What to buy?

I am trying to figure out how I should spend some extra cash I have come into. I have about $200 and want to buy some box(es). I'm going to look at a few that seem ok, and compare them on a number of factors here, then I will decide what to buy and start breaking.

So, the criteria will be

• price
• number of cards/price per card
  likelihood of good hits
• look of set.

First up, 2007 Topps Co-Signers:

This box goes for $69.95 at Dave & Adam's Cardworld. Recent ebay purchases have been for between $50 and $80. Each box has 12 packs of 6 cards. So at $70 a box, it works out to be about a buck per card.

There are 3 autos per box, including 1 co-signer auto, and you get 9 parallel cards numbered to 275 or less per box. So you get 5 base cards per pack, and then 1 parallel/auto each pack. The set is 100 including veterans and rookies, and 18 additional young stars appear in some parallels too.

The commons look a bit boring:

The checklist for the base set has all the regular stars you would expect. 200 to collect, so would need a few boxes to get there.

The list of autos is not too bad, could possibly hit some dodgy autos, but there are plenty of stars on there too. Lots of crappy autos up on ebay going for less than 5 bux. Plenty of good reviews on the net though, and with the numbered cards being one per pack, and the guaranteed autos, they seem to be a pretty good, fun product.

Might keep an eye out for some cheap prices, just to make it really worth it.