2010 Select AFL Prestige Release Information

Select have released the information for the up coming 2010 Select AFL Prestige. This set will come with All Australian, Medal Cards, Draft Pick Signatures, Premiership Commemorative cards, Holographic Guernsey Die Cut cards and 2 Signatures cards (Ablett and Richardson). It will also have a few new concepts combined with ideas from previous years, including Draft Pick Platinum Die Cuts (see info below for details) and a single Premiership Redemption Card.

The packs are $4.99 RRP and Albums $25 RRP. The production run is limited to 400 cases (6400 boxes)

For more details and odds read on...

2010 Select AFL Prestige

Select Australia have released some sneak peak information and images for their 2nd Series of AFL cards called 2010 Select AFL Prestige.

The set is due for release early to mid July.

Sneak Peak 1 - Series Name 2010 Select AFL Prestige

Sneak Peak 2 - Part Image

Sneak Peak 3 - Part Image and Insert Ratio

Has this new process of releasing teaser information about the product worked? Watching the chat on the forums and interest in this release I would have to say that it has and that could help shops and businesses to get many pre-sales of the product.

To see the other sneak peak image, information and any rumours read on....

How big is the Football Card Industry (Updated 2010)

This is a re-write of an article I wrote in 2008 with some updated figures and details

I have often been asked how big the hobby industry is with football cards as it is a very hard market to gauge, so here are a few facts and details to show how much money turns over in the AFL trading card market through eBay, Wholesalers, retailers and hobbyists.

For the figures shown some assumptions have had to be made to be able to work out some of these figures.

On eBay over the last 14 days - 20000+ auctions have been completed with approx 55% of the items (11000 items) being sold. The final prices ranged from a 1 cent sale up to $3000 for two 1963 Scanlen cards. The average sale price for items was $13.50 however for people who know statistics the average value is higher because of the larger priced sales, over half of the 17,500 sales were $5 and under.

What about wholesale/retail market. Lets look at 2010 Select AFL Championsc Series to get the full price of this series we need to estimate the production run which is believed to be 20000+ boxes (720,000 packs) could be sold at their retail price of $2.99 per pack which would be $2,152,800. Although we know many boxes were sold under their retail price but this could be seen as their nett worth.

If these figures have interested you read on.

Looking for YOUR review of 2010 Products

We are looking for members to write a review of the current releases, your review can be for an individual release or an overview of all the current 2010 products.

We want to hear what you like and dislike about the product, what made you buy and collect that product, how good the product was produced, and any other information you wish to add.

I am hoping to have a few reviews in the coming weeks that I will put on the website, these reviews will be followed by a site review of the product.

Read on for more details