Target Online Sales Thread

[JeremyNick]

Originally Posted by phil

Merlin for the win

Goldy for the L.

[ThoseBackPages]

i am hoping to see product today at the local Target

[oldgoldy97]

Originally Posted by phil

Merlin for the win

And the Update hangers.

[oldgoldy97]

Hard to telll, is there any of that Prizm Optic?

[ThoseBackPages]

Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

i am hoping to see product today at the local Target

nope

[JeremyNick]

Originally Posted by ThoseBackPages

nope

I’ll stop tomorrow. Probably still loaded.

[ThoseBackPages]

Originally Posted by JeremyNick

I’ll stop tomorrow. Probably still loaded.

lucky!

[ewokpelts]

Originally Posted by bavariancream

Two questions: anyone have any experience with the “mystery tins” ($24.98), and who pays $64.98 for the Topps Chrome!?


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The topps chrome is a mega box. There are ten exclusive parallel cards included.

The mystery tin has topps NPB cards from Japan plus one 2022 series one pack.

[NHRonin]

Originally Posted by ewokpelts

The topps chrome is a mega box. There are ten exclusive parallel cards included.

The mystery tin has topps NPB cards from Japan plus one 2022 series one pack.

Most of the mystery tins have that but some have 21 Topps UK or 2018 Topps Jumbo packs. I’ve found both.

[ewokpelts]

Originally Posted by NHRonin

Most of the mystery tins have that but some have 21 Topps UK or 2018 Topps Jumbo packs. I’ve found both.

Series one for the 18’s?

[BlockShotStop]

I live in a city where, until very recently, shelves would regularly get cleared of most product a few days from the stock. Now, stuff like Prizm, Select, and Optic are pretty available. I wonder how much that has to do with price sensitivity. If the prices went back to what they were, would demand for retail still be high? I mean, $60 for a mega box is patently absurd.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by BlockShotStop

I live in a city where, until very recently, shelves would regularly get cleared of most product a few days from the stock. Now, stuff like Prizm, Select, and Optic are pretty available. I wonder how much that has to do with price sensitivity. If the prices went back to what they were, would demand for retail still be high? I mean, $60 for a mega box is patently absurd.

It would help, but product would still be sitting on the shelves. Fanatics and Panini have significantly devalued retail with incessant overproduction and piss poor quality. Demand won’t improve unless those two issues are resolved.

[cardsin47]

Originally Posted by BlockShotStop

I live in a city where, until very recently, shelves would regularly get cleared of most product a few days from the stock. Now, stuff like Prizm, Select, and Optic are pretty available. I wonder how much that has to do with price sensitivity. If the prices went back to what they were, would demand for retail still be high? I mean, $60 for a mega box is patently absurd.

Prices went up, the market dipped, and the FB and BK rookie classes this year are el stinko - perfect storm for a Retail downturn this year. The saving grace will be baseball update chrome product - out next month ( in theory )

[BlockShotStop]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

It would help, but product would still be sitting on the shelves. Fanatics and Panini have significantly devalued retail with incessant overproduction and piss poor quality. Demand won’t improve unless those two issues are resolved.

As sad as it is, despite those issues, if the prices were at their previous levels, I’d personally be buying a lot more. Just impossible to justify right now. I feel like a total sucker when I do.

[notacollector66]

do you look at your grocery bill or gas prices vs 2 years ago - everything has gone up significantly in price, why should cards be any different?

[timber63401]

Originally Posted by notacollector66

do you look at your grocery bill or gas prices vs 2 years ago - everything has gone up significantly in price, why should cards be any different?

A thousand different reasons.

[notacollector66]

Originally Posted by timber63401

A thousand different reasons.

Thousands? yet you can not name one. it starts with inflation, everything else has gone up, why do you think cards should not?

[oldgoldy97]

Cards have gone down over the past two years. Gas is down, too.

[Jed Clampett]

Originally Posted by oldgoldy97

Cards have gone down over the past two years. Gas is down, too.

Gas was $2.10 in November 2020
It’s more than doubled in price 2 years later

[KhalDrogo]

Gas and groceries are a necessity. Cards are not. Fanatics can either adjust pricing downward or live with the consequences.

[OneSickDegen]

Originally Posted by notacollector66

why should cards be any different?

Yep and that's why they are sitting on the shelves unlike 2 yrs ago. People have had to adjust their spending when gas/food/rent goes up 10-20%. Most Americans aren't getting big enough raises to keep up with inflation and there are no more stimmy checks and generous unemployment coming in for the Timmy's, Kimmy's, and Poindexters that were propping up an inflated hobby market.

Price coming back to earth within the next 12 months. Love to see it.

[Pacmeyer]

The only lesson in the hobby world you can draw from gasoline is that once consumers get used to higher prices, it doesn't matter if supply and demand loosens up. You've show what you're willing to pay, so no wonder if takes a long time for prices to return to normal, if ever.

[OneSickDegen]

Maybe it's because you can't buy Select blasters for retail and flip them in the parking lot for 2-3x anymore.

Shoutout to Fanatics for getting into the sportscards business at the exact top of the market.

[Chrominator]

Originally Posted by OneSickDegen

Shoutout to Fanatics for getting into the sportscards business at the exact top of the market.

Topps w/ the ol' pump 'n' dump + w/ a buyer named Fanatics = too easy

[auctionjmm]

Originally Posted by OneSickDegen

Maybe it's because you can't buy Select blasters for retail and flip them in the parking lot for 2-3x anymore.

Shoutout to Fanatics for getting into the sportscards business at the exact top of the market.

They also bought THE market. I think some folks underestimate the value in possessing exclusive rights to NBA, NFL, MLB, Star Wars, GPK, Soccer, and everything else that will ultimately be included past 2026 (if not sooner). People will be falling over themselves the first time Topps Chrome basketball blasters show up at Target. They can also adjust the retail prices back down if that moves more volume. This is clearly a long term play. A play they may not have made if the market was dead to begin with. Bottom line, they'll be okay. Don't believe anyone who says they'll need to print a zillion cards and kill the market just to break even. It's been said enough here that I start to wonder if people even realize what they are saying. If they kill the market with overproduction, they kill their profits. It will never happen.