A few nights ago I took my oldest daughter to Target to buy her a treat as
instructed by my wife. Before we headed back to the toy department, I stopped by the card section to see if anything new caught my eye. Sure there were lots of new Panini baseball sets I know nothing about. Football card season has started so there were several new things, but I'm still having a hard time bringing myself to buy a pack of cards these days. I thought about buying another rack pack of GPK Chrome, but I didn't want to drop $10 on a few cards. Thankfully the new series 3 GPK cards were finally in stock...at $2.49 a pack now? I saw they had rack packs too and did the quick math to see what was the better deal. 10 cards for $2.49 or 21 cards + a bonus sticker for $4.99. Grabbed the rack pack and headed on back to find a Barbie or something girly for my daughter.
I grabbed several packs of series 1 and a few of series 2, but never actively tried to
complete the set (a or b) because I was building so many sport card sets. Now that I'm not really chasing any one set, I just may have to put more focus on GPK again.
I ended up buying a second rack pack last night and I was very disappointed that 19 of the 21 cards in my 2nd pack were dupes! The collation was horrible. I'll try a 3rd rack pack, but if I get similar results I may just have to resort to trading to fill my holes. That said I'll list my dupes for anyone wanting to make a trade. Just send me an
e-mail and we'll work something out.
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A few nights ago I took my oldest daughter to Target to buy her a treat as
instructed by my wife. Before we headed back to the toy department, I stopped by the card section to see if anything new caught my eye. Sure there were lots of new Panini baseball sets I know nothing about. Football card season has started so there were several new things, but I'm still having a hard time bringing myself to buy a pack of cards these days. I thought about buying another rack pack of GPK Chrome, but I didn't want to drop $10 on a few cards. Thankfully the new series 3 GPK cards were finally in stock...at $2.49 a pack now? I saw they had rack packs too and did the quick math to see what was the better deal. 10 cards for $2.49 or 21 cards + a bonus sticker for $4.99. Grabbed the rack pack and headed on back to find a Barbie or something girly for my daughter.
I grabbed several packs of series 1 and a few of series 2, but never actively tried to
complete the set (a or b) because I was building so many sport card sets. Now that I'm not really chasing any one set, I just may have to put more focus on GPK again.
I ended up buying a second rack pack last night and I was very disappointed that 19 of the 21 cards in my 2nd pack were dupes! The collation was horrible. I'll try a 3rd rack pack, but if I get similar results I may just have to resort to trading to fill my holes. That said I'll list my dupes for anyone wanting to make a trade. Just send me an e-mail and we'll work something out.
You know, I've really given a lot of thought about getting back into these. My mom hated them, but I loved the heck out of them.
ReplyDeleteIf you do start collecting them, let me know as I already have a little stack of doubles I can send you!
DeleteI haven't picked up any of the recent issues lately... but I'm glad to see they haven't lost a step. That Obscene Gene card is awesome!
ReplyDeleteUsed to have my share of these when they original came out and it was a lot of fun to collect those back then but nothing i will do now but it is nice to see them back and popular again.
ReplyDeleteGreat series, I almost have the whole set, just trying to find rares now. Bought a pack of Chrome today, you should check those out if you haven't
ReplyDeleteDo you have any doubles? I bought 3 packs of Chrome and I love 'em. Check my card blog for that post.
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