Topps. The Enron of baseball cards.

Subject: Topps. The Enron of baseball cards.
From: "Chris Harris"
Date: 7/14/2003 10:13 PM Eastern Standard Time
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http://msn.espn.go.com/sportsbusines...14/1580511.htm

So he's selling all 159 cards? And I;m not sure how it's "free publicity"
since he has to pay at least 30 cents per card just to list, and then a nice
cut to eBay for each item sold.
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"It's no secret around Nashville that Kid Kash beats his women!" - Kid Kash,
TNA, June 2003.

Here's what's curious to me: what did Topps have to gain by printing and
distributing the extra cards in the first place? They might have gained 70
extra "happy customers", at the risk of ****ing off 70,000 others customers?
It doesn't make much sense. Pretty low, though.

-Dave C.

"Chris Harris" wrote in message
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Chris Harris
www.stalegum.com

Here's what's curious to me: what did Topps have to gain by printing and
distributing the extra cards in the first place? They might have gained 70
extra "happy customers", at the risk of ****ing off 70,000 others customers?
It doesn't make much sense. Pretty low, though.

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possibly Topps made extra cards for "replacement cards" and they got
mistakenly inserted into packs .......
would'nt be the first time cards not intended for consumers were put into
packs .........
but yes you're right ..... why make more??
It would only lessen the cards values .......
ron

This is such old news it isn't even funny.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:14:46 -0700, LARGE EYES wrote
(in article ):

This is such old news it isn't even funny.

It is not funny. I still remember the 1994 Topps Black Gold baseball
debacle

It's "free publicity" because he is already being charged to sell the cards,
so there is no additional cost for publicizing his experience with Topps.

-Dave C.


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Subject: Topps. The Enron of baseball cards.
From: "Chris Harris"
Date: 7/14/2003 10:13 PM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

http://msn.espn.go.com/sportsbusines...14/1580511.htm

So he's selling all 159 cards? And I;m not sure how it's "free
publicity"
since he has to pay at least 30 cents per card just to list, and then a
nice
cut to eBay for each item sold.
-----------------
"It's no secret around Nashville that Kid Kash beats his women!" - Kid
Kash,
TNA, June 2003.

Subject: Topps. The Enron of baseball cards.
From: "Dave C."
Date: 7/16/2003 12:03 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id: W74Ra.73712$ye4.50090@sccrnsc01

It's "free publicity" because he is already being charged to sell the cards,
so there is no additional cost for publicizing his experience with Topps.

-Dave C.

gotcha.
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"It's no secret around Nashville that Kid Kash beats his women!" - Kid Kash,
TNA, June 2003.

First it was corcked bat cards now its this. I bet you one day there will be a
story about two serial numbered cards having the same serial number. Won't be
far off.

"BlackJet76" wrote in message
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First it was corcked bat cards now its this. I bet you one day there will
be a
story about two serial numbered cards having the same serial number. Won't
be
far off.

It already has - at least Be A Player (a hockey card company) has mistakenly
given out two 1/1 cards as a show redemption.

But how is the Ramirez corked bat card a scandal? Maybe for the player in
question but why should Pacific had to have covered it up? The only scandal
there would be if it wasn't one of Manny's bats that it came from. Good luck
proving it though.

First it was corcked bat cards now its this. I bet you one day there will be
a
story about two serial numbered cards having the same serial number. Won't be
far off.

Okay this is more of a replacement snafu than a case of actually printing two
cards with the same number, but nevertheless:
www.dilfer.com/stuff/pinkston.jpg


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