Huggins & Scott have the Holy Grail

[GrayGhost]

Weren't the same things said in another thread before about the Chrome Superfricker or whatever? Seems to me like a lot of repetition here.

[packs]

Chase cards are designed to move product. Topps is going to sell more Bowman 2010 boxes and packs because people want the Strasburg. The same was true for pre-war sets. The chase cards were intended to be money makers. You were going to buy as many Goudey packs as you could get your hands on looking for that Lajoie, except the difference is you can actually get the Strasburg. The modern chase card game is a lot more honest than the pre-war one.

[HRBAKER]

Or the pre-war "chase" cards could be looked at the opposite way as well. They were short printed to be money savers, thus allowing the company to give away less baseballs, bikes or whatever. In that case I think they served two purposes, move product and prevent redemption.

[Matthew H]

On the modern card blogs they are doing the same thing people are doing here. Posting pickups, bst, etc. If you look on youtube you will see people busting boxes, they get excited when they get good cards they want to add to the pc, when they don't, they will offer them up for trade in the video. Then other collectors comment that they want to trade for the card. I think it's a legitimate hobby