One of the sports collecting universe's biggest conversation hubs has a new sponsor.

Heritage Auctions will now have an advertising display presence and regularly appearing spotlight items on the Blowout Cards Forums beginning on July 1.

Heritage is the largest collectibles auctioneer and third-largest auction house in the world with more than 2 million registered bidder-members on HA.com from 195 countries and annual sales exceeding $1.87 billion. Based in Dallas, Heritage was established in 1976 and regularly offers a wide range of auction genres beyond just sports collectibles, sports cards, and trading/game cards. Those include rare coins, currency, art, comic books and comic art, movie posters, entertainment and music memorabilia, timepieces and jewelry, handbags, historical/political memorabilia, books and manuscripts, photographs, nature and scientific relics, wine, real estate, American, European & Asian fine art, and much more. Membership is free to Forum members and allows free, searchable access to almost 8 million Heritage auction records (including over 400,000 sports lots) with images, full descriptions and price realized. Join at www.ha.com/blowout.

BlowoutCards.com, the leading online retailer of sports and other trading cards in the hobby today, was founded in 1999 and has more than 40,000 registered users on the forum -- an always-open community in support of the website, which also is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week with more than a million boxes in stock with a particular focus on modern cards — sports, non-sports, gaming and more. Atop that, Blowout has a hobby blog updated daily, live online box breaks, active social media channels and creative promotions to help collectors enjoy their hobby for less.

Collectors in the Northern Virginia area can also visit The Fantastic Store — Blowout’s brick-and-mortar storefront. If you have any questions, send them to support@blowoutcards.com.

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Today's the day MLB reveals its MVPs ... and that means the beginning of the Topps MVP Buyback Program this year as well.

What is that? For the second year in a row, participating hobby shops including Blowout Cards - The Fantastic Store in Chantilly, Va., will give collectors store credit in exchange for their MVP cards -- as many as they can collect -- found inside boxes of 2023 Topps Chrome and 2023 Topps Chrome Logofractor Edition.

Blowoutcards.com will not be accepting MVP Buyback Cards through the mail this year, but please note that our hobby shop, The Fantastic Store, will be accepting cards for the program for in-store customers only.

However, as an added incentive to visit our store and participate in this exciting promotion, we are offering reimbursement for travel expenses on larger submissions.

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CHANTILLY, Va. -- Blowout Cards The Fantastic Store, a premier destination for sports trading cards and collectibles, is pleased to announce the appointment of Adam Musilli as the new Director of Retail Operations.

With his extensive experience and passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences, Musilli will play a vital role in shaping the future of our retail operations.

"We are thrilled to have Adam as part of the team," said Thomas Fish, CEO of Blowout Cards. "His extensive background and success in the retail industry, particularly within the hobby sector, make him the perfect fit for this role. We know he will bring incredible expertise to his new position and greatly accelerate our investment and growth into the brick-and-mortar landscape of the hobby industry."

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With an unprecedented time of collecting change, evolution and enhancement, we are growing.

Blowout Cards is enhancing its brick-and-mortar presence as part of these growing times in the card industry and we're seeking a director of retail operations.

Keep reading for a description of what this one entails.

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If you're near The Fantastic Store, then you need to mark your calendar.

Scene from a past Trade Night.

An upcoming Saturday -- Oct. 22 -- at the shop will be the Chantilly Card Show Trade Night where collectors can converge to make deals in the midst of football season and in the midst of the Chantilly Card Show itself, which runs from Oct. 21-23 at the Dulles Expo Center.

The Fantastic Store is located at 14508 Lee Rd Unit F in Chantilly, Va., and its regular Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. -- but this one will be open from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the Trade Night event.

For more info, hit The Fantastic Store sometime this month. 

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: NBA chatter, fantasy football mishaps in MLB, pondering non-sports licensing, MLB chatter and more.

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Tomorrow is National Hockey Card Day and that means free cardboard if you visit Blowout Cards - The Fantastic Store.

But, if you don't, don't worry -- you can do the same thing with this Certified Diamond Dealer at the National Sports Collectors Convention beginning on Wednesday in Rosemont, Ill.

Keep reading for all the details.

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It was a fantastic sight at Blowout Cards - The Fantastic Store on Wednesday as a holy grail of gaming walked in the door.

What you see here is a Pokémon Base Set 1st Edition Booster Box that's the home of the debut card for Charizard, a rarity that in top graded condition on its own sells for six figures. It's a card where celebs Logic and Logan Paul own and chase their own copies -- coughing up plenty for them just earlier this month.

Over on Blowout's Most Wanted where we're buying many types of these boxes, it's a monster, too. These boxes that only started arriving in the U.S. market in 1999 are as big as it gets with their own six-figure buying price. Click that link for the latest ... but as Buzz types this it's a cool $300,000. It's also not alone as there are other boxes commanding thousands ... and we're paying.

Why is there so much demand? Well, countless Pokémon boxes got ripped to sell as packs -- so sealed boxes are rare. And the rarest cards are even harder to find in top condition because, well, people played the game. For those who like to grade cards, there's hope that one of those monster cards is perhaps hiding inside ... but leaving the boxes sealed is also a safe long-term investor move. It's arguably a perfect storm.

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How the Blowout's Most Wanted Process Works
Check out the buy listings at the link above. And, if you have boxes to sell ... 
-- Email wanted@blowoutcards.com with the subject line: Pokemon
-- List the product(s) that you have for sale.
-- Indicate your preferred method of payment (PayPal, check or BlowoutCards store credit)
-- Send the email
-- As soon as it is received, a member of our buying team will contact you with further instructions.

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