[mouschi3]

What if Topps (or Panini, or Leaf) put together a product where you could hop online and create your own card? Here is the twist:

1) Select a Player
2) Select a Picture from their photo bank. That way you can't upload a huge picture of Jeter's nose or something like that.
3) Select if you want an autograph or not
4) Select if you want a relic, and if so, which kind (jersey, pinstripe, glove, pants, hat, etc.)
5) If relic, do you want a premium piece? (Add $xxx for this)

Whammo...your own personalized card. For me, the pros would be that it is a real card produced by a real company and that you had a hand in creating it.

The cons would be that there wouldn't really be a way to checklist this at all, unless they do it at the end of the year.

This could be an actual service on a website, or even used as a redemption. Imagine this: Congratulations! You have won an auto patch redemption card of ... whomever you like! Go to www.Domain.com and get to creating."

What are your thoughts?

[oneofakindcards]

Sure. It should also give you the option of printing at home - or saving the file to your device.

Order the sticker auto and/or relic to be delivered to your home for insertion into your card.

[jumper4d8]

In The Game did that for a couple of releases with hockey cards about 6-8 years ago. It was a redemption card that once you submitted you got to go through the creation phase and get a 1/1 you designed.

[rjcj2017]

Fleer basketball also did this back in the day, I did a custom Vince Carter card.

But the auto/jersey add-on is a great idea!

[flamethrower]

Cool and innovative idea, however;

That might kill the hobby... part of the chase is that there is a "chase." If you get to create your own, there is no more super collector, your Canseco collection no longer matters because I can print a 1/1 canseco and you no longer hold the record (or whatever). It needs to be a fair market. The answer is fair market capitalism, where Topps no longer holds all the cards, no pun intended. Right now we lack the [i]fair[i] part. Topps has the monopoly and they mask it by brands & sets. How many 1/1s can you have of players before they don't matter? "I have a 1/1 Trout from 2018 Topps WhoCares," big deal in 2018 they made 500 1/1's, see where I'm going. With 3D printing, then who cares about cards? I'll go buy an authentic jersey (or other GU), cut it up, then buy a bunch of rando autos, and make my own base, sp, and 1/1 with cut up stuff. The monopoly needs to end or it will result in this.

[rant over]

[DrMitchJ]

Cool and innovative idea, however;

That might kill the hobby... part of the chase is that there is a "chase." If you get to create your own, there is no more super collector, your Canseco collection no longer matters because I can print a 1/1 canseco and you no longer hold the record (or whatever). It needs to be a fair market. The answer is fair market capitalism, where Topps no longer holds all the cards, no pun intended. Right now we lack the [i]fair[i] part. Topps has the monopoly and they mask it by brands & sets. How many 1/1s can you have of players before they don't matter? "I have a 1/1 Trout from 2018 Topps WhoCares," big deal in 2018 they made 500 1/1's, see where I'm going. With 3D printing, then who cares about cards? I'll go buy an authentic jersey (or other GU), cut it up, then buy a bunch of rando autos, and make my own base, sp, and 1/1 with cut up stuff. The monopoly needs to end or it will result in this.

[rant over]

+1 well stated!! Too many 1/1's don't make 1/1 cards all that special. Topps has that one high end (Dynasty?) where every card is 1/1 or /10 but each player has 10 different versions .... rediculous IMO. I have a 1/1 Babe Ruth from some older set, but they made 250 different 1/1 cards ... so is it really a 1/1? Sure. Does it have any real amazing value? Nope. Does that matter? Depends on the collector. Personally, I don't sell cards, so value isn't as important, but I still want it to have more value than it does.