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Stopped by two LCS and one didn't get their shipment, but should have it by Wednesday.....The other I was able to pick up some 2017 Heritage I needed as well as some 2019 150 foil stamped.  Got both the "bonus" cards (Alonso and Trout) and picked the pack with Vlad on top......it had cards 25-29 in it...Kikuchi, Molina, Snell, Kluber and Vlad....not sure if that was something with the packaging since they were all in order

I also noticed some sort of sequencing (My cards are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 20.) and when I asked for the cards, the store guy went to the box, looked at the packs and seemed to select which one he was to give me. I am wondering now if there's some kind of pack A, B, C, D, E and F.

About the delivery time, I don't know for Topps, but when Upper Deck is doing the Hockey Card Day in February, the cards are delivered about a month in advance. My owner at the favorite LCS (the one who doesn't get the free baseball packs, not the one I went today) gave me a preview (preview only, no giveaway) something like two weeks before the official release day.

I'm curious - is anyone working out a Checklist for us?  

I'd honestly rather chase the Topps Utz cards than the NBCD cards.

@Gator415 , I want that Molina card! I haven't added my Utz cards on here yet, but I will soon.

Part two of NCBD is this Saturday and you should be able to get more packs that day also.  I hopefully will be getting at least a few more, so will post what I have...

@ spazmatastic send me a TR after this weekend when I get all of them in and I'll be up for trading it :)

I was able to stop at my LCS on Sat and he has his extras for sale yesterday and today. I was able to complete my set today after he let me pick the packs. I did notice the sequencing as well. Almost all the packs followed this seq, top card is the highest number then the sequence goes down in sucsetion. I was able to get about 10 packs and only about 3 did not follow this. Of those three, one had the auto of Michael Chavis, the other 2 had card 28 but in the middle split to card 1, the last pack I forget what was in it but it had the last 2 cards in the set (29, 30) out of seq.

Spent only 8 bucks to get the set and found an auto with it. It's been a while since I bought packs and I am loving every minute of it.

I didn't even know about the autos when I was going for the set. I see from this thread though they had quite a few. 

Went to my LCS today as they finally got their shipment of cards in.  The owner encouraged me to pick out 4 or 5 packs and to make sure that I got a pack with a different player on the front.  I grabbed 5 and completed most the base set. He also let me pick up all three bonus cards. It's a small little shop and it's the kind of shop that I envisioned, with a friendly owner who cares about cards is knowledgable about the hobby. He knows that prices have gone crazy but doesn't mark them up even though he totally could.  For instance today I picked up a pack of penny sleeves and toploaders for only $4. I need to go back to his shop more often.  It probably had been about a year since I last visited. 

It would work better if you PM me. I have so much going on that I need to limit transactions. This is mostly due to me adding thousands more cards from another massive collection addition. Anything we attempt would be done entirely through the Transaction Manager. I'm just so busy with cards and life that I have to set limits!

I went to two out of town stores earlier today (Saturday #2). There are two brand new locations in the same town operated by two different owners living a 100 miles away from their store and 200 miles from each other.

One of them is owned by the same guy who own my second LCS (the one that sell at prices higher than Beckett). The staff behind the counter was two teenagers with green and pink hair and who didn't seem to have a clue about sportscards. The guy with green hair said that they have a ton of them, but after searching a second or two, they never found them and told me that they were out of stock. I asked if they were selling singles. No dice, unless you want Montreal Canadiens or Magic singles.

The other one is a new store owned by someone who opened his first store 2 or 3 years ago in another town 100 miles away. I visited none of his stores before. The store was empty except for one employee and the card selection was not much better, but that guy was cool and they had NBCD packs to give away. I can confirm that all the packs I got are indeed sequenced by card number: #7-8-9-10, #21-22-23-24... If you have a list with the player names and their card numbers, you should have a good idea what you'll find in your pack with the need to unwrap it and to have a look.

If you wanna trade, I got about a dozen dupes to offer in my FT/S.

The LCS I hit last Saturday was well stocked, so I went back today. 

Got more of the freebies, but much to my dismay, almost pure dupes... 

I'd be happy to trade the dupes, looking to finish the base set myself.  

Didn't get lucky with any of the autos, but hey, thems the breaks.