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Joe Santoro
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Joined: Sep 2017
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Saturday, September 23, 2017 11:02 AM | |
I bought a base set of #s 1-400 and short prints of 501-700 . This appears how hey are being sold How do you get cards 401-500 and 721-725.
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wackydog
Posts: 394
Joined: Nov 2012
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Saturday, September 23, 2017 11:31 AM | |
Sounds as though you bought a regular base set (1-400) and a high number base set (501-700). The numbers you ask about are Short Prints and sell at a premium due to supposed scarcity.
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jasongerman9
Posts: 1,902
Joined: Jan 2015
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Saturday, September 23, 2017 11:54 AM | |
I would agree with that statement wackydog. With the amount of inserts, 1/1s, shortprints, etc. these days, a lot of collectors are simply considering a complete set as the regular base set, with no SPs, inserts, or variations.
The short print cards for Heritage can be found in packs of course, and I know they become available online on eBay, COMC, and other sites. I personally have only pulled one high number Heritage SP, but I haven't bought a ton of them so it's hard for me to give an accurate view on how easy they are to pull.
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I'll never quit collecting entirely, but I am downsizing. Check out my COMC store and help me thin out what I don't want so I can buy cards that I do want. See something you like? Send me a message on here, and we can knock the price down quite a bit. I'll even take a bit of a loss if it means getting you a card you really want.
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Joe Santoro
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Joined: Sep 2017
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Saturday, September 23, 2017 2:12 PM | |
Thanks for the replies. its so hard to get a complete Heritage set nowadays, Topps has gotten very greedy with these fake short prints,
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jasongerman9
Posts: 1,902
Joined: Jan 2015
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Saturday, September 23, 2017 2:29 PM | |
Short prints, variations, inserts...it drives me crazy. I have a very completionist tendency, and when I debated beginning to build some sets, I knew it would need to stay away from modern sets because of it!
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I'll never quit collecting entirely, but I am downsizing. Check out my COMC store and help me thin out what I don't want so I can buy cards that I do want. See something you like? Send me a message on here, and we can knock the price down quite a bit. I'll even take a bit of a loss if it means getting you a card you really want.
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griffey423
Posts: 651
Joined: Jul 2014
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Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00 AM | |
The High Number Short prints fell one every three packs, so you'd have to buy at least four boxes to get the complete short print set. The base set also fell one every three boxes, but with 100 in the set you'd need a case of 12 hobby boxes to still be 4 short of a complete set.
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Always looking for baseball variation/error cards and anything Garrett Whitley or Ian Anderson
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CluelessJoe
Posts: 401
Joined: Apr 2013
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Monday, September 25, 2017 9:09 AM | |
I'm with Jason. I started collecting Opening Day because it was possible to put together a master set (I'm a completionist as well, kind of like Pokemon, got to catch them all). Then they added the regular parallel set (first red, then gold, before sticking with blue), then they added the retail purple parallel of Toys R Us (hopefully their bankruptcy will bring an end to this, but most likely another retailer will pick it up) as well as the variations. At first the variations weren't too bad, only 14 in 2013. They are now up to 40 variations, 20% of the set, that's ridiculous. Not to mention all of the SSP insert sets in this years Opening Day. They are going to price themselves out of the market, as I assume less and less kids are starting into the hobby,
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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Monday, September 25, 2017 11:00 AM | |
If I remember right, 1986 Topps didn't have any SPs or errors or variations. Those were the days.
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster.
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griffey423
Posts: 651
Joined: Jul 2014
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Monday, September 25, 2017 12:11 PM | |
Actually, 1986 Topps has the famed "blue streak" on the Clemens card, which extended to the Tom Seaver card. Just sayin' :)
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Always looking for baseball variation/error cards and anything Garrett Whitley or Ian Anderson
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ShoTime
Posts: 318
Joined: Mar 2015
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Monday, September 25, 2017 12:27 PM | |
Seems that Topps just can't stop doing it. The main WWE release had SP/Variations for the first time this year.
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CJF, from the middle of nowhere. Hiya buddies!
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