Buy Singles, Not Wax! 2024 Topps Finest Alternatives
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Topps Finest has made some incredible baseball card sets in the past. But 2024 Finest is the most expensive it has ever been, the checklist is larger than its ever been, and the odds of pulling something good from packs are longer than they've ever been.
So, instead of spending $325 on 60 likely-mediocre cards of 2024 Finest, Chris and Jeff have some suggestions for better ways to spend that money on Finest singles of players such as Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Albert Pujols and more.
What is your favorite of the Finest cards we highlighted?
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Listening and watching you both brings back fond memories of me listening to Mike & The Mad Dog when I grew up in NJ/NY. You’re both awesome, funny, witty, and very knowledgeable. I’ve turned my 2 adult kids into fans.
The Thursday show is priceless please keep em’ coming and think about expanding the format to another day!! Thanks again for keeping collecting fun.
Hey there, thank you! That’s about the best compliment we’ve ever gotten - that you could stand even MORE of us 🤣. Appreciate you spreading the hobby love, hope to catch on a live one of these Thursdays!
this is great information thank you.
Appreciate you watching and commenting! 💪🏼
I always learn so much when you two put these videos together. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Ryan, really appreciate that! Happy collecting!
This video is great. Pop reports and comparison prices. Helluva job 🍻
Appreciate the feedback and support - thank you!
Love ❤this series! Great job and keep it going guys!
Thank you! As long as the prices of wax keep climbing, we’ll keep looking for better ways to spend that money 💰
NIce job on the flow of this video
Thank you! Chris’ editing is getting SMOOTH!
Aesthetics of Pinnacle starburst cards are amazing. Great images too. Jeter Griffey etc
Will have to check it out! Thanks for watching and the suggestion!
Just bought a 2018 finest base devers! Awesome video as usual!
Nice pickup! And thanks so much for watching!
Short and sweet, always great choices. Cards I wouldn’t have thought to think about.
Thanks guys
Appreciate the support! Thanks for watching!
Public service announcement- if people stop buying every $350 release prices will come down! Great video. Def would rather get singles and did! Couple corbin carroll autos and a few judge rookie cups 🏆
Thank you for watching! And you’re absolutely right! Just too bad so many breakers keep buying product 🤬
Great episode guys... some jewels in this one. Love those Ohtani cards!
Thanks for much for watching 💪🏼
Always, I'm hooked and really appreciate you guys. Not getting rid of me.
This is an excellent advice and considering that eBay is a deep rabbit hole, you can easily spend enjoyable hours picking out just the right card. Enjoy the journey!
Yes! Good point! It was fun looking around to see what was out there as we were planning this video… Enjoy the hunt!
Good day. New here. Godisgreat sent me. Thanks for the information.
Hey thanks for giving the channel a shot -- happy collecting!
Great show. Love the images. The background music is annoying. Like these shorter videos.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
Sometimes I annoy myself with impulse singles purchases but then I remember, at least I didn’t waste 300 on opening a box to get 20$ worth of cards I don’t want haha. Nice choices guys
Yup talk about lighting money on fire! 😩
Haha, yes! That empty feeling after you rip an expensive box with nothing to show for it is brutal. Thanks for watching!
One other player, in that inaugural year (1993), for refractors is Carlton Fisk. As an active era Fisk collector this card is the white whale that I am pursuing. Actually there are copies out there, I just need to save a bit and go through with the purchase.
I agree with you that the 2011 Finest set is amazing. For rookies that year, I went really deep. Even players like Alexi Ogando found their way to my rookie box LOL.
Nice! I loved Fisk as a kid, good luck landing one of those 93 Refractors. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I bought two PSA 10 cj abrams finest instead of a 2024 hobby gold refractor /50 and base auto for $200
Incredible! 💪🏼
2010 Finest is my favorite year. I would 100% buy Singles of the players i enjoy over buying a box of wax.
Jeff here: I haven’t explored 2010 too much yet, I’ll have to do that. Thanks for watching!
You guys are absolutely right. 300+ gets me a lot gold rookie cards. But I also didn't buy much chrome this year as well. Great episode
Thanks so much! Yeah Chrome was just so expensive, too. I don’t blame you for staying away.
Sounds like a downturn on ohtani cards
Upside with harper 🤔
Thinking a downturn on Ohtani is coming? If he wins another MVP I’m not so sure we’ll see the current prices again. Agree that there is some upside in Harper RCs, we need a big August out of him!
1990s someone said?? Seriously dont be afraid...it takes awhile but once you learn the sets you can apply your knowledge to any HOFer. I sent you those videos to check out and learn about the important cards. Joey Peapod channel has a 2-3 part series on all the 90s sets and ranking them. Its Griffey centric but it applies to all HOFers. Jump in! :)
Jeff here: not there yet but getting closer… 🤣
I really like this year's finest look but have no problems waiting a month or two and then pick up the singles I want from this year. Let all the gamblers eat the hype costs. 94 finest also has some great refractors at a little more affordable pricing and I like the look more.
Smart move! Jeff here: I don’t know much about 1994 Finest, but will have to check it out. Thanks so much for watching!
I'm being smart with Chourio singles by looking at Gunnar comps before buying anything. If in one year Chourio is an all-star in the MVP conversation, that's about as good a comp as it gets for ceiling. So much money saved by rationally showing buying at certain prices is stupid.
Lots of things I like about the product, but (and it seems like a pattern with Fanatics) Ballooning Price and Checklist makes it a bad buy for most people, myself included.
They are making buying into breaks of this more viable than buying boxes. You can buy the Yankees, O's, Reds, or Dodgers in a Case Break for less than the price of a box. Granted you aren't guaranteed any hits that way, but seems like a better gamble if you felt the need to Rip this product.
I do wonder if that is part of Fanatics plan in the long run, Breaks over Boxes.
Yeah that’s an interesting point, as long as the breakers keep selling out, there isn’t much incentive for Fanatics to stop this never ending price bump.
Thanks for the video, came from God is Great!
Thanks for coming aboard!
I noticed topps is taking a lot of these designs from their topps chrome soccer products
Interesting! Thanks for the info. So this 2024 design is derivative of the soccer Chrome set?
The production runs, the 300 card checklists are based upon the projection that Fanatics will be able to reproduce the bussiness model of the top 5 breakers in the biz. They will not. The breakers - the very best the hobby has to offer - are twisting themselves into knots coming up with clever ways to sell spots. Its borderline embarassing. Fanatics is absolutely on its way to crashing the hobby. The 2024 Finest design and overall execution is awesome. But it also makes sense that you guys are having the discussion you are having.
Thanks for watching and commenting Stuey. I’ve been waiting for a product to finally break the breakers, hoping that will cause Fanatics to back off the price increases.
I usually only buy singles or some 2018 stuff but I had a itch and used some trade in credit and got a 22 finest box for 200$ I pulled a Bobby Witt rookie auto 😂🎉
Congrats on that pull! 💪🏼
@@Blabbin_Bout_Slabbin 👊🏼👍🏼 super clean card would of got a 10 but I seen a little print mark/line on it 😢 any suggestions?
Oh man! PSA is sometimes okay with print lines from the factory, it just depends on how bad it is, who your grader is, etc. Feel free to send me a pic on IG and I can tell you what I think. MyFavoriteCardboard
Watched several case breaks today. Not impressed. Finest was much better last year compared to this year imo. I’ll be passing. Great vid guys!
Oh man! I was wondering how the first breaks would be - thanks for the report 🙏🏼
@@Blabbin_Bout_Slabbin death by parallel
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I completely agree. Singles are the way to go!
Right on! Thanks for watching and commenting
Hot tub time machine back to the 90's, Lets go, its awesome!!!!
🤣 Almost getting there!
Out of curiosity why is the Mike Trout regular Topps Rookie card worth more than his Topps Finest rookie card? Aren't Finest cards usually worth more? And finest has to be a low print run I imagine. Thanks.
Typically Topps Flagship RCs are worth more than Finest base RCs historically and especially for Trout, his 2011 Topps is an iconic card in the hobby.
@@Blabbin_Bout_Slabbin Really? I had no idea. It wasn't the case for basketball back in the day I dont think. Figured with many fewer Finest cards than Flagship and the higher price in general for finest boxes the finest would be more expensive. Thanks.
@@jonsmith479 that makes too much sense, right?
For whatever reason, the topps update Trout rookie seriously resonates with the hobby.
Despite the much much higher print runs.
Topps / Fanatics
Have to very very careful they are pricing so many people out of the hobby with these box prices. Short term not good but long term a whole generation of people who may stay in hobby for years won't be able to come into it. Kids and adults alike. Big void is on the horizon especially in this economy too. The more people who have access to the hobby the more people you have as customers.
Very well-said. Unless some changes are made, the future isn’t as bright as it could have been.
somebody needs to figure out how to break these boxes down into smaller more affordable groups. breaking them down seems to make sense to me. maybe it can be called fractional openings 😂😅😊. i can be guarenteed to get a fraction of my money back
Breaking! 🤣
What's more terrifying, the 30%-50% price increases themselves....or that people aren't questioning/batting an eye at it and selling the product out for fanatics? Seriously, what's more terrifying? I'm going to go with the latter because fanatics will continue to push the limit YoY from here on out.
One more question..if you were going to rip something. Would you rather chase Gunnar Henderson in 2023 Topps Series 1 for $50 a hobby box (which is what you can buy for now) or Elly De La Cruz in 2024 Topps Series 1 for $150 a hobby box (which is what you can buy for now)? The prices just don't make sense. If you would like to put your tin foil hat on with me, I believe that fanatics is somehow in cahoots with the big 3rd party sellers to keep product extremely high so they have a reason to use that as the baseline for next year's product release price...Ok, the tin foil was squeezing my head a little too tight there, but maybe I'm right. Best real world example is 2023 Topps chrome --> 2024 Topps chrome. $125 preorder price --> $190 preorder price, because secondary market on 2023 spiked to $200 a box for most of it's run.
They both are concerning! Until the breakers blink - since it seems that’s who is buying most of the new product - I think Fanatics keeps pushing the prices higher and higher 🤷🏻♂️.
As to what product I would rather rip at those price points, it would be 2023 all day.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
I don’t get why Topps couldn’t come up with a better idea than ripping off Select.
Yeah the whole thing seems I’ll-conceived. Thanks for watching!
Ahhh Devers...my secret love affair. I know he gets zero love due to lack of WAR and speed but dudes on a trajectory to hit 500HRs...long term, that's a BIG DEAL!
Definitely! Adding up those counting stats: HRs, 2Bs, Runs, RBIs 💪🏼