Wednesday, June 19, 2013




  1. Well, I was going to do a post about this after reading about it on Cardboard Connection, but it looks like you've captured it perfectly right here. Since this is a bait-and-switch plain and simple, I really hope that if collectors don't go after Topps with class action suits, they at least stop buying their crappy products so they don't get stuck with idiotic redemptions. Good luck with your other two!

  2. Yeah, this is disappointing. I noticed the same thing recently as the market was all of a sudden flooded with a blyleven auto card that was new to me and also apparantly was from the redemption program....

  3. Sucks man, sorry it went down like that.

    On another note, I'd be interested in acquiring the Carter auto whenever we next trade.

  4. I don't understand. They can't produce your Altuve, but they can fire up the production lines to print off other cards? If it was simply a matter of tracking down Altuve for an autograph, don't they have contracts with the players for stuff like that?

  5. For what it's worth, they did the same thing with Ortiz. Ortiz "redemption autos" are all over ebay. It's BS.

    Altuve has on card autos in 2012 Triple Threads... a product that launched after BP. He was obviously somewhere, in the presences of a Topps representative, to sign those. They could have gotten him to sign some friggin sheets of stickers while he was there. Talk about lack of effort.

    I have FOUR 2012 Bowman Platinum (cause you know how I loved that thing) redemptions "pending". I don't have high hopes at all. I haven't received any letters yet though.

  6. Sad to see that happen to you !! I could see that happening 5 years down trhe road . But that was only last year . The Topps company's got too big & spread its self too thin . A case of the left hand not knowing what the right hands doing . In this case its a no-brainer !! TOPPS get your CRAP together !!!