Could have told you Abreu wasn't going to be. Redemptions were falling about 1 per case (unless I just got supremely lucky). With 250 cases made that actually makes Abreu the most common of the "Pride" inserts. Hypothetically if the parallels are numbered the same, you're looking at 56...
Leaf Announces Jose Abreu Autographed
Cards are In-House and Ready to Ship!
The hobby’s first-ever on-card autographs of the Cuban first
baseman are en route to customers today
Carrollton, TX (Oct. 30, 2013) – Leaf Trading Cards is proud to announce that the
hobby’s first-ever, on-card...
Sterling might have made a run at a true high end product if it didn't take them until 2012 to get back to on-card autos. From 05 to 11 it was stickers and that never comes across as high end. If it had been on card all along it might just have transitioned to the premium over chrome. But...
Can't be done. For many of the reasons stated above (especially the immediacy of the impact of the player on the pro ranks) but specifically because Topps would have to print SO LITTLE of it for it to truly be valuable. What are they going to do to make the cards worth more than the Bowman...
The concept seems simple enough and not incredibly far from what Topps does now with hobby and jumbo having different types of hits, or actually upgraded hits that can only be found in one or the other. You're basically just suggesting that there is zero overlap of parallels in your Plus+...
I would hope so otherwise they'll be sitting with that stuff on their shelves for the foreseeable future. I agree with Drew's point, make a product worth the price and let the market dictate. It's pretty simple really.
They seem to be taking MAP and applying it beyond the core word which is "advertised". I deal with MAP on a daily basis in my "real world" industry and the issue is advertised price. What I believe we've seen with Panini is MRP or minimum retail price whereby dealers are restricted to a...
You also took 2 cards out of each box. Something that I failed to factor in. That's one hell of a price increase when you look at it that way. In addition did away with the Ichiro/Pujols type addition that accounted for a several hundred dollar hit every other case. While I had some great...
Did I know they were doing this before I spent $900 on a case of PG? No. Does this "gray" set really hurt the sale of the "black" set that could be made from the boxes? Probably not. The 5 extra unnumbered black bordered prismatics are a nice addition, but still I don't think this is going...
Jonathan Gray Red /5
Clint Frazier Green 10/10
Jagielo Green /10
Aaron Judge Plate
Jose Abreu redemption
Taijuan Walker Red /5
Henry Urrutia Blue /15
Austin Meadows purple /25
Gosuke Katoh purple /25
Taijuan Walker purple /25
Archie Bradley blue 15/15
Nick Cuiffo Green /10
Okay, got bored with one box at a time. Busted the third case at one shot.
Kohl Stewart Superfractor
Jonathan Gray Green /10
Austin meadows purple /10
Braden Shipley Red /5
Hunter Harvey Red /5
Jose Abreu redemption
Mark Appel Blue /25
Kris Bryant Purple /50
Taijuan Walker Green /10
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