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Originally Posted by Blaster86
I watched a store owner crack a Lane Hutson rookie card with some sort of special attachment to it.
He was beyond hyped. He said in a couple years it was going to be two car payments. Made me happy for him. I then gambled on a magic pack and opened trash. I was less happy for him.
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Anybody who is regularly cracking boxes like that for rookies is not coming out ahead. He got a car payment this time. He spent 10 car payments trying to get there. The value pre-pandemic of new product was awful, now its downright horrendous, especially in hockey, where only the hot rookie cards have value. You can buy HoF autos in hockey for $10-20. Basketball, Baseball, and Football and even wrestling and Nascar all give several times more value than a hockey box does.
When I was collecting heavily, I'd wait for older retail product to go on sale and hunt the Young Guns and rookies I wanted that way. If you waited a lot of retail went for $25-40 down from $80-90. Then you could identify the rookies to hunt for.
I'm still waiting for Byfield not to play like an idiot (salty about his non-clear that cost LA the Edmonton series).