Topps Chrome Centering Issues

[Shi Guy]

While scouring ebay for cards to complete my Earl Thomas refractor rainbow I came across this auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Earl-Thomas-SEA...0457761218?pt=US_Football&hash=item2c582acdc2

The centering on this card is horrendous! Given that there are only 25 of these is it too much to expect Topps to put a little more care into the more limited refractors? This is only one of many very poorly centered cards I've seen out of this years set. Granted, I don't expect every card to have 10 grade centering, but I don't recall the '09 or '08 sets being this bad.

On a side note, the BIN on this card is ridiculous, after making a couple offers that were automatically declined, it seems safe to say that the buyer wants $20+ for this card. One with much better centering recently went for $19.99... sigh

 

[CollectorsCorner]

Football is actually not bad I opened 6 boxes and don't think I saw a badly centered card. But in Baseball almost everything had something wrong with it

 

[RITM]

Football is actually not bad I opened 6 boxes and don't think I saw a badly centered card. But in Baseball almost everything had something wrong with it

Agreed. I opened blasters of baseball and football earlier. The baseball were totally OC and had something going on in that the cards would not lie flat. They were all bowed. The football was fine.

 

[morgoth]

Ditto, I haven't had but a handfull of oc cards out of 4 boxes and some retail. Overall solid job.