Which Etopps should I keep?

[f2tornado]

There's probably enough value in these to justify the shipping expense. Any low print run items from the remainder may also have a modest market.

2002 Brian Urlacher
2005 Chipper Jones
2003 Dirk Nowitzki
2004 Mike Piazza
2007 Philip Hughes
2007 Reggie Bush

[Etopps]

Originally Posted by f2tornado

There's probably enough value in these to justify the shipping expense. Any low print run items from the remainder may also have a modest market.

2002 Brian Urlacher
2005 Chipper Jones
2003 Dirk Nowitzki
2004 Mike Piazza
2007 Philip Hughes
2007 Reggie Bush

Agreed…they are currently on the save list except the Philip Hughes is going.

[boxbuster7]

none lol

[Etopps]

Shipping is $5.75 for the first and 1.10 for each additional. I am already taking other cards so all listed above would be 1.10 additional. I don’t find that as bad as it was years ago.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by Etopps

Agreed…they are currently on the save list except the Philip Hughes is going.

I included since he had a big following when he was active on the Beckett forum. While that's faded dramatically, his rookie stuff still sometimes sells for more than one would expect.

[boxbuster7]

is he still active in the hobby? I always wondered if the philspulls comc account is him

[Big35Hurt]

Originally Posted by Etopps

Shipping is $5.75 for the first and 1.10 for each additional. I am already taking other cards so all listed above would be 1.10 additional. I don’t find that as bad as it was years ago.

Yikes...that's still ridiculous. 100 cards would cost nearly $115 in shipping charges and probably cost them easily under $20 to ship (excuse my ignorance if I am way off as I haven't shipped any cards in years).

[ewokpelts]

Originally Posted by Big35Hurt

Yikes...that's still ridiculous. 100 cards would cost nearly $115 in shipping charges and probably cost them easily under $20 to ship (excuse my ignorance if I am way off as I haven't shipped any cards in years).

You’re not wrong. Topps has a business account with UPS. They ship dirt cheap.

[Etopps]

Originally Posted by Big35Hurt

Yikes...that's still ridiculous. 100 cards would cost nearly $115 in shipping charges and probably cost them easily under $20 to ship (excuse my ignorance if I am way off as I haven't shipped any cards in years).

Yep…it’s a racket. Always was, still is. That’s why they mainly stayed in ports. Reasonable shipping for a small box (even $50 would be overkill) and I’d take all 800. Their shipping fee would be almost 900 bucks and they throw them in a cardboard box, no one touches. Gotta weigh 5 lbs?

[pfb11]

Originally Posted by Etopps

Yep…it’s a racket. Always was, still is. That’s why they mainly stayed in ports. Reasonable shipping for a small box (even $50 would be overkill) and I’d take all 800. Their shipping fee would be almost 900 bucks and they throw them in a cardboard box, no one touches. Gotta weigh 5 lbs?

Yep. 2 reasons they stayed in ports... the unreasonable shipping price, but also, and not nearly enough people are talking about this one-- because we were SUPPOSED to be able to sell them on ebay while they remained in "the vault." That hasn't worked in 5 years but is no reason to let them off the hook for it.

[Bowman1951]

Wow, I can't believe your username wasn't already taken haha.

[commando]

I have no idea if Topps will ever take the time to announce the FINAL print run of cards after the program closes its doors... But I can guarantee the actual number of cards in circulation will be considerably smaller than the number of cards they originally printed. It might be interesting to own some truly scarce cards, even if the players themselves turned out to be mediocre.

[Etopps]

Originally Posted by Bowman1951

Wow, I can't believe your username wasn't already taken haha.

Me either. So much that I didn’t want it. Just couldn’t think of anything else.

[Etopps]

Originally Posted by commando

I have no idea if Topps will ever take the time to announce the FINAL print run of cards after the program closes its doors... But I can guarantee the actual number of cards in circulation will be considerably smaller than the number of cards they originally printed. It might be interesting to own some truly scarce cards, even if the players themselves turned out to be mediocre.

I have thought of that also. Guessing Topps will sell them to mj holdings to throw in their boxes. They don’t want to tell us 4000 of a 5000 print run was destroyed because 90% of the port owners didn’t check their email for a month.

[ewokpelts]

Originally Posted by commando

I have no idea if Topps will ever take the time to announce the FINAL print run of cards after the program closes its doors... But I can guarantee the actual number of cards in circulation will be considerably smaller than the number of cards they originally printed. It might be interesting to own some truly scarce cards, even if the players themselves turned out to be mediocre.

The posted PR was correct. They destroyed any unsold cards pre 2005, and printed to order from 2005/2011.

[Etopps]

Originally Posted by ewokpelts

The posted PR was correct. They destroyed any unsold cards pre 2005, and printed to order from 2005/2011.

I think he is meaning the print run or number of cards that were not available due to damage at the warehouse….the ones the are requiring store credit to be taken. If there was a print run of 3000, 1200 taken in hand and 1800 in warehouse that eventually got damaged, will they let the public know?