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    Osco drug is selling the complete 1989 Score Baseball set for $16.99,
    and they also have the Donruss Updated edition for the same price.
    This looks like a good deal,does anyone else sell them for less
    than that ?
    
     John
    
     
    
    
    

    John,I checked it out last nite,and yes thats the set,"Baseballs
    Best".
    

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>    Osco drug is selling the complete 1989 Score Baseball set for $16.99,
>    and they also have the Donruss Updated edition for the same price.
>    This looks like a good deal,does anyone else sell them for less
>    than that ?
>    
>     John
 
     John,
         Where can I find an Osco Drug?  I've looked around the MetroWest
     area (via the phonebook) and can't find one anywhere!! 8^(  I'd like 
     to pick up a few sets for my nephews.

							Thanks,
							  Dave   
     
    
    
    

    1990 Scores are out. I just bought a box at Front Row Sports in
    Derry, N.H. He had a couple of cases but they were going fast. Quality
    of the cards is far below previous years, glossy finish is no longer
    there. The Bo football card is a joke. Several of the pictures appear
    to be reprints of photos I've seen before.
    Claims he will have Donruss next week.
    

    I read in Tuff Stuff Magazine that the Score BB cards for 1990 are top
    rated, for rookies, and for originallity, "Dream Team".  The pictures
    are real sharp, good stats, and overall got the best rating next to 
    UD.  Only draw back they mentioned was that the names of the
    ballplayers on the front side were hard to read. I still think that
    this company puts out a better product than Fleer, or Don Russ, and
    maybe even Topps.  I think this company is a sleeper for investors,
    someday, collectors are going to wake up and see the quality in this
    company.  They haven't really jumped into this error hype, or at least
    they don't advertise it like Fleer and DR. so I really respect them and 
    hope they stay around awhile.

    I just found out a very discouraging event.  I went out to check out
    the Osco Drug sets, and someone went in and bought up all the sets,
    Topps that is.  Score was still left at the Rt62 store in Concord,
    but one of the local dealers bought them all out.  Thats what the store
    manager told me.  So if you want one, you have to go to the dealers
    store and pay the $25 bucks.   This is what really kills the hobby for
    the poor collector, and for the children who have been saving up their
    paper route money for the past 3 weeks, to suddenly walk into the drug
    store, and find his DREAM SET scooped up by the local card dealer.  Is
    this great for the hobby.  AT least he left the BEST SET at the drug
    store, "SCORE".   Hope the dealer has to eat them!!

    
     I was at the Ossco Drug store in Waltham and there were *plenty*
    of '89 Topps sets left for 14.99. And if you can't do that, go to
    Rotmans in Worcester and pay 19.00.
    
    Rick

>>    I was at the Ossco Drug store in Waltham and there were *plenty*
>>    of '89 Topps sets left for 14.99. And if you can't do that, go to
>>    Rotmans in Worcester and pay 19.00.
    
      Where was that price listed???  I don't have the most recent Sports
      Collectors Digest, but the latest one I have (cover date today,
      16-FEB) has them listed as:

	    1989 Topps set collated in special "decorative" box   $24.99
	    1989 Topps set collated by Topps (plain box)          $22.99

      However, if you buy a 16-set case, the price averages out to about
      $20 for the plain wrapper sets.

      The "decorative" boxes are the ones that Osco and Walgreen's sell.
      These are the same sets that dealers piss and moan about 'cuz they
      can't get them through Topps.  These are sold exclusively to the
      major retail stores (K-mart, Osco, Walgreen's, etc).  Probably the
      main reason why dealers hoard them all from retail stores....

      - Dan

    
     I went to Rotman's about 2 months ago and bought 4 or 5 various
    sets. I don;t remember the particulars but I do remember that the
    price's that hudmar and the coin/card shop in stow were $5.00 over
    the SCD price and Rotmans was $2.00-$3.00 leass then SCD. I remember
    saying to myself, why would *anybody* but a set form a dealer when
    they can get these (Rotmans) prices. AS far as the Ossco box being
    different than the factory box, that don't bother me in the least.
    Same cards.
    
    Rick

    Score BB cards got good grades from the recent SCD Magazine.  They came
    in second, and UD came in first.  DR third, and Topps, and Fleer
    rounding out the entries.  I still think, that Score gives you a good
    quality product, two nice pics.  The SCD article did comment on the 
    fact that Score gave you a good qualtiy picture and good stats.  UD
    got very good marks, and appears to be the premium card.  I wonder why
    score doesn't seem to be making it from an investors point of view?  To 
    many cards out there??

    
    What is so good about the Bo Jackson card where he is holding a
    bat on his shoulders with some shoulder pads on?  My friend said
    it was worth $8.00.  card #697.
    
         	Ben
    

    #1 It's BO!
    #2 It's very very cool!!!!!
    #3 It may be short printed?!
    
    That's it!
    GG

                                                                            
    And its easy to read for stupid people like me!  ;^( ) 
    
    
    	Ben
    
    
                                                  

	My wife took my son to Toys-R-Us the other day.  He came home with 5
rack packs with THE Bo Jackson Nike card inside.  $1.50 each 8^) !!!  The kids
know whats hot .... and this card is "RED-HOT" !!!  Please don't ask me if he'd
sell one, 'cause I know he won't.  He's one of your investor type kids 8^).  I 
remember back around Christmas time when a dealer offered him $5 a piece for his
David Robinson Hoops douples (1st printing) ... I thought he was "NUTS" not to 
take it .... now look at that card.  Hey .... what do I know about investing ???

					Tony
    

    	... hey, the kids got long fingernails 8^) !  If I was there,
    I couldn't have helped him ... I "bite" mine !!!
    
    	Seriously, didn't I explain to you before that my son has a
    mind of his own.  I've talked to him til I'm blue in the face, but
    he doesn't listen.  I'm starting to think that the best thing to
    do is "leave him alone".  If you were 9 years old, you'd be "thumbin"
    the racks too.  Anyway, I might be able to get one of the Jacksons
    in a trade deal with him 8^) .... "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" !!!
    
    					Tony

    1990 Score BB cards becoming scarce.  A sports card owner at the
     Woburn Mall charging $1.50 per pack. Says that wax packs will not
     be available shortly.  A local variety store took his score cards
     off the self saying the distributor was charging too much.  he
     would have to sell his for$1.00 pack.  If they are scarce why can
     I still get them at other variety stores for .50 - .65 per pack.
     
    Scarce my butt
    Ken

    As I understand the situation Score has stopped producing BB cards and
    is getting ready to turn on the FB production line.  I have not seen
    much Score at the wholesale places lately.  Could be between shipments
    or could be that they shut down.
    
    At a show here in Dallas this weekend Score boxes were going to 21-26$
    each.  Error boxes for 30+$ each.
    
    joe  just adding to the rumor fire.

    I ran out at lunch to confirm the rumors but found plenty of Score
    around at .50 a pack. (Thats New York)
    
    Like a store owner said.  Nothin' new is scarce. Nothin'.
    

    What are the Score '90 BO's (the one with the bat in B/W)
    going for back east?
    
    GG in Colorado, too close to Kansas City
    

>>  Score's have been out since last Christmas
>>  and they can still be found.  All of sudden almost a half year later
>>  people think they're scarce. Unreal !

    Within the next few weeks, '90 Score Baseball will be no longer available.
    Local stores may still have some on the shelves, but ask them if they've
    received any boxes from the candy distributors over the past few weeks.
    Very few, if any.  Why???  Very simple; Score is no longer printing '90
    Baseball cards and will not print anymore.  They're in process of 
    changing the plates to print '90 Score Football cards (w/ another
    version of the Bo/Nike/FB/BB card  :-) )  The same thing happened with
    Fleer Basketball and Topps Hockey cards.  The companies stopped printing
    them around Christmas.  In January you could still find them on the
    shelves but the stores could no longer order them.  By the end of February
    you could no longer find them ...

    It doesn't matter what you want to call it (limited production, scarce),
    you're just not going to find them anymore...

    -Dan

    There is a large supply of Score Mylar (wax) around. Score stopped
    production of its 1988 cards two years ago. I've still got unopened
    packs. (not for sale never will be) and I can still got to any number
    of outlets and buy @.75-1.50 1988 score packs. 
    
    I will grant you that there is interest in the 1990 Score cards. One
    reason is Score has printed cards for "Rookies" that may still be a
    couple years from playing regular in the Majors. Scores Major league
    version of minor league stars. One ad I saw touted 1990 Score as "The
    sleeper set of the Decade!!""
    
    Its Hype (IMO) I liked the 88 Score, There were hundreds of boxes in
    the stores. Then they were gone. I thought "Damn I should have bought a
    couple of more boxes". Then they were back Hundreds of boxes plus
    thousands of Rak pax. I bought more, now I have too many. My grand kids
    will open them 20 years from now. And they will still be available
    because, since 1980, dealers and investors are putting Millions of
    cards into storage waiting for the price to go up. Sorry, The new cards
    (anything after 1980) will not keep up with inflation. Except the Bo,
    unless his knee blows up one day on the 20 yard line or the left field
    foul line. Bo's will be special, Score cards won't, except for the
    cards that mean something to the collector. Sorry investors.
    
    NT  

    
      Hasn't Dondrus stopped printing also???     (;>)
    
    

    A dealer here in Atlanta, who I know rather well and respect, is
    currently selling factory sealed Score complete sets for $39.95.
    He told me to hold off and wait. He has not received his shipment
    from score yet and I should be able to pick up a Score set for about
    $25-$27. These will be hand collated and not sealed, naturally. He
    also has been telling me for the last 3 weeks that Score was no
    longer making cards. At a store where I occasionally buy wax packs,
    I was told by one of the clerks that adults were comming in and
    buying boxes of score saying that they are going to be scarce.
    I also think that this is more games being played by the card companies
    to sell their product in an ever growing very competative market.
    I do feel that the 1990 Score set will be an excellent set to have
    just for the rookies. As an investment???

     Just in....
    
    Score had to halt production of Mylar packs do to a severe shortage of
    the MVP trivia inserts. Relyable sources inside the company said that
    all the inserts disapeared the day the factory was visited by a group
    of major league umpires. 
    
    Collectors, Hobby hounds and investors are grabbing up the short supply
    inserts at prices here-to-fore unseen.
    
    Score plans to dump millions of cards into the market-place at
    give-away prices because of the problem.
    
    o o
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    I went out and asked a card shop owner what was going on with the '90
    score. This guy deals pretty straight but he is in this business
    to make money.
    
    He said that the report is that the printers (Optigraphics of Grand
    Prarie Texas) did not print as many cards as Major League Marketing 
    (Score) ordered. 
    
    Major League Marketing feels that there is enough existing supply to
    meet demand. I assume that to be demand at .50 per pack.
    
    Regardless, either Amurol products (the distributor) or the wholesalers
    (the middlemen between the distributor and the stores) have jacked up
    the prices. Therefore, dealers and stores have raised the prices to
    $1.00 a pack.
    
    Economics 101 supply and demand. Rumors of a short printing increase
    demand. price goes up. 
    
    I personally won't pay 1.00 a pack for any current year cards. (There
    are no 1990 UD cards in my collection). I will however probably buy
    more score if I get them at .50 from a candy store owner who hasen't
    raised his prices, than I would have had there been no short print
    rumor.
    
    I still think that  its a bunch of horse bleep and we are going to find
    that availability of these cards will be there and we should refuse to
    pay the jacked up prices.
    

	I heard about this happening well over a month ago....i still
	don't have any score.....the *ONLY* reason they stopped printing
	was becuase score has always been in deep supply as they were
	never a 'hot' set....they *ARE NOT* in short supply....there are
	plenty of them out their but the you know whats are just jacking
	up the prices and jackin us off.....if you people out there go
	out and scoop them up its only going to drive up the prices even
	further......*DON'T* be fooled...*DON"T* pay *THEIR* prices...
	don't panic......reality will eventually set back in and the
	prices will come back down.....

	Denny	

    
    GANG,
    	I BOUGHT A FACTORY 90 SCORE FOR $35 LAST WEEK AT A SHOW HERE.
    HOWEVER, THE HAND COLLATED HAVE BEEN GOING FOR $45 TO $50 FOR A
    MONTH NOW AT THE SHOPS. WHAT KIND OF PRICES ARE YOU SEEING.
    
    			JIM@ABO
    
    
    

    
    just talked to a shop. said he has a couple factory 90 score bb.
    wants $55 . says this set will go the route of the '84 donruss.
    something about limited supply. what do you guys(and gals) think.
    
    					jim

    I saw a box for 22.50.
    
    		Ben
    

    I had an opportunity to talk to the folks from Score at the National
    Convention.  They said there is no real shortage of Score cards.  Their
    production levels were similar to the past years.  They shut down their
    presses to run update, hockey, and football cards.
    
    I don't know who to believe.  I know the dealers are trying to
    capitalize on the 'scarce' and 'rare' and 'limited printing'
    terminology.  What's a guy to do??
    
    joe

    Roy,
    
    The card you're referring to commerates the National Convention.  MY
    understanding is there are 600 cards total.  100 of them were given to
    Ryan and the rest distributed to dealers at the convention.  It is his
    regular score card except where the Ranger team logo is they put the
    logo from the convention.
    
    Hold onto your seat for this one.  I saw an ad in "Tuff Stuff" where
    this card was selling for
    
    
    
    
    $1900.00  That's right nineteen hundred dollars.  According to the ad
    this price was determined via that electronic dealer network (I can't
    remember the name. "sports net" maybe?

    I went into a store in Worcester called " That's Entertainment" on
    Chandler St, and they had the Score factory set at $ 35.95.
    I also heard a rumor that B.J's had about 2 skids with about 300
    complete factory sets of 1990 Score on each skid, at $ 19.95 I
    believe it was. The skids were put out around 11am and by 6pm they
    were all gone. That's why I think his selling them for $ 35.95.
    Has anyone heard about this........
    
    Miguel

        Yeah, my wife happened to be in BJ's and saw a box or two left,
        she was told that some guy bought up as much of the Score's as he
        could. He would have bought more, but ran out of money! We
        figured it was probably a dealer.
        
        Vin

    
     O'briens in Northboro was also selling Score sets for $35. He said
    that Score had just released them. Wonder how many Millions more they
    have left to release. I bought mine this weekend from That's
    Entertainment in Fitchburg for $30. Also bought Upper Deck set 1-800
    for $76. Anyone seen this one cheaper?

    
     That's about what it should be selling at I figure. By the time I pay
    postage and wait for delivery it = about the same. 
     
      Thanks Roy, I always like to know if I've been had.

     
      Some people just know where to go. John, let me know your best
    on the Hi No. sets and where you see them. I need two.

    
    Talked to a walgreens mgr. today, he said '90 score complete set
    will be in wk 2 oct. Will sell for $18-$19 per box. I'm gonna
    dump the 2 i have now($35 and $40) and replace them with the cheaper
    boxes. Mama will be happy with that move.

    
    thats the plan rj. By the way, if i were able to buy either '90
    score boxes or sets, which one would be the more desireable?
    
    jim

    Another way of looking at it is that unopened boxes traditionally
    outperform sets, even though they don't contain certain cards. It's the
    gambling mentality, I guess. You open up a box of '86 Donruss, there's
    no guarantee you'll get even one Canseco, but you could get 3 or 4.
    Thus the box sells for more than the set, in which you're guaranteed
    one card of everybody. Strange, huh?

    
    Thanks gang, good input, didn't know about the other dream team
    or the Bart card. 
    jim

    
    sets are hitting walgreens here now, got a couple from the one store
    at $18.99. Another store had them for $21.99. Each store only had
    1 case(8 sets) though. Isn't score a conn. based operation? Seems
    you guys back east should be seeing plenty.
    BTW one mgr said the '90 ud won't hit till Dec 1.
    
    	good luck, jim

    
      If anyone is interested... O'brien's 5 & 10 has Score sets at
    $29.99, still below Beckett's price of $48.00 hi or low $38.00
    Obrien's is in Northboro Mass. on Rt. 20. if u r interested.

    
    	I went to Caldor in Framingham, and they have been sold out for a
    	while now, and they don't know if they will get more for that price.
    
	I went to a baseball card show, and in the same room there were
    	four different dealers selling the sets for $25, $26, $31, $45
    	respectively.  You have to shop around.
    
    						Juan

    You can get Score packs for .75, not sure if that's good.
    
    
    In Northboro, Mass at Eva's Variety.
    
    
    
    John

    
    I just came back from OBRIENS at Rte. 20 in Northboro, and he has
    discounted the 90 Score complete set of 704 cards to $20 each.
    
    I bought mine from him when he was selling them for $30 each.
    
    You could say: LIVE AND LEARN !!, and you could be partially right,
    but could have known this was going to happen.  It's easy to be a
    Monday morning quarterback.

    ATTENTION WEST COAST SHOPPERS!
    
    
    Costo has the 1990 Score Factory baseball set (704 cards) for $16.99.
    When I was there yesterday, they had about 8 cases on the floor. Not a
    bad price, considering that they're also selling 1990 Factory Topps
    sets for $17.99.
    
    John D.

    Attention West Coast Shoppers!
    
    
    
    Price Club has the 1990 Score Factory baseball set (704 cards) for 
    $16.95.    
    
    
    
    
                                                -pj-

    I think the missing cards are the Dream Team set, but I may be wrong.
    
    Are there 10 Dream Team cards? The set I bought for $16.99 was the 704
    card version of the factory set.
    
    John D.