Manufactured Patches/Bats/Gloves etc.

[slavlite]

I find it very annoying that Topps has continued down the road of Manufactured Patch cards and the like. With only a single card maker for baseball I would hope to see them start to make new strides within the market. These made up patches are ridiculous and simply take up space within products that are already over full with pointless insert sets rehashing old ideas.

Just a little rant by me, but when a regular old GU JSY card carries a Book value of 10.00 why does a Manufactured JSY or Bat card carry the same book value? Part of the fun of GU cards originally was that the player had touched or worn that item. The Manufactured stuff has been touched by a topps employee not the player. Sure, if they are seeded correctly it just becomes a Rarer insert so I guess the Book value can be justified that way.

I don't have any ideas for the card companies, but I dont work for them, they hire people to come up with ideas for the products and all we get are fake leather patches instead of fake Hat Patches from 2010 to 2011. I think its time to go back to a tougher pull on inserts as opposed to 8 or more Insert sets within a single product.

Sorry had to get that out there.

-Nick

 

[MrBlackisBack]

My biggest problem with these manufactured articles is that they are masquerading as the real thing. Letter patches as Lettermen cards. Hat patches as real logo patches. Fake bat barrels as the real thing. It takes away from the real items that these impostors are mimicking. I am proud to say that I own the real versions of these and would much rather prefer to have one of the real thing than 10 of the fakes. At least Upper Deck made their manufactured patches unique (By the Letter cards excluded and at least those had autos).

 

[mindbinge]

i kinda like some of the patches...and they are well marked and different, kinda cool...but i dont like the gloves and bats at all.

 

[brewerfan34]

Thanks for the rant! I've felt the same way at times. I tend now to think that making cards with different items on them are neat but the value of them should not be the same.

 

[OriolesFan8]

After my 2010 Topps chrome purchase last year, and the terrible QC of those cards, I don't need any reason to have issues with Topps. I personally am not a fan of a bazillion insert sets, or of the manufactured (faux) bat barrels.

I am going to buy the factory set this year and keep working on my past sets. I am a Topps fan, but going forward, they are going to have to do a better job QC and idea wise before I purchase anything new.

Todd

 

[brewerfan34]

I thought of this thread when I saw this. $29.99 for a non auto manufacted patch!

http://www.checkoutmycards.com/Card...ufactured_MLB_Logoman_Patch/LM64/Warren_Spahn

 

[slavlite]

From what I am seeing they are inserting alot less actual Game Used material, at least in the cheaper low end products, which means they are spending less money making the low end sets, have we seen any drop in prices of the low end sets?

 

[worldwideed]

Personally, I don't mind them as long as the companies are not marketing them as game used. I didn't have an opinion one way or the other until Monday when I pulled an Ichiro with pilots patch from a blaster of 2011 Topps. Straight into the PC.

I can easily see why others would not care for these however. My opinion is that the card companies are OUT OF IDEAS. And need to put quality back into the product without using gimmicks.

 

[lprimus]

I'm kinda tired of 'em. I just don't see the use for 'em and they keep on doing 'em over and over again. If it had just been a once in a while thing, rather than the over and over thing, I wouldn't mind.

Jason

 

[David K.]

Prefer the real stuff! Best regards, David

 

[slavlite]

On sportscenter the other day I saw a closeup of Pujols Hand while wearing a batting glove, The outer leather velcro strap had pujols's name on it, do all players batting gloves have that?

They have used batting gloves before, but I would much rather chase a 1/1 or even 1/5 Batting glove nameplate patch than I would a fake patch of anything #'ed/infinity

 

[avstars]

If they do cool logo patches, like a WS logo, then it's alright as long as they say manufactured on the back.

 

[Tim Carroll]

I think it just allows the scammers more of an opportunity to pull those manufactured patches off, cut them up, and insert them into other cards. Voila! Another collector spending good money on a fake.


Tim