The pandemic ruined many many thing, the sports card hobby was definitely one of them. I've stopped buying cards about a year and a half ago. I just can't bring myself to drop 40 bucks for a blaster or 130 for a regular box and getting one auto. Or a manufactured mem card, what kind of bullshit is that? Or some numbered card. The hobby is in shambles.
@brooklynbobbyscardrips5 ай бұрын
Breakers have caused these boxes to double ,triple,quadruple in price..They getting rich,rest of either go broke or just watch
@cardsinthekitchen5 ай бұрын
Way too expensive!
@robertarnold71873 ай бұрын
It's the big money crowd buying and hoarding boxes causing the prices to go so high. I hope they get stuck with cases.
@robertarnold71873 ай бұрын
It's the "investors" and we all know who I'm referring to.
@user-qt9rf3dw9w7 ай бұрын
Here's the issue with the hobby outside of the insanely high box prices (breakers and influencers too!) You get two HOFers in Smoltz and Maddux and you were barely excited. Maybe it had to do with janky box return for $2k, I get it, but everyone is chasing players that don't even have a hit in MLB - just because someone is a rookie doesn't mean a thing, give me the proven HOFer or superstar any day (but not for $2k). Appreciate you taking a big $ shot
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Yes yes, agreed. I showed a little happiness with the Maddux. Check my video pulling the Trout Superfractor. It's a short. Thanks for watching.
@danthedewman17 ай бұрын
Agreed, Its like getting jacked up on one hit wonders
@rorybpollaro96837 ай бұрын
Never thought I'd see the day I could buy decent vintage cards for less than current cards.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Your right about that. Love Vintage. Check my latest video on Vintage, 21 card psa return.
@rossdorge71338 ай бұрын
Wanting to do single high end risks is the same as wanting a horse to kick you in the nuts while a cow shats in your face.
@karendutra3765 ай бұрын
This is why I have spent the last 7 years building a 1967 Topps set instead of chasing this new stuff. Cheaper and more fun
@daniellarsen8897 ай бұрын
If you were Layton, you would've pulled a chase card. They give the loaded boxes to the mainstream breakers.
@josephhuffman27748 ай бұрын
Yeah rough. Maddox was nice. I can’t believe they even bothered to put some of those cards in there.
@johnharland23367 ай бұрын
For $2000 you could have bought PSA gradede10's of all those cards, including the numbered ones and have plenty of $$$ left over. They stick a cheap gold painted frame around a Smoltz patch and want you believe it a hit. IT'S NOT! You can find them all day for $20. The card it's packaged in is irrelevant. Reasonable collectors never buy new. Only gamblers doo! Because of the pathology that it is, they can't stop.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Your pretty spot on there. I better check into GA! I'm going to have a better strategy going into 2024!
@mauriciobori7 ай бұрын
Lo, people talk as if topps had forced this dude to spend that money he could have easily skipped the rip and bought singles he chose otherwise it’s not topps or anyone else’s fault
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
@mauriciobori yea,,rethinking my strategy for 2024
@starboy327 ай бұрын
every card at psa 10? ur crazy. no.
@toddsechrist98435 ай бұрын
Why does every pack ripping or unboxing channel I watch do people not know how to pronounce names? You completely botched vinnie pasqauntino's name as youve clearly never heard of him or ever his name said. Then Adrian Beltran? You guys that do this, are you even baseball fans? Im sorry but you just cant be. This is exactly whats wrong with the hobby and made it like this. Guys just trying to make a dollar that have no clue about the sport itself driving prices up for kids and such. It no longer can even be a kid game. This has to be the 5th channel ive watched with clueless dudes. Just sad.
@reign804 ай бұрын
No Senor, I no I no nothing about the player. I want the big big money.
@lovetruth85494 ай бұрын
To be fair, rosters are constantly turning over and it's not easy to catch baseball games without paying a ton. I mainly just watch the Reds and that's a full time hobby without keeping up with every other team.
@cardsinthekitchen3 ай бұрын
I probably know alot more about baseball and any other sport than you friend. I kill names I must admit, I used to run a hockey league with a blog and pronounced every one's name wrong. It was funny for a while. But yea I know who the KC player is. And I watch games and go to games all the time. Going to Yankees game tomorrow. Apologies if your offended by killing the guys name.
@toddsechrist98433 ай бұрын
Lol no, no you don't.
@cardsinthekitchen3 ай бұрын
@@toddsechrist9843 😪
@stueystuey19625 ай бұрын
Hate to jump on the bandwagon here, but I have been watching breaks of all sorts - mostly baseball lately. I came back to the hobby a couple months ago and did the proverbial "Buy in haste, repent in leisure." Not that I have caught up with the current trends in the hobby and certainly haven't caught up with which products really sell and maybe most importantly why. Anyway, I watched a break of this product on another channel and within reason the fella pulled arguably the single best card from the entire product - Bryce Harper, Mike Trout Dual Logoman 1/1. That card is currently listed on eBay for $10K. My point? This is lunacy yeah? Never mind that I've spent a small fortune, not spent the amount of time on a new endeavor in years like I have with the sports cards (so that's a good thing iykwim?). Even at $1,000 or $800 for this product it is lunacy, And it;s not just this one, and it's not just bseball, and so on,,,,it's whack. The "live breaks" where companies - real companies - sell spots and all this mumbo jumbo is criminal - literally criminal. Ironically I haven't even watched the stream yet but was drawn here precisely becasue of the title so let's see what happened. Hopefully Panini will drop out of the hobby altogether. And Topps will hopefully bring some sanity - though if they don't the market certainly will. The social media aspect is driven (mostly) by hucksters, fraudsters, and what were decent businessmen (Jaspy's, Layton, etc...) who are now simply put are whores. Can't wait for the market to crash,Can't wait for the literal dumpster fires that will remove 99.99% of the product out there. This is not a hobby. This is a scandalous breach of humanity. All of which has not prevented me from spending a small fortune, enjoying myself becasue I have an activity. I am not a soap box preacher, but this has got to stop. Getting 18-35 year olds spending mortgage payments, and car payments and the kids future tuitions chasing JUNK is not good for society. Could say it's better than hookers and crack but I'm not so sure that is tureare the $1k Addendum: watched the vid; so the Harper/Trout Logoman 1/1 is hardly the holy grail. As you noted there is n Ohtani/Ruth which yeah that is a pretty bitchen notion. STILL even if it fetches 1M - and it wont - that's the cost of 500 boxes and print run is what probably 10,000 boxes or more. It doesn't make sense. Truthfully worse yet are these $500 to $1k boxes where ya get like 100 cards from 10 packs, 95 cards are literally throw away and the 5 cards unless one hits something insanely big is at best $100. I don't get it. I'll check back in and if you comment and want me to remove this diatribe i will delete it. I'm not here to be a jerk.
@cardsinthekitchen5 ай бұрын
Lol great post. Agree with most. Thanks for the commentary, great opinion.
@AWAW2728 ай бұрын
You can get $750+ back on that box, butfIf you wanna go big BIG for the return, you have to buy a case. Buying random boxes is like buying a lottery ticket.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
I seen some pretty bad cases too, but I agree a case better chances big hits. That's why you always see the big breakers getting the 💣 💣 💣
@Metsfan72328 ай бұрын
Most of these boxes don’t come close to break even if try to resell. Even the one and only ever 2019 Definitive I bought for $1100. I am done collecting. Too expensive and too much product to keep track of. At least I can still watch what others pull.
@1futristic8 ай бұрын
On eBay these cards are $100 or less
@jedi.mind.tricks8 ай бұрын
That was hard to watch...OUCH
@BaseballBoyNoah8 ай бұрын
I opened 5 boxes, this box would have really really upset me. My boxes were quite incredible
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
What did you get? Wow you dropped 10k. Hope you made your money 💰 back.
@swingawaysportscards57377 ай бұрын
That was a tough one for sure. I appreciate you remaining positive on camera though 👊⚾
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Always! Wasn't easy, lol.
@jasonbell33058 ай бұрын
This is why u dont buy single super high end boxes i gurrantee u the shop already broke the others from case then put the duds out for sale 😅😂
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Well I bought this one directly from topps, but I feel what your saying.
@Bigbluecollector3167 ай бұрын
Now this is a gold frame folks 😂😂😂😂😂
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Gold frame of nothing..ha
@Ironmansnap126 ай бұрын
I feel you. I quit long ago breaks and high end stuff. Im in razz now. I won a Jordan rc, Mahomes NT rc and brady rc with $500 bucks. 😅
@Notyouraveragewhiteguy8 ай бұрын
I love that Alonso Hes my absolute favorite player. Nice hits im hoping to be able to get the high end stuff one day. All the rookies you got have a ton of potential.
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Thanks, it is nice.
@chadaustin83435 ай бұрын
I just collect 1 or 2 players. Breaking packs is just not fun anymore. Not worth the money imo.
@nicolasvaldez81928 ай бұрын
It costs Topps nothing to produce this cards. The boxes they come in costs Topps more to make
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
But the have to pay for the Autos. They make millions.
@Metsfan72328 ай бұрын
I doubt the players are signing for free
@LouRokTV8 ай бұрын
Yeah these products are so high end…it’s super exciting but everyone hope to hit that one card to break even..crazy the gambling aspect …I miss the days when these type of boxes cost under $500..it’s the main reason why I rather buy singles…the dope. Add you could’ve gotten for 2k!!!still enjoyed watching the video homie
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Appreciate you Lou Rock!
@MP-rg5re8 ай бұрын
I like the Maddox and Smoltz cards.
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Yes very nice, saw some big hits in this product.
@Matt_2378 ай бұрын
I bought Topps Gilded FRAMED singles in the past month - Schmidt /10 for $75. Bo for $40. J-Roll /50 for $35. Yount /50 for $25. That's $175 for four framed Gilded autos. The boxes are $600. I just don't get the high end. Yet, I opened a case of Topps Archives and literally nearly doubled my money after selling the autographs and short prints raw and then selling the rest back to my local shop. I stick with low-mid. Chrome is the biggest ripoff.
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
I do same in my ebay store, took a shot at the high end stuff and get crushed. I made profit on one of the 3 high end products I bought this year. Other two a loss, gotta get real lucky. And at end of year I guess that's why Museum hasn't sold out yet. Nice deals on those cards though!
@steveoh92854 ай бұрын
P. T. Barnum was right.
@shawnmcdonald9477 ай бұрын
The cost of these cards are INSANE!!! The prices are going to kill the love of collecting as bad as the high cost of Grading of cards in the early 2000’s! I bought several packs of cards from the $.99 store here in Charleston, S.C. back in 2017. JUST OUT of 2 Packs, I got 2 different Rookie cards of Patrick Mahomes. Now, I can’t find any more cards there. I’m seeing $200+ boxes of cards that I was able to buy for $12 before the frenzy. It’s getting out of hand again.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
I agree, it's getting totally out of control. The good thing is they have all levels of products. For the new collector to the high end risk taking collector. Live within your means.
@fliplife678 ай бұрын
My problem with high end for the 1k or more for a box that they don’t come up with something more creative then auto or relic or a patch.
@dshockeybreaks8 ай бұрын
like what? what type of card would you suggest?
@fliplife678 ай бұрын
@@dshockeybreaks Besides making the base card more unique other then that autos, patches, jerseys, parallels I guess U really can’t do anything different then combine. Dam!!!!
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
I agree.. or they should do a better job spreading out the big hits. I watched some big breakers every box huge hit... dam
@fliplife678 ай бұрын
@@cardsinthekitchen The number hits in the product sounds good but even it U could pulled the best cards the box it’s self still is high.
@lovetruth85494 ай бұрын
Really sick cards though. What'd you get for selling them all? $500? No shame in it. It's always a long shot, but props from trying.
@Shanemo0078 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@jedi.mind.tricks8 ай бұрын
Dont you mean high risk low reward
@randymoran673 ай бұрын
Id rather buy gold
@cardsinthekitchen3 ай бұрын
Mee too at this point!
@4MDK8 ай бұрын
I agree the higher end Topps boxes have been tougher to get your money back on. I do love that Alonzo card though.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
It's a nice one.. sold for only $50 hurts
@mikeoxlong82728 ай бұрын
I have 2 boxes of topps gilded that im not looking forward to opening for this very reason.
@ericb31867 ай бұрын
Love your channel. Better luck next time.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Thanks! Appreciate you. Happy New Year! Here's to big hits this Year!
@paulnicholson59378 ай бұрын
It's all rigged, average people, with average product outlets, can't get good product. There are many ways all this high-end product gets searched before the average guy gets a look at it, it is not worth buying. Sorry, I feel it too, even on the cheaper stuff. Peace
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the reply, I have to say I've had big hits in the past. Butca product this expensive they should do a better job spreading out the bigger hits.. like you see one case get huge hits in every box... then my box arrives.
@davidweisberg14078 ай бұрын
They can’t saddle people with boxes like this. Sorry my dude.
@robertredmon54097 ай бұрын
I've thought of buying something like this but i think if there is something i love in the set and just have to have it would be better to just buy those one or two cards individually rather than risk getting a box that doesn't live up to the hype. Thank you for sharing your break with us though. you kept it upbeat although i know you had to be fuming
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
100%, unless your a big risk taker like I was. Hitting that Ohtani Ruth you would of saw me explode. Lol
@AbdulWakil878 ай бұрын
Rough rip but that Gorman, Vinny, and India should go up if you are a collector that holds but Topps is deep how they do us. The Professor auto was your best hit.
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Yes agreed, gotta spread out these big hits better.
@KT-qw1ws26 күн бұрын
Never dome of a box of these high end items as they are more misses than hits in a box. With $2k, u might as well buy a $2k repack or $2k worth of repack breaks. Another product is Flawless, NT and Immaculate which are with $10k or more a box especially if it’s an unopened 2020 Flawless Football with the big rookie QB’s.
@christopherspalmer7 ай бұрын
This video killed me. You were so hopeful and optimistic opening it and stayed upbeat. Good karma coming your way.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Thanks Chris! Win some lose some.
@themintcollector7 ай бұрын
These are actually awesome collector cards. The problem is what you had to pay for them. They sell these just like lottery tickets people hoping to hit it big when the reality is you just lose money.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Your best bet is buy the ones you like on eBay. They sell pretty cheap.
@themintcollector7 ай бұрын
Yes definitely
@christopherreinsmith14018 ай бұрын
Basically, its a coin toss! You would have better odds, to get hit, by a mack truck! Then pull something massive!! 😂
@bobhughes463727 күн бұрын
lmao ive wasted so much money, im learning to stop doing it, that is prob like 250 dollars worth or trash for 2k, and trust me ive felt the same punishment time after time again
@bennybreaks7027 ай бұрын
If Gorman hits 74 homers in a season, you'll make your money back. Lol.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Lol, your right. Took the L on this one.
@FoxCoMarine4 ай бұрын
They can't all be bangers! Poor thing.
@daBEAGLE10172 ай бұрын
At least i was happy watching this. Thumbs up brother
@tobyrock71947 ай бұрын
I am glad I can't afford to buy anything high end like that.
@cardsinthekitchen7 ай бұрын
Dumb move by me.....
@tobyrock71947 ай бұрын
@@cardsinthekitchen na, just some times you win some times you don't
@DavidGutierrez-kj8tm8 ай бұрын
Nelson Muntz..... HA HA! 👉😤😭
@modofatak8 ай бұрын
That Maddox alone goes for > $500 on eBay, ungraded
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
That might be mine! 😀
@README273 ай бұрын
2k buys a lot of toilet paper
@cloudsey420sufccards8 ай бұрын
Wow bud. Crazy expensive.
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Yea... digging a hole
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Dumb purchase
@cloudsey420sufccards8 ай бұрын
@cardsinthekitchen Lol I think we all dig holes with our card purchases but it's fun. Lol
@Metsfan72328 ай бұрын
Look up “Transcendent”
@user-gj2cp7ry8k3 ай бұрын
Maddux and Smoltz cards were awesome but certainly won't get your 2 k back
@cardsinthekitchen3 ай бұрын
Your right. Yes the Maddux a beauty. Learned a tuff lesson though. Thanks for watching.
@user-gj2cp7ry8k3 ай бұрын
@cardsinthekitchen Most card collectors have overpaid for a card , pack or box . The excitement of opening them is priceless.
@RagnarRocks8 ай бұрын
Definitely not $2k worth but those braves cards Are awesome!
@coopstain17284 ай бұрын
LMAO!!!! Hahaha people dont learn. These are nothing but a waste of money. You know what cards (singles) you could have bought with $2k that will grow in value over time? Im sorry but people are dumb.
@NomahLovesYah8 ай бұрын
Man that’s rough, you’re probably down at least $2K…
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Close.. ouch
@bobbyc83248 ай бұрын
You might get $200 from those cards
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Total? Nah, thinking 1000
@Notyouraveragewhiteguy8 ай бұрын
@@cardsinthekitchenI'm saying more especially if you sit on the rookies Vinny was having a good season until he went down and Bo Naylor is looking good plus Nolan Gorman looks really good if he gets that average up he's got power
@natekenworthy73678 ай бұрын
That Maddux is $300-400.
@jasonbaldwin63037 ай бұрын
200 bucks topps
@claypartin49772 ай бұрын
Uhhhh gross, I'm pretty sure Topps and Panini is saying "Suckers".
@sweikel70128 ай бұрын
Yikes
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
Yea... my buddy gonna kill me
@cardsinthekitchen8 ай бұрын
😢 😭 crying
@justinistreason40958 ай бұрын
Scam
@ja543528 күн бұрын
Garbage
@nunya30255 ай бұрын
who is adrian beltran? huge L.
@jasonbell33058 ай бұрын
U people that rip never learn or get ahead 9/10 😂 ud be better off playong video slots lol