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ToppsNOW General Discussion
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I have seen many Topps Now cards, but not sure how they are sold or distributed. If I remember correctly, don’t buyers have a limited time to order the cards….something like 24 hrs? Are cards made daily based on games that were played the day before? How do we see which cards are been made in any given day?
Great questions! Yes, they're typically only available on Topps' website for 24 hours. There are some exceptions to this, such as Road to Opening Day sets and Postseason sets, but the ones commemorating particular games are only available for a bit. They get posted at https://www.topps.com/cards-collectibles/topps-now/mlbtoppsnow.html typically in the early afternoon hours. Individually they're about $11 after tax and shipping, which is why we do the group orders, so we get the bulk discount: $7/spot in orders of 5, $6/spot in orders of 10 or 20.
Personally I don’t go to the Topps website hardly ever. One suggestion would be to somehow make us SCC members aware of the cards available on any particular day.
Totally understand. As it stands for now, I think the plan is that I'll make daily posts of which cards are available in the monthly thread in this forum--in fact, I just posted today's 9 over there. Would that work for making folks aware?
Some observations on ToppsNOW print runs, in case anyone is interested:
1) while the whole NY bias deal gets brought up, I don't think that's where Topps is making money on these: latest cards of mets/Yankees: 327, 1017, 1393, 802, 519, 1737 (Senga, related point next), 1144 (Vientos), 1208 (Alvarez), 1102, 1032, 1605, 3406 (Volpe), 1073, 556, 7558 (Volpe), 656. There are multiple Judges and Alonsos spread throughout those lower PRs, which brings me to point two:
2) Rookies are a larger part of their bread and butter than NY bias: RC PRs recently (so not even first RCs of the year for some of these guys): 1375, 987, 945, 1055, 1075, 1355, 1221, 909, 1962, 1737, 1144, 1208, 924, 1290, 988, 1839, 785, 2299, 927, 665, 3406, 1009, 678, 1890, 715, 826. Very rarely does that dip very far into triple digits, they're almost all way up there near 1000 at the minimum.
But their REAL breadwinner is point 3): one Shohei Ohtani. Shohei PRs this season: 5206, 8916, 9034, 2660, 2976, 8336, 4030, 3484, 4152, 42273, 17071, 8129 (last three are WBC cards). None of Judges come even close to those numbers this season--none of anybodys do lol. Even Shohei's lowest (2660) is higher than nearly all of the NY and/or RC cards. When he does good things, the NOW employees rejoice bc they're almost guaranteed 8k purchases.
It effects us too: our average PR, all told, this season is 3956. Take out anything Shohei and the average PR of cards we order drops to 3054. Even Judge robbing Shohei was a higher PR than a normal Judge card: 1017, 1393, 1032, 1605, 1073, 823, 3902 (robbing Shohei), 4695 (HR on opening day). Even Judge's MVP card last season was 8396, which is basically an average Ohtani card.
And finally: we have upcoming our lowest PR card ever: #271 Josh Lowe only had a PR of 265! Hopefully a multiple parallel order there for us.
Thanks everyone!
1) while the whole NY bias deal gets brought up, I don't think that's where Topps is making money on these: latest cards of mets/Yankees: 327, 1017, 1393, 802, 519, 1737 (Senga, related point next), 1144 (Vientos), 1208 (Alvarez), 1102, 1032, 1605, 3406 (Volpe), 1073, 556, 7558 (Volpe), 656. There are multiple Judges and Alonsos spread throughout those lower PRs, which brings me to point two:
2) Rookies are a larger part of their bread and butter than NY bias: RC PRs recently (so not even first RCs of the year for some of these guys): 1375, 987, 945, 1055, 1075, 1355, 1221, 909, 1962, 1737, 1144, 1208, 924, 1290, 988, 1839, 785, 2299, 927, 665, 3406, 1009, 678, 1890, 715, 826. Very rarely does that dip very far into triple digits, they're almost all way up there near 1000 at the minimum.
But their REAL breadwinner is point 3): one Shohei Ohtani. Shohei PRs this season: 5206, 8916, 9034, 2660, 2976, 8336, 4030, 3484, 4152, 42273, 17071, 8129 (last three are WBC cards). None of Judges come even close to those numbers this season--none of anybodys do lol. Even Shohei's lowest (2660) is higher than nearly all of the NY and/or RC cards. When he does good things, the NOW employees rejoice bc they're almost guaranteed 8k purchases.
It effects us too: our average PR, all told, this season is 3956. Take out anything Shohei and the average PR of cards we order drops to 3054. Even Judge robbing Shohei was a higher PR than a normal Judge card: 1017, 1393, 1032, 1605, 1073, 823, 3902 (robbing Shohei), 4695 (HR on opening day). Even Judge's MVP card last season was 8396, which is basically an average Ohtani card.
And finally: we have upcoming our lowest PR card ever: #271 Josh Lowe only had a PR of 265! Hopefully a multiple parallel order there for us.
Thanks everyone!
My pleasure, thanks for reading! I love nerding out about stuff like that.
