WTF??? Can't believe they cut this up for a card...

[old13man]

How hard would it be for Topps to insert a redemption card to redeem for the entire ball!!!!!! Those products are loaded with redemptions already so why not one more and then you don't have to hack the ball up into that disgusting card.

[thetruthisoutthere]

Originally Posted by old13man

How hard would it be for Topps to insert a redemption card to redeem for the entire ball!!!!!! Those products are loaded with redemptions already so why not one more and then you don't have to hack the ball up into that disgusting card.

I totally agree, Charles. That would have been a hot chase card.

[GrayGhost]

Originally Posted by old13man

How hard would it be for Topps to insert a redemption card to redeem for the entire ball!!!!!! Those products are loaded with redemptions already so why not one more and then you don't have to hack the ball up into that disgusting card.

+1000. Today's sports cards are nothing more than glorified lotteries, w desecrated pieces of shirts, balls, bats, cut sigs, SIGNED balls cut up, and ten different versions of the same card, autographed and numbered. It is nothing but a glorified form of gambling. The saddest thing is you see people, adults and kids (tho how they can afford it is beyond me), buying these packs of cards, looking for the "chase" card and basically caring little or nothing about the others. Its sad. Add that to the crooks who weight/metal detect packs and etc, and sell them to the kids at a huge profit, where the kids can't go to stores, buy a couple packs and have a chance at something.

Its disguisting IMO, and makes me long for the days of being excited opening a pack of 1975 topps my mom got me at the store, chewing the pink and FRESH most times, gum, and jumping around when a REGULAR HANK AARON card with that famous profile shot, jumped out of the pack at me.

I better hurry tho, my local shop has got a deal on Topps glowamania packs. Look for the "randomly inserted" glow in the dark cards, numbered to ten, and the rare invisible ink signed cards too.

[RichardSimon]

Do they even care? NO
Do they worry about it? NO
Do they sit up at night worrying what real collectors think about this junk? NO
They just keep producing more schlock.

[batsballsbases]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Do they even care? NO
Do they worry about it? NO
Do they sit up at night worrying what real collectors think about this junk? NO
They just keep producing more schlock.

Richard,
I think that sums it up in a nut shell!

[steve B]

There is some small hope for change.

I bought my first few 2012 Topps Sunday and the retail ones don't have any of that stuff at all, at least in the boxes.

Kind of refreshing, no autos, no scraps of something, just cards.

Steve B

[howard38]

The cutting up of the ball doesn't bother me as much as the PSA grade does. Three crummy looking autographs on a grimy piece of leather should not grade a nine just because Topps decided to put a piece of cardboard around it.

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by howard38

The cutting up of the ball doesn't bother me as much as the PSA grade does. Three crummy looking autographs on a grimy piece of leather should not grade a nine just because Topps decided to put a piece of cardboard around it.

The cutting clearly bothers me...BUT looking past that, I definitely agree with you, the grade is technically correct for the card, but completely strange considering the auto's themselves...

[RichardSimon]

Would you expect PSA to give a low grade to a new Topps product?

[Orioles1954]

Neither the cutting up of this ugly ball or the PSA grade bothers me. I could also get on a soapbox about the modern insert hobby and about cutting up jerseys and balls or whatever....it just doesn't seem worth it.