Hockey Cards - Part III

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Both cases of tins arrived! Plus they all had 4 YGs each. Got them for $60/case CAD. Best value by far for hunting YGs.

This was case 1. Lots of Bedard content! Will post case 2 later.

 

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Case 2!

 

[shakes the clown]

Get that Yzerman out of that screw down please. Those things scare me.

question. Some of my dad's cards are in the screw cases. The guy who did the appraisal said I should get those out of there ASAP. Is there any risk to damaging the card when removing it from the screw sleeve? I'm nervous to do it.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Wow. Cool story as well and you are probably right about the year for my set. As a kid I was an avid collector of the O-Pee-Chee sticker albums and just realized I had all of these completed. Some are in rough shape though:

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I have all of these too (I think maybe 10 or so years worth), stickers all inside and completed. Much less rough condition. Good memories!

 

[miscs75]

question. Some of my dad's cards are in the screw cases. The guy who did the appraisal said I should get those out of there ASAP. Is there any risk to damaging the card when removing it from the screw sleeve? I'm nervous to do it.

The compression of the screw downs risks damaging the cards. It’s not hard to do. Do you have soft sleeves and semi rigid holders or top loaders already? If not, buy them then go from there. The screw downs were popular in the 80s and 90s but people went away from them for obvious reasons.

 

[shakes the clown]

The compression of the screw downs risks damaging the cards. It’s not hard to do. Do you have soft sleeves and semi rigid holders or top loaders already? If not, buy them then go from there. The screw downs were popular in the 80s and 90s but people went away from them for obvious reasons.

yea I bought a couple packs of Card Savers per the recommendation of the guy who did the appraisal.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

lmao be real though the only one in here buying 400k cards is @Cubs2024WSChamps

Of course he is. Then he can turn around and flip it for a few bucks more. Do that a couple hundred thousand times and he will be sitting on a gold mine. Simple math man, I cant believe all these idiots out there who cant see what easy money looks like /s

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

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Both cases of tins arrived! Plus they all had 4 YGs each. Got them for $60/case CAD. Best value by far for hunting YGs.

This was case 1. Lots of Bedard content! Will post case 2 later.

Great haul! I ordered 5 tins in hopes of getting the Bedard YG. Tin 1 I got the Benson YG and on tin 2 I was able to get the Bedard YG.

I mainly collect rookies so I will probably just sell the remaining 3 tins and buy the Mintukov and Carlsson rookies off Ebay.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

I just wanted to show off my modest vintage card collection I’ve been building up over the last 5 years or so. I love the history and look of the 50’s Parkhurst cards and with the prices of a lot of the new stuff figured I would go different route.

 

[Mr Kot]

I just wanted to show off my modest vintage card collection I’ve been building up over the last 5 years or so. I love the history and look of the 50’s Parkhurst cards and with the prices of a lot of the new stuff figured I would go different route.

Love those too. Wish NHL would release a retro set that actually looked like that instead of just throwbacks to 90's cards. I would pay a nice penny for those kinds of art cards.

 

[Satan]

Walmart Canada dropped UDS2 retail skus this morning, there are still blasters available. I tried to get 12 tins but I ended up grabbing the last 5.

 

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Great haul! I ordered 5 tins in hopes of getting the Bedard YG. Tin 1 I got the Benson YG and on tin 2 I was able to get the Bedard YG.

I mainly collect rookies so I will probably just sell the remaining 3 tins and buy the Mintukov and Carlsson rookies off Ebay.

Lol. I didn't hit the first Bedard YG until the very last tin of the case, so couldn't sell even if I wanted to. I was definitely thinking about selling all the tins and not opening any though. I could have sold the tins for $40-50 profit each and bought several Bedard YGs.

Breaking is fun though. Basically just gambling. I did pretty well, so I'm happy. That Bedard POE was a huge bonus. I'll probably sell off the other Bedard inserts and recoup $600 or so.

Plus the Bedard YG seems to be going back up in value since that monster night.

 

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Walmart Canada dropped UDS2 retail skus this morning, there are still blasters available. I tried to get 12 tins but I ended up grabbing the last 5.

The prices are pretty brutal on Walmart.ca. $64.92 plus tax for a blaster? If you have a US postal box, you can get them for $54 CAD from walmart.com. That's still not a great price.

The Upper Deck store hasn't loaded yet, but they'll be charging $40 CAD. If you're willing to pay that $60+ for them, they are pretty readily available from most hobby shops.

The gouging has definitely begun. When I ordered my tins, I paid $77.65 including taxes and shipping. Now stores are charging $175 plus taxes for a tin.

 

[Satan]

The prices are pretty brutal on Walmart.ca. $64.92 plus tax for a blaster? If you have a US postal box, you can get them for $54 CAD from walmart.com. That's still not a great price.

The Upper Deck store hasn't loaded yet, but they'll be charging $40 CAD. If you're willing to pay that $60+ for them, they are pretty readily available from most hobby shops.

The gouging has definitely begun. When I ordered my tins, I paid $77.65 including taxes and shipping. Now stores are charging $175 plus taxes for a tin.

That's the price for a mega but yeah the prices stink. Long gone are the days of $20-30 blasters. Tins were $90 earlier and now it looks like a 3rd party seller has them on WM.ca for $200 lmao.

(I bought to flip, I'm part of the problem)

 

[Ajex12x]

Of course he is. Then he can turn around and flip it for a few bucks more. Do that a couple hundred thousand times and he will be sitting on a gold mine. Simple math man, I cant believe all these idiots out there who cant see what easy money looks like /s

Don't say his name 2 more more times lol

 

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That's the price for a mega but yeah the prices stink. Long gone are the days of $20-30 blasters. Tins were $90 earlier and now it looks like a 3rd party seller has them on WM.ca for $200 lmao.

(I bought to flip, I'm part of the problem)

Fair enough. I didn't notice that was for Mega Blasters. You get 3 YGs in each Mega Blaster? Plus the die cut rookie pack? It guess that's not horrible.

 

[Spear]

question. Some of my dad's cards are in the screw cases. The guy who did the appraisal said I should get those out of there ASAP. Is there any risk to damaging the card when removing it from the screw sleeve? I'm nervous to do it.

I've had a few where the front of the card stuck to the plastic resulting in some paper loss (not to mention value). I think part of the risk depends on how tightly they were screwed down.

 

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Managed to get 8 Walmart blasters at retail. Very strange odds for me. Killed them getting two Bedard ygs! Both have dents at the top though. I'll try to get ud to replace them. Also no Bedard die-cut cards.

 

[Mr Kot]

Got interesting pulls. Nothing groundbreaking, but I wanted to ask if one of them is normal:

The 1 of 1 is interesting. Is that normally how they are in the O-Pee-Chee sets? I never got one of these, but seems underwhelming to just have a blank back with a few numbers. Either that, or it's an error, in which case it goes into my error collection.

 

[Demon Eyes]

Now, i heard the bedard gold outburst was found, any truth to that?

 

[Bures Elbow]

Bedard young guns going for 600+ on Ebay.

Damn.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Bedard young guns going for 600+ on Ebay.

Damn.

It was like 800 for the first week, or so.

 

[Rorschach]

Got interesting pulls. Nothing groundbreaking, but I wanted to ask if one of them is normal:

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The 1 of 1 is interesting. Is that normally how they are in the O-Pee-Chee sets? I never got one of these, but seems underwhelming to just have a blank back with a few numbers. Either that, or it's an error, in which case it goes into my error collection.

That’s a printing plate. From the pic it looks like yellow plate. There are four unique plates per card.

 

[Mr Kot]

That’s a printing plate. From the pic it looks like yellow plate. There are four unique plates per card.

The 1 of 1 is on the red border, which makes it really odd to me. The o-pee-chee set also comes with a guaranteed foil numbered, but i got none. Im assuming this was supposed to be it, but it messed up. Its fine though, im a sucker for misprints.

 

[Bures Elbow]

It was like 800 for the first week, or so.

Where do you think it'll settle?

That's an insane price! Tins from London Drugs etc are going for 100$ plus.