I almost needed to wait two weeks to create this article.
Hobby boxes of 2015-16 Panini Black Gold Basketball was released on July 6, 2016, with a list price of $190.95 on a popular online trading card store.
Each of those boxes includes four autographs or memorabilia cards, on average. If you paid $190.95 for that box, you paid approximately $47.73 for each hit.
As a comparison, let's find out how that hobby box faired on a popular auction website in its first week of sales:
|
Date*
|
Number of Boxes Sold** |
Average Sale Price*** |
Approximate
Cost Per Hit
|
| July 6, 2016 | 0 | - | - |
| July 7, 2016 | 1 | $167.50 | $41.88 |
| July 8, 2016 | 0 | - | - |
| July 9, 2016 | 0 | - | - |
| July 10, 2016 | 0 | - | - |
| July 11, 2016 | 0 | - | - |
| July 12, 2016 | 0 | - | - |
Only one hobby box of that series sold on that popular auction website. That person paid approximately 12 percent less for their box, which brought down their average cost per hit to approximately $41.88.
*With Pacific Standard Time (PST) being the standard.
**Based on the "2015 Black Gold Basketball hobby box" keywords.
***Excluding shipping and handling charges.