[rjcj2017]

Luckily I did alright:

One Prizm blaster had a Zion base and Emergent insert; one had a Ja base; and the third had a Herro silver Prizm and a Hachimura prime swatch /10.

Optic has a Zion My House insert and a purple auto of Okpala.

But I'm with you. I got back into the hobby because a) I finally had some excess cash to do so, and b) because it was fun to have a hobby again. And, yeah, the last few months haven't been much fun.

Don't get me wrong, I like picking up singles that I like, and organizing/sorting has always been a stress-reducer for me, but stopping in the card aisles and only seeing Donruss, Topps, occasionally Heritage and the same 15 boxes of hockey, racing and soccer cards sucks a lot of the fun out of it.

Nice stuff!

Sounds exactly like my Target, LOL ... like, literally.

Yeah, Heritage is everywhere. I always thought it was a decent seller until this year for whatever reason.

[cspen]

I have been priced out for a few years now. 2019 Topps Update was the first product that I bought more than blasters from Target and Wal Mart in several years. I actually bought a hobby and a jumbo.

[DrMitchJ]

Yeah, Heritage is everywhere. I always thought it was a decent seller until this year for whatever reason.

I am guessing that Heritage is everywhere because it is one of the few products the wholesalers have left in stock since Topps halted production of many upcoming products. Better to restock with something than nothing, right?

[spazmatastic]

It's not the price of products that pushed me away from baseball cards, it's the products themselves. Topps getting the exclusive license was the first step. I haven't personally bought a single box (hobby, retail or blaster) of modern baseball cards since 2010! At least until this past December when I used a Target gift card and got a blaster of 2019 Topps Chrome Update MLB cards. I did get blaster boxes of 2011 and 2012 Topps flagship as gifts back when they came out, but nothing since then. I did buy some bags of the Utz potato chips packages for the Topps UTZ cards last year too. I was just intrigued by the UTZ cards and the TC Update cards were just b/c there were no NASCAR cards and nothing that interested me more in the NFL products when I was Christmas shopping last December. Topps will not get much of my money until they actually earn it and nothing they've made since 2011 seemed to be worth it to me. I think the last NFL product from them that I bought was a blaster of 2013 Strata. It was crap too! I don't mean the blaster box, I mean the product as a whole. I mostly will not buy Panini MLB cards either b/c they aren't actually MLB cards since there are no logos! Cards have become crap for those with 30+ years in the hobby thanks to Topps and Panini!!!
I still do a bunch of trades across all sports, but most of that has been for the older cards from the 80's-90's. And I've also sold way more cards in the past few years than I ever did before. The "junk-era" is coming back hard thanks to the modern crap coming out from all of the card companies. I'd guess that 90% of the thousands of cards I've sold in the past 24 months are from the mid-80's to mid-90's. AND, I'm not doing it on ebay, Facebook, COMC, and so on. It's just from trading card sites. I got $130 (after shipping) in the past 2 weeks just selling cards for what was offered to me on one site. These weren't even the inflated prices we are seeing on sites right now. FIVE transactions for anywhere from 6 cards to a factory set of 220 cards is what I sold. Between the extremes were 3 team-lots of about 70 cards.
Still not going to buy any boxes of cards for ANY sport for quite a while. EXCEPT whatever I get with some D&A gift cards that I am still holding on to right now. They'll probably be older products though!

[kerryandbeth]

Wow, spazmatastic! I don't agree with a single thing you posted above.

[rjcj2017]

I am guessing that Heritage is everywhere because it is one of the few products the wholesalers have left in stock since Topps halted production of many upcoming products. Better to restock with something than nothing, right?

I guess. It's just always there, it's never depleted at all.

Like, other than the soccer and racing stuff, there won't be any other sports product, except Heritage baseball.

I bought like two blasters, pulled all the good rookies and my obligatory Twins relic and called it good.

[jaredhuizenga]

I guess. It's just always there, it's never depleted at all.

Like, other than the soccer and racing stuff, there won't be any other sports product, except Heritage baseball.

I bought like two blasters, pulled all the good rookies and my obligatory Twins relic and called it good.

There's SO much Heritage that if I didn't know and someone told me it was a pretty popular product I would laugh in their face. I bet the Target closest to me has about 35 blasters of it - an honor that's generally only reserved for flagship.

As for soccer and racing, nobody's touched them in months, along with the hockey cards. I suspect the next time they'll get touched is in 6 months when the Excel rep realizes nobody's bought them and takes them off of the shelf.

I'm hoping I luck out and can score a blaster or two of Bowman on Friday, but I'm not holding my breath.

[rjcj2017]

There's SO much Heritage that if I didn't know and someone told me it was a pretty popular product I would laugh in their face. I bet the Target closest to me has about 35 blasters of it - an honor that's generally only reserved for flagship.

As for soccer and racing, nobody's touched them in months, along with the hockey cards. I suspect the next time they'll get touched is in 6 months when the Excel rep realizes nobody's bought them and takes them off of the shelf.

I'm hoping I luck out and can score a blaster or two of Bowman on Friday, but I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah, me neither, LOL ... Donruss just started to show up en masse. I think we're always a couple of weeks behind out here.

[jaredhuizenga]

Yeah, me neither, LOL ... Donruss just started to show up en masse. I think we're always a couple of weeks behind out here.

The Donruss isn't bad - the base is a little boring and the variations are WAY too common, but the colored holos look really cool (especially the red) and the Rapture, Pink Fireworks, and Vector versions of the inserts look good and carry a pretty decent BV.

I'm pretty sure I've built the set at least once, but I'm ready for something new and Heritage (probably my least favorite Topps product) isn't it. Although I acknowledge that I'm in the minority on that one.

[kerryandbeth]

I'm pretty sure I've built the set at least once, but I'm ready for something new and Heritage (probably my least favorite Topps product) isn't it. Although I acknowledge that I'm in the minority on that one.

Heritage and Archives can just go away.