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Old 12-23-2024, 10:01 AM   #676
jplarson
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Originally Posted by auctionjmm View Post
It's really not if you consider the price. You can get about 7 blasters for the price of one hobby box. Retail beats hobby in every aspect except autograph ratio.
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Originally Posted by JHVS123 View Post
Does it? A hobby box is $120 for 24 packs or about $5 per pack. The blasters are 7 packs for $25 or about 3.50 per pack. However the odds for numbered cards are not the same. For example an orange refractor falls at a rate of 1/757 for hobby while it falls at 1/1,322 per value box. Almost half as likely to pull it per pack does not scale with the $5-3.50 cost. I found similar odds for other parallels. Add the auto chance to that and I see no reason to choose blasters over hobby boxes. I may be missing something though.
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Originally Posted by weatherwarrior View Post
Blasters compared to Hobby is just not close. A blaster case is 1100 after taxes and shipping. You get roughly an auto per 8 blasters. Color is very scarce. And while you get the exclusives it just isnt worth it over 5 hobby hoxes.

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We ran the numbers based on the original MSRP.

Refractors - https://www.blowoutforums.com/showpo...&postcount=452

Inserts - https://www.blowoutforums.com/showpo...&postcount=458

Autographs - https://www.blowoutforums.com/showpo...&postcount=462

At the time Blasters were the best price to Refractors, Xfractors, and a handful of other refractor parallels and inserts. If hobby has dropped from $140 to $120, it almost erases the advantage the $60 Mega boxes has over hobby. Blasters still maintain their value for Refractors, Xfractors, and exclusive Pink Refractors.

Now if people can get blasters at $20 per, then that changes things.
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