Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Least Expensive Packs I've Ever Found

The supermarket I go to often has clearance bins in the front of the store. They call these manager's special items.  This is where I found the many packs of $1.00 2006 Topps Chrome baseball, and several other packs of really cheap cards, including a  $4.99 blaster.   There are several sale bins the back of the store, mainly with non-baseball card junk in them, but I always go back and check out to see if there are more cards added, since new packs tend to pop up every once in awhile.

I guess they are having trouble selling some of the stuff, so in the bins out front they marked everything 75% off of the clearance price.  These made for some super sweet deals on cards I wouldn't have bought otherwise, but since they were now so cheap I really had no choice (relatively speaking).
There weren't many packs at 75% off up in the front of the store bins (although there were lots at regular clearance price in the back), but I did manage to find these three packs.  I do not collect WWE cards, however I know some of you guys do, and I figured I could throw them in a trade somewhere.  They were kind of interesting to open--brought me back to my youth when I watched what was then the WWF.

How much did they cost?  Hardly anything!

With a bit more digging I also found some football cards.  It was a blister of two packs--one being a hobby pack of 2004 Fleer Authentix!  The other pack was 2004 UD NFL Legends.  

What did these packs cost?
$1.25 definitely did not break the bank.  I was shocked to see how low these costs were, sometimes junk wax isn't even this inexpensive. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen junk wax below a dollar at shows.

So yeah, I got five packs of halfway decent cards--including a hobby pack, for a cool $2.00.

Results of said packs to follow.

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