That's great. One of my fave cards in the entire hobby is Gretzky's 2011-12 UD Canvas, or even better the 2015-16 signed buyback version of it #/5. It's a photo of him beating Mike Vernon with CGY, and the puck visible top-corner from behind the net.
Great box! That Poitras is great. I've opened my tins and didn't hit Poitras, but I did get my other Bruins YG so I'm pretty happy. Have to love when mistakes happen and you get extra YG Canvases and a Clear Cut YG. I know people aren't going to be happy unless they hit Bedard but I don't understand how anyone could not be happy with a box like yours. Hope you have a great weekend! #Dryden
really enjoy your videos! I think im going to stay away from series 2, im pretty bummed cause i wanted a cooley and carlsson yg but why bother when theres gonna be 100k of them lol
#DRYDEN 😮 9 ygs one of them being clear cut 😮 #UPPERDECK congratulations on your Hits Hopefully I have a bit of luck when I start opening packs Send so luck my Way Amazing 😮 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 #DRYDEN Thanks for sharing
Hey, that’s two case hits in the same box! And two canvas young guns?! Let’s hope not, but it looks like someone is getting a dud:/ congrats on the hits and thanks for the break. #dryden
sarcasm. I think we are going to find out that the bedard yg is like the ken griffey jr. card from years ago= wayyy over-printed and the card that made us all realize that we were in the junk wax era@@Fultoncards 🤣
I'm with you on that assessment. I'd be curious to know what percentage of "collectors" partake in group breaks just for the chase, only to post their hits on eBay to fund their break rebuys. For all the commerce, I don't even think ppl like having cards in their possession, as most images in life are now virtual. The very fact anyone can buy a mass produced Bedard posted ad nauseam on eBay or COMC, or trade it on ePack, devalues the card. The only cards with inherent value are the manufactured scarcity of (endless) low numbered parallels, or desirable RPAs in other products.
yeah, all kinds of sad there. i live overseas and it is pretty expensive to send boxes here so when i visit home i grab a bunch and rip here just to put them up around one of the rooms in my place. half the 40-50 cards i have on the wall are prolly .50 canvas cards--i played a lot of puck and they are the ones that always seem to capture/remind me of real hockey. ppl need to put the cards out and enjoy.@@Fultoncards
Hit a gold sparkle 1:960 director of the board and a starburst young guns and a gold star burst 1 of 1 kukonen and the only good young guns was my second poitras #DRYDEN
True! If on average boxes represented a "profit" as opposed to a 75% devaluation upon box break (in non 23/24 years, not even 23/24), card companies would just post their cards directly on eBay. Instead, card companies put them in boxes for kids to gamble, with the house winning massively, like Vegas slot machines. There are a lot of misnomers in the hobby. Do we honestly think poor ppl in bomber jackets with booze on their breath midday, sitting at slot machines in Vegas, are "investing" or "pulling a profit"?
@@Fultoncards I do love the gamble of opening cards and trying to PULL something that I'm excited for. There's nothing quite like the rush of getting the thing I'm chasing! My hope when I open is to pull at least enough value that if I don't pull what I am hoping for, I can sell it to either go towards another box purchase or just purchase a single outright. I enjoy the chase way more than just opening the single in an envelope I ordered from eBay. When I spend 200 on a box of SPA and pull a 3 dollar FWA, it feels like flat out theft by UD or like I'm just setting money on fire. It is NOT about the value pulled, but it is a consolation prize. In that instance, I don't care about the base or other inserts in that set. At $100-150 for a hobby box of series 1, I at least feel like I got some value from my pulls and know that risk/reward is more manageable. Probably a me problem but also know I am not alone!
That's a very honest assessment. With social media and online breakers, the hobby isn't even about the cards anymore for most ppl. Sry for the long response. It's very physiological, related to our brain chemistry, just like gaming. I try to describe and emphasize the math, to counterbalance this. I'm sure ppl like Daniel Negreanu or Antonio Esfandiari play poker because they enjoy it. But, they win because they have put in their 10,000 hours, compute the math in real-time, and watch the film on their competition. They practice and strategize. Then they literally go to work. It is a profession to them. They learned the hard way not to be impulsive or guess. When they lose, they don't blame Vegas. Equally ppl eat a lot of unhealthy food and buy a lot of bad products at irrational price points. Yes, some companies produce unhealthy addictive food and products that don't represent good value. But, I for one am confused when ppl only underscore the supply side issues in a free market economy, in countries with a decent standard of living and way of life, due to this economy. So, I personally believe ppl are paying for the box break experience, as a sunk cost. And if the value is not there, then ppl should buy cheaper products, with less skin in the game, or do something wiser with their hard earned income. Me, I do it because I enjoy the process, notably the endless learning and the community aspects. I learned through finance and economics that high risk is low reward. If you invest in real estate near transportation and large caps with sound fundamentals, the gains are steady and certain. With cards, there are no gains. There are losses. Card companies, graders, group breakers, retailers do make profit. But, they are not gambling. They are banking on our gambling. And gambling emanates from an entertainment budget. It is a liability/loss not an asset. Had most consumers cared about value and the cards, they would simply purchase them directly on eBay in a soft market. And here with Bedard, most ppl are doing the opposite. Buying a card printed over 100,000 times at all-time consumer sentiment highs. I do find the psychology really interesting.
@@Fultoncards I appreciate you taking the time to write all that up! I completely agree with your breakdown of all of that! The breaker side of the equation makes it very hard for an average consumer to compete so to speak and even have a viable chance at pulling a very cool card. I hope is to have a Conor bedard because he's a great player and not because of the investability. The investments are nice perk of course as well. I am also a pokémon and Lorcana player and opener. I'm finding a lot more joy in opening those products because I may get something worth a lot of money, but more than anything, I'm excited to pull something that completes the set or to pull something that's going to work great in my deck! The value is completely secondary for me there. When opening products, I try to break it down, not necessarily by my hit ratio or the value of my head but at my fun cost. I can open a box of pokémon and expect somewhere between 60 and $150 in value. And that box will have cost me 90 bucks. Comparatively, I can open that box of SPA I was talking about and pull a $3 auto. For pokémon, my phone cost is about 20 to 40% of the box value. In hockey, I find that my phone cost is very close to the full value of the box. For a while I was partaking in breaks on whatnot and RUclips and to the point that you made, I found that I was getting a huge amount of hits but they were all low caliber and I was essentially spending the cost of a box regularly and walking away with 1/32nd of the contents. (Or more depending on how many of the teams I purchased). But that drastic swing in my return on investment has pushed me away from breaking. The analysis that you and sports card analysis post help me be more confident in the purchases that I'm making. The Gambler in me sees a bounty for a one of one and thinks "that's doable" when the data says 'yes, but better odds getting struck by lightning'. Sorry for another lengthy message! Have a great night!
Thanks, that provides a ton of context, especially given that I am more of the D&D generation not Pokemon. Albeit, I was always more of a poker and spades player than D&D. I agree with both your reasoning and sentiment. In all honesty, given the softness and over saturation of eBay, there is no rational reason for anyone to enter breaks. But, ppl aren't really targeting cards to collect, they/we are seeking an endorphin rush. I just did a bit of math regarding someone mentioning the value of 23/24 UDS2 retail because they have an "outside chance" to hit a valuable Bedard YG Outburst. They would literally have to open 2,250 blasters to ensure they hit that card. At US $40 per blaster, that's is $90,000 for a (presently) $2,000 card. This defies any justification. Add to that that the card can devalue as it is not numbered, and we are talking complete insanity. So, I think we need to step back from our obsessions, and certainly stop using terms like "investment." Putting money in a garbage and setting it ablaze with lighter fluid is not an "investment." It's pathological. It's like holding ourselves up at gunpoint and our shadier self running off with months of rent or mortgage.
@@Fultoncards well my favorite team is the Canucks and if you don’t got much for them my step daughters team is the Oilers if I’m lucky enough to ever win one :)
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Congrats to the winner!! Sweet rip n' pulls dude!! Thanks for the opportunity and sharing dude. #DRYDEN
Love the Poitras. Ever want to part with it I'd love to trade for it.
I just pulled bedard blue parallel from star rookies from Walmart. 44$ can
Congrats to the winner! Great box my friend!
Fulton always with the hot boxes and lucky breaks!!#Dryden
Hawtboxxx. Starting to love the canvas cards,esp the YG’s. Scored a beauty black & white canvas Wayne Gretzky last night
That's great. One of my fave cards in the entire hobby is Gretzky's 2011-12 UD Canvas, or even better the 2015-16 signed buyback version of it #/5. It's a photo of him beating Mike Vernon with CGY, and the puck visible top-corner from behind the net.
Great box! That Poitras is great. I've opened my tins and didn't hit Poitras, but I did get my other Bruins YG so I'm pretty happy.
Have to love when mistakes happen and you get extra YG Canvases and a Clear Cut YG. I know people aren't going to be happy unless they hit Bedard but I don't understand how anyone could not be happy with a box like yours.
Hope you have a great weekend! #Dryden
Fun box! Congrats to the winner
really enjoy your videos! I think im going to stay away from series 2, im pretty bummed cause i wanted a cooley and carlsson yg but why bother when theres gonna be 100k of them lol
Great video and nice break
No bedard in 5 hobby, no Benson and no great YG CANVAS BUT PULLED 4 #DRYDEN
I won’t say it😂.
Can’t complain about a clear cut YG and 2 canvas YG’s👌
A little bit of a hot box, nice Benson, congratulations to a well deserved winner #Dryden
Nice break #Dryden Congratulations to the winner
My bedard was the checklist but got Leo and zary and two poitras #DRYDEN
very nice box, congrats on all the yg's... Best of luck on the next box.. #Dryden
Just twelve packs to go.
Nine interesting young guns.
You did beat the odds.
No Bedard, but a pretty good box for sure! I have to say 23/24 looks to have some real good photography. Nice rip. #Dryden
love the Canvas cards! Congrats to the winner it’s us again #dryden
That’s a great box. Nice to see plenty of YGs being pulled even if it’s Bedard or bust you get some nice consolation pulls. #Dryden
What a box! I was excited to hit a blue parallel Bedard in the Star Rookie box today :-) Working my way up to stuff like this.
Congrats winner!
#DRYDEN 😮 9 ygs one of them being clear cut 😮
#UPPERDECK
congratulations on your Hits
Hopefully I have a bit of luck when I start opening packs
Send so luck my Way
Amazing 😮
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
#DRYDEN
Thanks for sharing
Hey, that’s two case hits in the same box! And two canvas young guns?! Let’s hope not, but it looks like someone is getting a dud:/ congrats on the hits and thanks for the break. #dryden
con bedard?? everyone spelling ken griffey jr wrong...
I'm not sure I understand your comment, unless you expand a bit.
sarcasm. I think we are going to find out that the bedard yg is like the ken griffey jr. card from years ago= wayyy over-printed and the card that made us all realize that we were in the junk wax era@@Fultoncards
🤣
I'm with you on that assessment. I'd be curious to know what percentage of "collectors" partake in group breaks just for the chase, only to post their hits on eBay to fund their break rebuys. For all the commerce, I don't even think ppl like having cards in their possession, as most images in life are now virtual. The very fact anyone can buy a mass produced Bedard posted ad nauseam on eBay or COMC, or trade it on ePack, devalues the card. The only cards with inherent value are the manufactured scarcity of (endless) low numbered parallels, or desirable RPAs in other products.
yeah, all kinds of sad there. i live overseas and it is pretty expensive to send boxes here so when i visit home i grab a bunch and rip here just to put them up around one of the rooms in my place. half the 40-50 cards i have on the wall are prolly .50 canvas cards--i played a lot of puck and they are the ones that always seem to capture/remind me of real hockey. ppl need to put the cards out and enjoy.@@Fultoncards
Well said.
Hit a gold sparkle 1:960 director of the board and a starburst young guns and a gold star burst 1 of 1 kukonen and the only good young guns was my second poitras #DRYDEN
Man, that was a great box! Impossible to pull a 'profit' with the prices this high...but for ANY other year, this was a great box! #dryden
True! If on average boxes represented a "profit" as opposed to a 75% devaluation upon box break (in non 23/24 years, not even 23/24), card companies would just post their cards directly on eBay. Instead, card companies put them in boxes for kids to gamble, with the house winning massively, like Vegas slot machines. There are a lot of misnomers in the hobby. Do we honestly think poor ppl in bomber jackets with booze on their breath midday, sitting at slot machines in Vegas, are "investing" or "pulling a profit"?
@@Fultoncards I do love the gamble of opening cards and trying to PULL something that I'm excited for. There's nothing quite like the rush of getting the thing I'm chasing! My hope when I open is to pull at least enough value that if I don't pull what I am hoping for, I can sell it to either go towards another box purchase or just purchase a single outright. I enjoy the chase way more than just opening the single in an envelope I ordered from eBay.
When I spend 200 on a box of SPA and pull a 3 dollar FWA, it feels like flat out theft by UD or like I'm just setting money on fire. It is NOT about the value pulled, but it is a consolation prize. In that instance, I don't care about the base or other inserts in that set.
At $100-150 for a hobby box of series 1, I at least feel like I got some value from my pulls and know that risk/reward is more manageable. Probably a me problem but also know I am not alone!
That's a very honest assessment. With social media and online breakers, the hobby isn't even about the cards anymore for most ppl. Sry for the long response. It's very physiological, related to our brain chemistry, just like gaming. I try to describe and emphasize the math, to counterbalance this. I'm sure ppl like Daniel Negreanu or Antonio Esfandiari play poker because they enjoy it. But, they win because they have put in their 10,000 hours, compute the math in real-time, and watch the film on their competition. They practice and strategize. Then they literally go to work. It is a profession to them. They learned the hard way not to be impulsive or guess. When they lose, they don't blame Vegas. Equally ppl eat a lot of unhealthy food and buy a lot of bad products at irrational price points. Yes, some companies produce unhealthy addictive food and products that don't represent good value. But, I for one am confused when ppl only underscore the supply side issues in a free market economy, in countries with a decent standard of living and way of life, due to this economy. So, I personally believe ppl are paying for the box break experience, as a sunk cost. And if the value is not there, then ppl should buy cheaper products, with less skin in the game, or do something wiser with their hard earned income. Me, I do it because I enjoy the process, notably the endless learning and the community aspects. I learned through finance and economics that high risk is low reward. If you invest in real estate near transportation and large caps with sound fundamentals, the gains are steady and certain. With cards, there are no gains. There are losses. Card companies, graders, group breakers, retailers do make profit. But, they are not gambling. They are banking on our gambling. And gambling emanates from an entertainment budget. It is a liability/loss not an asset. Had most consumers cared about value and the cards, they would simply purchase them directly on eBay in a soft market. And here with Bedard, most ppl are doing the opposite. Buying a card printed over 100,000 times at all-time consumer sentiment highs. I do find the psychology really interesting.
@@Fultoncards I appreciate you taking the time to write all that up! I completely agree with your breakdown of all of that! The breaker side of the equation makes it very hard for an average consumer to compete so to speak and even have a viable chance at pulling a very cool card. I hope is to have a Conor bedard because he's a great player and not because of the investability. The investments are nice perk of course as well.
I am also a pokémon and Lorcana player and opener. I'm finding a lot more joy in opening those products because I may get something worth a lot of money, but more than anything, I'm excited to pull something that completes the set or to pull something that's going to work great in my deck! The value is completely secondary for me there.
When opening products, I try to break it down, not necessarily by my hit ratio or the value of my head but at my fun cost. I can open a box of pokémon and expect somewhere between 60 and $150 in value. And that box will have cost me 90 bucks. Comparatively, I can open that box of SPA I was talking about and pull a $3 auto. For pokémon, my phone cost is about 20 to 40% of the box value. In hockey, I find that my phone cost is very close to the full value of the box.
For a while I was partaking in breaks on whatnot and RUclips and to the point that you made, I found that I was getting a huge amount of hits but they were all low caliber and I was essentially spending the cost of a box regularly and walking away with 1/32nd of the contents. (Or more depending on how many of the teams I purchased). But that drastic swing in my return on investment has pushed me away from breaking. The analysis that you and sports card analysis post help me be more confident in the purchases that I'm making. The Gambler in me sees a bounty for a one of one and thinks "that's doable" when the data says 'yes, but better odds getting struck by lightning'. Sorry for another lengthy message! Have a great night!
Thanks, that provides a ton of context, especially given that I am more of the D&D generation not Pokemon. Albeit, I was always more of a poker and spades player than D&D. I agree with both your reasoning and sentiment. In all honesty, given the softness and over saturation of eBay, there is no rational reason for anyone to enter breaks. But, ppl aren't really targeting cards to collect, they/we are seeking an endorphin rush. I just did a bit of math regarding someone mentioning the value of 23/24 UDS2 retail because they have an "outside chance" to hit a valuable Bedard YG Outburst. They would literally have to open 2,250 blasters to ensure they hit that card. At US $40 per blaster, that's is $90,000 for a (presently) $2,000 card. This defies any justification. Add to that that the card can devalue as it is not numbered, and we are talking complete insanity. So, I think we need to step back from our obsessions, and certainly stop using terms like "investment." Putting money in a garbage and setting it ablaze with lighter fluid is not an "investment." It's pathological. It's like holding ourselves up at gunpoint and our shadier self running off with months of rent or mortgage.
Nice Break #dryden
#dryden nice
Neat stuff! #dryden
#dryden
Do you do giveaways to the great white north? #DRYDEN
I do. In fact I sent out a package yesterday to Alberta.
@@Fultoncards well my favorite team is the Canucks and if you don’t got much for them my step daughters team is the Oilers if I’m lucky enough to ever win one :)
Ryan, for how to enter my formal giveaways, pls read the description under my vids.
Good karma 😎 ✌️
Great vids as always... made a channel just to be able to comment and like! #Dryden
#DRYDEN
I hope I get 9 in mine! #dryden
Great looking Matthews back there, and what a box with all those YGs!! Thank you so much!! Gonna send you an email now. #dryden