kinda like the 4 Griffey Jr. print plates someone here got as a replacement...just shows you UD holds on to a lot of stuff that should be in the product...kinda pisses me off.
I'm still waiting on my Fed Ex they said they were sending out weeks ago...guess they will never learn how to do good business.
I think this was sometime in late 2008...I entered an online redemption for a 2005 Ultimate Signature Dual ROY auto of Dwight Gooden and Tom Seaver. Being a Mets fan, I actually wanted to get the card. I didn't call anyone but got a notification after sometime that the redemption could not be fulfilled and I would receive a comparable replacement. I wasn't given a choice, and I was initially disappointed, but I ended up satisfied with the results. These were the 2 cards I got.
2003 Upper Deck First Pitch Signature Stars #KG Ken Griffey Jr./ 100 AU Item has no pricing.
1999 SP Signature Autographs #JO John Olerud AU $15.00
Now, the irony is that Beckett still shows this card listed,
with a price. Maybe some 100 collectors somewhere are getting this card as a replacement redemption now? Or if the card never was signed/released to the public, why is Beckett posting a price for something that, to us collectors, doesn't exist?
2005 Ultimate Signature ROY Dual Autograph #GS T.Seaver/D.Good/100 EXCH AU, S# 100 $60.00
Also I have to wonder why, almost 5 years later, UD still had the Griffey First Pitch auto (an exchange card) sitting in their warehouse? The only possible explanation I can think of is that the card itself was made circa 2003 but they ran out of Griffey signed stickers. A few years later, they got Griffey to sign a bunch of stickers and were finally able to put them on the cards to make the finished product. By this point, however, redemptions for the 2003 Griffey auto would have expired. As for the collectors who sent in redemptions for the 2003 Griffey auto, I can only hope they got something comparable.