[chrisolds]

This crap grinds my gears.. Vol9 No7 Oct. o9  Pages 10,11,12,13. Beckett baseball 4 pages dedicated to this product and Topps Director of Product Development Clay Luraschi.  Can we get Clay back for maybe a blurb in a future issue to discuss why he failed to announce seat cards before the product went live. I guess where he states" there will be a few surprises" takes on a new meaning.  Shame on Topps with this product and trying to hoodwink collectors. I pulled a"Babes RAINBOW Was Here, maybe" card last night. Garbage.

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Topps has been contacted (not customer service) on the subject -- and they have yet to respond. However, I think their failure to note the type of memorabilia on cards in Topps 206, Tribute and elsewhere with blurbage was likely a decision to help get the cards made faster so each single card template didn't have to be tweaked during production (time equals money).&nbsp; The lineup and availability of Relic pieces could have changed as well because the company is undoubtedly working on multiple products at the same time. (A LOT of things can change/go wrong during the making of card sets.)<br />
One should note that many of those cards in those products do not have markings -- and in some cases where they do they're sometimes flat-out wrong. Keep in mind that it's not unprecedented at all for them to use stadium seats in Relic cards -- this is a case where they may have botched it.<br />
And a result of this oversight is that collectors have a knee-jerk reaction and fueled conspiracy theories. You can bet Topps didn't want that.<br />