Everybody's heard of box breaking, but what about box making?

[steve B]

That's exactly what Treat inc and maybe a few other companies do. The ones that make those packages of 100 cards from one sport, or the boxes with say 20 packs plus 250 bonus cards.

For the most part those packages aren't worth getting. I pick one up now and then for amusement or if there's a card on top that I want or maybe some minis or die cuts I recognize inside.

Lately the quality has been pretty good. The last 100 card package I got turned out to be around 50% HOF or star players. Not valuable cards, mostly early 90's cards of great players. The one before that had a couple 60's cards in it.

Overall, you're paying ..........I forget is it $6 now? Something like that for 100 cards that aren't saleable by anyone else. I've heard those companies buy a LOT of cards, but only pay around a quarter of a cent /card, and want at least something like 100,000 card lots.

Steve B