i have an addiction...there, i've said it. after seeing so many rip cards being posted, i knew i had to try to pull one myself.
so i visited my lcs the first day the product came out. but when i walked in, another baseball collector was there. i knew from past experiences that he only picks up a box at a time and takes it home. because i enjoy busting boxes, especially when they first come out, and will keep busting a product until i get something decent, i told him to go ahead and pull his one box out of the case the lcs owner opened. so he did, then left.
i proceeded to bust 4 boxes...nothing good, maybe a no number mini A&G back griffey jr being my best card...and just 1 autograph. then the call came in...the guy had pulled a rip card #/10...sigh...
went back another day and busted 3 more boxes out of a new case. 1 autograph...nothing cool or even remotely collectible...sigh...
went to another lcs...bought their last 2 boxes...one auto, but no one to get excited about...and then i ask the lcs owner if anything good came out of the case...he said just one rip card but no one spectacular...sigh...
yesterday, went back to the original lcs...while i'm there, i bust the last 3 boxes of the old case (2nd case opened there) after asking if they heard of anything coming out...nope...but nothing exciting out of those. so they open another case. while i'm busting out of that case, a guy comes in who had busted a box out of the 2nd case earlier in the week...yup...he got the rip card but didn't know what it was...so he didn't bother telling the lcs owner...sigh...
my only relief is that i decided to call it a bust, but took home one more box to commiserate my bad luck...and at least pulled this beauty (which unfortunately, i have to sell to cover the costs of the mishmash case i busted)...
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so i visited my lcs the first day the product came out. but when i walked in, another baseball collector was there. i knew from past experiences that he only picks up a box at a time and takes it home. because i enjoy busting boxes, especially when they first come out, and will keep busting a product until i get something decent, i told him to go ahead and pull his one box out of the case the lcs owner opened. so he did, then left.
i proceeded to bust 4 boxes...nothing good, maybe a no number mini A&G back griffey jr being my best card...and just 1 autograph. then the call came in...the guy had pulled a rip card #/10...sigh...
went back another day and busted 3 more boxes out of a new case. 1 autograph...nothing cool or even remotely collectible...sigh...
went to another lcs...bought their last 2 boxes...one auto, but no one to get excited about...and then i ask the lcs owner if anything good came out of the case...he said just one rip card but no one spectacular...sigh...
yesterday, went back to the original lcs...while i'm there, i bust the last 3 boxes of the old case (2nd case opened there) after asking if they heard of anything coming out...nope...but nothing exciting out of those. so they open another case. while i'm busting out of that case, a guy comes in who had busted a box out of the 2nd case earlier in the week...yup...he got the rip card but didn't know what it was...so he didn't bother telling the lcs owner...sigh...
my only relief is that i decided to call it a bust, but took home one more box to commiserate my bad luck...and at least pulled this beauty (which unfortunately, i have to sell to cover the costs of the mishmash case i busted)...
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