One of the most popular and reliable places to purchase Topps baseball cards is through online card retailers and auction sites. There are several large online retailers that specialize in trading cards of all types, including Topps products. Websites like eBay, COMC (Cardboard Connection), and Steel City Collectibles allow you to browse thousands of individual Topps baseball cards being sold by countless individual sellers.
Through online auction sites like eBay, you have the ability to find virtually any Topps card ever produced available from individual collectors putting cards up for auction. This gives you a very wide selection to choose from across all years and sets. You’ll need to watch out for shipping costs being added on, and ensure the seller has good reviews and describes the card condition accurately. But the vast selection makes online auction sites a good first stop.
Sites like COMC and Steel City allow sellers to send in their personal card collections to be professionally photographed, graded if valuable, and listed for sale online. This centralized selling platform gives buyers confidence in the listed condition of the cards. And both retailers charge flat rates for shipping groups of cards in the same order. So browsing, building a cart, and checking out is very convenient.
Another excellent retail option is to shop directly through the websites of the major card distribution companies themselves. Topps.com sells new unopened pack and boxes of the current year’s Topps Baseball series sets at MSRP. They also offer singles, relics, and autographed cards for sale outside of packs. Companies like Blowout Cards and Dave and Adam’s Card World are national distributors for Topps and carry inventory from past years you can order online as well.
For local brick and mortar purchasing, your best bets are comic book and hobby shops that carry cards, local card shows, or your nearest national chain retailer like Target, Walmart, or hobby-focused stores like Michigan & Trumbull or Dave & Adam’s Card World if there’s one near you. Comic shops are hit or miss for back stock, but card shows on the weekends have dozens of individual vendors under one roof for efficient browsing.
It’s also worth checking if any card specialty shops exist in your local area. Stores fully dedicated to just trading cards will have the largest sorted selections for you to dig through. Shop owners at these local businesses also tend to be very knowledgeable about card values and can offer expert guidance on building a collection.
You should join online trading card communities and marketplaces. Sites like TradingCardDB and COMC both have associated active forums and Facebook groups where you can post “Wants” lists to find exactly what you’re looking for from other collectors. Trading with other enthusiast is a fun way to grow a collection by focusing on your individual areas of interest.
Online retail, auction sites, and distribution company websites will give you the broadest access to Topps cards across all years and sets when shopping from home. But your local comic shops, card shows, or dedicated hobby stores provide a unique in-person browsing and discovery experience. And joining online communities opens the door to directly trading with other collectors worldwide. Whichever combination of these purchase options works best for you, there are always plenty of ways to add to a Topps baseball card collection.
