There is a serious problem with retail sports cards…..

A look at my local Walmart and the depressing state of retail sports cards.

[@kendallboone1837]

Pay $35-60 to receive 10 cards worth a total of $4.27. That’s the card market these days.

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

Thank the scumbag scalpers

[@Korigan97]

That’s the problem 😅

[@NathanW-yessir-cm5yd]

exactly

[@genises200]

​@@NathanW-yessir-cm5ydpretty much

[@rickyt6158]

Problem identified

[@Rj.parrott]

That’s what happens when box prices 8-10x the value of the cards

[@beliedat2457]

Overprinting has a huge factor too. Print runs are insane on products.

[@apexballer7789]

That’s what happens when people create a aftermarket for cards. It forces retail to up their prices to compete

[@ransom6892]

@@apexballer7789 They were already winning the competition with lower prices.

[@Adam-um6iu]

I wish stores in Canada would have this problem. I’ve been to numerous Walmarts in Ontario and none have any basketball cards. Same with toys r us . Amazon has contender blaster for 50 bucks. 🤬

[@trevwaz8177]

@@Adam-um6iu You want to buy the crap? Go to Markham Walmart

[@trey7940]

When you charge 34.99 for garbage product that’s what happens

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

When scumbags buy boxes for 19.99 and list them on eBay for 100 the same day, this is what happens

[@booboodafoo3247]

@@ptrekboxbreaks5198has literally nothing to do with them charging that much then giving you sh!t cards everytime dipsh!t the scalpers wouldn’t be able to do it if you dipsh!ts didn’t buy them

[@Realsmallballz]

@@ptrekboxbreaks5198then the shelves would be empty dumbass

[@taraishot100]

lol that’s a cheap price!!! here in Australia a blaster box goes for $100 to $150 stop complaining bro you Americans have it easy!!

[@mrkush6141]

@@taraishot100well maybe complaining about fd up things is why we have it easy lmao we don’t just lay down our guns

[@matttirado1341]

This is what happens when you only put the juiced stuff in breakers hands

[@theslickrips5904]

This isn’t even what’s happening. It’s just overproduced garbage. Only thing that will hold value from this era are some case hits, numbered cards and autos. All base is worthless and just kids toys basically.

[@user-ig3kn2ly2x]

Yup, that is 100 % Correct!

[@jessefiorillo4864]

Thats how it's been for decades. Base sets never hold value, and rarer cards hold more value. Kinda how it works... @@theslickrips5904

[@Nooneishereonlyme]

​@@theslickrips5904 no it's not kids toys and it's not garbage

[@jamesp1289]

Yes they are. The only value these pieces of paper hold are what someone is willing to pay for them. That someone is us the people who would rather by a gallon of gas than some paper garbage hyped up by frauds.

[@Thenightshowbreaks]

They need to go back to $20 a blaster and $25 for Prizm, optic , select and mosaic. $40 a blaster ain't gonna do it

[@rm4213]

Exactly

[@xForbin99]

Yeah they too damn expensive now. Panini thought the pandemic was still on

[@Geebzer]

Probably won’t cause inflation made $40 only worth $20 now so they would loose big profits

[@Plpr00]

@@Geebzer You realize printing a box full of cardboard costs them maybe $2-3 a box at most right? Probably even less. Sports cards have been one of the most price gouged consumer goods in terms of raw material to finished product, in the last 25 years especially. A pack in the 80s was 25-50 cents and you got double the amount of cards, not to mention you routinely would pull $5 cards in those .25-.50 packs. Now a pack is $4.99 if you are lucky. But more like $6-$7? They've been price gouging cards since the late 90s. How many cards is in a $35 blaster these days? Like 50? That was $2 in the 80s- early 90s. They simply got extremely greedy and people kept paying deplorable prices. Sometime in the late 90s early 2000s $3.99 and $4.99 became the standard per pack. And consumers accepted that. And topps probably thought wow these idiots will pay whatever we ask lol!! They price gouged them so much that basically from the early 2000s to just years before cards blew up again a pack basically costed the same. Imagine you are making so much off of a dime in materials. That they didn't even bother to raise the price in a decade+ Even $20 today is too much. Getting $2 in cards from a $35 box isn't gonna cut it. $10 for a blaster is where its gonna need to get to for a regular person to stop and think.. hmm would be fun to open some junk cards

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

​@@Plpr00you all that mad at the card companies for what? They wouldn't have had to raise prices if resellers weren't animals. 90% of the people buying shit the past 3 years aren't even collectors. Put prices back at 19.99 and watch how fast resellers go back to trying to sell the shit 5x the store price

[@thomaskelvey9376]

Cards are easier to get but they are over priced. You pay $30 for a blaster and don't even get a numbered card.

[@CRF1994]

Score nfl blaster on fanatics guaranteed numbered

[@incogneeto9122]

This sounds like my time in Thailand.

[@summervibes2147]

​@@CRF1994 yeah but nobody wants score lol

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

We can blame resellers for that

[@PropiaPersona]

​@@CRF1994#'d score cards are the same as bulk lol

[@user-xf2tl8ee3c]

It’s not a complaint…it’s an observation that this junk is over priced and the people in at least his area have wised up that they are just burning money buying this crap and are staying away. Panini and Topps need to be humbled like this.

[@degenrips]

Thank you!

[@JTyler-je3fb]

Everyone needs to share this post and boycott these overpriced junk products and stop buying and when noone is buying that bullshit junk product they will have to put better products out. They need to start putting hobby shit out there at low prices period. Stop buying it 😮

[@Nooneishereonlyme]

No it's not crap and it's not junk

[@Nooneishereonlyme]

​@@JTyler-je3fb no it's not junk and it's not bull💩

[@shawncarter2083]

Guess this happens when over production kicks in. Panini’s greed is taking it’s toll on the hobby. Welcome to Junkwax 2.0

[@miketyson8933]

Yep, Panini lost their license so they are being greedy and printing the crap out. I got back into the hobby 4 months ago and I bought a lot of boxes but I was buying Hobby at my card shop, I know the 1/1 Luka Prizm someone put a $2 million bounty for it

[@dwfinds3030]

welcome to 1980s basketball cards :) and 90s baseball

[@scarpfish]

​@@dwfinds3030 I think you mean the other way around.

[@bighugstudio]

What happens is no one collects and all investors left.

[@Dadbot]

@@scarpfishno he’s right. Panini loaded these boxes with old timers so that they could double production at half the cost.

[@nicholasmeadows7698]

It's the price and the fact the cards are half damaged when you get the cards

[@Snickerszn]

Yeah retail cards are always damaged or cut terribly.

[@robfioravanti8841]

You should see the 2023 donruss threads /25 Russell Wilson I got a few days ago. Both front top corners are bent up and the back bottom right corner looks like an ex girlfriend keyed your car. It's a joke! Have fun getting a PSA 10 out of the packs I have got so far.

[@ChrisTheElectrician]

That’s crazy, our Walmart gets cleared out every Friday

[@Popitrav]

Same

[@ukjw2]

Mines mostly empty today. First time I’ve looked in years.

[@papasitoz7891]

Doesn’t everyone want to spend $40 for $3 worth of commons?😂😂😂

[@Adam-um6iu]

I agree.. 15-30 dollars for 15 cards?!

[@booboodafoo3247]

$3????? Tf product are you buying? That’s a home run these days. Most sh!t I open is all trash. I’ve spent $450 not long ago(last time I bought cards) went home ready to open some packs and about an hour later I was sick to my stomach. Infuriating, and still for some reason people still buy them.

[@LogicMind99]

@@booboodafoo3247that’s why since the 90s the hobby has become less about collecting and more about greed…I was happy I got out of it back in 2000….20 years later I’d figure I’d buy a couple mega boxes and blaster boxes of product to see if anything had changed, and sadly it hasn’t, it’s actually worse now then it was then.

[@israelarechiga6752]

I just got back into the hobby, I’ll stick to buying $1 pack of football cards 😂

[@A-rob-zg5er]

That just means you will be spending 35 to 45 a blaster soon as the sorry scammers buy all the prizm n good stuff.

[@mightymitch6472]

Social media is the reason for this. It has completely destroyed the hobby. Let’s not forget that is what it is, a hobby.

[@maxsanjuan2524]

That's at your Walmart and Target stores. In my area on the west coast, there's never anything! CONSIDER YOURSELF FORTUNATE!

[@alexleal7643]

Come up to northern cali everything sitting

[@flacthadoc4587]

​@@alexleal7643ya right not in north Sacramento

[@kaizenkonversations8337]

Exactly lol from Los Angeles down to San Diego if you find any boxes on any shelves you’re lucky ! Hahah

[@kaizenkonversations8337]

@@alexleal7643 LIES lol all my friends in the Bay Area can’t find a single box ever… lol all major cities are depleted on the west coast

[@alexleal7643]

@@kaizenkonversations8337 Im in the valley 209 all sits here. Modesto and ceres stocks Wednesday-Friday.

[@JZF629]

Bro I should show you MY Walmart… I PROMISE you it DOES NOT look like this, lol. Still barren as people pick up everything but basketball/football draft picks. Sometimes I can catch a restock and get something fun, but the main chase these days seems to be topps/bowman baseball products

[@SplashIt34]

Count yourself lucky its a waste of money there is maybe one good card in all of those boxes you see

[@mjj8560]

​@@SplashIt34 exactly why take a risk to spend $80 when you can't even get a good autograph

[@mattrosich]

Ya I live in Las Vegas and all the shelves are empty

[@RGI18]

You’re literally the only collector in your area

[@adamantium_1]

its the same here California, kids teenagers don't care about trading cards. It's basically the times that we're in.

[@ProBacona123]

My Walmart pack with cards. Box for $60 to get $5 worth of cards

[@giga.bates_]

Nothing on the shelves, people are mad. Shelves are stocked, people are mad.

[@wayne4292]

It's all apart of the collecting game I mean it's getting to be a expensive hobby but I say aslong as you enjoy the hobby choose wisely

[@awbobsagetable]

Ya, when they're on the shelves 1.5 to 2x recent MSRP, no one wants.

[@giga.bates_]

@@awbobsagetable it's kind of the basics of supply and demand though. People we're ending up paying those prices to resellers anyway..

[@jessedavis529]

Yeah well...what are they supposed to do? Some of those people want it but it's too expensive.

[@awbobsagetable]

@@giga.bates_ yea, maybe a few years ago. not anymore!

[@briandunn8614]

People r tired of paying ridiculous prices for cards. Pannini got greedy and they screwed themselves

[@willbryant9297]

They started over printing everything too, they were trying to cash in on the secondary market so bumped prices for packs and ultimately messed themselves up

[@shisui3878]

It was because of scalpers not paninis fault people are greedy

[@scarpfish]

​@@shisui3878 When you try to get the scalpers cut because you think the end user will pay it, you become part of the greed.

[@shisui3878]

@@scarpfish 😂😂😂 how cute you think I’m a scalper just because you’re one

[@RETROSHADOW2999]

Inflation prices ruin this hobby, Plus The NFL, NBA, WWE Products have gone down in value since the pandemic died down

[@mcalli27]

Are we blaming the bumps on inflation or simple economics of supply and demand? (Inflation didn't cause the blasters to go up from $19.99 to $34.99 for example).

[@natbornpuller]

@@mcalli27 inflation, interest rates, war hungry democrats. That equals less disposable income. Vote Red everywhere

[@jacobjirak6571]

You cant get anything from any of them. Mosaic bball should be 15$ blasters.

[@Snickerszn]

Yep mosaic sucks

[@YaboyElowsCards]

Bro mosaic basketball is literally the worst 😂😂😂 mosaic football is wayyyy better

[@LetshavesomefunT.V]

Tired of buying retail 30 bucks....I pull a card it's worth 2 dollars no good card world is dying down

[@hotcarl3854]

Exactly, spent too much on blasters this year to end up with garbage. Really turned me off from buying retail ever again.

[@captains_collectibles]

Lol love when cards are hot then go down Been there the past 3 times this happened. 1989 to 1995 then drop. 1997 to 2001 then dead, kinda like skateboarding trends

[@jonathandavid9389]

its not dying down if your only doing to it to make money then maybe you shouldn't be doing it

[@LetshavesomefunT.V]

@@jonathandavid9389 I collect as well.....but there not giving anything to collect 😂

[@captains_collectibles]

When I made money from cards, you could buy packs for 50 cents lol. I'd do shows late 80s early 90s, go home with 300 bux. No autos no relics no numbered. Just plain old cards.

[@bandonbeachbum]

The problem is the rookie class in 2022 football and basketball stink. This isn't 2020 where you're going for Burrow or Herbert who wants to open up boxes when your best hit is Kenny Pickett.

[@etlnyr74]

Store shelves are overflowing in my area they can't even sell what they have,that whole craze is over.I don't buy retail but it pissed me off when non card collectors would rush to the stores and buy everything just to flip and not leave anything for the kids!!

[@tylerlinares2857]

Where at ?

[@etlnyr74]

im in north jersey

[@almeidajfna]

Used to collect fleer and upper deck back in the 90's. But nowadays is just so much variety and so many cards that I dont know where to start.

[@taraishot100]

Prizsm seems to be the most sought after I still like hoops though

[@Floridaman457]

Remember the yellow fleers? 😂horrible

[@art08474]

Probably the only product out of all this I would be interested in getting would be the Topps Chrome Blasters/Mega’s, they would definitely need to drop in price.

[@iPoW4o8]

Increase of blasters from $15.99 to 29.99 is just ridiculous

[@DarthLotus]

Went from 19.99 a blaster box to 34.99 on WWE with 1 less card per pack kinda killed it for me.

[@Bobbystilz43]

It’s called a recession. Money is tight for a lot of people. Necessities outweigh luxuries.

[@nigeleisler]

People be buying them Pokémon cards like crazy though 😂

[@mjj8560]

​@@nigeleisler not necessarily people are slowly not buying Pokémon why would they when I can just buy the singles and not spend $300 dollars om booster boxes and etb Pokémon gonna dip too

[@xBlueRipz]

Nah, scalpers we’re taking all those product during the hype of sport cards becoming popular regardless of the price. Panin then got greedy are started over printing, scalpers realized that the hype was dying and laid off it. So now regular collectors know to stay away from recent release as it is the new junk wax era. Plus easier to buy singles on eBay than retail junk

[@IdealtheWrapper]

its slowing for sure. niche is taking over.

[@brandonabel5662]

Its only for the true collectors now to keep going the rest see a junk wax era and are getting out of the hobby

[@LouWeZee.]

I used to buy boxes now I just buy the cards I want. I'm much happier.

[@petereagle877]

It's great I'll be buying those boxes for 10.99 in a year just like the good old days!

[@tallboyincorp]

GREED

[@dddd717]

@@tallboyincorp how so…if he waits until a year later?

[@tallboyincorp]

@@dddd717 Corp Greed... not His

[@Ravens_by1k]

I really hope so man

[@ptrekboxbreaks5198]

​@@tallboyincorpno no no. PUBLIC GREED they would never have had to raise prices if 90% of the people buying cards (who aren't even collectors) quit price gauging the industry. Quit buying boxes for 19.99 and listing them for 100 on ebay and we won't have to buy $35 blasters

[@octanefame8258]

I’ve also noticed this. I’ve sold all my newer cards and only collect 80s and mid 90s basketball

[@LeeCopus]

Smart man.

[@andrewryan6113]

If your collecting 90s I got all types of Jordans Kobe's AIs shaqs for ya

[@user-ig3kn2ly2x]

Yup, 90s Jordan is Boss for sure, since most of us missed 86-88 fleer. Plus: Kobe RC's will be like 86 Fleer Jordan in several years. Plus: Nolan Ryan will likely replace Mantle for the next era, so I'd pounce on all his stuff now Peace,!

[@robertleitz8672]

Holy Cow, we have nothing at our Wal-Mart, football is dang near impossible to find. My wife & I are going to open our Hobby Shop soon!!!

[@rwbteam7468]

My Walmart has literally no cards on the shelves 💀

[@BigMoJR83]

$35 for $3.50 worth of cards. It’s back to a collectors world not a flippers market anymore.

[@jacobdecker9952]

Lucky… my targets are empty and Walmarts only have score and prestige

[@ballaholic987]

Best part is they will be on clearance soon as nobody buys them anymore. My Walmart moved them because nobody bought them but would steal them over and over.

[@pleasuretokill]

Rarity is king with collectors. All this crap is over printed cardstock. Its the late 80s/early 90s all over again. People will stop buying. Then card production will drop...when rarity comes back into play, collectors will come back. We want that $$$$ too! Profit is the name of the game for us and them.

[@JD.Collects]

Bay Area shelves look nothing like this 😂😂

[@thesociallol9167]

Because people would just walk out of the store with it without paying

[@livelycardcollector]

wonder where those scalpers went? they should swing by and grab all that stuff. lmao scalpers had to find a real job.

[@hoosierpulls4689]

For real😂

[@LetshavesomefunT.V]

The cards are not selling no more

[@jefffolk4421]

They raised the prices to try and cut breakers out. Now nobody wants it. I don’t

[@markthompson7503]

My Walmart has started discounting blasters and I love it. They are selling for the old prices. Panini is going out of business as soon as Topps is done being taken over.

[@kidt3068]

Greedy corporations ruin everything

[@billbill9499]

Scalpers started this.

[@ram0666]

Socialist who are broke love calling free enterprise greedy. Its the lazy thing that brokesters do. Panini is rewarding their customers that spend real money and not fools that go to the Walmart and weigh boxes to find out what they may pull. Nobody was greedy when the free government money was coming every week.

[@Nahhhhhhson]

Panini is such a garbage company and I’m glad their run is coming to an end… they monopolized football and basketball cards and put out trash and we all bought into it

[@bradheiple1865]

So as someone who got into the Hobby recently, I’m hearing that I came in at a bad time 😅

[@Nahhhhhhson]

@@bradheiple1865 nah man stick with it… a lot of shit is changing due to companies licenses coming to an end… from what I understand, fanatics will still use the name topps and panini but they’ll be the new owners and in control of these brands.. I think a lot of changes are gonna come back to the hobby and I’m hoping they make it so it’s not just about money anymore.. people genuinely enjoy buying boxes and ripping packs and I feel like a lot of these companies, even topps have just been dropping the ball either unintentionally or intentionally just cuz they know people will still buy this shit.. like how panini makes these high end products with guaranteed autos, but the autos are of no-name scrub players and the card is worth $10..

[@ransom6892]

@@Nahhhhhhson Fanatics doesn’t own Panini

[@flareskateboards]

tbh im to too excited about fanatics monopolizing every sport... i really think fanatics is going to be worse

[@Slaytanica666]

You really don’t have much of a chance at anything special in retail is why. They put all the huge name signers basically mostly in FOTL product…the rest goes in Hobby. When you DO hit an auto at retail 9 times out of ten it’s a guy that’s barely rotation, late first round-second rounder, or even someone undrafted that is pretty much just filling a G-League roster. And if it’s a legend auto…it’s someone that was MAYBE a solid starter or borderline all star. Retail they give you crumbs and tell you that you can get those guys.

[@rogermoore9115]

Wish my walmart looked like this shelves are always empty

[@joshurich1082]

Damn wish my Walmart had a wall like this geezus. They don't even have packs at mine lol

[@michaelmatthews5941]

Topps chrome still rotting there where it belongs too 🤣

[@cookiemang4128]

Chrome os trash

[@Nooneishereonlyme]

​@@cookiemang4128 no

[@TheCandidCamper]

You must live in the fancy area!!!!! Our 2Walmart’s got rid of cards a while back :(

[@RM-pg4js]

Gated community. 0 shoplifters inside the gates

[@L3tsFnGoDumDuM]

That’s weird , in my town they’re like all sold out except for new basketball cards , football sells out the first day or two

[@mommadontknow]

The over production, a.k.a. new junk, wax era and retail. Pulling a hit is like scratching a lottery ticket.

[@RecordThis]

Well what brand or brands to buy, seriously need to know

[@kgbreaks3389]

Let it go back to pre-COVID! I’ll be waiting to buy some Prizm basketball blasters for 14.99 again 🤣

[@Pariah_Larry]

Nobody wants the “guaranteed jersey card” that comes with those garbage boxes. They’re literally just thick cards with an unworn piece of cloth in the middle to make you feel like you got something when you got useless junk not worth it’s weight in cardboard. I recommend Epack for hockey cards and marvel cards/comics. All packs are Hobby and you can combine base cards into more rare parallels which you get “achievement cards” for that are amazing and super short print. COMC is sick too, just buy the singles you want unless you’re looking to rip packs. In that case just save the 30$ you were gonna spend on a blaster, save it and buy a hobby box when you can afford it. I wish I knew all those things years ago.

[@C2IK39]

If my walmart was like that i would scream of joy😭😂

[@shisui3878]

The real problem is most of those boxes don’t have $100+ hit in them and people who want to resell don’t even touch those boxes so the my can’t scalp them

[@rossek3897]

This has to be in a good neighborhood.... how is this not locked up

[@thegoldentrickle5158]

Seriously, this would be emptied in a matter of hours here in Seattle

[@taraishot100]

Damn here in Australia there are hardly any basketball cards at retail shops maybe EB games at best

[@JCapili-qb8vv]

All the stores near me have ZERO basketball. My city has 3 Walmart stores, 2 Meijer's, and a Target with almost no basketball at all.

[@williamdunlapwaxnews]

It also depends on the area not every area has buyers . There are thousands of walmarts out there.

[@Fred_Nickles]

My Walmart looks nothing like this 😅

[@mr.madlock9687]

The prices is just way too high. The trash players they put in them boxes make you feel like you’ve been cheated or scammed

[@KimberlyUssery]

Our Walmart is wiped clean I keep checking for prizm baseball, and nothing!!! They are so low they virtually don’t have squat

[@Jayycee909]

These will start to move once they hit clearance like back in the good old days lol 😅

[@nancydill597]

I went to my Walmart yesterday and they had about 20 packs of you-gi-oh and 3 blasters of Prizm draft basketball. And about 4 days ago there were 100+ random boxes. It’s still selling like it’s 2020 in my area. Especially football and 2024 baseball.

[@josephgilmore1773]

It's simple the prices are way too high and panini quality is way down, retail sucks starting all through 2022 and continues to get worse, panini retail sucks, even hobby quality is down

[@ImissTin]

one year later and every time i walk into a walmart all i see are the same boxes of sports cards that have been there for the past 5 years

[@Packinthebox]

People ran out of the unemplyement checks

[@leoestevezleo1495]

ALSO....... making hits like the kaboom in absolute, literally absolutely impossible..I haven't seen but like 1 or 2 ppl break open tons blasters and pulled a kaboom...but in hobby, they're pulling both 1 of 1's, gold and base left and right..hell, backyard breaks has probably pulled more kabooms from hobby than the general public has pulled from retail! Lol

[@abrunet90]

They want it, but not at this prices.

[@chadrohleder1017]

Same here both wal/target loaded with boxes use to have lines every Friday. Now the selfs are overflowing with everything

[@Bruuuuuh620]

There’s only a problem to the reseller babies that can’t flip anymore 🤣🤣

[@DonNoDraper]

I spent 2k and pulled shit wasn’t expecting anything special but at least good card art and players I like but no. Thx panini I miss the old upper deck and fleer days.

[@domenickmusolino6563]

I live in NJ and most Walmarts and Targets in my area have hardly any stock.

[@nighttimewatcher7881]

Preach! Sports cards got hot during covid and every company doubled their price on the product. Not to mention it went up 5x to get a card graded. 5x.... thats absolutely ridiculous

[@corytaylor9307]

Prices went up so scalpers went away and the normal customer would rather buy a $30 auto then rip 6 packs of junk base and inserts with nothing guaranteed…

[@NicEeEe843]

The next panthers reverse retro needs to be a Miami vice theme! Can’t believe they haven’t done it yet

[@B31SE_ROADTO1K]

Lucky, all my retail stores have 2 opened boxes on the shelves with 2 cards left

[@z0mbyd0nky]

Why would anyone in this economy want any cards at all ? What is going on with dudes over spending on cards of people where they have to wait 20 years just to find out if that player becomes a hof legend player?

[@josephgilmore1773]

In 2020 & 2021 I would spend 500 a pop minimum, not anymore its garbage

[@Jacksonpollack3]

That's kinda crazy, because my walmarts are still bare

[@juandufree4309]

It’s 2024 and I live in the DFW area, I can confirm the shelves are still like this. It’s basic economics. You either have it more expensive and available or cheaper and competitive. I prefer cheaper and competitive. I liked the rush of waking up and running to Target to see what’s available. Price will eventually go down and then they will be missing from the shelves again

[@stevenc7877]

Panini got greedy 😂

[@Based_Proletariat]

Overpriced boxes, I remember when boxes of card used to be 8 to 12 dollars.

[@asurfer7741]

Agree bro 😅 I’ve been contemplating not buying sealed product anymore just buy the cards I want 😅 but you know we degenerates 😅😅😅 for real though been thinking about it 😢

[@asurfer7741]

Bro that dam scalper must be stuck with all their product hoarding 😅😅😅🥰🤭

[@richardanzlovar5372]

Stores in Southern California never look like that even after restock. I bet we are solely keeping Panini and topps in business. The only thing that there’s plenty of his hockey here in Southern California otherwise I’ve never seen a shelf like that in almost four years. You are very, very fortunate Degen. Like+subscriber

[@hillbillyballer]

Cost increase is unfortunate. Increased cost, increased print runs, destroyed the market and the rarity. and decreasing the chances of hitting anything that’s worth the box with no longer giving autos. I remember when all mega boxes gave Autos. Most blasters gave autos and always memorabilia cards. My area does not have any football or basketball products other than Score and Hoops. No Prizm, no optic, no mosaic no illusions, no select, no Donruss. All kinds of chronicles, racing, wwe, ufc. I can’t even get baseball unless it’s trash series 1 or heritage.

[@shawnsutton3073]

Dont sleep on mosaic and optic basketball I'm always killing it on hits and autos 👌👌🔥🔥

[@terryk5412]

I probably bought 2 items in all my decades of collecting baseball cards at those types of stores. Nobody buys from there...

[@paulgoble5678]

Junk wax, junk slabs, junk modern everything now. VINTAGE!

[@MOBR85]

I wish I can see this at my walmart! You are a lucky man! Everytime they restock gone in a few hours. The only time I've seen something like this is small rural areas of towns I've never heard of only becausr of my work do I get to see this and when I do I buy then all!

[@Anthonysportscards]

Wow I don’t even have a box at my stores lol

[@nells980]

I just got into this hobby...I hit on Downtown cj stroud card .. purchased a Box from Walmart ,shelf was empty and very few boxes ... I kinda regret selling it but I needed money ... Im still tryna figure out the climate of this hobby like what boxes or packs I should this video and comments are helping me tho

[@joedill4311]

there wasn't one single box of Topps update in those shelves. people bought the best "return" product and left everything else! Same at my Walmart. edit i saw a retail box at the very end. I would've bought every pack hahahaha.

[@chrisjohnston9201]

I wish my Walmart would have that much...

[@BigMoJR83]

“Nobody want’s it” 😂

[@Bradydog-in7ut]

It’s all commons. In the old days, you could buy a retail box and still pull out low numbered autos. My best retail pull was a 1999 UD Black Diamond insert of, then, rookie Tory Holt with two pieces of football on it. The odds in both hobby and retail boxes was 1 in every 1,199 packs! I still own the card.

[@Nouseforaname33]

I sold a lot of Valuable 8O era big home runner hitter cards for like less than 100$ 29 years ago every Ken Griffey rookie every Barry Bonds rookie, Mark McGuire 84 USA edition rookie card and many more I had a whole small chest of nothing but the greats if the early to late 80s cards for nothing. One of the worst mistakes of my life😢

[@chimchu3232]

Lmao my store looks the same. The ONLY thing im there for is topps baseball cards, the other boxes never move

[@robertrinehartjr9090]

Normally I would agree but, I have bought a box in over a year. Trying to get the credit card paid off. Stopped at target last weekend and got a retail blaster of bowman 2024. Pulled a red refractor of Paul Skenes #2 of 5. But usually retail I stay away from

[@brandonevarts8961]

That's crazy to each is own, I'm in California, they re-stock once a week, your only aloud to buy three blaster boxes at a time, and if they remember you coming in that day they won't sell you nothing, they'll tell you come back tommorow, it doesn't matter there's a bunch of Wal-Mart's and targets to go to, but everybody wants that stuff where I'm at, I pull nothing but fire out of retail, to me retail is better than hobby sometimes, so your world my friend is different than mine, everything gets sold out, there's a huge line outside of target before it opens at 8 in the morning waiting to buy cards, I pulled a Paulo banchero auto from optic, I pulled a Korean zombie auto, Jorge masvidal auto, Josh emmit auto, from optic ufc, you just have no luck, that's the way it is, some people pull fire cards, and some don't....

[@keithdefreitas3399]

Optic, Prizm, mosaic blasters need to be $22-$25. Topps flagship baseball blasters need to be $15-$16.

[@b-n-psportscards8374]

Bro that EXACTLY like it was when I started collecting again! It was all 2016/17 products on clearance though. If only we knew🤣