First Buzz: 2024 Topps Museum Collection baseball cards

[boxbuster7]

who are the crackheads paying $450 for a box of museum collection?

[MiamiMarlinsFan]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

who are the crackheads paying $450 for a box of museum collection?

Breakers. They can sell the individual player spots for well over $450.

[Badgers0821]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

However, it is the main thing.

This may be true but then why have these crazy prices only been for the past 3-4 years?

[Badgers0821]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

Glad to see others share my thoughts on Museum. Checking out the sold listings on eBay, you'd be lucky to make $200 back, with a nice auto and maybe a Skenes or Elly RC. But $400, no way. You'd have to pull a 1/1 to make ROI on $400.

ROI is irrelevant, individuals opening boxes aren’t doing it for investment purposes.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by Badgers0821

This may be true but then why have these crazy prices only been for the past 3-4 years?

Trillions of dollars in stimis. People had too much extra cash to blow and breaks are addicting.

[MiamiMarlinsFan]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

Trillions of dollars in stimis. People had too much extra cash to blow and breaks are addicting.

How much did each individual person get?

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by Badgers0821

ROI is irrelevant, individuals opening boxes aren’t doing it for investment purposes.

So what are people who open Museum doing it for?

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by MiamiMarlinsFan

How much did each individual person get?

Enough to drive up the price of wax, of course!

[jjcan]

I have a local Store who does breaks every night. I love going there on the weekends because the Gamblers (breakers) do not even want their hits unless it's a $50 plus card. So they sell back the stuff to the LCS for Breaker Credit and they just gamble more.

The LCS sells the stuff cheap, I picked up the 2024 Topps chrome RCs, refractors non numbers at a good price, and the Tier one relics that no one wanted for $3-$8 bucks. Got Soto, Piazza, Frank Thomas, etc relics for nothing

I love watching the breaks hoping the Addicts (Breakers) does not want the cards and just wants credit, so the LCS can sell it. Lol

[barry6124]

Originally Posted by Cfioren317

All gone. Does that matter to anyone?

Also if you have ever worked in an industry with varying levels of demand for different products from a manufacturer... you aren't getting the Class A product without buying their dogshit C product. So I'm guessing lots of breakers have to buy Museum and others just to get access to the quality stuff like chrome and draft and just try to make as much as they can.

[MiamiMarlinsFan]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

Enough to drive up the price of wax, of course!

Hmm….

[jduds]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

So what are people who open Museum doing it for?

I'm betting there aren't many and either they are ripping for fun and have enough cash not to care, are doing it out of habit, or are new and haven't had a horrible $400 rip yet.

[MiamiMarlinsFan]

Originally Posted by barry6124

Also if you have ever worked in an industry with varying levels of demand for different products from a manufacturer... you aren't getting the Class A product without buying their dogshit C product. So I'm guessing lots of breakers have to buy Museum and others just to get access to the quality stuff like chrome and draft and just try to make as much as they can.

I believe breakers and hobby shops have to buy a certain amount of garbage to get the good stuff.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by jduds

I'm betting there aren't many and either they are ripping for fun and have enough cash not to care, are doing it out of habit, or are new and haven't had a horrible $400 rip yet.

Who rips Museum for fun though? It’s a terrible product at any price point. Who enjoys this stuff? Who collects it? This is what continues to baffle me. 25 years ago, the lesser products were at least appropriately priced.

[Badgers0821]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

Trillions of dollars in stimis. People had too much extra cash to blow and breaks are addicting.

So more so due to the stimulus than the breaking itself.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by MiamiMarlinsFan

Hmm….

It’s complicated, but essentially the breakers and fantastics have fed off the profits from their Johns.

[Badgers0821]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

So what are people who open Museum doing it for?

Do you honestly think people are opening the product thinking they have a better than 50/50 odds to make a return? Come on now…

[Badgers0821]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

Who rips Museum for fun though? It’s a terrible product at any price point. Who enjoys this stuff? Who collects it? This is what continues to baffle me. 25 years ago, the lesser products were at least appropriately priced.

A lot of people like Museum.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by Badgers0821

So more so due to the stimulus than the breaking itself.

A one time stimulus isn’t going to perpetuate breaking funds. However, the people with expendable income turned their stimis into more expendable income and have been using it to support the breaking industry, which ENABLED fanatics to increase prices to the highest bidders, the breaking culture.

It’s actually quite complicated but at the same time very straightforward.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by Badgers0821

A lot of people like Museum.

No. Not possible.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by Badgers0821

A lot of people like Museum.

Prove it.

[jjcan]

Originally Posted by Badgers0821

Do you honestly think people are opening the product thinking they have a better than 50/50 odds to make a return? Come on now…

The Local shop i go to who does Daily breaks have like 15 regulars, half are local who love going to the Indian Casinos. Usually they get like 3-4 new guys who "discovered" sports cards and will just use their gambling money on cards for months.

Their excuse, well I can take stuff home and get a chance at something good rather then driving to the Casino and maybe lose it all. And for some reason all these new guys are grading experts. This is Fanatics New customer base.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by jjcan

The Local shop i go to who does Daily breaks have like 15 regulars, half are local who love going to the Indian Casinos. Usually they get like 3-4 new guys who "discovered" sports cards and will just use their gambling money on cards for months.

Their excuse, well I can take stuff home and get a chance at something good rather then driving to the Casino and maybe lose it all. And for some reason all these new guys are grading experts. This is Fanatics New customer base.

Haha, that’s funny to hear.

Many of the “whales” at my local shop are drug dealers, poker players and guys who deal with illegal car parts.

[boxbuster7]

what shop?

[Badgers0821]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

Prove it.

What a stupid comment, prove they don’t…see I can do it too.