General Forum

Noticed today online that it looks like Topps Series 2 blasters are now $25.  Series 1 was $20 so it looks like $25 is going to be the basic blaster price moving forward.

I've pretty much stopped buying packaged cards. They just cost too much. 

Yeah I am starting to get to that point.  I'll probably still buy a rack pack here and there if I can ever find them, but the extra five dollars for a blaster makes them seem more expensive then I am willing to pay.  I'm not sure exactly why, but that extra 5 dollars puts it over the edge for me.  

At $20 I could buy anything if I was on edge. For $25 I cannot push to buy a blaster unless I want to collect the set. I used to only buy discounted boxes after they were marked down 25%.

Blasters are $35-$40 here in Canada.....haven't bought new cards in ages.

I will usually buy a couple packs or maybe a blaster of a set, just for the joy of the opening. After that I just trade to fill the set.

I was just thinking the other day how I used to get excited seeing the marked-down boxes. Haven't seen one in at least two years.

For someone, like me, who hasn't bought packaged cards in 30+ years, how many cards are in blasters? I wouldn't pay that much either. Current inflation is like 8% and that's more than an 8% increase. Topps and Panini are going to price people out of the hobby if they keep this up. 

Almost every baseball blaster was $30 dollars at the place I visited today. I think the owner said basketball and football varied depending on product.

Speaking of "mark downs", do you think we will ever see them again? I see older, single packs from player x's rookie year being sold for almost the cost of a new blaster.

topps flagship is 99 cards with one manufactured card.