[swjrp10]

You know what bugs me about the redemptions?
It's not just the wait time and the screwing over of the person who didn't redeem it on time.
It's the lingering question of "what in the heck is topps doing with the non-redeemed autograph?"
Do Topps employees get to take these unredeemed cards home?
Is there a lottery at the Topps offices for the unredeemed autos?
Do they have a waiting list at Topps for which employees get to take them home first?
I can understand that, hey, Topps, doesn't want to keep boxes in storage for autographs from 10 years ago that weren't redeemed but what else are they gonna do with them? Throw them away? Put them up on Ebay?
I wonder.
Of course it all comes back to the point that there shouldn't be redemptions.
But that is all too simple.

majority of them surely get used as replacements (missing hits, damaged cards, goodwill for bad CS hehe).

remember all of those contests topps has where you get cards in packs to redeem for older cards, probably some go there too!