FRAUF ALERT!!! beware of dropthepuck20 on ebay

[D. Bergin]

If anybody remembers back then, Football cards were not exactly a popular product back then either. Topps would regularly liquidate them off as closeouts, and it certainly wouldn't surprise me if they were dumping close-out 1981 rack packs in 1984, in whatever boxes they had in their facility at the time.

Anybody remember the highly regarded 1984 NFL wax boxes with big black close-out "X"s on them? I know a guy who was buying them up for like 100 bucks a case in 1986-87 or so.

[sportscollector]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

If anybody remembers back then, Football cards were not exactly a popular product back then either. Topps would regularly liquidate them off as closeouts, and it certainly wouldn't surprise me if they were dumping close-out 1981 rack packs in 1984, in whatever boxes they had in their facility at the time.

Anybody remember the highly regarded 1984 NFL wax boxes with big black close-out "X"s on them? I know a guy who was buying them up for like 100 bucks a case in 1986-87 or so.

if what you are saying is true then I would deffently owe the seller an apology. with all the unopened fraud out their its easy to think this was a fraud. I very angry spending $1200.00 dollars and finding out the box said 1984 on the bottom if this happened to you wouldn't you be pretty angery

[vintagetoppsguy]

Originally Posted by sportscollector

I very angry spending $1200.00 dollars and finding out the box said 1984 on the bottom if this happened to you wouldn't you be pretty angery

Ummm, not really. The value is in the contents of the box, not the box itself. Let me put this another way. Let's say I sold you a 1981 Topps football set (hand collated of course as there were no factory sets) and I ship it in a white 600 ct baseball card box that says "1984 Topps FB" on the outside of the box. Are you really going to complain because the box says 1984 instead of 1981? Does it matter what the box says on the outside or does it matter that you got what you paid for (the contents on the inside of the box). I really don't understand your gripe here (unless the packs themselves are damaged or tampered with - then that's another story).

[steve B]

Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

Ummm, not really. The value is in the contents of the box, not the box itself. Let me put this another way. Let's say I sold you a 1981 Topps football set (hand collated of course as there were no factory sets) and I ship it in a white 600 ct baseball card box that says "1984 Topps FB" on the outside of the box. Are you really going to complain because the box says 1984 instead of 1981? Does it matter what the box says on the outside or does it matter that you got what you paid for (the contents on the inside of the box). I really don't understand your gripe here (unless the packs themselves are damaged or tampered with - then that's another story).

+1

Wow, first time I've typed that.

The box that was bought was much better than a typical 81 rack box, 14 packs with stars showing would be unusual.

Steve b

[sportscollector]

ok after doing some more research I might owe dropthepuck20 a major apology I jumped the gun here. With all the fake unopened stuff floating around has me and a lot of other people paranoid I guess. so if this was a box that topps used to unload their backed up inventory then i guess that would make sense back then I remember football cards were very unpopular back in the early 80's to mid 80's as well