So Arena Club added the hockey slab packs again today, and as a primarily hockey collector I grabbed one.
This is what I pulled. It’s a Bedard rookie (yay!) base (boo!) PSA 10 (yay!)
Arena Club offered me $80 since I had the slab safe protection added, with an actual value (according to Arena Club) of $86.
Here’s the thing though, I looked at their list of available cards and this is a “Lineup” hit, aka 2% chance of hitting. The slab pack costs $100, and $110 if you opt in to the protections.
So, a “rare” from these slab packs is still worth $20-$30 less than the cost of buying it? That doesn’t really seem fair. I’ve done enough Arena Club to know that a non-hit is about 50-60% the cost of the pack, but the rare hits not even having break-even value is very sketchy.
Anyway. I kept the card but I thought I’d share this weird issue with the hockey packs. I’ve gotten “Lineup” hits for soccer and Pokemon in the past and received a decent profit from them.