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Conference school::sports_memorabilia

Title:	Sports Memorabilia
Notice:	Wanted: 3.; For_sale: 4.; Traded: 5.*
Moderator:	SCHOOL::KOPACKO

Created:	Wed Aug 27 1986
Last Modified:	Thu May 08 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	730
Total number of notes:	8547

143.0. "Trying to build Donruss sets-any ideas??" by SCIVAX::RICHARD () Wed May 23 1990 11:49

    I've been approached by my nephews about building are own sets this
    year. It looks like we're going to try to start with Donruss and go
    from there. I just started looking around to see if what would be the
    best way, and the cheapest. I don't know if I should try to get a 
    monster box or 2 with say 5,000 cards in each, or buy a box or case
    of rak paks, and build from there. Also, I'll be checking with a few
    dealers to see about the availability and price of raks, cellos, and
    monster boxes. Any ideas or any places you have dealt with where
    i can find these at a good price, I would appreciate hearing about.
    I found someone who can get me Donruss Cello paks, (43 cards to a pack)
    for .75 a pak. i would imagine if I buy the monster boxes or even
    vending boxes the price per card will be less.
    
    thanks,
    Fran

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
143.1	Donruss Sets	ASDS::KELLY	`Wed May 23 1990 12:23`	13
	Hi Fran. The cheapest and best way is to buy Factory Sets. This balances Quality and cost. If you want to build from scratch the best way is to buy monster boxes full of commons that are mint. It's best to stay away from a shop owner on this one for three reasons 1 They need commons for their customers 2 They are really picked over 3 They arn't mint Plus you won't get lucky and find the occasional good card. Give me a call I can get some private collector lots from the error cases. Mike 276-8156
143.3	B.J's Salem N.H.	20832::MONDALTO	`Wed May 23 1990 14:07`	5
	Fran, B.J's Wholesale club in Salem,N.H. is selling a box of 36 for just $11.98,they also have Topps for $11.98,and Fleer for $12.98 you better hurry,they go pretty fast................. John
143.4		NUTMEG::JACUNSKI	`Thu May 24 1990 11:27`	4
	re .2 The last Donruss factory set that I opened was 1984 and all the cards were certainly NOT mint and evenly cut. Have things changed?
143.6		NUTMEG::JACUNSKI	`Thu May 24 1990 13:49`	5
	Yup, they came in individually wrapped blocks in "84 too, but the only way they were superior to hand collated sets was the lack of wax stains. Glad to hear they've improved quality so that you're not buying a pig in a poke. Are the Topps and Fleer factory sets also well cut and centered these days as well?
143.7	ANSWER	ASDS::KELLY	`Tue May 29 1990 15:07`	4
	Fran, the guy has 10,000-11,000 1990 Donruss cards direct from RACKS. He wants 75.00 ( cash ). If you want I'll bring them to STOW and you can pick them up. Mike