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marterburn
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This is not one of those high-end crappy replacement sagas. This is a story of three small cards, and 1 crappy replacement (of 3).
Last September, I hit a redemption for a Alexei Ramirez Rising Stars Emerald auto out of Triple Threads. Sweet, even thoutgh the player could have been better, those are really nice looking on-card autos, can't wait to get it! Then in December I accidentally won two mystery redemption from Bowman platinum. Of COURSE they both turned out to be Gorkys Hernandez, why would have luck hitting a good player. I'l just flip 'em when they come, I thought.
Well in February the redemption window for Alexei expired, and I got the "error" message from Topps that offered a replacement. I asked for it, and over the next 5 weeks I emailed and emailed Topps with no response (5 times I think). I finally called in mid-March, and the rep told me Alexei was signing the cards in Spring Training. So I decided to wait. Argh...
In late March the redemption window on the Hernandez's expired, and I shot a message off to Topps asking for the status and potential replacements on those, knowing it probably wouldn't get responded to. It didn't.
Fast forward to early-May, and I've still got 0 out of the three cards. I decided to send one more message to Topps asknig for replacements on all three. Miracle of miracles, they responded! Of course, their canned response said they were not offering replacements at this time for these cards.
I tried again 2 weeks ago, since there was no further anything from Topps. Then last week I got a response saying they would be sending replacements in the next 1-2 weeks. Finally, I thought, it would be over.
Today the mailday comes, and the big reveal:
Hernandez 1 = 2009 Bowman Sterling Ryan Perry...meh, about what I would expect from Topps.
Hernandez 2 = 2009 Bowman Sterling Antonio Bastardo...sweet, that'll sell for BETTER than Hernandez, but still at about the same level and a good replacement.
Ramirez = 2007 Topps Turkey Red Felix Pie Refractor auto...WTF? Not only is 2007 Turkey Red one of the worst sets made by Topps in the last 5 years, this card is NOT NUMBERED and NOT ON-CARD, and Pie has signed way way way more that Alexei has....this is not close, it's a lower-end card, but c'mon, this is not in the neighborhood....
Thoughts?
Last September, I hit a redemption for a Alexei Ramirez Rising Stars Emerald auto out of Triple Threads. Sweet, even thoutgh the player could have been better, those are really nice looking on-card autos, can't wait to get it! Then in December I accidentally won two mystery redemption from Bowman platinum. Of COURSE they both turned out to be Gorkys Hernandez, why would have luck hitting a good player. I'l just flip 'em when they come, I thought.
Well in February the redemption window for Alexei expired, and I got the "error" message from Topps that offered a replacement. I asked for it, and over the next 5 weeks I emailed and emailed Topps with no response (5 times I think). I finally called in mid-March, and the rep told me Alexei was signing the cards in Spring Training. So I decided to wait. Argh...
In late March the redemption window on the Hernandez's expired, and I shot a message off to Topps asking for the status and potential replacements on those, knowing it probably wouldn't get responded to. It didn't.
Fast forward to early-May, and I've still got 0 out of the three cards. I decided to send one more message to Topps asknig for replacements on all three. Miracle of miracles, they responded! Of course, their canned response said they were not offering replacements at this time for these cards.
I tried again 2 weeks ago, since there was no further anything from Topps. Then last week I got a response saying they would be sending replacements in the next 1-2 weeks. Finally, I thought, it would be over.
Today the mailday comes, and the big reveal:
Hernandez 1 = 2009 Bowman Sterling Ryan Perry...meh, about what I would expect from Topps.
Hernandez 2 = 2009 Bowman Sterling Antonio Bastardo...sweet, that'll sell for BETTER than Hernandez, but still at about the same level and a good replacement.
Ramirez = 2007 Topps Turkey Red Felix Pie Refractor auto...WTF? Not only is 2007 Turkey Red one of the worst sets made by Topps in the last 5 years, this card is NOT NUMBERED and NOT ON-CARD, and Pie has signed way way way more that Alexei has....this is not close, it's a lower-end card, but c'mon, this is not in the neighborhood....
Thoughts?
