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Posted by: crpalmi Aug 21 2011, 01:18 PM

Hey guys...time to try another Vintage Baseball Pack Busters Group Break. We did this a few months ago and followed that up with a Vintage Hockey break so it's time to try it again with BB. I recently opened a 1971OPC BB pack and just love the look of OPC cards as well as the fact that they are more scarce than Topps so the profits if flipping are quite nice. From that pack I pulled a Reds team card that graded a PSA 9 and covered the cost of the whole pack ($200) and a number of PSA 8's that will be pure profit. That's with no star power at all! Long story short...I'm trying for an all-OPC product list which I know is not for everyone but let's give it a shot.

The format will remain the same. As soon as payments are received we randomize the slot order using random.org. Say we have 10 slots purchased... we randomize the list of participants, and once randomized if you end up with slot #4, you will receive the 4th card pulled. We then randomize the slot order again and we do this as many times as we need to cover the amount of cards we expect to pull. Once all that is established we then randomize the order in which we open the products (although if any one product is particularly cheaper than the others that product will be placed last). That way if we don't have the same number of slots as cards, if anyone is shorted a card it will be from the least expensive product. Also, if any inserts are included in the packs those will be the last "cards" given out so once the final pack is opened we then go back and the 1st insert pulled would go to the next slot in line, and so on.

I know this may sound confusing but once we get into it I'm sure you will see how this is the most fair way to do it as well as a way to ensure that everyone gets something (although it's possible you may get a card less than others based on the random order of the final round.

All this will be established prior to opening any packs so everyone will know exactly which card they get. All pack openings will be on video and I will say the name of the person who will be getting the next card pulled as we slowly slide the cards off the top so everyone knows who gets what.

Cards would be well protected with the understanding that condition would be of primary importance!

So, that's the long read...next question is who would be interested in joining us?

Cost: $80 per slot (based on 10 slots filled)
Payment Deadline: September 7th

Proposed Product List;

1966 OPC Baseball Pack
1970 OPC Baseball Pack
1971 OPC Baseball Pack (Series 4)
1972 OPC Baseball (3 Packs) (Series 1)

So who's in?

Participant Slots:
1. Crpalmi ------------- PAID
2. Scmavl ------------- PAID
3. Axe725 ------------- PAID
4. CaptKirk42 --------- PAID
5. FrankieFBCards ---- PAID
6. Tmgrnzx9r --------- PAID
7. DenverSJB10 ------ PAID
8. Yzerisdaman ------- PAID
9. Miconelegacy ------ PAID
10. Miconelegacy ----- PAID


CZT APPROVED
Sorry for delay, email acct screwy!

Posted by: road_runner_1964 Aug 25 2011, 02:29 PM

Good Luck

Hey guys...time to try another Vintage Baseball Pack Busters Group Break. We did this a few months ago and followed that up with a Vintage Hockey break so it's time to try it again with BB. I recently opened a 1971OPC BB pack and just love the look of OPC cards as well as the fact that they are more scarce than Topps so the profits if flipping are quite nice. From that pack I pulled a Reds team card that graded a PSA 9 and covered the cost of the whole pack ($200) and a number of PSA 8's that will be pure profit. That's with no star power at all! Long story short...I'm trying for an all-OPC product list which I know is not for everyone but let's give it a shot.

The format will remain the same. As soon as payments are received we randomize the slot order using random.org. Say we have 10 slots purchased... we randomize the list of participants, and once randomized if you end up with slot #4, you will receive the 4th card pulled. We then randomize the slot order again and we do this as many times as we need to cover the amount of cards we expect to pull. Once all that is established we then randomize the order in which we open the products (although if any one product is particularly cheaper than the others that product will be placed last). That way if we don't have the same number of slots as cards, if anyone is shorted a card it will be from the least expensive product. Also, if any inserts are included in the packs those will be the last "cards" given out so once the final pack is opened we then go back and the 1st insert pulled would go to the next slot in line, and so on.

I know this may sound confusing but once we get into it I'm sure you will see how this is the most fair way to do it as well as a way to ensure that everyone gets something (although it's possible you may get a card less than others based on the random order of the final round.

All this will be established prior to opening any packs so everyone will know exactly which card they get. All pack openings will be on video and I will say the name of the person who will be getting the next card pulled as we slowly slide the cards off the top so everyone knows who gets what.

Cards would be well protected with the understanding that condition would be of primary importance!

So, that's the long read...next question is who would be interested in joining us?

Cost: $80 per slot (based on 10 slots filled)
Payment Deadline: September 7th

Proposed Product List;

1966 OPC Baseball Pack (can switch out for a 1967 OPC if folks prefer)
1970 OPC Baseball Pack
1971 OPC Baseball Pack
1972 OPC Baseball (3 Packs)

So who's in?

Participant Slots:
1. Crpalmi
2. Crpalmi
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
CZT APPROVED
Sorry for delay, email acct screwy!

Posted by: Axe725 Aug 26 2011, 09:24 AM

I"m in

Posted by: captkirk42 Aug 26 2011, 10:44 AM

I"m back in.

Posted by: frankieFBcards Aug 26 2011, 12:05 PM

im in (.. 1967 if you can )

Posted by: tmgrnzx9r Aug 26 2011, 03:57 PM

Im in as well.

frankieFBcards
Please give me the link to your 69 pack break.
thanks

Posted by: crpalmi Aug 29 2011, 09:20 AM

Looking for 4 more slots to get this one going!

Posted by: crpalmi Sep 4 2011, 11:10 PM

No other takers??

Posted by: crpalmi Sep 7 2011, 09:23 AM

DenverSJB10 joins us with a slot. Still have 3 slots to go and it looks like if we can't fill those in the next week or so we may have to shelve this one. Anybody up for an additional slot?? If we get to 9 I may be able to take the last one just to make it happen...

Posted by: captkirk42 Sep 7 2011, 10:53 AM

Just mailed my payment.

Posted by: tmgrnzx9r Sep 13 2011, 07:57 AM

Is there anyway we can do this break with 7 spots??? With dropping a pack or moving to different packs????

Posted by: crpalmi Sep 17 2011, 07:00 PM

Is there anyway we can do this break with 7 spots??? With dropping a pack or moving to different packs????

Posted by: crpalmi Sep 18 2011, 10:10 PM

Great news guys...the break is on! Yzerisdaman has taken a slot and Miconelegacy has taken the final 2 slots to fill us at 10 slots claimed.

Next order of business is to get payments in and also to let me know if you prefer the 66 or the 67 OPC pack as both are priced the same.

Posted by: tmgrnzx9r Sep 19 2011, 10:42 AM

Chris
Im ok with either pack. Payment will go out tomorrow.
Thanks

Posted by: Axe725 Sep 23 2011, 03:06 PM

Payment sent

Posted by: Miconelegacy Sep 25 2011, 02:04 PM

Payment sent

Posted by: road_runner_1964 Sep 25 2011, 02:39 PM

Payment sent, and I am finally registered here.  Looking forward to actually being able to post with the Boxbreakers Football Breaks.

Thanks Chris.

Posted by: crpalmi Sep 25 2011, 03:49 PM

Payment sent, and I am finally registered here.  Looking forward to actually being able to post with the Boxbreakers Football Breaks.

Thanks Chris.

Posted by: crpalmi Sep 28 2011, 03:32 PM

Packs have just been ordered. I had to go with the 1966 pack over the 1967 due to availability. We were able to get a discount so I upgraded the 71 pack to the 4th series which should give us a shot at Nolan Ryan. The 72 packs I went with series 1 which were slighly more expensive than series 2 but the star power is better. I'll keep you posted but we could be looking at breaking sometime next week.

By the way all packs were ordered from Steve at BBCExchange.

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 5 2011, 03:26 PM

Hey guys, sorry about the delays in communicationn on this one. I'm hoping we will be all set to break on Saturday. I am on the road again so won't be able to do it prior to that but we can at least set up the random order. We will break the packs in chronological order starting with 1966 and work our way up to 1972. The cards will go to those in order as they are pulled with the exception of any inserts which will be saved for the end and will go to the next person on the list following the last card in the final pack. I randomized the 10 slot order 5 times as that should provide enough rounds to cover all the cards pulled. Here is the order;


Round 1:
1. Miconelegacy
2. Yzerisdaman
3. FrankieFBCards
4. Scmavl
5. Tmgrnzx9r
6. CaptKirk42
7. Miconelegacy
8. Crpalmi
9. Axe725
10. DenverSJB10

Round 2:
1. Tmgrnzx9r
2. FrankieFBCards
3. Miconelegacy
4. Axe725
5. Crpalmi
6. Yzerisdaman
7. Scmavl
8. DenverSJB10
9. Miconelegacy
10. CaptKirk42

Round 3:
1. FrankieFBCards
2. Crpalmi
3. Miconelegacy
4. Miconelegacy
5. Yzerisdaman
6. Axe725
7. Tmgrnzx9r
8. CaptKirk42
9. DenverSJB10
10. Scmavl

Round 4:
1. CaptKirk42
2. Yzerisdaman
3. Miconelegacy
4. Crpalmi
5. Scmavl
6. FrankieFBCards
7. Axe725
8. DenverSJB10
9. Tmgrnzx9r
10. Miconelegacy

Round 5:
1. Yzerisdaman
2. CaptKirk42
3. Miconelegacy
4. Scmavl
5. Crpalmi
6. FrankieFBCards
7. Tmgrnzx9r
8. Axe725
9. Miconelegacy
10. DenverSJB10

Hopefully for those of you new to the break this format makes sense but basically we just keep ripping and keep going through the rounds in order until we run out of cards so it is possible that slots in that 5th round will not receive cards.

Good luck all and I will let you know when I'm back in town when we can set a break time but Saturday night looks all right by me!

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 08:45 PM

Here's the line up for tonight;

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:28 PM

Start in 2 minutes...anyone around?

Posted by: frankieFBcards Oct 8 2011, 09:29 PM

Start in 2 minutes...anyone around?

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:30 PM

Ok folks...we'll go in chronological order starting with 1966 and ending with 1972. The slot order is on the final post of page 1 if you want to follow along.

First pack up in a minute!

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:31 PM

JUST ME !!! HOW ABOUT A QUICK GAME OF '21 ??

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:33 PM

Here's the 1966 OPC pack;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53zzxWk4FLg

Posted by: aceecards Oct 8 2011, 09:37 PM

nice start!

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:41 PM

Next up is 1970 OPC. A quick side note that since Miconelegacy has two slots...while I was doing this pack I made a mistake and read the wrong slot order as I skipped from his first slot to his second. I followed it up with another video with the correct recap...sorry about that!


Here's 1970;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJqwv_YhAx8


and the correct recap;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LUWNMbb9Lg

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:43 PM

Next up is 1971 OPC;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3uHRAVlO0

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:48 PM

Frustrating centering to say the least but at least some good star power in that one.

Next up is our first of three packs of 1972 OPC;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5g51goFn4

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:52 PM

Here's our 2nd pack of 1972;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-5X7VF59eU

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 09:59 PM

Last pack of the break...our 3rd pack of 1972. Quick note as at the end of the video we award the inserts in the predetermined slot order however I came up the winner of the Mantle insert and I'm just not comfortable with that so I have randomized it amongst all participants and it is going to Miconelegacy.


Here's our final pack;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UR1tMzOBfs

Posted by: crpalmi Oct 8 2011, 10:03 PM

That will do it folks. I love OPC but the centering continues to be just brutal! A few stars sprinkled about and a few gradeable cards which could quite possibly pay for a slot price or two... I just wish there were more!

Thanks again to all who participated and the cards will be packed carefully and sent out on Monday.

Next up will be the vintage FB break but I think we'll have alot more packs included as we'll have less $200 packs and more $30-40 packs like 76T, and maybe as recent as 81T or even 84T.

Thanks all!

Posted by: tyrodsports Oct 9 2011, 12:11 AM

Here's the 1966 OPC pack;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53zzxWk4FLg

Posted by: tyrodsports Oct 9 2011, 12:35 AM

just seen the last video and seen the Mantle. still always a good day when you get a Mantle.

Posted by: tyrodsports Oct 9 2011, 12:39 AM

just seen the last video and seen the Mantle. still always a good day when you get a Mantle.

Posted by: tmgrnzx9r Oct 17 2011, 07:41 PM

That will do it folks. I love OPC but the centering continues to be just brutal! A few stars sprinkled about and a few gradeable cards which could quite possibly pay for a slot price or two... I just wish there were more!

Thanks again to all who participated and the cards will be packed carefully and sent out on Monday.

Next up will be the vintage FB break but I think we'll have alot more packs included as we'll have less $200 packs and more $30-40 packs like 76T, and maybe as recent as 81T or even 84T.

Thanks all!

Posted by: frankieFBcards Nov 12 2011, 10:37 PM

Lets get the vintage football rolling!!!!!!

Posted by: tmgrnzx9r Nov 14 2011, 08:45 PM

+1

Posted by: crpalmi Nov 14 2011, 10:35 PM

CHRIS , NICE TRY ON THE O-PEE-CHEE STUFF ...

    CHECK THIS O-PEE-CHEE CARD OUT...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOLAN-RYAN-RC-1968-BVG-9-5-BGS-POP-1-CARD-/150578205767?pt=US_Baseball&hash=item230f291447
    LETS GET BACK INTO THE  THIS , VINTAGE ,,, 1964-1968. OPC OR TOPPS IS OK
  ...AND ADD A VINTAGE FOOTBALL THREAD

Posted by: frankieFBcards Nov 16 2011, 01:11 PM

I'll see what I can put together but am thinking FB is next.

Posted by: Yzerisdaman Nov 19 2011, 05:28 PM

I'm up for a Football break if you do it.

By the way my 1966 Rusty Staub came back a PSA 8 so I was pleased!

Posted by: tmgrnzx9r Dec 18 2011, 05:15 PM

baseball or football after the new year?????

Posted by: crpalmi Dec 20 2011, 10:27 AM

Thinking FB but need to wait until January to see where I'm at with it. Sorry...