2023-24 Topps Chrome Basketball

[eastbayak]

Originally Posted by Mattsurewood

If they gave Monty Club a shot at this...they could make 2025 Monty memberships $999.99 and it would sell out..with all the licensing coming they'd make a killing just on the 2025 Membership fees..

Agreed.

Easy money.

Wouldn't be surprised if they eventually do something like that (and parsing it out by sport) once license is live too.

[mossoholic]

Originally Posted by Mattsurewood

If they gave Monty Club a shot at this...they could make 2025 Monty memberships $999.99 and it would sell out..with all the licensing coming they'd make a killing just on the 2025 Membership fees..

Why do that when you can do 4 EQLs in a row, give the average entrant a 1% chance, and sell all the boxes for way below market value?

[Bcr]

Originally Posted by Mattsurewood

Was hoping Monty Club would get a crack at a box of this Sapphire, guess not.

Not surprising. The days of getting hyped products is over. The only surprises are products they know won't sell well.

[airharrison21]

If regular hobby boxes are selling for $400-500, what is a box of Sapphire going to sell for? $800-1000? Crazy

[boxbuster7]

they couldn't even let the chrome pump last more than two weeks

terrible

[ohio_mba]

Another nice Wemby out of a hobby box.

[90skid]

Something like this just doesn't sit right with me. Who's really in control of these cards to ensure they are being distributed properly? To be able to have all the 1/1's of wemby sitting in mag one touches together like this, and flashing them clearly shows the video was made before they were all assembled into packs. I dunno, it's a lot of responsibility that we as consumers have no idea what's going on behind the curtains to ensure it's truly randomly distributed and truly fair.

Imagine your local lottery office flashing all the possible top prize scratch off tickets before they get distributed.

https://x.com/Topps/status/1835749217555665094

[AwesomeBrian]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

they couldn't even let the chrome pump last more than two weeks

terrible

The chases are gone already. Gotta move the herd to the next shiny thing. Weird how that happens now. I remember in 2017/18/19 the biggest cards may still be in packs somewhere, but now seems all the product hits come out in the first 2 weeks of release. Almost like something changed...

[dizzy4111]

Originally Posted by 90skid

Something like this just doesn't sit right with me. Who's really in control of these cards to ensure they are being distributed properly? To be able to have all the 1/1's of wemby sitting in mag one touches together like this, and flashing them clearly shows the video was made before they were all assembled into packs. I dunno, it's a lot of responsibility that we as consumers have no idea what's going on behind the curtains to ensure it's truly randomly distributed and truly fair.

Imagine your local lottery office flashing all the possible top prize scratch off tickets before they get distributed.

https://x.com/Topps/status/1835749217555665094

Fanatics knows where these cards are going. We're naive to think otherwise.

[mc1]

Originally Posted by dizzy4111

Fanatics knows where these cards are going. We're naive to think otherwise.

Why didnt they send any Wemba supers to Fanatics Live or one of their big breakers?

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by mc1

Why didnt they send any Wemba supers to Fanatics Live or one of their big breakers?

US market is tapped.

The real diamonds are in china.

[Nomad]

Originally Posted by 90skid

Imagine your local lottery office flashing all the possible top prize scratch off tickets before they get distributed.

https://x.com/Topps/status/1835749217555665094

At least you don't have a hot box with all the colorblast... er... wembys.

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by 90skid

Something like this just doesn't sit right with me. Who's really in control of these cards to ensure they are being distributed properly? To be able to have all the 1/1's of wemby sitting in mag one touches together like this, and flashing them clearly shows the video was made before they were all assembled into packs. I dunno, it's a lot of responsibility that we as consumers have no idea what's going on behind the curtains to ensure it's truly randomly distributed and truly fair.

Imagine your local lottery office flashing all the possible top prize scratch off tickets before they get distributed.

https://x.com/Topps/status/1835749217555665094

Looks like Victor had some trouble with the spelling of of.

Nice that he knows how to sign his name at least.

[blinkme323]

Just pulled a Wemby orange basketball base parallel from a hanger, but it is definitely NOT a refractor. Is there such a thing or is this an error card? Every single one I've seen out there is a refractor.

*Will post pics later in the day

[mc1]

Originally Posted by blinkme323

Just pulled a Wemby orange basketball base parallel from a hanger, but it is definitely NOT a refractor. Is there such a thing or is this an error card? Every single one I've seen out there is a refractor.

*Will post pics later in the day

Error? Unannounced SP? Would like to see the back!

[wxguy44]

Originally Posted by blinkme323

Just pulled a Wemby orange basketball base parallel from a hanger, but it is definitely NOT a refractor. Is there such a thing or is this an error card? Every single one I've seen out there is a refractor.

*Will post pics later in the day

They're on the checklist/odds. Should be one in every hanger box.

[Bosoxfan5990]

PSA just revealed the Wemby Superfractor auto with a 9 grade.

[oldgoldy97]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

PSA just revealed the Wemby Superfractor auto with a 9 grade.

Buy the card, not the grade.


Or, in this case, buy neither.

[blinkme323]

Originally Posted by wxguy44

They're on the checklist/odds. Should be one in every hanger box.

The basketball print border cards? Only odds I've seen on those are refractors 1/5. Also have never seen a non-refractor Wemby listed or posted anywhere.

[GTguy]

Originally Posted by blinkme323

The basketball print border cards? Only odds I've seen on those are refractors 1/5. Also have never seen a non-refractor Wemby listed or posted anywhere.

The bordered orange basketball cards are all refractors, or at least they should be.

[Nomad]

whoa, you have the non refractor orange basketballs TC wemby error my friends. True collectors will value this highly.

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

Buy the card, not the grade.


Or, in this case, buy neither.

[kingchromium24]

are people really liking this stuff. The football in my opinion was done so much better that you don’t really notice the lack of logos. But the basketball reminds me of a Topps branded leaf product…..just not seeing the value outside of the really nice wembys

How are you guys doing on singles sales now that it has been out for a bit

[cms11]

Originally Posted by kingchromium24

are people really liking this stuff. The football in my opinion was done so much better that you don’t really notice the lack of logos. But the basketball reminds me of a Topps branded leaf product…..just not seeing the value outside of the really nice wembys

How are you guys doing on singles sales now that it has been out for a bit

Agree.

[Nomad]

I can only go with what I know, but Nesmith's long awaited return to cards has me as the only buyer. Picked up two golds for $5 and $12 respectively, an orange for $3 and an orange delight jersey number for $3.35.