Yup. Just picked up a Hobby Case for US$458 shipped. That's $38.17 a box including postage. The price of the major cards seems to be holding though. Cain's up after his title win. GSP's still valuable. Not that I have any of the Tale of The Tape, Thoughts from The Boss or really rare stuff. Fingers crossed when I break the new case!
I agree. I think it is a combination of Topps flooding the market and also them making it near impossible to put together a set of any of the high end cards.
I tried putting together sets of relics/autos for the first 3 releases and always came up short thanks to super short print runs on random people. ie was it Dan Miller and also Clay Guida mat relics for series 2 (along with a few others) that made the set impossible to compete just about.
Means you end up with a bunch of half finished sets. I would rather not start collecting a set than have a half finished one.
Also I have so many unfinished sets of UFC stuff that it becomes too expensive difficult to finish them and they get forgotten about/ cant be bothered!
As a result I now pretty much just pick up the occassional random card and am much less likely to get boxes.
I haven't really bothered with cards recently but have just picked up 3 boxes off dacardworld of this series. If they turn out good i'll probably start spending some more money on cards again.
thanks guys for the luck was told they were sent off today so hopefully they arrive quickly. i figure for around the same price as only 1 box of main event or 1 of round 2 im bound to be better off with 3 of the series 4 boxes.