I concur.

Always sad to hear that. If you get authenticated cards/packs, chances of being scammed are slim. Of course nothing's ever full proof.

John C oh you mean FOOL proof lol

Yes, that’s very discouraging for new collectors especially... no matter what you’re collecting. The Militaria collectibles segment is so flooded with Repro items that some sellers don’t bother trying to sell originals (the honest ones will tell you if the item is a reproduction- for example squadron patches. When you spend good money on an item and think you have something nice- only to have a pro reveal you’ve purchased a fake is heartbreaking. That’s why I always buy from people I trust and have purchased from before or can get a recommendation. The good stuff costs good money. One thing I’ve found to be true in collecting...if the price is too good to be true..it usually is. This guy mentions that he’s taking an item out of circulation by opening a fake pack- that’s a class move in my book. There are good trustworthy people out there- you just have to find them.

not if you caution

Think about it dude. Some of these packs have cards worth $150,000. If you owned a legit unopened pack, are you going to sell it for cheap? No. You're going to open it. Unfortunately, some people open it and then carefully re-seal it after taking the good card out, or finding nothing, and then lying to people about it. But don't ever expect to buy a legit unopened pack, unless you buy it off of grandma at a garage sale, where she sells her deceased husbands' box of stuff and hasn't got a clue about it. Aside from that, ZERO chance any baseball card dealer is taking the risk of selling you a pack with a 150k card in it.

Sad but true

What was it with mother's hating these? They always end up tossing them.

STEVE OCB duh he spent half the video explaining that

golfmaniac007 PSA rejected it for a reason fucktooth

I agree I'd say this was real

I just opened a pack of 1989 Bowman in a recent video. For some reason, the gum looked too tempting, and almost reflexively, by some long defunct habit (I opened a lot of '89 Bowman when I was 9 years old that year) chucked the gum in my mouth before really thinking twice about it. 31 year old gum. Was a bad mistake. 😨😅

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. I got into collecting as a kid in the 1970s, then graduated to buying 1980s sets and older rookie/star player cards from the 1950s and 1960s. I used to get Sports Collectors Digest by mail and Baseball Card magazine on the new stands. Remember in the mid to late 80s when people in the hobby started to promote players such as Wally Joyner, Mike Greenwell, Kevin Seitzer and John Olerud as sure fire future HOFs? Then their rookie cards skyrocketed in value, even though they were mass produced in junk wax boxes! To me it's no different today with people clamoring to get cards of Fernando Tatis Jr., Luis Robert and Aristides Aquino. Who knows how these players will end their careers? The hobby now is driven by the "chase" or "insert cards" which claim to be printed in lesser quantity. And the autographs and junky "uniform relic cards." Don't want to sound like a buzz-kill or a hater. If you enjoy collecting, have at it. But don't expect today's cards to afford you a paid college education or down payment on a house. I think people are nuts to shell out a million dollars on a Mike Trout card for instance, but it's a free country, so knock your socks off if you want to shell out that kind of money for a current player's card!

Topps released all series packs at the end of the year

@@korn.on.jacob. Not in 1965.

true there

No that pack is junk. Worthless crap.

Sorry I don't recall. I picked it up on eBay probably 20 years ago.

Tom Dockery Customs handles incoming shipments from overseas dipshit

Scratch King These guys aren't confined to quarters.They have civilian lives.

I keep all pre 1981 wrappers. Not to reseal, but because theyre history

Is it better to have a pack fresh very off center card 20/80.... or a perfectly centered card with a small ding in one of the corners....or a gum stain?

He prolly took a bigger hit $ wise than the kids. I feel bad for the guy who bought the 1965 pack. He deserved better.

jongreek Thanks. I've had far more wins than losses. Just wish I still had the run of 1972-76 wax boxes I sold off ten years ago. Unopened prices are really soaring these days.

jongreek It may seem that way to use probably because your mommy and daddy bought all your cards for you when you were a child. But I was out mowing lawns and doing other various work at age 7 saving up money and buying cards. I watched many of my countless 70 to 90 dollar cards drop down to near nothingness. All the complete sets I bought, even the so called limited LEAF card sets that I paid 150.00 for in 1990 can now be bought for 15.00. So that's why I say kids from the 80s and 90s that collected cards got ripped off big time. But I eventually learned how the system works. They jack up the price in the card pricing catalogs to create demand. Once they sold enough then they drop. Hell, I bought a PSA GRADE 10 1989 Donruss Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie card for a dollar on ebay about 5 years ago..lol.

***** I don't play in the modern market partially for that reason. But also because production runs are artificially limited with 1/1, 1/100 etc. I stick to the vintage cards. I did have some 1980s/90s junk cards but I wasn't heavy into it. I was actually building a high grade 1969 set at that time, so I avoided losing big money investing in modern cards. The worst investment was chasing the Ripken FF card. I probably spent a few hundred on wax and cello chasing that card. Could have been a lot worse though. I know people sitting on cases of unopened late 80s and 90s packs.

Hey , if u have local minor league teams( Nuts, Ports) u can use some of them if they have former players now coaches for autographs, N for just a postage , most of them love to sign them

True. I've only bought a few from eBay and only this one was rejected. I actually bought a wax box run from 1972-76 in the early days of eBay and the boxes were fine. Lots of packs with stars showing. I still have the 1972 wax pack with Clemente IA showing that came from that box.

John C Nowadays a lot of people on E-bay are scammers. Good for you if you did get the real thing, I just know I got burned in the early days before I learned what kind of d-bags are out there trying to scam honest people. Sad really. I miss the days when me and my friends would ride our bikes to the card shops. Do those even exist anymore?

Kevin Overbeck Watch the video

The Collector no no no

You obviously don't know how to grade cards

It's not needed.

Wax pack. Wrapped in wax paper.

...and also to distinguish them from cellophane packs. The wax packs held 5 cards for a nickel, the clear cellophane packs held 10 cards for a dime, and they were always preferred in my neighborhood because you could see the top and bottom card. Used to drive the candy store owner crazy digging through the box looking for prime cards!