OT: Paul Skenes Rookie Card Search

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Originally Posted by Snapolit1

How does Beyoncé wearing a one of a kind dress at the Grammys affect the bottom line of the dress designer? It suggests to millions of other people that they should be all over this. So next time they start selling a product you can buy, pay up.
Eyeballs on the company. Eyeballs on the product.

I don't see any similarities between the two comparisons. Topps moved this product based on the checklist, not the fact that there were big cards in other products unrelated to this one. The checklist sold the product. Knowing the card was on the checklist made people want to buy it. I don't think anyone is going to be interested in another product without the same checklist as a result of this product featuring this card.

I do want to agree though that Topps does sometimes hold players from products, but not because they're chase cards. For example, Topps could have included Skenes in the Series Two Chrome set but instead held him for the Update set. Every year there is someone who doesn't make it into the newest Bowman Draft set too. This year it was Charlie Condon. Last year it was Dylan Crews. Their first Bowman's are usually held for the next Bowman Chrome release. Both Crews and James Wood were withheld from the Update set and will be featured in the 2025 Topps Series 1 set instead. I don't know if this is due to contracts or some other factor though and I'm not sure it's truly "withholding" the player from a set.