I would like to add, the charismatic players who make people get out of their seats by non-goal scoring methods will also have traction for their small print run singles as well. National heroes, O6 franchise heroes, top fighters, tough guys, etc.
Yes you can ship your hits from epack home. Base cards are digital. But it's overpriced and it's gambling. You'll end up being disappointed most of the time.
Yeah, I’ve never done epack but I’ve ripped some boxes, and I’ve usually been disappointed. I’ve narrowed my collecting to a few players and one team, and focus on getting just the cards I want. So much more enjoyable, and no disappointment of bad boxes.
This isn’t really true although some LCS may think so. UD EPack still has to ship but now they have to deal more customers and they still have a middleman…I believe they use COMC for fulfillment. Now if they sold their eproduct for a discount, like 25% off retail instead of full retail, then for sure that would be predatory against LCS, especially in Canada.
There's more to ePack than just opening packs/gambling. You can buy singles from people (just join the ePack Facebook group) and trade with other people on the platform. I rarely open wax on ePack but I buy a ton of singles from people so I can build the rainbow speckled foil young guns.
You don't need a LCS to buy products. You can get them online and shipped to your place at the discounted rate. I use Dave&Adams and Steelcity Collectibles a lot.
With todays day and age of the internet, you can find just about every product cheaper than what Epacks charges. They’re releasing more “exclusive” products right now and soon it’ll be even more. Watch them cut out something like SP retail or SPx from retail stores to make it epacks only just to drum up business. Ovation, Ultra and Parkhurst all don’t have physical releases. I’ve been on the site since it started and all we’ve seen is QC go down substantially and customer service doing next to nothing about it.
Yeah the free packs are useless. Typically when you buy a box, the inserts are physical cards, usually 1 per pack. Then you have the option to ship them home or transfer to COMC. You can sell the cards on COMC or ship them home from there.
The digital versions in purchased packs can also be combined (called foiling) to create physical versions.
You can collect the whole set of free pack cards for a new avatar logo. That’s about it with them. If anything, buy a few packs of whatever cards you’re interested in to get some stuff to use as traders to then flip for other cards you may like more.
He definitely has a corner on that market.Came across this story about a collector with one of the more rarer card collections - HOFer Mike Piazza as a member of the Florida Marlins. For those that don't follow baseball closely - Piazza was traded by the Dodgers to Florida and then only spent 8 days and played in 5 games before getting traded to the NY Mets.
from wbur.org:
Jerry Dworkin is a collector. And his collection is so vast and so strange ... well, I’ll let him say it.
"I think you could say, arguably, this is the most unusual collection of any Hall of Famer, probably ever to be, given that the trading card company industry is not what it was way back when," Jerry says.
8 Days, 5 Games With The Marlins
It began in May of 1998. That’s when the Dodgers traded future Hall of Famer Mike Piazza to the then-Florida Marlins.
Eight days and five games later, Piazza was shipped north to the New York Mets.
Jerry Dworkin wasn’t aware of any of this when it happened. See, he’s not actually a baseball fan, and in 1998 he didn’t set out to collect anything.
But when one of Jerry’s friends mentioned that a trading card had been issued to commemorate Piazza’s eight days, five games in Miami…
"I was just struck by the oddity of the situation and that a card had been produced," Jerry says. "And it would probably become valuable someday. So I did buy it."
A few of Jerry Dworkin's Mike Piazza Marlins cards.
Jerry couldn’t describe that card for me. He doesn’t remember exactly which card in his collection was first. That’s because there were a lot more Piazza Marlins cards issued, and eventually Jerry would set out to collect them all.
Full story: Piazza's 8 Days, 5 Games With Marlins Leads To Decades-Long Obsession
Yeah Bedard is expected to be in S2. My understanding is S1 won’t have any Bedard (not even canvas YG). I was talking with a buddy on the weekend who has a card shop and he said based on what’s he’s seen for S2 preorder, he expects retail price will be around $200CDN for a hobby box.
I'm thinking about doing the same- $175-200 CAD per box is steep. I remember selling Lafreniere YGs and YGCs for ~$200-250 CAD at release so I wonder if Bedard pushes $400-500. I guess we'll have had 4 months of watching him in the NHL to build up hype
I'm thinking that's the way I'm going the e-pack way.
