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Originally Posted by glchen
Personally, I think Fanatics will just buy one of the existing card companies. Why re-invent the wheel of how to make the cards, distribution, etc? Personally, I think they should just buy Topps, but they may pick a cheaper alternative. Hopefully, this will reduce the supply of the given number of different cards for a player each year, and the number of parallels, but I'm not optimistic there.
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Originally Posted by 53toppscollector
Where I would be hugely alarmed is if Fanatics created their own grading company to essentially pre-grade their own cards. That creates a HUGE conflict of interest.
For as many issues as we have with the current TPGs, at least they aren't manufacturing the cards they are grading.
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Both of these were covered in the article.
1) Fanatics wants to create a direct to consumer model. The article discussed buying Upper Deck, Panini or Donruss/Leaf.
2) Fanatics will sell a card, and then the buyer has the option to grade it, vault it, or flip it.
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