2004 Topps - the good and bad pricing

[podstock]

boy, I wonder how high the packs can go before people stop collecting them altogether....I thought we had a slow economy?

[Cubsfan22]

I'm gonna buy a Jumbo box when I go back to Des Moines tomorrow for $60. I know I can get it cheaper elsewhere, but I don't want to wait around for it to ship, pay the shipping costs, etc. By the time they would send it, I'd be back at school.

[gioperation]

I bought 4 boxes from my hobby shop for like 200 and got a few auto's and Gu's, but no cut sig's...

I want more.

[Cubsfan22]

What autos did you get? And did you buy Jumbos or regular sized?

[Patrick4]

I stared opening my Jumbo box last night. So far I've only gotten one auto, World Series Highlights Brooks Robinson.

[meuandthelot]

Any updates on this product? Are the cards holding there own in the hobby?

[Patrick4]

Wow, this thread's a flash from the past...
I just checked dacardworld and they have the Jumbo at $80/box so I think they are still holding their own.

[tutall]

i would say they definently are holding up and will until all the pres cuts are found.... i hate the product personally becuse i am not the kind of person who wants to buy overly priced boxes with VERY low insert/gu/auto ratio with a chance worse than getting struck by lightning you will get a pres cut.... plus i hate the gold stamping because on abot everycard there is chipping... whatever happened to plain cardboard and 30 cents a pack

[elizardo_ramirez]

Yeah, I like the way the cards look but I am not a big fan of the product as a whole. It is so OVERPRICED! People are going crazy about the Prez cuts but you probably have a better risk/reward with buying a lotto ticket. Look at the prices for boxes of Topps series 1 from the last two years, they sell for like one-third or one-fourth the price.

[Justnuts]

I wish Topps would have just put the presidential cuts in the jumbo boxes and leave the regular hobby boxes at a decent price for the set collectors. I have a better chance of showing up in a Paris Hilton video then I do of pulling a pres 1/1 cut!