Who says buying loose packs from an open box is bad?

December 30, 2004, 10:17 PM

Darth Vader Fan

quote:
Originally posted by rns91294:
Oh, and who carries the hobby version of LOTR chrome? Does anyone know?

Card/hooby shops are the only place I know of.

December 30, 2004, 10:41 PM

patonyfan

There used to be a CVS Pharmacy around here where the manager would stock hobby packs.

Mike

January 03, 2005, 07:14 PM

Incarnadine

My local shop had a box of Alias 3 in and still 2/3 full so I grabbed 8 packs:

Inserts- L4 and WG6
Pieceworks- PW6, nice colorful swatch of Isabella Rossellini's blouse
Auto- A30 Peggy Lipton as Olivia Reed

Pretty nice looking cards, especially the PW card.

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January 04, 2005, 01:31 PM

maxpower03

I picked up three packs from a just-opened box of Alias 3 in my local comic store and got the Vivica A. Fox autograph redemption. Cool card.

January 07, 2005, 03:45 PM

darbow

I bought 11 packs of Alias season 3 today from a store i've had no luck from before, i got:

WG2
L9
PW4 Sarks sweater

and only 8 cards short of a complete base set with only a few doubles.

January 07, 2005, 07:46 PM

Chris Cline

Today I piced up a few packs and got some great pulls:
Harry Potter update: 6 packs and got a Harry cloak card and a Wesley Twins Double auto card.

Outer Limits: 10 packs got a Nimoy and a Adam West auto's

Sports Ill swimsuit: 1 pack 1 auto

Twilight Zone: 5 packs got a Shatner auto

I think I might not buy any packs for a couple of weeks and let my luck recharge

January 08, 2005, 07:11 AM

wolfie

quote:
Originally posted by Chris Cline:

I think I might not buy any packs for a couple of weeks and let my luck recharge

Are you sure you have not used up everybodys luck there.

January 08, 2005, 11:15 AM

hammer

I wish I could easily find loose packets in the UK

January 10, 2005, 07:48 PM

sci-fi guy

I also bought a couple of packs of Andromeda on e-bay, and got a Lisa Ryder/Beka Valentine auto redemption card.

January 10, 2005, 07:51 PM

Chris Byrne

Bought 4 packs of Harry Potter update, and pulled rare foil #6.
They were the last 4 packs, so I thought that was pretty good.

Chris

January 11, 2005, 10:34 AM

WarriorBabe

quote:
Originally posted by hammer:
I wish I could easily find loose packets in the UK

I know! The only place I can buy from are two on-line venues.
I didn't have bad luck- 3 Buffy WOS and I got a LC card, and 3 Charmed I got VE2, but could have been better!

January 11, 2005, 02:58 PM

Cyberbats

We know alot of dealers and some major chain store hobby retailers who systematicallly remove the chase from boxes and still sell packs at retail price.

Many dealers do it with boxes as well - they order five/ten cases, find the ultra rare cards in one case, set the rest of the boxes to one side and start on the next case. Then sell the boxes they know do not contain the 1:360 cards etc.

We regard this as a false economy however.

We only usually sell gaming cards as loose packs - when the Pokemon phenomenon hit, a child from the local school pulled a Charizard foil having bought just two packs - thereafter we were swamped with kids from all over the district.

One of our customers pulled the Princess Leia auto from the Star Wars Evolution from just one purchase. Word gets around....

If customers know they have a fair chance of pulling the most sought after cards, they will keep coming back to you.

January 11, 2005, 03:02 PM

Over_Worked_Mom

Bought 10 packs of LOTR Chrome Retail edition from my local Suncoast (they were having a sale - spend $10 or more on cards, get $3 off!)

Pulled an Ian Holm (Bilbo) auto

Technically, Robert pulled it - it was in *his* 5 packs. My 5 packs yielded nothing

January 14, 2005, 03:02 PM

maingon

i bought i think it was 10 packs of dark angel trading cards on ebay and i pulled a James Cameron Auto

today i bought some harry potter cards and pulled a costume card

January 14, 2005, 04:12 PM

Chris Cline

I knew I should not have pressed my luck. Bought 25 lose paks today and got nothing. NOTHING not even a puzzle card. I am none with lose paks untill Twilight Zone

January 16, 2005, 05:45 PM

Incarnadine

Nothing too exciting but the local card shop had some stuff marked 50% off so I grabbed a few cheap packs.

AVP- 2 packs and got SF2 and SF3
American chopper- 2 packs, nada
Outer Limits- 4 packs CC2 (costume worn by John Amos) and CC9 (Costume worn by Jeremy Sisto). The CC9 has an oddity, on the back is a small 1/4 inch circle protrudingfrom the card, just a prodruding indentation, not actually coming out of the card, like some small circular object got trapped in the card making process.

For no particular reason I also picked up 1 pack of Press Pass Premium racing cards and pulled a Jeff Gordon In the Zone insert IZ 4/12 and individually numbered 023/250.

January 31, 2005, 10:51 AM

Andrew David

A couple of packs of Star Wars Heritage from W H Smith at the weekend yielded a Joe Corroney sketch of Vader's helmet so well pleased.

January 31, 2005, 02:16 PM

WarriorBabe

I bought ten packs of Return of The King from ebay for .99p and got one foil card.
I keep seeing people from the UK mentioning places they've bought packs from, but I have never seen TC open boxes in WH Smith or Partners!

February 03, 2005, 11:09 AM

Andrew David

quote:
Originally posted by Kimberley M:
I bought ten packs of Return of The King from ebay for .99p and got one foil card.
I keep seeing people from the UK mentioning places they've bought packs from, but I have never seen TC open boxes in WH Smith or Partners!

W H Smiths in Burton has the packs behind the counter and Partners in Derby do sell cards on occasions. W H Smiths in other places have 'Trading Posts' but these tend to be stickers and Top Trump cards more often than not.