Panini Rewards program

[Champs96ws]

If you haven't heard...Panini is sort of doing away with redemption's.

Instead of getting a redemption for X player you will now find a card with rewards points. This will then allow you to go to their redemption site and redeem it for whatever is in their inventory for the allotted points total you have.

Sometimes getting a player to sign is out of their control, so instead of making a consumer wait months and sometime years to get something back this is a good solution in my opinion. I assume you can't combine points from multiple cards to get a better card. So if you have 2 cards that are 100 points each you can't get a 200 point card.


Your thoughts?

 

[cjay101]

Interesting approach. Will be real interesting to see the details as far as if points can be accrued over time or must be instantly redeemed. If points expire and if so how far out, etc.

I do agree that getting players to sign is crazy, but there have been numerous times where certain players/cards have shipped 'partially' in a product.

If you're going to offer player X's auto in the set, and you have 500 stickers of his (knowing very few do on-card anymore), don't make a auto numbered to 700 and add redemptions for the last 200, ESPECIALLY if you're going to send a replacement later on instead of said auto.

Lastly, you can assume in this system that there will be some super cherry picking going on. Everyone will be after the big boys, so unless you unlock points early, you're pretty much screwed for certain players, etc.

 

[Champs96ws]

I don't think they will allow you to keep adding points to an account. Everyone would be attempting to get the top card(s) available. I think it will be, redeem your card with X points for cards from X category. I think that's the best way to go about it.

As for cherry picking, of coarse that is going to happen. But how many redemption's are still out there from 5 - 10 year old unopened product. Guess what you get for them...nada. So I would like the fact that I could still get something from an older product.

Another thought would be to create a pool of cards for expired redemption's that currently on the shelves/wharehouses