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Now Upper Deck has to get their distributors pay to make their own cards. Why would anyone want this set?
Their are no rookies and the NHL just cancelled the Winter Classic which means no season. Totally a waste
of time and money.

Upper Deck
Born 1989
RIP 2013

What i don’t think Upper Deck ,Topps, Panini ,and the other card companies out there understand , is that over the last 3-4 years they have weeded out most of the small time collectors and people who enjoyed the hobby and now are left with majority of people that are all about the high risk high reward. Not many people, especailly in this economy , can afford boxes that are higher than $100, and those $100 boxes have such a small amount of high reward in them ,they are not even worth opening at this point. Stinks to open those boxes and end up with $20 sell value 99% of the time. So to try and entice a person to buy your products by giving them a free pack of some limited edition set, and then probably make those autographs within that set impossible , it entices noone and noone really cares. the small time collecter knows they probably won’t get an auto, so they won’t care, and the high risk high reward person probably won’t buy the small product in the first place, and a pack of base cards (with a long shot at an auto) will not entice them to go down that road. In my opinion there are only 3 types of card people out there: 1) rich people who have the money to buy whatever they want , 2) people who are and have been addicted to the rip (me) also should call the gamblers anonymous hotline (also these are the people who are keeping this hobby from total death), 3) those people who buy regular topps baseball to put that set together. Bottom line is, with out a NHL hockey season this year , the interest in hockey cards will drop dramatically , and people are not gonna open up as much as they usually would, so if you want to try to entice people to buy this stuff ,offer up something a little more attractive !

what about the other three distributors????? Why did they get screwed along with their dealers?

Heath,

The other option you did not mention is this will make the so-called little people go on Ebay and pick up cards for a fraction of the cost. Just because there is no hockey doesn’t mean people stop buying. Why pay $100 for a box knowing full well the re-sell value is $20 when you could pick up what you want on line. I don’t like Upper Deck and Panini is starting to piss a lot of people off as well with redemptions upon redemptions piling up with no end in sight. I have a card that’s over a year old and this is what Panini told me “The player responsible for signing does not make the time to sign, his agent has to set up a time for the player to sign”. What a load of garbage. I for one can afford to buy high end products but I pick and choose. Did not buy any of The Cup this year. Did not buy Exquisite Basketball ($700) almostly a joke. What a sad state for collectors who truly appreciate putting sets together. Since rookies were numbered, it’s almost impossible to make a complete set.

It’s only an $80 box or less. I think there is some value in the product. I opened some and it’s better than one might think. You never know how the rookies are gonna pan out in the product. They might not be A-list stars 3-5 years from now, but it’s unlikely that out of a roster of 50 Young Guns, they’ll all stink up the joint.

I find it ironic that one can talk about collecting, and then in the same breath, talk about market/sell value. The first question is, are you in the hobby for keeps or for making money? If it’s for making money, then this is absolutely the wrong avenue. You’re almost never gonna make much money from cracking wax.

agreed, to Tony G’s comments

I happened to buy a box of 12/13 series 1 today only because I had opened about 10 packs previously and this years set, although no “A-List” rookies as some might put it, looks absolutely amazing. I would have to say that this set is 10 times better then the 2 or 3 previous years.

Now, upon my surprise, I got a pack of these cards and I pulled a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Auto card. Now I thought I would search the internet to find how many of them are out there and came to this page. I am so excited that I happened to pull this auto from 1 pack. I am a collector and this promotion has peaked my interest even more.

Thanks UD and Universal/GTS Promo for this opportunity.