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Post by onegaucho on Aug 18, 2014 18:00:16 GMT -5
1M coin bundle and lightning release on the same day. Someone read my memo. LOL.
Well, at least we'll know by tomorrow how many of these suckers will make it out!
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Post by guineapirates on Aug 18, 2014 18:03:32 GMT -5
It's in its own pack which sucks. So damn stupid.
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Post by onegaucho on Aug 18, 2014 18:08:24 GMT -5
agreed. i thought the last time it was random in the hi5 or something like that? if they stay inline with past counts, this will be a crap shoot to get. i'm gonna sit on the sidelines for a bit and if i see more than 10 come out in the first 4-5 hours, i'll jump in for a bit to have a lil fun. i've been waiting for this for a month now so the 1M bundle came at the perfect time. figures that this would be the day i sell out of everything to dump all my trade bait!
for those of you who dont know, the gordon has only 29 cards and the hamilton has only 63. the hamilton should have been just as few but they ended the chase too early and ppl got pissed so they extended it a little more - hence more cards. when gordon came out - ppl were asking for jeter in most cases. and with only 29, rightfully so.
the non-emotional side of me says to simply do what ive done for the past 2 months and sit on the sidelines and pluck them off later w/o spending any coins. easier said than done with this chase!
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Post by guineapirates on Aug 18, 2014 18:12:07 GMT -5
I just don't see the appeal if it truly is that rare. With Gordon, it was in any pack, which meant that you had a chance to pull Gordon AND any insert from whatever pack you were buying. Hamilton was different in that it was in a Gray Pack but you could still get other inserts in there.
Not this. You either get Altuve Lightning or hot garbage. You have NO SHOT at getting any other insert while chasing this. You cannot get any of the other 4 chase inserts in this pack. Complete waste.
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Post by thetuesdayhero on Aug 18, 2014 18:56:17 GMT -5
Ha ha Hot garbage... Don't give them ideas that might be the "Next pack"... I can just see them doing that for more money.... "For a limited chance buy the brand new HOT garbage pack"
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Post by leeobrien on Aug 18, 2014 18:59:17 GMT -5
There is no Appel to this it's topps horrible marketing of packs. Just make one pack and be down with it. But don't worry if people hold back from buying they will miraculously have a great special pack just like they have been doing over the last few weeks. No interest equals cheaper packs
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Post by ctsoxfan on Aug 18, 2014 19:03:10 GMT -5
This would have a perfect way to push sales of the other three insert packs...make the lightning card a bonus pull in ANY insert pack. Oh well, I guess people just buy everything anyway, so why should they bother?
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Post by PezCrew on Aug 18, 2014 19:36:56 GMT -5
I cannot believe it everyone! I bought a couple of packs of Lightning and you will never guess what ended up staring me right in the face! It was...
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
Yeah baby, woohoo!!!
Ben Revere Common everyone!!! Now accepting offers for it - prefer sigs. Auto accept is a Trout and Jeter Sig. And 31 Jake Peavy 100k cards.
BOOM!!!
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Post by longo9 on Aug 19, 2014 8:52:29 GMT -5
Lightning packs are garbage, I bought a few packs and was only getting greens and white commons, got a pack that had all white and I stopped.
Now I'll wait until they release some new hot corner cards
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Post by jrb92aggie on Aug 19, 2014 9:06:02 GMT -5
if you like Slot machines then these are your packs - personally I don't play slots - Saving coins still until Twitter packs or something with actual bang for your buck.
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Post by onegaucho on Aug 19, 2014 12:24:58 GMT -5
the other issue with inserting them into 1 pack is its likely that the way the software is setup on the back end is that they "set" the total number to be released with certain odds (of course for lightning, they dont disclose this to us). if i recall correctly, during the gordon chase, we hit 29 fairly early on and for the next 12 hours or so, no more came out. in fact, i think there's a thread here where i was wondering what the final count was going to be (it was in the high 20s at the time and i just picked one up) and the next morning we found out it ended at 29.
for all we know, they are all out now and ppl can keep buying packs with no chance at getting one. at least with the wright blue chase, we knew it was only 17 and we knew they were done within the first 2 hours (most picked up by diamonds using their "pick" on it).
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Post by samhain on Aug 19, 2014 15:33:44 GMT -5
I pulled Altuve yesterday off of my "free" coins from collecting last weeks sets... so 40k coins. No interest in keeping it (What does it do, really? Proves AWESOME status?) so I was able to get almost exactly what I was looking for in trade after no less than around 200 terrible offers. A few people threw Altuve commons at me, but I figure they were joking.
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Post by onegaucho on Aug 19, 2014 15:56:23 GMT -5
nicely done! proving awesomeness.. isnt that what we all strive for? after all, we're all opening packs with digital cards in them...
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Post by samhain on Aug 19, 2014 17:13:00 GMT -5
I honestly don't understand why I even collect these silly little digital cards. Time waster, money pit, but damned if I don't like the feeling of knowing I have 1/80 KRod Fire Sigs!
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Post by guineapirates on Aug 20, 2014 10:06:49 GMT -5
In the end, there are 42 Altuve Lightning cards. In the article for the card, there was a guy that stated that he had spent 5 MILLION coins trying to get one and didn't get a single Altive Lightning card. That's bonkers!
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