First Buzz: 2025-26 Topps Chrome NBA cards

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by Americards

But that is $1-$2 for "a spot".

Yeah, people will buy one lotto ticket a week, it’s not like those who go into 30 breaks at $60 a pop every single month.

Technically, you could break down the checklist into 2000 spots and charge everyone a dollar, then even the homeless could participate. Thats what fanatics would love, get everyone hooked at all price points.

Is there no end to the madness?

[oldgoldy97]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

Yeah, people will buy one lotto ticket a week, it’s not like those who go into 30 breaks at $60 a pop every single month.

Technically, you could break down the checklist into 2000 spots and charge everyone a dollar, then even the homeless could participate. Thats what fanatics would love, get everyone hooked at all price points.

Is there no end to the madness?

Razz ma tazz.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

Razz ma tazz.

Wall Street is selling off, will breaker bois have enough spare change to degen topps chrome breaks?

[mikejones]

We'll see pick your Team topps chrome pack break. $5 a spot. Will sell like hotcakes. Surprise breakers haven't done it yet.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by mikejones

We'll see pick your Team topps chrome pack break. $5 a spot. Will sell like hotcakes. Surprise breakers haven't done it yet.

$5 for a million dollar card?


Where do we sign up?

[RainCityShecks]

I wonder if this will sell out as quickly on the actual release date or if the average Joe (me) will have a legit shot at a jumbo for a personal break (x-mas present to myself!)

[jjcan]

What is release day price?

$399 and $749?

Probably will be more.

[RainCityShecks]

Originally Posted by jjcan

What is release day price?

$399 and $749?

Probably will be more.

Nah - I think/hope you're correct

[njsportscardguy]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

$5 for a million dollar card?


Where do we sign up?

As a side-reference, a couple in the town I live in, just recently hit their SECOND....top-tier prize, in NJ's scratch off lottery, totaling $4,000,000! Two,...completely different games/scratchers, mind you! $1M in April, and then $3M a couple of weeks ago. Some number-crunchers figured the odds for this to happen to be ~ 1:2,000,000,000,000 (for those not wanting to math-the-digits; that's....TRILLION)!

Perhaps they'd be first in line to give the breaker format of..."Five dollars a pack",...a whack...?!!?

[cms11]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

Just imagine the singles you can buy for the price of a jumbo box, $1200, or even the price of a single jumbo case, $10,000 - Flagg gold refactor autos, red parallels/5 for anyone, any superstar auto minus the super, etc.

People paying $60 for a random team jumbo spot don’t understand that they’ve just reduced their odds of hitting a card by 30-fold by buying into a “cheap” spot. You and 30 other compulsive degenerates are paying $1800 for the jumbo box.

Sure, try it once or twice on a whim, enjoy. People buy lotto tickets all the time.

Don’t be a compulsive degenerate and think you are getting a “deal” over and over and over again. You are simply contributing to the behavioral decay of our hobby and putting more money into Rubin’s bank account.

That's the part I don't get.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by cms11

That's the part I don't get.

If the typical BO member doesn’t get it, then that’s the point someone crosses the compulsive degenerate line.

We all understand the thrill of the gamble, but when it gets to INSANE buy-in costs, the line must be drawn.

Even the box flipper bois know when NOT to open a box and when to simply sell it.

[Asian62150]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

If the typical BO member doesn’t get it, then that’s the point someone crosses the compulsive degenerate line.

We all understand the thrill of the gamble, but when it gets to INSANE buy-in costs, the line must be drawn.

Even the box flipper bois know when NOT to open a box and when to simply sell it.

Singles have always been the way to go to grow your collection.

The gambling/excitement aspect of the hobby has always been there. The crazy thing is, it feels like more people are buying into breaks and gambling even as the odds favor the "house" more and more.

I guess breaking just gives people the feeling that they're spending less (even though they're not if you extrapolate it as you did).

[Hess687]

Originally Posted by Asian62150

Singles have always been the way to go to grow your collection.

The gambling/excitement aspect of the hobby has always been there. The crazy thing is, it feels like more people are buying into breaks and gambling even as the odds favor the "house" more and more.

I guess breaking just gives people the feeling that they're spending less (even though they're not if you extrapolate it as you did).

For some, it isn't about growing their collection, it's about getting that rush of hitting big and flipping for massive profits.

They don't collect, they just want to turn their $60 into $6,000. No different than a slot machine at your local casino.

But as you said, the odds are always in the houses favor.

For me, personally, I stopped collecting years back due to the prices. I could afford to buy a $600 case and get $400 back and eat the 200. I just refuse to spend 1k on a case and eat the $600.

[Chris P]

Originally Posted by Hess687

For some, it isn't about growing their collection, it's about getting that rush of hitting big and flipping for massive profits.

They don't collect, they just want to turn their $60 into $6,000. No different than a slot machine at your local casino.

But as you said, the odds are always in the houses favor.

For me, personally, I stopped collecting years back due to the prices. I could afford to buy a $600 case and get $400 back and eat the 200. I just refuse to spend 1k on a case and eat the $600.

That'a the big thing...most people who enter breaks don't want to hit a monster for their PC..they want hit a monster to flip it

[ZappBrannigan]

Everybody is losing money. It’s fun.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by Hess687

For some, it isn't about growing their collection, it's about getting that rush of hitting big and flipping for massive profits.

They don't collect, they just want to turn their $60 into $6,000. No different than a slot machine at your local casino.

But as you said, the odds are always in the houses favor.

For me, personally, I stopped collecting years back due to the prices. I could afford to buy a $600 case and get $400 back and eat the 200. I just refuse to spend 1k on a case and eat the $600.

More like, I just refuse to spend $4000 on a case and eat the $3600, to be more precise

[sandyfrank]

When I use my top secret control F function on my computer I see 31 different Cooper Flagg RCs not counting potential parallels :O

[sandyfrank]

Originally Posted by mikejones

We'll see pick your Team topps chrome pack break. $5 a spot. Will sell like hotcakes. Surprise breakers haven't done it yet.

Some breakers out there already do this with rarish pokemon packs and people still buy into them 9 spots for one pack of 9 cards and what is really stupid is most of the entire value of those old Pokemon packs is the fact that it is a rare sealed pack, once it is opened the expected value of the cards inside is very little unless you hit a huge hit.

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by sandyfrank

Some breakers out there already do this with rarish pokemon packs and people still buy into them 9 spots for one pack of 9 cards and what is really stupid is most of the entire value of those old Pokemon packs is the fact that it is a rare sealed pack, once it is opened the expected value of the cards inside is very little unless you hit a huge hit.

But but but social interaction and comradery!

[Asian62150]

Originally Posted by Hess687

For some, it isn't about growing their collection, it's about getting that rush of hitting big and flipping for massive profits.

They don't collect, they just want to turn their $60 into $6,000. No different than a slot machine at your local casino.

But as you said, the odds are always in the houses favor.

For me, personally, I stopped collecting years back due to the prices. I could afford to buy a $600 case and get $400 back and eat the 200. I just refuse to spend 1k on a case and eat the $600.

If you're getting 60% back after ripping, that's pretty good. It's probably closer to 10-20% these days. Worse if you're ripping high end, which makes the ppl participating in those breaks even crazier.

The odds on making your money back ripping then flipping is so far worse than playing blackjack/roulette or almost any other casino game. The house usually has like a 2-20% edge. You're not getting anywhere close to that ripping wax.

[ninjabum87]

Originally Posted by njsportscardguy

I don't see how you & me are in the minority, Bobby!?! So many of our collector brethren, SWORE TO US; Craptastics'...."global domination", was gonna' be the BEST THING since sliced bread...!? Hmmmmm......

Anybody without Topps beer goggles on knew how it would go. As soon as I started checking out the baseball threads or baseball vids a while back and saw the amount of complaints and bellyaching about them as a company you could tell they were just as bad if not worse than Poopini.

[BlowoutBuzz]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

But but but social interaction and comradery!

You mean "fam"?

(I hate that.)

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by BlowoutBuzz

You mean "fam"?

(I hate that.)

Very cringy.

Why pay to play in order to join the brotherhood when you can get all the love you want here on the BO message boards for free?

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by mikejones

We'll see pick your Team topps chrome pack break. $5 a spot. Will sell like hotcakes. Surprise breakers haven't done it yet.

Originally Posted by sandyfrank

Some breakers out there already do this with rarish pokemon packs and people still buy into them 9 spots for one pack of 9 cards and what is really stupid is most of the entire value of those old Pokemon packs is the fact that it is a rare sealed pack, once it is opened the expected value of the cards inside is very little unless you hit a huge hit.

Perfect for WhatNot breaks with the free $15 referral codes....that's 3 FREE packs!

Originally Posted by BlowoutBuzz

You mean "fam"?

(I hate that.)

Why fam? :P

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

Very cringy.

Why pay to play in order to join the brotherhood when you can get all the love you want here on the BO message boards for free?

I do love having your love <3

[beens75]

Topps just announced Giannis has signed and Auto deal with Topps and will have Autos in Chrome.