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How Topps Makes Decisions

How Topps Makes Decisions

Plus a few cards for sale

Mike Junk Wax Hero
January 19, 2026

Western NY Cards has been doing these funny short videos, and this one about Topps making decisions hit hard:

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Of course, this one follows the one about the at-home repack experience:

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CIA, owned by The Texas Snowman Jeremy Donson and his business partner Chris Sewall, is the best auction house for collectors.

I consigned some cards with them for November and they paid me the next day. If you’re looking to sell some things, consider CIA!

Some Cards I’m Auctioning

I decided to auction a few of cards off on eBay through COMC. Here they are, with a handful more coming in a week or two:

🗣️ YouTube Comment Of The Week

After Topps discovered that their mega boxes promised a certain chase card, they sent out emails saying it was an error and those chase cards were not in those boxes.

That led to this comment:

🎙️On the Pod

I’ve settled into a nice rhythm in my This Week In Sports Cards podcast, and this week I featured a good conversation with T-Pott:

🎬 Channel Highlights From the Past Week

I had my biggest mail day ever:

I reacted to Ryan Hoge’s PSA podcast announcements:

And I brought back the ACE 100 series!

🎁 My Pickup Of The Week

For the first time in a while, I bought nothing.

👻 Brief Horror Movie Reviews of the Week

I went to see Primate, which I was skeptical of and boy was I wrong. What a fantastic horror movie. I just have to ask: why wasn’t there any blood in the pool?

4.5 out of 5 stars

I also watched Misery and was impressed at how well it’s held up for 36 years.