You’ve finally worked up the courage to grade a card, and now you’re stuck trying to figure out which service level is best. Aside from price and turnaround time – which are pretty self-explanatory – the term “declared value” is staring you in the face. Declared Value You aren’t charged for cards up front upon […]
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Donruss and Optic are similar products, with Donruss being the the lower end “paper” version on traditional card stock, and Optic being the higher end, “chromium” counterpart. Just like Topps Flagship and Topps Chrome cards use the same player photos but with a slightly different checklist, Donruss has a larger checklist with more players while
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A green Kaboom is a 1/1 parallel of the popular Kaboom insert card line. Notably, green Kabooms can be found in Absolute football products and Panini Rewards multi-sport sets. In general, Kaboom insert cards found in packs of Crown Royale (basketball), Absolute (football), Donruss (soccer), and other products. Green 1/1 parallels aren’t in every release,
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A retrofractor is a type of Bowman Chrome card that features a legendary player who made their major league debut before Bowman Chrome products had ever been released (and thus never had a 1st Bowman Chrome card printed). The retrofractor is new for the 2023 Bowman Chrome product release, with cards of three players –
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A Tacofractor is a new parallel baseball card from Topps, and will debut in boxes and packs of 2023 Chrome. True to its name, the Tacofractor has the refractor finish (and is marked “refractor” on the back) and taco emojis in the background. Each player on the 200-card checklist will have a Tacofractor parallel. October
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Cracked ice football cards are a type of parallel card that is found in Contenders or Contenders Draft (along with other non-boxed Panini products like “Panini Day”). Cracked ice parallels can be found in a handful of colors, are sometimes numbered, and can have autos or relic pieces. Most of the time, though, the most
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NM-MT means “Near Mint-Mint” and is a grading term commonly used for trading cards to describe a particular condition. A NM-MT card is close to being perfect, but not quite, with minor flaws that are visible to the naked eye upon close inspection. Every grading company has a different definition and grading scale. For instance,
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A logoman card is a type of relic card that features the full league logo from the player’s uniform. Logoman cards are among the most rare of any card, are typically numbered 1/1, and are often a player’s most valuable card. For example, a Jamal Murray 2016 Flawless logoman RPA sold at the end of
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A 2023 Topps Chrome “breaker’s delight” box (also called a Delight Hobby Breaker Box) is a type of hobby box configuration that features only hits and zero base cards. The product is made for breakers, offering the convenience of getting to the hits quickly and not having to trudge through base cards. Finding a box
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What if I told you I had a PSA 10 RC of a HOF FS $400 DLVD PP GS. Would you have any idea what I was talking about? While this might be an extreme example, when buying, selling, and trading cards, you’ll certainly see pieces of this word equation being used here and there.
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