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Originally Posted by Snapolit1

No one can tell me that Topps didn't knowingly sit on this card for months and release it into the market at a particular time. The hysteria around this chase card leds to tens (hundreds?) of millions of sales for them. These boxes were going to $800 to $1500. Had this card been "discovered" a few days after they went on sale it would have cost them boku bucks and been a marketing disaster.

I was talking with my local card shop owner yesterday about this generally. First, all of the boxes have been long gone for a while. It could be due to this card but it also has other strong rookies.

He mentioned to me about some soccer boxes he bought for his three shops that had some big time soccer card in it. The big card was found in pre-release. Box value dropped dramatically and they can barely move them.

I think these hobby shops get distribution and they are pre-sold pretty quickly via Fanatics. Yes, breakers and flippers and markup occurs, but not sure a full conspiracy is happening.