2012 Topps Heritage

[zljones]

Originally Posted by steve B

Wow that's cheap. Around here almost everything is a bit over $20. Not like the old days when red white and blue was cheaper than Pepsi. ($6 a case or less compared to $8)

I won't even get into how much the stuff I like costs

The packs at $50+ are pretty much just special inserts with sometimes a few "base" cards included to make it look like a set. I bought a couple of the equivalent ones - Edge graded football - when they were new and haven't bothered since. I do think the base cards that come in those packs will eventually be better than junk if only because of the cost of just getting close to a set.

Steve B

Wow holy crap $20 a case! I thought we had it bad in Illinois. The City Of Chicago is probably that high though, luckily I am about 20-25 miles outside Chicago.
Oh I see it is special packs that are high priced, I get so confused with cards since 1992; hence, one of the reasons I quit collecting as a kid in the 1990s, just got too confusing and difficult to get what you wanted. It all started with the 1990 Upperdeck Heros Reggie Jackson Auto card, then 91 Donruss Elite.

[Jayworld]

Our local (and only) card dealer in the Plano area is very much up on all the new stuff. He has a lot of "older" card singles for sale in stock (going back to 1979 ), but his bread-and-butter is the new stuff. The Topps regular series packs are $1.79, and the Heritage are $2.99/pack. Other more premium issues are higher. It dismays me to see packs as high as $35, $50, and even $100+ for the "premium" stuff.

Having said that, the Topps Heritage (and formerly Bowman Heritage) are pretty nice issues, already echoed on this post by others about simulating the older card look and feel. It is kind of a nice way for the "older" collector to buy a pack or two of cards and feel like he felt as a kid opening up a wax pack of cards.

I plan on trying to complete the Topps Update Series that will come out in August of this year. I have not ever done this with modern cards, but being a Padres fan, it will allow me to pick up cards of their new uniforms. I also did enjoy Topps promotion last year in the Update Series (I bought about 100+ cards) in which special codes could be redeemed online for vintage cards, and you built a "collection" of virtual cards that you could offer as trade bait for vintage cards you wanted. I was able to pick up 13-14 cards from Topps over 40 years old and had them mail them to me.

[Griffins]

it's also a nice way for kids to get into cards. A few years ago one of the coaches on my sons team gave a few packs of Heritage to each kid (it was the '58 style cards) and when I explained that they were replicas of cards from '58 they all wanted to see the originals. When they found out they could buy "ancient" 50 year old cards for less than a pack a few of them starting collecting.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by zljones

Wow holy crap $20 a case! I thought we had it bad in Illinois. The City Of Chicago is probably that high though, luckily I am about 20-25 miles outside Chicago.
Oh I see it is special packs that are high priced, I get so confused with cards since 1992; hence, one of the reasons I quit collecting as a kid in the 1990s, just got too confusing and difficult to get what you wanted. It all started with the 1990 Upperdeck Heros Reggie Jackson Auto card, then 91 Donruss Elite.

Here's a list online from a fairly big package store. The little places will usually be a bit higher.
http://www.capecodpackagestore.com/c...iquor-beer.asp
The Mass legislature is fond of "sin taxes" so we get a bit added on every now and then.

Yeah, things have goten crazy since then. Nice basic packs are usually under $2 and most retail ones are 2.99 for "fancy" stuff like heritage and Alen and Ginter.

Tha blaster boxes are $20 boxes with around 8 packs or so. (7 packs plus one bonus pack!) A bit discounted, but the packs also usually have a card or two fewer and sometimes the mix of inserts is diferent. And usually they have some special card that only comes in those boxes. The big 3 retailers left often have their own special inserts. Red borders in Target, blue borders in Wal Mart. Nothing in Toys r Us this year plus a $26 price tag! (Won't be buying from them...)

There is a bit of a gambling element, but At least there's cards to collect. Scratch tickets just don't work for me. (I get the sports ones for free - The scratch ticket people also litter and my yard is apparently just far enough away from the store that I get a bunch of them.)

Steve B