Break Out Topps Buy-Backs?

[SetBuilder]

Hi guys, just bought a lot of cards and it comes with a modern Topps buy-back with a real card inside. What do you do with it? I don't like the design of the Topps holder and I feel like breaking it out. I'm not sure what value this adds to the card -- if any. Just seems like a big gimmick to me.

[t206blogcom]

It comes down to personal preference. There are some collectors who keep it in the Topps holder while others remove the card from the holder.

I've purchased several t206s in the Topps buyback holders and immediately remove the card from the holders. To each their own.

[drc]

For resale, I'd leave it in. The buy back originally brought a premium with modern card collectors, but I don' know if that's the case anymore. You are free to do what you wish.

I'm assuming it's a low grade common. The one practical resale thing is buyers will assume the buy back card is authentic. Some may feel more confident bidding over a raw card.

set them free from their modern cells and let them enjoy the rest of their existence being held and fondled by the ones that love it I busted all the ones I bought out of that case regardless of values.

[Jaybird]

I actually think there are more people that collect the cards that don't care about the buybacks than people that do. So, because of that, I'd take it out. If I ever went to sell, I think my audience would be wider in the population of folks that collect the T cards and don't collect Topps.

I for one wouldn't look at a buyback card. I don't have any interest in the Topps holder so the card inside would actually have less value to me and I certainly wouldn't want to pay a premium for it.

I have to think the number of people collecting buybacks is a small percentage.

[FrankWakefield]

If you're going to sell the card anytime in the foreseeable future, you'll wish you'd left the card in... As it is, folks that collect those (I choke on the term "buy back", Topps never had it to start with so they couldn't buy it back...) would buy it, as would white border tobacco card collectors. Once you bust it out, you've diminished your potential buyers.

[BradH]

Originally Posted by drc

For resale, I'd leave it in. The buy back originally brought a premium with modern card collectors, but I don' know if that's the case anymore.....

This is still true - Some people (sellers) feel there is a premium, why I don't know. So if you're going to sell it, I'd keep it in the holder.

When I have purchased them for my own collection I have taken them out because I hate the Topps holder. But I've turned down buying many a T206 common because it was in the Topps holder and the dealer/seller thought it was worth more.

[t206blogcom]

Originally Posted by BradH

I've turned down buying many a T206 common because it was in the Topps holder and the dealer/seller thought it was worth more.

+1

[FrankWakefield]

+1 to what that dealer was thinking...