Topps reprints and buy-backs

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Posted By: Keng

Can anyone explain the difference between Topps reprints and buybacks. Also, what would you call this item?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2741051380&category=31719

It looks like it's in a Topps 206 holder.
Thanks

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Posted By: richey

it is a topps holder, but the card is genuine. part of an insert thing topps has.

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Posted By: Keng

Thanks for the info. I'm a newbie...can you tell me what is a Topps buy-back?

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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

A couple of years ago, Topps commissioned a major dealer to buy up a whole bunch of fairly nice T206 cards so that they (Topps) could enclose them in the holders you see there, and stick them randomly into the current Topps year cards, as part of the never-ending quest for new promotions of these little slabs of cardboard.

The cards are definitely genuine, and usually in pretty good shape-- but the idea that they command some kind of premium just because Topps had its hot little hands upon them seems kinda silly to me.

Cheers,

Tim

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Posted By: Hankron

I'm no newbie, but I still don't know what the heck is a buy-back.

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Posted By: Hankron

My guess is that the best thing to do is the bleep over the words 'buy back' whenever it appears in an auction description.

For example:

Before = 2001 Topps T206 Rube Marquard Buy Back
After bleep over = T206 Rube Marquard

Life suddenly became so simple. Technique works on other gimmicks as well.