2015 Topps Tier One Baseball Cards

Now that the Cubs are out of the playoffs it’d be nice if they’d start finishing up the Kris Bryant redemption from this set. Got a nice one /25 coming with Bronze ink, I can’t wait to see what they look like. Can’t find any source of info on these and I asked Topps on twitter if they had an eta and they didn’t reply as a comment about the last redemption update being live.

I really hope it looks nice, I scored mine online early on as soon as the first wave hit the secondary market and paid only $50 more than the base autos were going for at the time. I lucked out and saw the listing as soon as the guy posted it and I bought it within 3 minutes of it being listed on sale. Then I saw them jump and thankfully I got mine I hope they don’t have multiple poses like some of the cards, that’d mean more of the colored autos and 1/1’s.

I still can’t believe after I pulled a Maikel Franco 1/1 I saw another one on eBay for sale that was the other pose, they shouldn’t make multiple 1/1’s thats just wrong.

I bought a few boxes, hit the Maikel Franco New Guard Autographs 1/1 Gold Ink NGA-MFR , The new original pic that doesn’t have his pic from 2014 Bowman (ahem NGA-MFO). I saw they made a 1/1 of that other card with the rehashed picture and it just sold on eBay. Tried but didn’t complete the set so I may sell this one too.

Purchased a case. Not all that great. Got a pedroia auto relic outta 5 and found one with a better patch on ebay that was same card but out of 10..good job topps

Bought 1 box and pulled a Ted Williams triple relic /5, Paul Goldschmidt auto /25, biggio reic and a josh harrelson auto….got very lucky

If you buy cards just to make money then you are starting at a loss. I buy to enjoy and if I pull a good hit, so much the better. Lucked out on 3 boxes of Tier one. One had a Kris Bryant redemption auto, next one had a Greg Maddux /25 auto, last box had C.J. Cron auto /25 plus a Galarraga auto. Relics were so-so. Cards look good with no flaws or defects. Overall a good looking product. Granted it is a small amount of cards in a box. Yes, it is more fun to rip a box of jumbo packs as I am a set builder.

Agree with the above and I have not seen this product yet, but hope to see some opened tonight. The expectation to get 100% resale value from cards pulled from a box is unrealistic. It’s not “donating” the money to Topps if you enjoy collecting as a hobby, which goes well beyond simply buying and re-selling the cards like they are on the stock market. Ie., collecting certain teams or players, set-building, organizing the cards in binders, displaying them in cases, etc. is all part of the fun of the hobby for many people.

However, for me, the percentage of the box price you are able to obtain in resale value does determine whether it is a good value product or not. My general rule of thumb is I want the top cards from the box to have a resale value of half the box price. For instance, if I spend $100 on a box that comes with four guaranteed hits, I would expect the resale value of those hits PLUS the other best cards in the box (ie., serial numbered cards or variations of top players) to be $50.

That’s very difficult to accomplish when the box only has 3 cards, because you need at least one of those cards to be a top player or extremely low numbered. Generally, it is much tougher to get a good value in the high-end products, but the likelihood of achieving a great value with a massive hit is increased. Most of the time, I’d rather take my chances with the mid-end products. They are more fun from a collecting standpoint (you actually get lots of cards) and the odds are decent that you can defray a substantial amount of the box price by reselling the top cards of the box (unless they are keepers for the PC).

I know you reference this in your message but I am one of those that agree that cards have their most value when they are in unopened boxes or packs. With every set/series if you sale the cards that you got from the box/pack you are not going to get back what you paid for the box/pack unless you hit something real big in the box/pack. That is just the way the hobby is.

correction. 2014 tier one. maybe they’ve improved?

I’ve purchased 2 boxes thus far, and have participated in group breaks. I am very disappointed in the results. The autographs were of subpar players, and the jersey cards were without innovation. Honestly, unless you pull one of their large hits, you will fail to receive purchase value for the cards. Some people like to argue against expecting equal, or near value when you purchase a hobby box. As for myself, i prefer to donate my money to charity, not to Topps. I will not be rebuying hobby boxes, but may purchase autos on a secondary market.