Dear New Members (and old members too),
Over the past few months, we have been trying to sort card packs into groupings of relative scarcity ranging from common to ultra rare. Now is a good time for us to pause and review how we've done so far.
You can view the choices so far by reviewing the drop down menus under the Scarcity heading above.
Are we on the right track? What do you think? Do you disagree with any of our picks? Remember, this is based on relative availability and not necessarily price (although the two can be related)!
Let's have an argument!
I’ll start... I think the Topps 1959 “Funny Monsters” 5 cent pack should be in the Ultra Rare section. Unless I’ve just missed them, I’ve never seen a pack for sale and wrappers are even rarer than rare!
I can be on board with the funny monsters moving up.
Look n see one cent could maybe drop a class. I remember a discussion about that pack when you originally posted it, but can’t remember the basis for slotting it that high.
We covered that one in Scarcity 14. At that time I believe that there were only 2 known PSA graded packs and only two others known ungraded for a total of four known packs. Didn't Jon have one of those? I'd probably keep that one as rare unless there has been a new find.
I'm wondering if Who Am I? and Slob Stickers should move up from scarce to rare.
Actually I've never seen Funny Monsters OR Look n' See 1 cent before!
I was doing some look n see research (because that’s what we do with our free time) and realized I had never seen the 5 cent pack. Is the 5 cent tougher than the 1 cent?
I would vote yes for slob stickers. I am on the fence for who am I. Could really see it in either category.
I agree with "Slob Stickers" moving up... almost never see a pack or even wrapper for sale.
Fleer beautiful people should drop a class in my opinion.
I agree with moving that one down to limited
So far:
Fleer Beautiful People moves to limited
Topps 1959 Funny Monsters moves to Ultra rare
Topps Slob stickers moves to rare
I'll go ahead and move these.
I'll put the Look N' See 5 cent on the next grouping
Lonnie, what do you think about Who Am I?
Any other suggestions?
I used to see “Who Am I?” packs fairly regularly, but they are definitely getting tougher to find... but aren’t all 60’s packs getting rarer every day!? I need to review the levels before I say one way or the other.
Another one:
Should 1964 Topps Hot Rods (black wrapper) go from scarce to rare?
One thing I might suggest, is putting numbers on levels. Back when I used to collect comic books (decades ago) the Overstreet guide defined scarcity levels... if I remember rightly, Rare was less than 20 known copies (don’t quote me on the numbers!), scarce was less than 100 copies, etc. Defining the levels takes some of the guesswork out of the equation.