I walked into my LCS a bit ago and found something I had only seen in retail stores. A gravity feed box of baseball cards. There were a few in stock and they were priced at $99 for 36 packs which seemed to be a pretty decent price (a few weeks later the remaining were $139). I had no idea what types of inserts or relics would be in these types of boxes...I was just hoping that from this and the couple of hanger boxes I had purchased earlier that I could complete the set.
So here are some of the highlights:
Now for the hits...there were two...a relic and an auto.
I did a post a ways back about my disdain for hobby boxes based on the fact that I'm paying a lot for an autograph and the one I pull always sucks.
Let me know if you'd trade one of those two Bohm #277 base Cup cards.
ReplyDeleteThat seems like the only way to buy gravity feed packs - take the entire box! Nice to know that you basically get two of each base card from one of those.
ReplyDeleteNice Buehler!
ReplyDelete(The rest of the 2021 stuff, not so nice).
Excellent hits!
ReplyDeleteIf that gravity feeder box was meant for retail (I'm thinking it is because it looks like there's 16 cards per pack, which is what retail packs contain), then I'm curious how the LCS is getting them. It would be sad if LCS employees are amongst the flippers, getting them for the store.
Just my guesses on where the LCS gets retail product from:
ReplyDeleteThere are instances where local card shops encourage flippers to turn over their finds for some quick cash. It might be a case of a backdoor agreement between the retail outlet, maybe a 'rogue' employee and the card shop.
The distributors the LCS gets their cards from may also make it where they probable have access to some retail versions of card products - maybe in some cases, the only thing available in the meantime for the LCS to pick up.
I've never seen someone buy a whole box of these before. That was kind of interesting.
ReplyDeleteAlways wanted to buy a full gravity feeder but haven't been able to. Fun post.
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