What is EQL?

[clocsta2323]

Been away for a while starting to read some threads what is EQL can someone explain it to me what it is? Thanks!

[eastbayak]

Everyone Quickly Loses is pretty self-explanatory.

[WhacksPacks]

Expect Questionable Logarithms

[itsbaytime]

No bueno!!!

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by clocsta2323

Been away for a while starting to read some threads what is EQL can someone explain it to me what it is? Thanks!

A corrupt raffle system used by Fanatics on products they deem as high demand, designed to control distribution channels while giving participants the illusion that everyone has a fair shot at winning.

[kyle1707]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

A corrupt raffle system used by Fanatics on products they deem as high demand, designed to control distribution channels while giving participants the illusion that everyone has a fair shot at winning.

Then the majority of product Is sent to breakers or gambling houses

The rest is sent to Dave adams blowout and steel city

Where fanatics can easily control pricing ..

Keeping product's in most cases double what they should be. Some much more ..

My 2 local stores who have been around since 90 s. Got 6 hobby boxes of new topps basketball

[Boo]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

A corrupt raffle system used by Fanatics on products they deem as high demand, designed to control distribution channels while giving participants the illusion that everyone has a fair shot at winning.

This. They have available .00000001% of the product in the EQL for common folk. The rest gets pushed to breakers, distributors and mossoholic.

[oldgoldy97]

Originally Posted by Boo

This. They have available .00000001% of the product in the EQL for common folk. The rest gets pushed to breakers, distributors and mossoholic.

This.

Supposedly if you enter and lose then your chances improve to win later.

Unless you’re Mossoholic. Then you win every time.

[Zane1]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

A corrupt raffle system used by Fanatics on products they deem as high demand, designed to control distribution channels while giving participants the illusion that everyone has a fair shot at winning.

Agreed. The system is designed to create a sense of scarcity for the interested buyers. So when they don't win the "rigged" game, they want it even more and may pay whatever the going rate is at the big online retailers.

This scarcity dynamic is akin to the Cabbage Patch Kids doll craze back in the 80's. People flocked to the store when a shipment would come in. If they didn't get one, they would be willing to pay someone double, triple, or whatever to get one.

[HiltonL]

Originally Posted by kyle1707

Then the majority of product Is sent to breakers or gambling houses

The rest is sent to Dave adams blowout and steel city

Where fanatics can easily control pricing ..

Keeping product's in most cases double what they should be. Some much more ..

My 2 local stores who have been around since 90 s. Got 6 hobby boxes of new topps basketball

You didn't mention Costco, where I've seen new football product and Star Wars, but that's the Fanatics model, to flood retail-style product into select channels to create the illusion of availability

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by HiltonL

You didn't mention Costco, where I've seen new football product and Star Wars, but that's the Fanatics model, to flood retail-style product into select channels to create the illusion of availability

This is why they always post big hits on social media pulled from a retail product and the store it was bought from and very very rarely post when big hits come out of SKU's that are designed to appear scarce (hobby, jumbo, breakers delight, etc).

It's all a big scam.

[armyml]

Originally Posted by kyle1707

My 2 local stores who have been around since 90 s. Got 6 hobby boxes of new topps basketball

Store owner here. Thats on your store. They must not be buying enough from Topps or not taking the 2nd waves Topps offers stores at 80% market. I'm not a big store by any means and have only been in business for 5 years. I buy what Topps tells me to buy. My basketball allocation was:
Hobby: 5 Cases
Jumbo: 3 Cases
Blasters: 5 Cases

Am I sitting on hundreds of Fat Packs of F1 Paddock Pass? Sure...but thats part of the game. I run into the same situation with a few of the other shops in town that have been around forever. They're run by old dudes in their 60s that have been around for awhile. Those types of dudes can get uppity and curmudgeony when Topps asks them to take products that aren't super hot or flying off the shelf. Dunno if that applies to the shops you've mentioned but it definitiely does to the other local stores in town.