Upper Deck to combat patch swapping in cards

[Philip J. Fry]

Not baseball related, but it’s a decent step in combating aftermarket patch swapping in cards. Maybe Topps should be doing something similar?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6385327/2025/05/28/upper-deck-the-cup-patch-swapping/

 

[KLARNOLD]

Why can't they stitch the patch to the card and seal the stitch on back and if one attempts to remove the seal the back of card gets ruined like a RIP card?

 

[Philip J. Fry]

Why can't they stitch the patch to the card and seal the stitch on back and if one attempts to remove the seal the back of card gets ruined like a RIP card?

Those are called eBay 1/1s

 

[swish54_99]

This should've happened 15 years ago. I do think it's something that will be well accepted within the hobby and will catch on to other sets/manufacturers.

 

[jmc855]

This is great and has the added benefit of rendering TPGing of the patch useless because once they break the OEM slab, authenticity is in question. To me, big win to reduce impact, reach and influence of graders.

 

[nosterbor]

They should do like the banks. Put little die packs under the patch.

 

[Pinbreaker]

Are they going to go back and retroactively look at Patch cards and say if it's authentic or not?

Here's an example that putting the 2009 UD Ultimate Patch Card Set together I found.

I snagged these on Worthpoint when I had my subscription.

 

[mrmopar]

Are they going to go back and retroactively look at Patch cards and say if it's authentic or not?

Here's an example that putting the 2009 UD Ultimate Patch Card Set together I found.

I snagged these on Worthpoint when I had my subscription.

This is quite unfortunate that rare items had to be ruined to squeeze a few more dollars out of consumers by dirtbag crooks and I would guess evidence like this could be harder and harder to find as years pass. Some patch cards will never be trusted, even if you were the one who pulled it from a pack, prove that 20 years down the road.