2006 Bowman Gold Refractors without serial numbers?

[Krom]

Yeah these a holes definitely killed Hellickson parallels which is why I started unloading when I did. I've tracked about 40 of the Hellickson golds, and that is without looking the last couple months. Pretty cool when there are 6 unnumbered ones up at the same time there is one numbered one. Then of course, most of the sellers at first didn't even say they weren't serial numbered. Some still don't I'm sure. What a joke, way to kill potentnially one of the hottest cards of the upcoming season. There is no excuse for this, just a giant kick in the nads to the people sitting on his stuff since 06.

I personally think that these are too new for most to (not us) to understand. I think in the long run it will Help the value of the true #d ones. As said above with how many un#d are listed with one real one. Over time i think the bunk ones will take a dive and the real ones will not be offered for sale very often. As a slight comparison - i am glad the un#d Lincy refs are obvious fake autos, if they looked real that could have been more of a problem - but they are just junk and most know that - i think the same will happen with un#d refs (gold and such).

 

[chrisgillam]

Found one on Ebay, it's going to sell for over a two hundred and of course without a serial number. I can see a true Gold Refractor going for two hundred but not this. Besides, doesn't that actually look like an Orange Refractor? I guess the seller can't tell without a serial number. After hearing all of your comments on unserial numbered cards from 2006 Bowman I find it hard to believe that someone would give their money away. I hope no one hear is bidding on it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/JEREMY-HELLICKSON-2 ... 4cf4e4805c

 

[bmc398]

As mentioned back door. What I do find odd is the constant use of this excuse of being a replacement, can there be some truth to this? I mean an awful lot of the people selling these are saying this.

my opinion is that someone at topps c/s found a box of cards sitting on a shelf and thought they would use them for replacements for people sending in damaged cards. they had alot of turnover the past couple years with the economy and layoffs so anything could have happened. we do know that they came from topps. we can only speculate how they got out to the public.

That does makes sense.

The fact that only a few ebay sellers sold a seemingly endless supply of these things for a few months kills that theory - there's no way it was the work of a naive CS employee issuing legitimate replacements.

MOre like Topps employees found these, took them home with them and sold them en masse to a few dealers who were foolish and dealt in shady items.