Did you overpay for your box?
Hobby boxes of 2015 Panini Contenders Football was released on January 6th, 2016, with a price tag of $130.00 and $130.95 (both prices excludes shipping and handling charges) on two popular trading card stores. Will the true market value for that series on a popular auction website be close to those costs over the next week?
Each box of that series includes 24 five card packs, for a total of 120 cards, including 5 guaranteed autographed hits. Those stores are essentially charging $26 and $26.19 per hit. Let's find out if the auction market will match that price.
| Date* |
Number of
Boxes Sold**
|
Average Sale
Price***
|
Approximate
Cost Per Hit
|
| January 6, 2016 | 1 | $125.00 | $25.00 |
| January 7, 2016 | 7 | $118.29 | $23.66 |
| January 8, 2016 | 7 | $119.96 | $23.99 |
| January 9, 2016 | 5 | $126.68 | $25.34 |
| January 10, 2016 | 7 | $123.52 | $24.70 |
| January 11, 2016 | 16 | $126.06 | $25.21 |
| January 12, 2016 | 4 | $117.76 | $23.55 |
A whopping 47 boxes of that series was sold on that auction website over the past week, with an average sales price of $122.47, which is $8.01 cheaper than what those two other stores was asking.
The cheapest box sold for $103.95, while the most expensive box sold for $134.99.
The Wildcard NFL playoffs seemed to have boosted sales of that series on January 9-11, during which the average sales price was $125.42 vs. $120.25 for the other days.