[southpaugh2002]

i can't recall seeing any printing plates in higher end products this year like gold standard and elite black box, i might be wrong tho

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I bought a box of elite black box about 2 months ago and every card was damaged so i opened a quality assurance claim. Out of the 8 cards in the pack, they replaced 3 so far:
glen rice flag patch auto /99. replaced with:
gold standard joakim Noah auto /25

Darrell Griffith auto /149, replaced with:
preferred Panini's choice red Toni kukoc auto /49

Dan issel Jersey /99, replaced with:
Taj Gibson auto 99/99

They still are due to send me 5 more cards, one being a dual auto, two Gu and 2 base. They said they are making the 2 base and 2 gu cards with the same ones, throwing the others away. They said they didn't have another Eaton/bogut dual auto logoman so maybe they will hook it up with something nice. All this is after 2 months of daily phone calls even speaking with their new manager and telling him how i wished upper deck and topps would take over b-ball again cause Panini customer service is by far the worst.

all are for trade by the way