R2 Price Jump
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Forum Name: Topps UFC Round 1 and 2
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Topic: R2 Price Jump
Posted By: WhiteIvy
Subject: R2 Price Jump
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 1:06am
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Blowout and BigT raised the price of a round 2 hobby box over $40 in matter of weeks ($110 to over $150). I love round 2 but there is no I'm paying $155 a box...This is the highest I've ever seen R2 boxes.... What gives??? Ideas? ------------- 
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Posted By: rb808
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 3:08am
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probably the success of jon jones and dan henderson? idk.. locally they've been selling them @ 135 a box but even that is almost too much for me.. maybe their supply is just getting low and theyre trying to milk it
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Posted By: matthewevan
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 7:16am
| supply and demand. plus..look at the cards..rookie/first cards(gold and silver too) of current heavyweight champ JDS, light heavyweight champ Bones, interim welterweight champ condit..and the first autos of jds/bones..lets not forget the first/rookie card of current undisputed middleweight champ Chael Sonnen too. Rd2 has a lot of cards of the top names in the sport and when compared to an 800$ rd1 box, rd2 at 150 sounds good. |
Posted By: daparham
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 8:19am
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So Matthew are you a salesman? Hah I never busted a box of round 2 and you're making it tempting. ------------- Check out my feedback... Updating with NICE cards for sale. Updated 9/3/12 |
Posted By: WhiteIvy
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 8:39am
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Yea, there are some great rookies in R2 as Matthewevan pointed out. But still, the Condit/Sonnen pulls are base cards no autos. Blowout/Big T must have seen a big jump in demand for R2. $125 is my max on R2 boxes, I hope prices come back down 
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Posted By: darkhorse
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 12:12pm
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The box prices locally here have been at 165 a box I seen a break on blowout where the guy said he wouldn't be surprised to see box prices hit $200. I thought that was out of the question until I looked at the hits and subjects. Knockout is $200 a box and you get arguably better hits but if your after "rookies" round 2 is the way to go. What other box beside round 1 can you still get $20-$50 for blue autos on average?? ------------- |
Posted By: matthewevan
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 1:21pm
i have broken a total of less than 6 boxes of rd2 personally..i dont think i would spend 150 on a box though.. i can see why they charge it--especially if supply is drying up.. i have opened some terrible boxes- marcus davis and cb dolloway autos.. spending 150 on those boxes is rough! |
Posted By: Dirtskin
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 1:29pm
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I really want to go in with 3 other people on a case.
I haven't looked at prices lately, prob around $400 each? Instead of opening all of the cards like normal case breaks we would get 3 boxes each. Someone will get the case hit that way too. I really want to tuck a box away, just in case prices do get crazy. ------------- |
Posted By: erasoul
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 2:06pm
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like matt said, there are so many dud boxes...i'd rather buy KO. ------------- http://erasoul.minus.com/uploads - Trade+PC |
Posted By: WhiteIvy
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 2:46pm
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R2 Cases are $1800-1900 right now, no way to make $ unless you pull a Jones 1/1.
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Posted By: WhiteIvy
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 2:49pm
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Here's a guy with a case for $1,600. http://marketplace.beckett.com/custom/49/-12-box-case-2009-topps-ufc-round-2-mixed-martial-arts-mma-factory-sealed-hobby-box-3-autographed-cards-3-memorabilia-cards-per-box_65153640 -------------
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Posted By: Dirtskin
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 3:06pm
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If there are 4 of us that want to do it I would be in, but I am not to optimistic. ------------- |
Posted By: rb808
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 6:00pm
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Collecting B.J. Penn and Travis Browne |
Posted By: twoten01
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2012 at 7:47pm
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yeah my box last weekend(@$130) had a Bader auto, Efrain auto, and 2 Tyson Griffin mat cards horrible box, but I got a ton of debut base cards in that will grade great so, I wasn't too bummed. Kinda of sucks cases were in the $1350 range less than 2 weeks ago, if I could get 1 for $1350 now, I would jump on it. there cant be more than 50-100 cases left, if that much, and the Jones 1/1 hasn't surfaced yet. ------------- |
Posted By: WhiteIvy
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 7:35pm
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Yea, I think $110 a box or $1250 a case are acceptable R2 prices. Much over that is crazy... If that Jones 1/1 doesn't surface in a couple years (and he's still champ), I could see boxes getting pretty hot when they start drying up... Has anyone ever found any rubies or diamonds in retail boxes? -------------
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Posted By: rb808
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 11:17pm
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Imagine if some random kid decided to buy a couple of packs or something and found that Jones 1/1 but is totally clueless.. It could be somewhere being used as a chocolate milk coaster and we would never know. LOL (The reason i say this is because last month while we were cleaning our house, I came across a box full of loose original american idol cards.. Apparently my sister had bought a bunch of packs when she was young just to try to get a jasmine trias card [she was a local star back then.. noticed my sister found both a base and gold version] And as i was digging through the creased and worn cards in the box i found a jennifer hudson autograph just thrown in there.. Not worth much, but my sister was totally clueless about it until i found it) -------------
Collecting B.J. Penn and Travis Browne |
Posted By: Dirtskin
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 11:24pm
I think the best cars I have heard of coming out of a retail pack was a ME Forrest griffin jumbo auto /10 ------------- |
Posted By: rb808
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 11:28pm
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I found a few title shot rubies at retail if that helps.. I actually found much better hits retail than hobby with that series. IDK about the rest of them though. -------------
Collecting B.J. Penn and Travis Browne |
Posted By: WhiteIvy
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 11:29pm
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Yea, I've heard stories about other releases, but am wondering specifically about R2. I think someone just bought 7 boxes of R2 retail? Who was it? -------------
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Posted By: WhiteIvy
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 11:31pm
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COCKBLOCKS... -------------
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