. That was sick.
Although, must mention I did buy more after that Green Prizm and ultimately it just paid for the rest of the packs I bought.
@@elitebaseball2041 Lol do you not understand probability. On average you're going to lose money. That's like saying you can go to a casino and make money LOL.
@@elitebaseball2041 u are 14
@@elitebaseball2041 How many blasters do you have to buy for the "struck by lightning" chance you hit one? At least hobby box the odds are a little better
For Select soccer products, La Liga is the way to go - lower print runs, more stars.
What would your advice be for when the boxes go on clearance at walmart? You can get blasters with the value stickers from $14-18 at Walmart.
12:41 Yup….get the Whoopi Cushion (“Bloottt!!) for Geoff 😂 He’s keeping the Hobby LIVE so he would have a great laugh 😆
Shouldn't of based retail of of any of your factors. You forgot to adjust for shipping and wait time when calculating.
yep, made zero money back. good luck selling those.25 cent cards
As the other comments have said already. The quick answer is no, but....as a person who does not open many sports cards. This video does a great job of showing you what retail products to stay away from if you're just a casual sports card collector. Becuase most casual collectors just look at the box and go *"This one looks good"* and picks it not knowing that the box they just picked is ass. It's also good for those that do collect a lot, but don't rip much and tend to only do it every now and then when they're at their local Target or Walmart and happen to pass by the card section. That being said stay away from it if you can.
2020 was the last decent year to flip retail sports cards that hold value. 2021 the print run floodgates opened and that was it.
I work at Target and those Prizm Monopoly blaster boxes have been discontinued for months. You could maybe find some sitting on the shelves but be aware that people were opening them from the top and then returning them with opened packs inside. They still look brand new at a glance but at closer inspection, you will see they were opened. Guest services doesn’t inspect them properly and sports cards can’t be returned but the glitch in the system is that these come in as toys since it’s a board game, so people open them carefully, take the good cards out, and then return them.
oof...scammers are going to scam.
I've never ever pulled a good card out of the retail pack boxes at Target, etc. and found I'm better off buying "Hobby" boxes from LCS at higher prices with the stated guaranteed autograph hits.
I pulled a 1/1 Lebron James, a 1/1 Wemby and a 1/1 Paul Skenes out of retail boxes at Walmart and Target...then i woke up, slapped myself and went back to sleep!
Say everything twice. SAY. EVERYTHING. TWICE. OHHHHHH YEAHHHHHH!!!!
Honestly I think you should do more of these videos
If you're holding the pack with your left hand, when you grabbed the seam to open with your right hand, go away from the hand that's holding the pack. You will open it much easier that way. Pulling towards yourself is fighting against your left hand. Figured I would put that out there.
Great video. Those Target repacks are pretty sweet.
Always always appreciate a change of pace, particularly considering this isa data heavy channel some space to breathe is great (and im a nerd and love numbers but it was fun seeing a nerdy perspective on how to buy retail and following your train of thought and how it differs from mine, btw I always questioned why blasters have to be priced the same when we know all products are different and we see every subpar product abandoned everywhere)
Please do more of these… I struggle with the value of Base and inserts especially Baseball cards and nice to see you rip explain and know about MVP Buyback…And really nice to see the variety…
Could you do Selects vs optics NBA vs NFL please too?!
Those "Baseball" repacked boxes are so good, got a signed Joey Votto card out of one, and it's 8 packs for $15
Thanks for the detailed info on retail! 🎉
That mtg commander deck is going for bout $150 right now & is highly desirable. This dude did this video immediately after a restock.
Enjoyed the 2024 Topps Chrome. Didn't have much luck with 2 boxes. But decided to go back with one more and hit a Jasson Dominguez 1989 throwback black parallel out of 10. Made it worth it.
"It only takes 1," as they say!
Best box to buy is a safety deposit jumbo box 🙂
Willy T Ribbs raced in the Trans-Am race series and dominated winning 17. 4 of those being for Rousch Racing. He was the first African American to test for F1, and later was the first to qualify for the Indy 500 in a old second hand Volvo car funded in part by Bill Cosby. If he had ever been given a real good ride he could have been very good in open wheel racing had he ever been a real shot. There is a great doccumentary about his life on Netflix called Uppity.
I’ve pulled plenty of big cards out of retail products. I’ve hit a tyrese maxey rookie premier level elephant print from select hanger box, a Anthony Edwards rookie Concorde level /49 from a select blaster box, lamelo ball redemption silver prizm auto from a mj holdings yellow prizm hanger box and a trevor Lawrence nfl debut mosaic genesis from a mosaic hanger box. I also pulled a rajun rondo gold /10 from a select hanger pack which obviously isn’t that big but it shows you they do put golds in retail hangers. Also pulled a Paul skeenes base auto from 2024 bowman blaster box.
But how much and how long did you have to rip wax 😅.
Thanks teapot for opening up a wide variety never really get to see some of the cards I don't buy but it's nice to see different car that I might buy thank you
Very very informative. T POTT in the field is a win for us all
Yes whoopee cushion Geoff ftw. And like seeing that second hidden shelf action @Target
The problem with goingto walmart and Target is all these breakers go in on restock day and clean it out so no one else can get any and you HAVE to go through the online breakers
Dude I went with a tops blaster bc I watched this earlier...Walmart 1045pm...pulled a Michael Harris 2 RC Commemorative father's day patch. Nice big Atlanta baby Blue "A"! Def one of the sickest idc how much it's worth...never would've gone for this box if I hadn't watched this earlier. Thanks bud🎉🎉 🔥 📛 👨🚒 guess what I know? Topps paper blasters yield more than all those other blasters!
Sports cards is a hobby and mainly for collectors the whole “profiting” is too make something back instead of just giving it away. If you go buy a box and resell then u just want money but also depending on how much of a difference what u bought compared to the resell price of a box is. Back in 2020 the market was jacked up and u could get 2x all the way to 100x money back because of the overprice inserts on the qbs cards
Is the spook-a-treak score product a sneaky way to make a lil $$?? I snagged one for $22 and pulled 2 jjs, bo, jayden daniels, penix, and maye. I've seen these go for $1-$5 per rookie qbs. Also had 3 Marvin harrisons and a lot of other rookie first rounders that could easily sell $1
.25 .50 or even $1 value cards shouldn’t be counted towards total value in my opinion
Same. It’s not like you can sell those easily, either. After fees, shipping, taxes, etc…
Those cards sell very well at Cards HQ in value bins or with dealers at shows. They're definitely not worth selling online.
They have value. They should count. It's not like your going to profit very often even with them so ya why wouldn't you count them?
@@buffalobill9793 exactly BECAUSE you’re not going to profit. You stay at 0
Going back about 15 years when I would open unopened packs from the 70's and 80's I always counted minor stars, semi-stars and unlisted stars if they were .25 or over into my totals. I used to always get the value of my packs back and sometimes double the worth or more in 2011 and before. I remember it was around Sept. 2011 that I started to not get my value back as much. That may be because prices started going up on unopened product and also because more card grading was going on to influence pack prices. I've always kept my cards raw and ungraded for an old school feel. Back then, a 1980 Topps Baseball pack was $10 at BBCE. Now that same pack is $105 on their website.
Decent amount of stuff at Target, cleaned out at Walmart. It's almost always the exact opposite where I live!
Same for me in the city I live in.
Pulled a 1:1 Michael Phelps from the Olympic Chrome boxes a few weeks back. That was a retail blaster box. So you can get big hits in retail. It's just rare. Sold it for around $1,400.
congrats!
This was a great video!! keep up the good work!!
You still had more value in cards than the average Prizm Basketball Hobby box.
In 4 months from Walmart:
1/1 shoei bowman mojo mega box 2024
2023 topps heritage Gunnar RC auto
Wemby optic RC orange /99
Wemby optic RC blue /249
Over $5k worth of cards
I KNOW I should just stop and never buy anymore…but that run has gotten me a spending a little more than I should from Walmart. Realistic amount spent $2-3k
Wow! Not bad!
The answer is , maybe. The 1/1 Prizm Wemby came from a hanger box. It's a gamble. It's just a little cheaper game to play.
Who thinks T-Pott is a top shelf dude that keeps it real?
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Uh no
@@plb3733lol
Any associate of that douchenozzle is a hard pass.
Thx for doing this video! I have been trying to find out what to buy.... Have no clue.
You can only break even on retail let alone on hobby if you are going to flip the sealed boxes
On a serious note, these products really aren't designed to be profitable.
They're more so for little kids to get a lot of worthless cards, and get them addicted to the hobby.
Generally speaking the rare, sought after products typically won't be found in value boxes.
the first week or two after release you can make money. an example being I have a POP 1 Topps Chrome Juan Soto Lightboard Logo PSA 10 for sale
You are 100 percent right about contenders straight junk. Waste of any kind of money its a waste of paper to be honest.
I pulled a Wemby RC patch from Contenders.
I bought a Topps Chrome blaster from Barnes and Nobles and pulled a Mike Trout Image Variation. Profit made. Most of the time, you can't make a profit from retail. If you do sell all the singles, maybe break even.
Great video and great advice! You were spot on with Flux and you remembered correctly, I got absolutely slaughtered on every Flux retail product I’ve ever opened. The chances of hitting anything worth more than the box cost is closer to 0% than almost any other fully licensed product I’ve ever seen. Total stay away!
That one stuck out in my mind! I think I may have actually watched that video on your channel from the aisle at Wal-Mart earlier this year (for a second time) to remember for sure! LOL
I have that same shirt lol. Yeah no Retail boxes are only if you have a YT channel to open but if you’re looking to collect best bet is just to buy and trade for the cards you want.
Then you know the debate - peaches or oranges?? 😅 I say peaches...since I'm in GA.
Honestly can't believe you didn't get kicked out for filming in Walmart 😂
Pulled a zebra Bryce young from a few value packs and then the next day I opened a contenders mega box that I’d bought for my sealed collection because it had a very noticeable tear in the seal and I pulled a green foil cj stroud /75. Both have sold recently for $300+ so I wouldn’t say you can’t profit from retail. I’ve had a lot of success pulling wemby this year as well from some retail boxes
I can hardly wait for Topps Chrome NFL Football box!! Not too much longer!
I pulled a 2018 topps update ronald acuna jr vintage stock from a 20 dollar blaster at Walmart. I sold it for 250 dollars raw. Went up to 2000 dollars 3 months later. 😂 I made out pretty good but should've held out longer... point being, yes, you can make money off retail. Also pulled purple disco ja morant rookie and purple disco lebron from hanger boxes of hoops premium stock at target. Those are just a few examples of some nice retail. Also found topps pristine in a walmart super center once many years ago and pulled a 120 dollar Roger clemens auto...
I loved this video bro. I hope to see more
Ouch...but still a fun rip.
When looking at the hobby in regards to it being an alternative asset...ripping wax is gambling plain and simple...and never a safe investment.
The price of Topps chrome does not justify the asking price. Topps has consistently cut back on the product output. Hobby boxes contain just one auto. When it was two. As for the retail, well you can not really complain. It is a retail product. Overall, the grade on the chrome product are poor.
You're right.... But yet almost every single youtube channel will be telling you what a great release Chrome is and all these hyped cards they keep getting. What they don't tell you is a lot of them get free product in exchange for reviews (it's a common practice in the business) and/or hyping the price artificially which benefits them and suckers people into buying into breaks...
@tenfourproductionsllc Amen to that. Preach the truth brother. Hot boxes has been a long practice of the hobby. The breakers gain. And the real collectors get cheated in the end.
Go green, go white! Walker the III will be solid down the road.
I’m new to this hobby. Are there any boxes at Walmart I should be looking for?
Prizm Basketball Draft pick is low key 🔥. Hit a Black Colorblast Wembanyama in a mega the other day.
wow! congrats!
Excellent perspective video!
I love code names that's funny you brought that up lol
Do one that is centered around buying breaks and being profitable
I’m actually a big fan of bowman mega boxes. The 1st sale a lot easier than your base chrome 1st.
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Camera Guy Phil Screwed the Pooch W/ That Topps Chrome Blaster Pick 😂
I'm never asking him for help picking boxes again 😅😅
I've had massive luck with blaster and monster chrome at Best Buy. I've pulled so many good ones. Also, 2024 topps blasters. S1 and s2. I spent just around 750$. I'm waiting on 6 cards to get back from PSA. If I even get 3 at 10 I'm getting around 900 for them. Also, I have 9 more I need to send off. Elly x fractor, 3 Aaron Judge parallels I will hold for MVP buy back. A few Jackson Holidays parallels.
you could trade cards for sealed wax at stores to try and turn a profit for fun
I mean pre 2020 yes. I was grabbing 20 dollar blasters at target getting rookie giannis. Prizms as well for 20, getting guard duty inserts and green kobe prizm.
Let’s do this with Hobby boxes next.
I like that idea! Need Geoff to pay for it! :P
My tactic is always buy the last box bc that is how i got some hits or go thru the middle
I normally buy hobby.. i went and tried some retail and bought a hanger of topps chrome basketball. I actually hit a wembanyama auto redemption.
I hear tons of people rip on Contenders, but I've had better luck with contenders than other sets as far as value per box. Looking online, there are multiple cards that are over $1000 in that set.
I only rip retail. I’ve gotten a few cool pulls from various different baseball boxes and packs but yeah probably haven’t actually gotten much profit from many of them. Either way though I don’t really rip for profit, I just go for fun and keep even the base cards so maybe I can look through them with my kids in the future and tell them stories about the players I grew up watching.
Man ever since COVID card collecting has just gone downhill, so many people had nothing to do during the pandemic so they got into collecting and now all my old places get cleared out as soon as the shelves are stocked
Very thorough appraisal of retail.
Those repack baseball can yield some good hits. They put Bowman packs in those and some Topps hobby packs. I hit a Mike Piazza auto /50. Got Bowman autos and # cards as well.
My walmarts in OKC will not keep anything in stock. I have been by every couple days for weeks now and there is no restock.
Bummer!
I'll probably buy a couple clark boxes and just forget about em until i have a reason to remember
Oddly enough those baseball repacks can be pretty good. I got two packs of 2018 Topps Opening day and some 22 series 2 fat packs with some other halfway decent stuff.
I still don't know where Walmart and Target hid the product. Plus, Big Lots is closing so even less to buy.
I recently just bought the 2023-2024 holloween hoops pack that had 120 cards I paid 21.58 for it and got 150 back
11:10 don’t contender blasters guarantee an auto or mem?
Yeah, but you always get no good players
Lol. 12 minutes in and just gives up looking for the value and just starts rolling the dice.
What website were you using in this video???
Market Movers! Same as the channel name :)
I usually agree with you on what you say but don’t agree on the series 1 or 2 blaster box. Blasters are actually the best value. On release they might not be when hobbies are $80-$85 but when hobbies are $150, blasters at $25 is a good price and a very good entry for releases like this. Just like series 2 hobbies for $100 or less is good but gets very rough when they are $150 or more.
Check out Stryker's channel for full analysis of pack odds. Blasters are brutal based on pack odds, and I don't personally like the holiday parallels.
Thanks for watching!
That was fun watching you
Before COVID stores like Walgreens and CVS used to sell these $5 boxes and u would get 100 MLB or 75 NBA or NFL cards and i found cards from an Autographed Andrew Luck RC that was worth $500 when i sold it, a Kobe that was worth $300 and so many othee great pull, now those same boxes after COVID only have 40 MLB n like the NFL boxes only have 25 cards n u dont find anything good in em anymore.
Those repacked boxes are pretty good i actually got some good packs out of em n their cheap under $20