Box Breaks to Variations

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I was watching a break tonight.. I know I have such a life.
Anyhow it was for a case of 19-20 Series 2. Now with all that I have cracked on it, I ended up with a few variations.
I noticed he got a McDavid vertical. I made mention to it as I have pulled one. He stated that base is base unless numbered or directly different from the actual base card which means that it has to be a different color so he can notice it. He stated that he has cracked about 9-10 case's of series 1 and 2 for breaks and that he doesn't have the time to look through the cards.
Now with the amount of variations between UD now and OPC, unless you can tell off the bat how many variations there are being missed.

I know not all hold major value but do you think they should be going through them more carefully? They are hits... One group who I deal with, they picked up on the hits right off the bat during their breaks of 20-21 OPC and sent me a 3rd jersey card.
 
UD has cashed in on these for the last few years...last year it was the triple exposure parallels, this year it was a different photo, usually in the away or home jersey, for a number of stars and young stars of the game through a skip numbered set. Check the list here on HI as to noticed variations as they are pretty much an unannounced set. They are not 1/box, and seem to be maybe 2-4 a case, but I am guessing on that since I haven’t broken a case of UD 1 or 2 to determine the seeding in a case. (Seen plenty of breaks, but don’t recognize the photo variations.)

Value wise on these...definitely should almost case hits or extremely rare hits. Probably undervalued. Btw, if the McDavid is a variation, congrats!!! Tough pull! Consider that if you can pull a variant, in maybe 2 per case, with 30 cards in a set, that would make your McDavid a 1:15 cases...UD 2 is a 12 box case, so that would mean that card would be 1:180 boxes, or by packs (24/box) would be 1:4,320 packs.

Btw, frequent watcher of CnC, Zeeree Gaming, and Fultoncards. A lot of breaks! Good to see the products. Oh & sometimes “Box breaks with Bruce!”. :-D
 
sdpdesign said:
UD has cashed in on these for the last few years...last year it was the triple exposure parallels, this year it was a different photo, usually in the away or home jersey, for a number of stars and young stars of the game through a skip numbered set. Check the list here on HI as to noticed variations as they are pretty much an unannounced set. They are not 1/box, and seem to be maybe 2-4 a case, but I am guessing on that since I haven’t broken a case of UD 1 or 2 to determine the seeding in a case. (Seen plenty of breaks, but don’t recognize the photo variations.)

Value wise on these...definitely should almost case hits or extremely rare hits. Probably undervalued. Btw, if the McDavid is a variation, congrats!!! Tough pull! Consider that if you can pull a variant, in maybe 2 per case, with 30 cards in a set, that would make your McDavid a 1:15 cases...UD 2 is a 12 box case, so that would mean that card would be 1:180 boxes, or by packs (24/box) would be 1:4,320 packs.

Btw, frequent watcher of CnC, Zeeree Gaming, and Fultoncards. A lot of breaks! Good to see the products. Oh & sometimes “Box breaks with Bruce!”. :-D
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Yay...I made the list :D
 
They are absolutely hits and should be considered as such in any break for Series 1/2. Every box break i've seen mentions the variations. Quite frankly if he's refusing to send the hit, I'd open a case with PP and also please give us his ID so we can avoid him.
 
It's a case hit. Breakers could be excused for not knowing about them in the early days after the release - but considering they're in the business of busting packs for other people, they should absolutely know what the hits are - and send them out accordingly.

Heck, if I were to buy the Oilers in a 19/20 Series 2 case break, I don't think "could you include a base team set when you send my cards out" should be met with anything but "sure, no problem!" (granted, if that causes shipping rates to go up - I think it's also fair to pass that onto the buyer).
 
Gotta say, I understand the breaker, must be a pain to double check all the cards.

In this case, I'd say it's the buyers responsibility to watch the break and tell the breaker, add that card to my shipment. If he or she doesn't and says no, then avoid buying spots from that particular individual where there are known variations.
 
Kharlamov17 said:
Gotta say, I understand the breaker, must be a pain to double check all the cards.

In this case, I'd say it's the buyers responsibility to watch the break and tell the breaker, add that card to my shipment. If he or she doesn't and says no, then avoid buying spots from that particular individual where there are known variations.
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Only problem is they go through the base so quick it's hard to pick it up.
Buddy of mine said he saw an ebayer seller with a pile of them who does box breaks also..
No proof of the ebayer but it's becoming a norm now.

I was happy that CnC took a bit of extra time to check the base out as now it's a normal thing in products
 
So essentially this guy sells case breaks...but keeps the case hit for himself? That's a pretty interesting business model. ; )
 

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