Stickers on RRR are just for show

Screen capture  of Razor Rookie Retro stickers

There was hope with Razor Rookie Retro, the boxes would be tamper proof. Brian Gray stated there would be stickers to prevent tampering with the boxes.

That’s great! Right?

On Wednesday night, Andrew from All in Cards did a three-case break on Ustream (watch it: there was an amazing hit ... here's a hint) and it showed the stickers, which are supposed to help prevent tampering, are for nothing more than display. These boxes can easily be searched and put back together.

(I’m not giving out those details on how to do it, but there are many who know it.)

The stickers were literally silver foil with Leaf imprinted in black. Leaf stickers on a Razor product, I might add. Andrew shows at the beginning of the video just how easily the stickers come off.

Upper Deck had it right with Ultimate when part of the sticker would rip off and the other part would stay on the box, so collectors would know if the box was previously opened.

Live and learn. Get better stickers if you are truly into preventing tampering.

Thanks.

What would you do?

2010 Razor Rookie Retro has been released and has brought up some interesting discussions.

I found one on Freedom Cardboard about a break that was posted on Blowout Cards forum (phew - that’s a lot of clicking).

I’ll break down the discussion.

A man on Blowout busted a box of this and apparently received a 2005 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks Colby Rasmus refractor autograph BGS 8.5 (there was no pics provided). It’s probably one of the cheaper cards in the set, resale-wise, especially because it grades at an 8.5.

On the secondary market (auction links), an 8.5 grade may only sell for $25-$35 of this card.

This card would likely sell for more money raw. Raw might get an extra $10-$20 on the refractor because the seller would hope for a higher grade than an 8.5.

Here are the options if you are not keeping the card.

1. Resell the card as the 8.5 and hope to get some money back.
2. Crack the card out of its slab and resell the card raw, but state the card graded as an 8.5.
3. Crack the card and resell raw, but make no mention that the card was previously graded.

What would you do with this card?