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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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?!
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
Do not get the sentiment that ripping packs is fun… if you do it a few times and get nothing it’s not fun at all not at these prices sheesh. Much rather find the single I want and hit the buy button now that’s fun. To each his own I guess
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
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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...
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!
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.
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
When doing this kind of analysis, instead of assessing them by the best possible opening scenario, you should assess whether the product is worthwhile by looking at what an average pack opening scenario would look like for each product. You really want to be asking: If you don't strike gold, is it still a good buy with an average opening?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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 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 pulled a 1 of 1 Michael Harris Jr auto from a WalMart box I ripped with my dad last year. Obviously that was pretty much the equivalent to winning the lottery and isn't normal lol. Retail has good bang for your buck though
Fanatics has printed a ton of cards Topps series 1,2, and chrome. Hard to hit anything. Not to mention several more stores other than Wally and Target. Seriously concerned about wax turning 90s crapshoot. When a company has spent what fanatics has spent in the last 3 years to get where they’re at in the hobby… you better believe they’re going to print a ton!
This might be a secret that no one knows, or maybe no one cares 😅, but i scour Walgreens shelves for heavily discounted old retail products. Most recently they had value pack hangers of 2022-23 donruss with the gren laser exclusive parallels for 5.99 a pack. Pulled a Chet holmgren rated rookie which paid for the pack alone. Also, bought 2021-2022 illusions basketball blasters for 15.99 and pulled a ja Morant ultra rare tough insert that paid for the box. Those type of purchases are a little easier to swallow when you are getting 80-90% ROI compared to full price of new product and maybe getting 50% ROI even if you hit something really nice. P.S. I've seen Walmart have these same discounted packs or blasters, but you gotta get there within the first couple of days of a restock cause it gets wiped out quick.
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.
Barnes and Noble is low key awesome. Lowest prices and if you do there membership you get 10% off every purchase and then they give $5 per $100 spent and random times get get $10-$25 off through out the year.
As someone who has ripped about 10k in retail this yr the answer is no in long run but it is definitely possible to make $ have hit aeveral downtown this yr from paper n optic donruss outta blaster/megas hit 2 prizm glitters keyonte n brandon Miller outa value packs the miller did 1900 raw and the george sold yesterday for 1150 raw. Both outta 15.00 packs so answer is again no in long run if you keep buying but you can get lucky just like a slot machine
Got some nice Brighton cards in that Select Premier League box!! Brighton are my team. You can bin that Jordan Ayew numbered card, Palace are trash. (Crystal Palace are Brighton's rivals) 😂 Not sure if you get the Topps Superstars cards in the U.S. But they have some good cards, pulled a 1/1 Ronaldinho at the weekend. 🎉
I think buying 1 box isn't sufficient, as I tried that, but when I bought 4 Merlin... Got Renaissance of Ronaldo. Either lucky or just buy a few boxes?🤔
Pulled a /99 and /199 Wemby out of Revolution a month ago. I'd say yes, you can make profit but the odds are still severely stacked against you with retail.
The answer is yes but you must choose wisely and not buy the junk,Myself and many others have done it for many years.2023 was a hobby year but 2024 has definitely been a retail year.
I cannot tell the difference between the various sets, so sometimes if I am at Walmart with my kids I will look at eBay - I’ve never seen something cheaper at Walmart than eBay.
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.
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.
Everyday i think of getting back into collecting football cards, in like, do i wanna just collect bulk or waste money 😂 never in those few years of buying, did i open anything worth selling. Gave my binder away and idk what the hell happen to the bulk haha
You can but you need to purchase the right product and my opinion is that panini sees the kind of $ they made 1st quarter because of victor and cj and would rather sell retail blasters and megas online for much greater cost.....
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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.
Good video. Now do the same thing with a few hobby boxes. Could have even worse ROI with the inflated wax prices.
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
This video reminded me how much I don't miss throwing money away.
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.
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 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...
Wayne deff the goat. If the man never scored a goal he would still be the all time point leader
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.
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.
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!
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.
“If Geoff is going to give me $200 to spend…you know I’m going to spend it!” 🤣
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.
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)
For Select soccer products, La Liga is the way to go - lower print runs, more stars.
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?!
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
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 😅.
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
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
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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
2020 was the last decent year to flip retail sports cards that hold value. 2021 the print run floodgates opened and that was it.
12:41 Yup….get the Whoopi Cushion (“Bloottt!!) for Geoff 😂 He’s keeping the Hobby LIVE so he would have a great laugh 😆
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.
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!
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.
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!
Do not get the sentiment that ripping packs is fun… if you do it a few times and get nothing it’s not fun at all not at these prices sheesh. Much rather find the single I want and hit the buy button now that’s fun. To each his own I guess
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!
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Those "Baseball" repacked boxes are so good, got a signed Joey Votto card out of one, and it's 8 packs for $15
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
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...
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!
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.
What would your advice be for when the boxes go on clearance at walmart? You can get blasters with the value stickers from $14-18 at Walmart.
I've had massive luck with blaster and monster chrome at Best Buy. I've pulled so many good ones. Also, 2024 topps blasters. S1 and s2. I spent just around 750$. 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.
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
When doing this kind of analysis, instead of assessing them by the best possible opening scenario, you should assess whether the product is worthwhile by looking at what an average pack opening scenario would look like for each product. You really want to be asking: If you don't strike gold, is it still a good buy with an average opening?
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
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!
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.
That mtg commander deck is going for bout $150 right now & is highly desirable. This dude did this video immediately after a restock.
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. Those Target repacks are pretty sweet.
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Honestly I think you should do more of these videos
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
Best box to buy is a safety deposit jumbo box 🙂
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.
Go green, go white! Walker the III will be solid down the road.
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!
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.
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.
.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.
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
You can only break even on retail let alone on hobby if you are going to flip the sealed boxes
Yes whoopee cushion Geoff ftw. And like seeing that second hidden shelf action @Target
Prizm Basketball Draft pick is low key 🔥. Hit a Black Colorblast Wembanyama in a mega the other day.
wow! congrats!
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 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 still don't know where Walmart and Target hid the product. Plus, Big Lots is closing so even less to buy.
Thanks for the detailed info on retail! 🎉
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 recently just bought the 2023-2024 holloween hoops pack that had 120 cards I paid 21.58 for it and got 150 back
Very very informative. T POTT in the field is a win for us all
I pulled a 1 of 1 Michael Harris Jr auto from a WalMart box I ripped with my dad last year. Obviously that was pretty much the equivalent to winning the lottery and isn't normal lol. Retail has good bang for your buck though
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.
I’m actually a big fan of bowman mega boxes. The 1st sale a lot easier than your base chrome 1st.
Fanatics has printed a ton of cards Topps series 1,2, and chrome. Hard to hit anything. Not to mention several more stores other than Wally and Target. Seriously concerned about wax turning 90s crapshoot. When a company has spent what fanatics has spent in the last 3 years to get where they’re at in the hobby… you better believe they’re going to print a ton!
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.
Thx for doing this video! I have been trying to find out what to buy.... Have no clue.
This might be a secret that no one knows, or maybe no one cares 😅, but i scour Walgreens shelves for heavily discounted old retail products. Most recently they had value pack hangers of 2022-23 donruss with the gren laser exclusive parallels for 5.99 a pack. Pulled a Chet holmgren rated rookie which paid for the pack alone. Also, bought 2021-2022 illusions basketball blasters for 15.99 and pulled a ja Morant ultra rare tough insert that paid for the box. Those type of purchases are a little easier to swallow when you are getting 80-90% ROI compared to full price of new product and maybe getting 50% ROI even if you hit something really nice. P.S. I've seen Walmart have these same discounted packs or blasters, but you gotta get there within the first couple of days of a restock cause it gets wiped out quick.
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.
Barnes and Noble is low key awesome. Lowest prices and if you do there membership you get 10% off every purchase and then they give $5 per $100 spent and random times get get $10-$25 off through out the year.
wow didnt know that!
As someone who has ripped about 10k in retail this yr the answer is no in long run but it is definitely possible to make $ have hit aeveral downtown this yr from paper n optic donruss outta blaster/megas hit 2 prizm glitters keyonte n brandon Miller outa value packs the miller did 1900 raw and the george sold yesterday for 1150 raw. Both outta 15.00 packs so answer is again no in long run if you keep buying but you can get lucky just like a slot machine
Got some nice Brighton cards in that Select Premier League box!! Brighton are my team. You can bin that Jordan Ayew numbered card, Palace are trash. (Crystal Palace are Brighton's rivals) 😂
Not sure if you get the Topps Superstars cards in the U.S. But they have some good cards, pulled a 1/1 Ronaldinho at the weekend. 🎉
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.
I think buying 1 box isn't sufficient, as I tried that, but when I bought 4 Merlin... Got Renaissance of Ronaldo. Either lucky or just buy a few boxes?🤔
Pulled a /99 and /199 Wemby out of Revolution a month ago. I'd say yes, you can make profit but the odds are still severely stacked against you with retail.
Of course if you buy just 1 box and get lucky you can make a profit. The more boxes you buy the less likely you are to make a profit.
The answer is yes but you must choose wisely and not buy the junk,Myself and many others have done it for many years.2023 was a hobby year but 2024 has definitely been a retail year.
I cannot tell the difference between the various sets, so sometimes if I am at Walmart with my kids I will look at eBay - I’ve never seen something cheaper at Walmart than eBay.
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.
Out of all the retail boxes ive bought, ive pulled autos but nothing ever any good. Got Ohtani for the chrome redemption last year. Lol.
Thompson twins didn’t play in g league ignite program. No big deal - your point was just that they didn’t play ncaa, but fyi.
Good call, you're right it was OTE. I was mixing them up with Scoot...
Thanks for watching!
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.
Ik contenders is not good but the basketball rookie dual ticket ones are dope . Got 2 of them from Jaden Ivey rookie year 🔥
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!
Everyday i think of getting back into collecting football cards, in like, do i wanna just collect bulk or waste money 😂 never in those few years of buying, did i open anything worth selling. Gave my binder away and idk what the hell happen to the bulk haha
I can hardly wait for Topps Chrome NFL Football box!! Not too much longer!
I love code names that's funny you brought that up lol
you could trade cards for sealed wax at stores to try and turn a profit for fun
You still had more value in cards than the average Prizm Basketball Hobby box.
You can but you need to purchase the right product and my opinion is that panini sees the kind of $ they made 1st quarter because of victor and cj and would rather sell retail blasters and megas online for much greater cost.....
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Very thorough appraisal of retail.
i mainly have raw cards is it best to wait since most are 2 t o5 dollars in value or sell a bunch to make a least 50 to 100 dollars in profit
Weird stock... just looking at the TCG selection. The Fallout MTG is on shelves with Bloomburrow. That's a pretty big gap.