OT: Paul Skenes Rookie Card Search

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by Schlesinj

Was pulled today by an 11 year old in LA.

I think that is good news all around.

Not necessarily. Just announced that the Dodgers have bought the card for $18 million, with $15 million deferred for 10 years.

[BioCRN]

Last I saw they were running around $15/pack (4 cards)...$500+ for a hobby box.

We got some high rolling 11 year olds out there.

[packs]

Like I said a lot of big cards come out of retail. Some huge hits on the NBA side have come from cello packs at Walmart that are like $10.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by packs

Like I said a lot of big cards come out of retail. Some huge hits on the NBA side have come from cello packs at Walmart that are like $10.

That makes sense to me. If retail product didn't occasionally yield high-dollar cards, people wouldn't pursue it so...aggressively.

[bmattioli]

Just like huge Lotto winners another Cali hit..

[MVSNYC]

I think the most coveted (and best chance to pull something big) option comes via a jumbo box (3 autos guaranteed, plus lots of other numbered parallels). My son and I have opened 2 boxes, and we have a 3rd one that we'll likely rip soon (considering box prices will drop now)...we really enjoy opening modern boxes.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Hoping it's just a bad photo, but it sure looks like a scribble that was signed three seconds ago has already started to fade considerably.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Not necessarily. Just announced that the Dodgers have bought the card for $18 million, with $15 million deferred for 10 years.

Funny.

But, don't hate the player, hate the game.

[z28jd]

This whole offer from the Pirates has led to the dumbest reactions from people over the last few days. When the Pirates made the offer, it was getting shared everywhere. I had numerous family members who don't even follow baseball write me and ask me about it. I couldn't avoid it for the first two weeks because I search for Pirates news twice daily. I used to cover the team, mostly the minor league system, for 15 years. I still do occasionally for a friend's site, so I still search news daily.

Anyway, ever since the news came that the kid turned down the Pirates offer, I have seen over 1,000 (literally, not just throwing out a high number) responses that say something like "why would they offer that to an 11-year-old from LA?".

This was a huge story in November that apparently 99% of baseball fans missed. These people really think that the Pirates heard an 11-year-old in LA won it and THEN offered him 30 years of season tickets.

If I somehow didn't hear the original story, I would spend a few minutes searching the internet before I asked a stupid question for all to see. Common sense would say that can't be right, but these people are just all in on group asking a dumb question over and over and over...

[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.

[SyrNy1960]

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.

+ 100

[Schlesinj]

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.

[z28jd]

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.

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

[Lorewalker]

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.

LOLOLOLOLOL

The kid told you in his journal entry. The box the card came out of was purchased after just after Black Friday, 2 weeks after the product was released.

[Republicaninmass]

The shoe shine boy at grand central station told.me he bought a few boxes.

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

The shoe shine boy at grand central station told.me he bought a few boxes.

You should check back with him and see if he too pulled one of these 1/1 cards...then we will have a conspiracy we can really pursue.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

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 posted this right away. Anyone who believes otherwise, I know a guy who has a minty fresh Frank Chance and some other big cards.

[Snapolit1]

Seems like in the matter of a few weeks the card is opened by an 11 year old, sent to Topps, floated to multiple auction houses, sent to PSA, and earmarked immediately for an auction. Record speed all around.

I will remain a bit skeptical.

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Seems like in the matter of a few weeks the card is opened by an 11 year old, sent to Topps, floated to multiple auction houses, sent to PSA, and earmarked immediately for an auction. Record speed all around.

I will remain a bit skeptical.

You don't send it to Topps. You scratch the back and input a code online. Part of the promotion was what they called "White Glove Treatment." They flew someone there to take it and personally submit it to PSA. From there, PSA did same day service. None of these things takes much time at all. In fact, the longest delay was due to evacuations of the family. The whole process with Topps and PSA took a couple days at the most.

EDIT to add: The family shopped around at auctio houses prior to redeeming it. It appears from the timeline that they actually redeemed the card on January 3rd, after pulling it on Christmas.

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Seems like in the matter of a few weeks the card is opened by an 11 year old, sent to Topps, floated to multiple auction houses, sent to PSA, and earmarked immediately for an auction. Record speed all around.

I will remain a bit skeptical.

Easy to be skeptical when one lacks details or facts pertaining to a situation.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Seems like in the matter of a few weeks the card is opened by an 11 year old, sent to Topps, floated to multiple auction houses, sent to PSA, and earmarked immediately for an auction. Record speed all around.

I will remain a bit skeptical.

I'm not going to go back and reread the story, but I thought I read he pulled a redemption card and that Topps either had already sent the card to PSA pending the redemption card or did so immediately upon being notified that the redemption card was hit.