From Upper Deck's 2009-10 Black Diamond hockey set

From Upper Deck's 2009-10 Black Diamond hockey set

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I wish I was into collecting this card stuff. How much will/do one of those 24 packs run?

by Laich on Aug 13, 2009 2:47 PM EDT reply actions

I have no idea. As much as I love hockey cards (obviously), I haven’t bought packs in years upon years.

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by J.P. on Aug 13, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions

The last cards I bought involved x-men. :(

by Laich on Aug 13, 2009 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Haha, same here. I still have them all too. The foil card collection was badd ass.

by zephyr on Aug 13, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions

card packs are cheap. They’re an annual christmas joke between my husband and me.

by RedBirdie on Aug 13, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions

SOME card packs are cheap. Those Black Diamonds will run you anywhere between $5-10 for a pack of 4 cards, depending on where you get them, sometimes more than that, even.

by DrinkingPartner on Aug 13, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions

just check Ebay. You can find “lots” or 5,10,50 Ovechkin cards for real cheap. I haven’t bought a pack in years (was obsessed with collecting until about 1995) but have used ebay to round of collections of late 90’s early 2000’s Cal Ripken Cards and Ovechkin cards (including rookies) for cheap.

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by Sombrero Guy on Aug 13, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions

for example… 6 Ovie cards auction at .99 HERE

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by Sombrero Guy on Aug 13, 2009 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions

The rookies aren’t so cheap, though. I’ve only personally got one Ovechkin rookie because the damn thing cost me $20.

by DrinkingPartner on Aug 13, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Is there a definitive Ovechkin “rookie”? I searched once and found dozens of brands and series that I never heard of and was so confused that I gave up.

by Scott in Shaw on Aug 13, 2009 4:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Mine is an Upper Deck ‘05-’06 “Victory” (?) or whatever. And no, I don’t think there’s a definitive brand. I’m also pretty sure I got ripped off for the card, but I didn’t have one and really wanted it.

by DrinkingPartner on Aug 13, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions

For me, this was the grail for Ovechkin rookie cards -

by DZ-015 on Aug 13, 2009 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Sorry, hit preview dummy – SPX. They run on ebay now for about $500. I wish I had one.

by DZ-015 on Aug 13, 2009 7:06 PM EDT up reply actions

this one?

by Natty Bumppo on Aug 13, 2009 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, a ton of mine have come via eBay.

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by J.P. on Aug 13, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions

24 pack boxes of last years release of Black Diamond are in the $60 range right now. Of course, your odds of getting any Ovechkin card like that are quite rare (in fact, the “regular” Ovechkin card is probably inserted about 1 per 12 box case (1 Ovechkin card in every 288 packs))

Now the “The Cup” release that comes 5 cards per $300 pack, that’s how the big boys roll.

by Tromni on Aug 13, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow. I simply can’t fathom spending $300 on five hockey cards.

And yet, if some bastard kept going back and forth with me in an eBay auction that started at .99 for a single card, I could get there.

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by J.P. on Aug 13, 2009 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions

at that point on ebay, it becomes pride.

by vt caps fan on Aug 13, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

My understanding is that it’s a second-place auction pricing system, meaning that you pay the price that the runner-up bid on the item?

If that’s the case, wouldn’t the optimal strategy involve figuring out exactly how much you were willing to part with for that item, then bidding immediately to lock in the lowest possible runner-up? Then if someone overbids, you weren’t willing to pay that much anyway and if you win, you get a reduced price.

Sorry for the off-topic; ever since I heard that little tidbit, it’s been bothering me.

Disclaimer: I’ve never used eBay to buy or sell, this is hearsay and some conjecture.

by Knee high to a duck on Aug 13, 2009 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions

This confused me at first, and I believe your description is correct. The most logical way is to just bid what you’re willing to spend and if nobody outbids you, then great. However, human psychology isn’t always so rational – a person will often keep bidding until they are the high bidder, so most ebayers do not want to put in their maximum bid right away to depress bidding activity until the very last part of the auction. People will then snipe at the last second to try to get the winning bid.

So those two phenomena – people’s tendency to keep bidding until they become the high bidder, and the related tendency to snipe at the end to win the auction at presumably a lower price – mean that people don’t do what seems to make the most sense in the first place.

by grapejoos on Aug 13, 2009 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions

So the bids are blind and you don’t know how much of a discount you’d be netting by hitting your max? Are people allowed to bid under what you’ve already offered? I assume there’s a minimum increment by which you must increase in order to proffer another bid, otherwise you’d see a bunch of $.01 overbids.

by Knee high to a duck on Aug 13, 2009 8:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, there are minimum bid increases.The amount of the bids are blind to everyone but the seller, but you can see that bids were made and it tells you when you are the high bidder. eBay is a great site, I’ve completed about 220 successful transactions on there with less than 5 bad experiences (none of which were that bad).

by grapejoos on Aug 13, 2009 9:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m totally still into the card collecting stuff. I’d recommend if you do get into card collecting, you buy a way to store the cards before your first card. I like the binders with the plastic 3×3 holders. I’ve now got 7 or 8 of those things upstairs. I have the complete 91 and 92 NHL Pro Sets, and I just got back into it last year, when I completed about 70% of the Upper Deck Fleer set from last year. I don’t buy individual cards, and I go at it from the way of just buying the small (In Winchester, demand was so low Walmart had them for 5 dollars) and booster packs.

One booster of Fleer set last year was 4 dollars. If you get into card collecting, good luck, and enjoy :D

I'm so sick and tired of the refs explaining the calls like this is the NFL.

by Whiter Mage on Aug 14, 2009 6:11 AM EDT up reply actions

Does OV get paid for being on this cover?

by red army line on Aug 13, 2009 4:26 PM EDT reply actions

I presume he does, since that’s his game-worn jersey you’re buying pieces of. I don’t imagine they just bought off the Caps’ equipment manager…

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by EmilyB on Aug 13, 2009 4:31 PM EDT reply actions

Not the current equipment manager, at least…

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by J.P. on Aug 13, 2009 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions

Ha! JP, please swing by the Turtle tonight. We’ll buy you a beer.

Maybe two, if you bring your shoebox along.

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by EmilyB on Aug 13, 2009 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions

I sold almost all of my baseball and hockey card collection last year. I’d never bothered to have my cards graded, but I was pleasantly surprised with the return on some of them. It’s a hobby I never took too seriously.

I kept my favorites as bookmarks. Ovie should be intimately familiar with Tolkien’s work by now. I think Kolzig has memorized Frost’s Birches. I’d be disappointed with Bonzai if he doesn’t now know the ending to every Grisham novel. Muir will forever be on textbook duty. The asshole.

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by turnituptoeleven on Aug 13, 2009 6:43 PM EDT reply actions

Haha. Bookmarks. Ovie and Tolkien. That’s rich. Seriously.

Wonder if Ovie reads?

I used some good duplicate cards to make earrings. I wear them to work on the days the Caps have games so my students know when they can suck up to me by asking me how the Caps did the next day in class.

Hm, I wonder what the return would be if I decide to sell some of the rookies and jersey patches I’ve got. Maybe next year. I’ll have to check Beckett though.

by localhead on Aug 13, 2009 7:34 PM EDT reply actions