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Andrew, group break!?
hahahahahahahaha!
Before you spend your money on these I would look for other "off" brands like the aforementioned Nabisco. Most HOF players that have played in the past 50 years have enough certified autograph cards that you can get a much nicer looking card than 2012 SP Signature and only spend a few extra dollars per card. They've signed so many by now that the price of a card doesn't get really high unless it's serial numbered.
As for making custom cards from these, I would still go with a signed index card over a sticker to cut out. I think a clean white background would almost always look better than a sticker auto.
The UD facebook group (Bring back upper deck baseball or something similar) showed that UD has apparently taken notice of how poorly this product is being received.
If they expected anything other than hilarity, then they're more naive than assumed.
I can't believe anyone found this worth ripping sight unseen at the price. Then, after seeing some breaks...who would rip this at these prices? I mean $250+ for 9 autographs could kick out a lot better than this. I couldn't convince myself to take a swim in this product even at half, which would be $125/box.
They must have someone staring at their Facebook page non-stop to keep up.
The last UD post regarding it stated proudly, "Important update on this product, there are ZERO redemptions in the product. All autographs are live in the product!"
When the only selling point is zero redemptions...it's not a good sign.
LOL. It's amazing to me that they want to try to pump a product that they KNOW is garbage.
WAIT this is $250 a box!?!?!? I thought this was like a $50 box or something. Wow....
Boxes have three 3-card packs (I think) and all cards are autographed. (Probably stating the obvious there, but I wouldn't put it past UD after this comedy to release a product just featuring a player's last name on the front, team city on the back and call it "SP Legendary Exquisite Hall of Fame and Prospect Ultimate Draft.") The 3-card packs appear to be still selling on eBay for $70+. This is why most of the BINs on the garbage (IE: 95% of this) start at $24.99 as a gasping effort to recoup some of the blood bath.
I'm all for people taking a huge risk with costly products, but the return here is abysmal.
You know, the beauty in this product is the laziness and empty-hearted attempt. The MLBPA license allows Upper Deck to produce cards with player photos, just no logos and team colors. Okay, easy enough...head shots. Slapped on this design, boom...done. Easy. Much better product. So you wonder why they didn't choose to do that...money. I truly think they did the best with what they were willing to work with and designed it as well as possible...considering how listless they are as a collective.
If this bookends Upper Deck's meteoric rise and collapse in baseball, it would truly be impressive. Bursting onto the scene with holograms and a higher quality stock (basically bankrupting them in release #1 until they got wise and fired the presses back up for a few specific cards) through some really successful products that excited many to this hilarity of the current state Upper Deck.
Sadly, Upper Deck's rise and fall in this hobby symbolizes exactly what goes wrong when a business is run by a crazed drunken mustachioed charlatan.
The only think I want to know now is how many reprint projects are running through their minds right now, or if he's too drunk to think straight.