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Old 01-26-2025, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Snapolit1 View Post
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.
The kid opened the card packs on Christmas Day, so obviously it was purchased before then and sent out by Topps even earlier. It was only announced as found in the last week, but that wasn't the day the kid got it
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