2013 Bowman... What's your take so far?

RandomH · May 11, 2013

What do you guys feel about the product so far?

Personally I like the design this year, very nice compared to last year IMO. I don't like how they don't have "First Year" up in the corner. Instead it just says "Bowman Chrome" Kind of annoying if you ask me.

vwnut13 · May 11, 2013

IMO, too much design. Doesn't really look like a Bowman Product.

Dislike how hard it is to read the players name on the base.

AmishDave · May 11, 2013

I like the Purple Ice.

I don't like the same thing, where there is no '1st Year' on the card.

SydBarrett · May 11, 2013

I made the stupid decision of joining group breaks instead of purchasing individual cards, for the 11 cards I've got from the group breaks (only one blue refractor, nothing better), I could have bought over 40 base, 15 refractors, seven blue, four gold or the purple on eBay at current prices.

shayscards79 · May 11, 2013

I like the minis and reprints as inserts. I also like that the rookie autos are in shorter print than previous years.

I think the prospect checklist was average at best.

TopOffLikeWALLACE · May 12, 2013

SydBarrett said:
I made the stupid decision of joining group breaks instead of purchasing individual cards, for the 11 cards I've got from the group breaks (only one blue refractor, nothing better), I could have bought over 40 base, 15 refractors, seven blue, four gold or the purple on eBay at current prices.

And the white man get paid off of all of that...

ThoseBackPages · May 12, 2013

SydBarrett said:
I made the stupid decision of joining group breaks instead of purchasing individual cards, for the 11 cards I've got from the group breaks (only one blue refractor, nothing better), I could have bought over 40 base, 15 refractors, seven blue, four gold or the purple on eBay at current prices.

I hear you

hive17 · May 12, 2013

I find it odd that the purple REFs have better retail odds than the base refractors. Being numbered /199, you have to imagine that Topps pushed the purples to retail.

I haven't done the math yet, but it seems weird.

ballerskrip · May 12, 2013

Ran the presses way toooooo much. One gold ref per two cases? Are you crapping me? I don't buy this product for inserts!

jaydub · May 12, 2013

Likes:
- prospect minis are nice and since they are more or less the better 5 prospects from each team they are better sources of value than typical prospect refractors (especially when those are not numbered)
- quality control is excellent. Very few off center, no warping, minimal scratching
- good collation - was able to make complete sets
- good checklist however, many of these are wait and see guys so rip and flip especially with large print run is ill advised
- strong rookie auto checklist - compared to normal rookie autos this is the best checklist I can remember
- white ice 1/1 parallels are nice new chase cards

Dislikes:
- large print run and large number of breakers means the base auto market is pretty flooded so prices aren't great - good for buyers, bad for sellers who want to recoup now.
- Checklist is good but risky in that many guys are wait and see which means long time to hold and potential for flameouts
- non auto color is somewhat rare.
- Topps 100 design is sorta blah
- Bowman prospect challenge code cards are practically worthless

morgoth · May 12, 2013

People arent spreading money around and guys like Buxton are selling too high out of the gates. Also people are paying more for 2013 bc rc autos than the real rc of that playet

hohlernr · May 12, 2013

I am soooo glad that I decided not to purchase the 6 cases of Jumbo that I previously planned on doing (ended up buying a house instead lol). I have to imagine that all breakers are just getting destroyed on this product. Like others have said Topps ran the presses on this one. You're lucky if you get a blue auto in a case of hobby. For comparisons sake I busted 6 hobby cases of 2012 draft and pulled 2 orange autos, 4 gold autos, 4 blue autos and 14 refractor autos. How many cases of 2013 hobby would it take to get all that...10 or so?

jcmint · May 12, 2013

The auto rookie set is too big and way too many marginal and scrub type players. Anyone breaking this product just cant be happy

VandyDan · May 12, 2013

There are two guys who I am targeting as low-end (read, $5ish for a base auto) prospects. Other than that, I bought three blasters out of general boredom/weakness. that might be it.

bmp1971 · May 12, 2013

Total waste of money. Don't bother with it.

BBCgalaxee · May 12, 2013

Gotta compliment topps on it.

In terms of fun, its awesome with all the inserts, parallels, minis, etc.

In that aspect, its similar to their base set.

But most people look at it financially, completely opposite of how they look at topps base.

Thats the problem, theres nothing wrong at all with this set, unless you are in it 100% for fast profit.

MGiuseffi · May 13, 2013

I really like some of the tweaks this year. That said, they really printed waayyyy to much of this stuff. Roll the print run back on the hobby so you can get some color in a case.

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sigma_chi · May 13, 2013

Only bought 5 jumbo boxes...I got 1 non-auto'd gold refractor /50, and 1 blue ref auto and it looks like I should consider myself lucky for that!!!

Even if they were the same price I believe i'd still rather have a case of 2012 Draft than 2013 Bowman jumbo.

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