Is this like Group Therapy? π€ππβπ€£
"Hi, My Name is R.C. Burns & I'm a Cardahololic & I'm not sober yet." π
I have a bad, terrible, craving, yearning, need and habit of buying packs in boxes until I HIT the 1:Box, 1:24 pks, or other Subset etc pack.is opened at the Hobby Shop. I did this more in the 90's when "Chase" cards or sub-sets, "Hits", "Pulls", or "Scores" as some call them occurred. Doing this was an addiction really and I only did it with 1 Hobby Shop bcz I found a way to locate the "Inserts" by feeling the packs, especially in Fleer Flair 93 to 96 or so then they started small boxing the packs to keep folks from finding them.
I few notes:
• I would hold the pack between my thumb and index finger and slowly shift the stack to the left & right, really slow. The Inserts were some of the first cards that were over 35pt in size being like 50pt or so. That would always cause the cards to move above & below them & thus I would open up a "Wave of The Future", "Outfield Power", "Hot Numbers" & others without breaking the whole box. I didn't do that to boxes to rob them etc, usually just when a few packs were left and I paid the bills for that shop for years LOL.
~ WARNING - Hobby Shops that figured this out and probably a pile of sellers on eBay and the like KNOW THIS TOO - ITD WHY I DON'T BUY PACKS FROM BACK WHEN! TOO EASY TO GET IN AND YANK RARE CARDS OUT OR RESEAL THE WAX PACKS. - ALSO, we had a hobby shop owner in town here that did this pack hunt etc on entire cases so that after he pulled all the "Hits" he reboxed the other packs he didn't open from the 12 in a case and sold them ad NEW!!! I BUSTED HIM DOING IT! That's as sorry of a person that there is and kids were going in there hoping to get a hero pack ya know and nothing!! He kept changing store locations and eventually fell out for having people Autofrpah stuff 20 yrs ago that weren't suppose to be doing it....
Anyway that's my love or Intrest, the chase and the hero cards. I don't collect many teams currently bcz NOBODY is loyal or the league's are messing up a great players career by trading them or the player (King James) not suppose to say it but he's buying Ring Chances instead of building loyal teammates like all greats did!
I also love new card smell......
I am a Disabled Vey/Civilian 20/80 kinda thing. 45 yrs old & 4th Gen Collector. Currently collecting NASCAR, MLB SEC Uniformed Players & BAMA Pros Only. I have 65K cards from spending way too much on them thru 45 yrs. #GoBlueDeuce #GoUnoDeuce #GoDeuceDeuce & Roll Tide Roll...πππ»ππΊπΈ