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Kirk
Posts: 159
Joined: Mar 2014
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 10:30 AM | |
I went to Target and picked up one of those Fairfield boxes that has ten packs of baseball cards. When I got home and tore into the box two of the packs were those Panini Triple Play cartoon things. What a letdown. I guess some consider them real baseball cards, but when I open a box expecting Topps or Upper Deck or Donruss or Fleer, it's a real downer to get two opacks of something that doesn't even have a photo on it and looks like it's marketed for small children. Am I right to feel cheated or do you guys get excited when you see a pack of Triple Play? Maybe I just need to change my way of thinking.
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wweluver87
Posts: 50
Joined: May 2015
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 10:49 AM | |
i can't speak for everybody but to me i can care less what packs i get because in the end they either stay with me in my ever growing collection or they go to the trade bait list
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suomibear8
Posts: 793
Joined: Nov 2009
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 11:37 AM | |
I think I get those Triple Play packs every single time I buy from Target. If I were you I would count on it. I don't like them either, because like you said, it looks like it's a set for 5yr olds. It's kinda like when I buy hockey ones and I get either Pro Set or Score. If you're hoping for better quality stuff, I'd save my money and just buy blasters, so at least you know what you're getting.
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kollectornet
Posts: 6
Joined: Jan 2013
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 12:17 PM | |
That is on reason I stopped buying those crap boxes, they fill them with a bunch of crap cards.
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switzr1
Posts: 6,332
Joined: Dec 2013
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 1:27 PM | |
Those Triple Play cards are so goofy, I think I have grown to like them. But I get aggravated at the wrestling ones that have 3 or 4 packs of the Raw Deal card game in them. I know they are a numbered set and they are cards, but the pictures are so small, it's often hard to tell who is even in the picture, so I don't like collecting them.
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I'm going to reevaluate how I collect after the new year. It's just getting way too expensive for the new stuff. Sometimes I just want to buy a pack, not a whole box or even blaster. |
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clauzon
Posts: 9
Joined: Jun 2015
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 2:55 PM | |
Those boxes always have them. I bought 2 of the $20 dollar ones and they each had 3 of the triple play packs in them but i still like them i got some really cool panini cards from some of the packs and some serial numbered cards out of those target boxes.
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carthage44
Posts: 281
Joined: Sep 2011
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 3:36 PM | |
Rule of Thumb, DO NOT BUY RETAIL BOXES!!!
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wjsenke
Posts: 165
Joined: Jun 2015
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 3:47 PM | |
I can see the triple play cards in the little window so I know I will get some along with some opening day packs always. I try to look for boxes with GQ or A&g packs and have found some great parallel and numbered cards in them
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Baseball: 1957 + 61 Topps, 1950 + 53 Bowman (Color), If i win the lottery maybe i will try to finish an 1887 Buchner Gold Coin and the 1914 and 1915 Cracker Jack Sets too |
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poppadingo
Posts: 28
Joined: Apr 2015
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 7:22 PM | |
GQ or A&G packs? Sorry I'm new.
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wjsenke
Posts: 165
Joined: Jun 2015
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| Monday, August 10, 2015 7:32 PM | |
Gypsy Queen or Allen & Ginter, the throwback sets from Topps
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Baseball: 1957 + 61 Topps, 1950 + 53 Bowman (Color), If i win the lottery maybe i will try to finish an 1887 Buchner Gold Coin and the 1914 and 1915 Cracker Jack Sets too |
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