MASSIVE CHANGES! - Opening 3 Retail Tins of 2023-24 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey 

😬🤔...."insanely rarely"...??? Might be oxymoronic...or a double entendre.

Yeah I’m in the same boat, I started getting into collecting hockey cards right before 2020 and didn’t know “hobby” boxes were a thing until I started watching this channel in the middle of 2020. I only got boxes at my local Walmart occasionally. I stopped after I seen how high prices are for hobby, it’s a fucking joke. I bought two fat packs on a big sale a year ago and that was it.

@@odeszaa..I just look for singles, Eg. Hall of Famer rookies(no matter the sport), or guys who’ll be in the Hall that are still playing. If you’re looking at slabs, look around 7’s to 10’s. There’s plenty out there for decent prices. Even base cards of Hall of Famers are worth it. With new cards you’re paying Extra for the card stock.

Totally agree. I was just looking at the last time I bought a box. Feb 2019.

@@odeszaa I would go to hobby shops to get them way cheaper if there's any in your area

Yep, it was bad enough when I was paying $10 an autograph in some football draft pick blasters in 2016 and now I’m supposed to pay $20 US a Young Gun? Totally ridiculous. The only thing I will buy will be series 2 retail as sit on it for about 10 years for Bedard and the rest of the crop. I have no competition where I live for hockey retail. If the crop pans out then the unopened tins and blasters will increase in value and if he doesn’t then I’ll open it all up. I did this with 15-16 retail but it also was a lot cheaper.

@carolinatarheels7903 Best of luck in the hunt. Biggest hurdle for me to deadstock Series 2 is the entry price. $60 for a tin. I'm sure they'll go up, but it's not like getting 5 2015-16 blasters for $100

You think if fanatics takes over making hockey products the price will come down because I can tell you it won’t they are only in it to make money. They don’t give a shit about the average collector

Honestly it's a stack crop if the flames trio pans out. Plus Hughes

I loved the tins. I would buy as many as I could. But looks like UD took a meeting with Panini and made their product junk/worthless on top of boning their consumers on price. I won’t be buying a single tin or blaster from 2023, that’s for sure

Edit... I found a few 22-23 tins for $15ea. The store is Meijer so idk if it's smart, should I drop some coin? I think it's a no brainer based on what y'all are saying I will be buying a couple. Thanks

@@cazschiller tins are an automatic buy, if they are $30 or less

lol they think we are delusional because we continue to buy the product. We gotta all boycott this shit until the fix it.

Don’t worry, the retail and the hobby will go down significantly if no one pans out from this series. Series 1 hobby from last year is already down to $65 US a box.

These are my fav format for years of all retail. I won’t touch them at 60. Hard pass

I think Zeree pays in canadian dollars though so that might be why there's a price difference.

@@Brainspoil good point.

how much was the blaster? 20? 25?

@@kirknakano3775 they were $25.00

Same at my local Wally World funny thing is they were all gone in a day you have to be out of your mind to pay 90$ for a TIN give me a break

Greed ruined the hobby…

All of the ones I’ve seen in the US are collecting dust.

Years ago I used to have a Target store where the vendor never opened the full 24 pack retail boxes, I would take them up to the self checkouts with a $20 blaster and scan the blaster for every full retail box I bought. They finally caught on when the packs sold weren’t matching their quantity.

Double that easy. Talks that a hobby box will be 400-500

I pre ordered a case of series 2 tins. I was going to pre order a case of hobby for $2000. Eventually I couldn't find one available. When I did, they wanted over $3000 for the pre order. It wouldn't shock me if series 2 hobby will be around $300 a box.

@@dub1681 yeah i got lucky and managed to snag a case of hobby box for 173$ cad avg per box so around 2000 plus tax but my local card shop stopped taking pre orders (he barely took 5-6) and now is waiting to see what the trend is he told me. Wouldn’t be surprised to see 300$+ a box for sure

No they didn’t

No such thing as a Bedard Young Gun.

@@LetsStormTheTeaCupRide you knew what I meant

I only collect for base not these naff other cards like Mackinnon photoshopped to look like napoleon 8:40

No, he hadn’t made his debut yet so no Canvas in series 1. Otherwise these would cost even more.

For certain years, yes. Especially when the tins were $25 and in some cases $15 on clearance. I bought a ton of 15-16 series 1 and 2 blasters and tins when they came out and they have gone up in value substantially because of McDavid. Even 19-20 you could buy entire tin and blaster cases for less than $200 on close outs and those are going up because of the Hughes boys and Makar. The problem is this years tins will not, they are already too high for and SRP and the Young Guns are all carryovers with limited potential. Series 2 might be worth sitting on for 10 years if Upper Deck doesn’t raise the SRP because of Bedard.

Not for a while I’d say

Wait a year, both formats will go down significantly. You can buy last year series one hobby boxes for $65 US.

ended up grabbing one for 60, pulled luke hughes yg so not too shabby

He did in the beginning stating that these are overpriced.

Spell check is free.

@@scottgunn9978 maybe that english is not my first language and who cares about orthograph mistakes seriously this is a hockey cards channel not a english class channel......

spend $90 a tin or $150 a hobby box in hopes of MAYBE hitting a $65 card (hughes) lol (excluding the rare hits that you're highly unlikely to see). something aint right with those numbers.

That’s what collectors of baseball, football and basketball have been seeing ever since 2020. Buying $300 hobby boxes and maybe getting $50 at the most in value. Yet they keep buying everything up and will never learn.

@@carolinatarheels7903 yeah its crazy,imagine series 2 for Bedard its gonna be crazy.

The price is surprising you goof

@elemeno0pee again, you're all surprised??

Sure they will, they always do because there is no Bedard in this series and a carryover Young Gun crop. I’m still buying 21-22 all series for $10 a blaster at Target and the vendor keeps bringing more to the shelves.

@@carolinatarheels7903 nope

Aha

Tell that to Panini and Fanatics that are laughing all the way to the bank because cards are like drugs and people will pay anything to get their fix.