Was the same on a popular trading card website and a popular auction website.
Hobby boxes of 2016 Topps Finest Baseball was released on May 18, 2016 with a list price of $119.95 on a popular trading card website. Each box of that series includes 2 autographed cards, on average.
If you paid $119.95 for that box, it's kind of like you paid approximately $59.98 for each autographed hit; as a comparison, here's what buyers on a popular auction website paid for that box in its first week of sales in the United States.
|
Date*
|
Number of Boxes Sold** |
Average Sale Price*** |
Approximate
Cost Per Hit****
|
| May 18, 2016 | 5 | $115.00 | $57.50 |
| May 19, 2016 | 1 | $116.00 | $58.00 |
| May 20, 2016 | 2 | $124.15 | $62.08 |
| May 21, 2016 | 1 | $123.99 | $62.00 |
| May 22, 2016 | 1 | $113.99 | $57.00 |
| May 23, 2016 | 4 | $117.48 | $58.74 |
| May 24, 2016 | 3 | $121.81 | $60.91 |
The average sale for each hobby box was $118.92 on that auction website, which is just $1.03 cheaper.
Potential autographed pulls includes the elusive Ichiro (who rarely autographs trading cards), Nolan Ryan, Cal Ripken Jr., Bryce Harper, and Kris Bryant.