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 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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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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Alt card value is a proprietary calculation that estimates a card’s real time market worth. Alt is a graded traded card platform that calculates “Alt Value” based on recent transactions and “systemic market knowledge.” While we highlight Alt as one of the best sports card apps, it really is a full on platform experience more
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When you think about just how many different baseball card brands and companies there are, and how many cards those companies are printing, things can’t possibly go perfectly every single time. You might see incorrect pictures or misspelled names; weird lines or missing items altogether. Some of these are misprints and others are pure errors.
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Remember when you’d go to the arcade as a kid with the goal of mashing arcade game buttons and earning tickets? You’d then take those tickets and redeem them for prizes, etc. Well, that’s kind of what Panini Points are like. Panini Points are randomly distributed values found in packs of Panini sports cards. These
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For those who are new or who have been away from the hobby for a while, it might come as a surprise that things can be a little confusing or much different than what you were expecting/accustomed to. I mean, these are baseball cards—picture, name, team name, card design. How chaotic can things really be?
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