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Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - jack pfiester - 12-26-2020

Didn't get jack squat!  I'm beginning to think all Elite inserts from this era are extremely undervalued.  

In the past 4-5 years, I've probably opened close to 300 boxes of 1991 and 1992 Donruss, and have pulled exactly two Elite inserts (Dawson & Fielder).  

There has to be a lot of these cards still sealed in packs.  I'm not having any luck locating them... Tongue


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - mistral38 - 12-26-2020

As a long time Elite series collector I agree the 91 & 92 Elite are undervalued especially by Beckett. I can tell you there is an uptick as with everything else it seems but have never encountered a 91 Bonds for $30.
I think the common assumption was one per case and I think cases were 20 boxes or so. I hope you are at least being responsible and recycling the stuff after all there is a spike in building material costs so the insulation they can used for has some value...


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - jack pfiester - 12-26-2020

mistral38 Wrote:As a long time Elite series collector I agree the 91 & 92 Elite are undervalued especially by Beckett. I can tell you there is an uptick as with everything else it seems but have never encountered a 91 Bonds for $30.
I think the common assumption was one per case and I think cases were 20 boxes or so. I hope you are at least being responsible and recycling the stuff after all there is a spike in building material costs so the insulation they can used for has some value...
I absolutely recycle all the base cards as there is nothing worth saving.  I have opened two sealed cases of 1991 Donruss and didn't pull Elite inserts out of either of those, so the odds are definitely worse than one per case!


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - bonds20001 - 12-26-2020

I found this on line from 2012..
1:2,700

With 36 packs per box, the overall odds of finding an Elite card in a pack of 1991 Donruss is 1:2,700. Wow. Those are long odds.


Another blog suggest that the odds are 1:10 cases!!!!

Good luck...


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - jack pfiester - 12-26-2020

bonds20001 Wrote:I found this on line from 2012..
1:2,700

With 36 packs per box, the overall odds of finding an Elite card in a pack of 1991 Donruss is 1:2,700. Wow. Those are long odds.


Another blog suggest that the odds are 1:10 cases!!!!

Good luck...
I'd be excited about pulling Doug Drabek at this point.


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - dogger99 - 12-26-2020

I don't know how many boxes I opened, but enough to have almost 13,000 cards.  Was buying these back in the day when there were pallets of them at Sam's Club.  I only got 1 of the Elite Inserts (Matt Williams).  Between 1998-2002 I unloaded 12,000 of them at Children's Hospitals, etc.

I remember one year in the early 2000's at the Tri-Star show, some kids were building a huge card house with 1991 Donruss baseball.


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - magicpapa - 12-26-2020

I pulled a Griffey in 1992 WADDA RUSH!!!


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - waynetalger - 01-01-2021

Must be tough for the first elite card I pulled was in 1993 Cecil Fielder.


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - crazyforkinsler5 - 01-01-2021

A friend bought a 1991 Donruss case back earlier this year for I believe about $8/box, and he offered me 1 box for my birthday as a gift. I let him pick the box. Of course it had an Elite insert in it. Mine was Jose Canseco.


RE: Opened 17 more boxes of 1991 Donruss - jack pfiester - 01-01-2021

crazyforkinsler5 Wrote:A friend bought a 1991 Donruss case back earlier this year for I believe about $8/box, and he offered me 1 box for my birthday as a gift. I let him pick the box. Of course it had an Elite insert in it. Mine was Jose Canseco.
That's amazing you pulled an Elite insert out of one box, and Canseco nonetheless.  One of the cards I really want!