Best retail pulls?

[blackhawks95]

There has to be someone else out there that likes to take risks with hockey re-pack boxes and retail products in general, right? For some reason I really enjoy taking a chance repackaged sealed packs. My local Target retailer always carries boxes of either 10 packs for $9.99, 20 packs for $19.99, or 4 packs and 50 random cards for $7.99. So far, my best pull was a couple years ago when I bought the 10 for 10 deal and one of the packs was a 10-11 UD Series 1. I had no idea what to expect because I started collecting in late 2011, early 2012. As I thumbed through the cards, I noticed something different. I of course pulled the base from the back and then "slow-rolled" it. Boom, a Jordan Eberle Young Guns rookie card, which at the time had been going for quite the sum on eBay. I think that is what started my addiction to re-packs and retail boxes.

I am very curious to know if anyone else has purchased these re-packs and if so, what was your best pull, either for money value or personal value?

I'm eager to read your responses!

Matt

[Kessel_fan_87]

With no hobby shops near me, I'm basically forced to get stuff from Wal Mart, Shoppers Drug Mart. Back a few years I got 5 blasters of score and pulled 3 black ice parallels. They were somewhat sp'd. The odd blaster or tin yielded a jersey card. Nothing big.

[kurri17]

Over the years I purchased tons of retail packs, mostly at Target, along with the other packaging methods they sometimes have. I have pulled many great cards. A UD Gretz jersey and Selanne double jersey back in 00/01 when they were tough, tons of YGs including many of the big ones, some very low numbered parallels, etc. I have pretty much stopped with new stuff as I am putting my hobby funds in vintage and older sets so I don't buy there anymore, but never had a bad experience that ran me away from the retail stuff. Maybe its because this is not a hockey area.

[EliasDevil]

My best are Landeskog YG and RNH SP rookie from Score from the same Target

[dupariel]

A Mandi Schwartz jersey out if a tin of UDS1 from walmart followed by a tarasenko YG I pulled tonight from another tin !

[drnaud81]

I bought a blaster box and some random retail packs of OPC Platinum earlier this year at Toys'r'us and hit a rare base card variation of Rinne and a Black Ice Ekblad RC #'d to 25. The later during their summer sale, I bought two 14-15 UD1 tins at 15$ each and got 2 Ekblad YGs and a S.Reinhart YG. Not bad.

Never had much luck with older product or re-packaged stuff.

[jackpot]

Got an OPC blank back in a blaster box at a Target.

[MattDMC]

Stamkos YG
Hall YG
Brodeur retro 20th anniversary missing link YG.

My 3 retail pulls of note for my time in the Hobby.

[Drewk86a]

I loved the repacked boxes. They're an inexpensive way to open some older products. Obviously you're not going to get the super hits, but it is still fun. Two things I will add:

They used to add one jersey card to each re-pack box (don't do it anymore). That's how I acquired 13 Sergei Samsonov 05-06 UD Jersey cards. I almost became a ritual to open the box and guess what color the Samsonov swatch would be.

Worst experience was with a re-packed football box. All of the packs had been previously opened (some not so carefully). Many of the packs contained fewer cards than the pack listed, so I know some cards had been removed. I e-mailed the company (no phone number listed) and was told that if I mailed the UPC code and my receipt to them, they would investigate. 18 months later, no response.

Still not enough to deter me from dropping a few bucks on these boxes.

[spxrules]

Stamkos YG was my first big hit!

From retail packs from dollarama!

This was 4 years ago though :))