Hey all, I just want to gauge interest in something I have been kicking around for a while. I am for the most part a team collector of my beloved Massachusetts home teams and I have been trying to come up with ways to get cards I want without getting stuff I have no interest in. I love to rip so I was thinking that maybe other team collectors would be interested in my idea of ripping boxes as box breaks. I'm not talking new stuff everyone is ripping.
My original thought was that it should all be more of a buyers group where everyone involved had there specific team and extra teams get randomized off. So if there were 10 guys each with there specific team and the remaining teams could be randomized the buyers or they could be randomized to other site members that are not part of the buyer's group.
Maybe to keep the products fair each time we do it everyone picks a product that they would be interested in and then the choices get randomized or vote for your top 3 and the one with the most votes is what we break. We would also set a price limit for each break so we all know going in what the cost would be at the most.
Let's try and see if it is even feasible. I am looking for 10 people that would be interested in a buyers club where you pic your team and have dibs on it every time we do this and then either random the remaining teams amongst our selves or offer them up to outside buyers to subsidize our costs.
Reply with the team you would want if we got all the details worked out.
Baseball:
Mattdamick - Red Sox
Sheepboy - Tigers
RoyalChief - Royals
Vroomed - Phillies
King of Cubs - Chicago Cubs
FiresNBeers - Brewers
Gunny - Pirates
RanfordFan - Blue Jays
Royals85 - Mariners
Football
Mattdamick - Patriots
RoyalChief - Chiefs
RanfordFan - Seahawks
Basketball:
Mattdamick - Celtics
Billy Kingsley - Nets
Billy Kingsley - Knicks
Billy Kingsley - Warriors
DodgyDave - Rockets
FiresnBeers - Bucks
RanfordFan - Raptors
Hockey
Mattdamick - Bruins
Billy Kingsley - Rangers
Billy Kingsley - Golden Knights
Gunny - Penguins
RanfordFan - Oilers
I was thinking that we could split teams in different ways depending on the product. Either random the teams or do it bid style on the teams. All would be determined by the majority. My only stipulation is I get my local team. I will pay for them but they are mine. If it is random team assignment and spots are $10 each I will pay my $10 dollars if it is bidding for teams I will leave it to the majority to decide what I have to pay. I have no intention of trying to make money on this I just want my team cards so I will be totally transparent about pricing. So for say a box of 1992 Bowman shipped to me would be 512. from BBCE. 512 / 28 teams would be 18.28 per team plus whatever shipping is to each person, say 4. Or we could do it bid style and the only stipulation is that the total must cover costs. Now let's say the Yankees and Dodgers go real high and the overall total comes out to $650 which is 138 more than the total. Everyone would get a piece of that back so 138 /28 would be 4.93 back.
I want this to be a way for everyone to get some cards they may not have had a chance at otherwise. We could do it however often people wanted and whatever products people were interested in.
I don't know about you but for $18 I would take a shot at a Mariano Rivera rookie that could possibly be gem mint.
Opinions and suggestions welcome.