Beckett 20 Questions on … a bit of everything

Would love to win something from Beckett!!!

I would really like to see multiple licenses and no more exclusives. It would be nice if the leagues limited either the number of licenses to 3-4 and/or limited the number of products each company could put out using the license.

I guess I’m only optimistic for 2015 because 2014 was so bad and full of overproduced products, overpriced products, and low quality issues like “event worn” patches in Panini’s super high end products or Topps products losing half there value in less than a week out “Topps Chrome Football”.

Either the manufactures will see how [angry] collectors were from the out put of 2014 or they will not give a hoot and keep pouring on the junk.

Hate exclusives by any company. Card companies can coast along when they are the only game in town. Go back to the time when a patch or jersey card was from a game used uniform and not a photo shoot or what is worse a veteran “worn” jersey swatch. More expensive for the card company but way more value to the collector. Will I spend more in 2015 than other years, doubtful. Going to be interesting to see how many companies survive in the coming two or three years. Still fun but in a way kind of sad.

I agree with the comments about relic cards. The problem with the industry is that for new products, the value in what you are getting for what you paid isn’t there. Why pay $100 for a box, when the true market value of the contents is 50%-75% of that? I know that the joy of ripping and collating (entertainment!) needs to be figured in, but for Topps Flagship for example…why buy any boxes of series 1 & 2? You can pick up the complete set for $50 in September and buy any sp, relics, inserts and auto’s in the aftermarket. No need to have thousands of extra base sitting around

I don’t care how many product lines any of the card companies have….I do think that exclusives hurt collectors and the hobby though.

As always, thanks for the Beckett 20 questions (PS…really loving the 2015 Camo card design for flagship)

I’d like to know why the majority of the high priced pulls come out of Canada for Hockey, it’s not like we don’t know anything about the game and those of us who are big fans would certainly like to see some of the great pulls come outta UD, Black Diamond, etc. without having to pay $400 for 1 pack, that is not a sports fans hobby pack. That is cutting the fan out from a chance to get something really good.