re: NBA/MLB/NFL Case Break/Trading Card Thread (Spectra in books)

Here's a survey guys and gals if you don't mind taking 2 minutes to fill it out we can keep this party going with a more informed breaker.

Shameless Breaks Survey

Surveyed

The survey is anonymous obviously btw. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Doesn't have to be people that have done breaks either. Lurkers and people interested are welcome to chime in. It's on the front post as well.

I enjoy the opportunity to get some cards out of packs that I wouldn't buy as an individual. My son absolutely loved following the break this last go round. It helped we had the dodgers, but he had the best time.

The only autos I pulled lately was an Ezekiel Elliott Ohio state card, and a panini LeBron. Got to find out how to do pictures but the Mays is at my mom's house. I just remember it being a mostly yellow background and also have a ted Williams. I've got to get pics of them. But out of the Topps Chrome box I only got the decent ones listed above.

Eta: I think I've become addicted again lol. Plus my two boys. They pulled a dak auto, pujols auto, judge patch and a few more and didn't think they were worth anything. I quickly put those in hard cases lol.

Just got the cards. I didn't watch any of the baseball stuff, so those /25 hits were a pleasant surprise.

The Ingram/Magic autos are nice

All of my cards are at my parents place still. I'm going to grab them if I go down there soon and post an album in here.

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Bringing it back from the dead. We done with this Pel?

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Hey DS. Nope. Just letting it sit back and simmer a little after the last one.

NBA. It's in a weird spot sitting between 16-17 and 17-18. There's starting to be some really decent deals on 16-17 stuff that could end up being some awesome cheap breaks while 17-18 rolls out and the Immac (today) and Flawless releases finish out 16-17.

Baseball hasn't had much drop in the MSB price range. Definitive dominated the card world for a week or two with some insanely nasty looking cards. We could do some Bowman Chrome maybe. Hobby case is reasonably priced. Triple Threads would be fun if it came down a little.

Football is just not worth it unless you're breaking and selling stuff release day. It just doesn't hold value like the other sports. I do not know why, but a $100 Spectra card is a different value 3 weeks later. I am still not sure if there's been any "on-card" auto mass rookie releases or not. I don't believe so.

Seems NBA and then MLB rookies hold value best across product platforms, new or old.

I'm ready for another break, I'll take 4 teams

I'll give a brief explanation for the hiatus for everyone.

I out kicked the price coverage on the last break. It was actually a really good deal but only a select few wanted to spend that on a break. I want us to continue to have fun with this for awhile. Perception means a lot. A break having trouble filling looks one way. I didn't want people thinking that's the norm, because I 100% don't think it was based on the survey. Literally only 4 people filled out that price bracket for that break, meaning some of you stepped up out of your comfort zone, and I'm thankful. I figured I'd let things reset a bit. Have everyone come back fresh and hungry to get back to basics, knowing what I do now. I didn't want people thinking it was an interest issue, because it's not. It is certainly not a lack of interest on my part. I'm looking long term here. Come back. Have a sick product at a sick price. Get the ball rolling again. It's not a perception I wanted to linger. And I think when it returns I'll be proven 100% right that not allowing it to snowball into what it wasn't was the right call.

Last break actually went well once we got it up and running. People had fun. Gold Standard was apparently a hit. Let's just say what I want to do is GS on steroids. The more I allow the product to dip, the better I can price point it.

Some survey results:

Sport Interest:
Basketball
Baseball





Football

Price Range:
40-50 seemed to be about that sweet spot, so I want to deliver the goods here for that spot

Capped out pretty hard around the 65-70 range.

Importance:
Autos
Rookies

Rest didn't even really come close

Comments:
No one had anything bad to say, which I truly appreciate. Random comments here and there. Cheap, base heavy was one. Go balls to wall was another (probably not happening lol)

I take yalls money as seriously as my own. I could pick some rinky dink product tomorrow and have it fill for 35$/spot, but it's not gonna happen. I promise we'll be back, soon. Even more giveaways stockpiled. I will stick to mostly basketball and baseball. If there's a cool product I can get stupid cheap for football at a good value (and I do keep an eye out on eBay), I'll pull the trigger. I don't want to leave you guys out. But like I said, the value drops FAST on football so unless it's a WTF price, I don't want people thinking their Christian McCaffrey RPA is a banging hit to see it's a $30 card. That sours people on breaking.

Lastly I'll leave you with my list of hoops guys to go get NOW before the season starts.

Value Bin - playing time on suck teams

Domantas Sabonis - Pacers
Caris Levert - Nets
Denzel Valentine - Bulls
Timothe Luwawu- Cabarrot

You can get these guys bigtime RPAs from National Treasures for ~100.

Stay tuned. We're coming back soon.