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E, DanielI've actually been thinking about it alot lately, and I personally would love to see a return to packaging cards with non-related product.
Could be food, candy, washing liquid, really wouldn't matter, but doing so would return alot of the 'fun' to the buying and discovery part of the equation. It would also return condition rarity as a factor because cards wouldn't arrive in perfectly packaged foil and boxes.
I also would appreciate todays sporting institutions (eg.mlb) that farm out the rights to producing cards, to insist on limits on the number of issues a manufacturer can create in any one year. Again, this just might recreate interest and desire in todays collecting youth and adult alike.
Daniel