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Originally Posted by mfw13
I think it's just another iteration of the "stuff the product with a lot of low-value stuff and convince people that it's worth paying more for" strategy.
At any given time, there are probably only 25-50 players which are actually in demand....go back through the 100-card chrome checklists and you'll see that probably a third of the checklist is either run-of-the-mill regulars or rookies who never made it.
I think that the one change that they could make would be to make chromes of the retired players and insert them as SSPs.
But having 500 chromes, when 400+ of them are $1 players that nobody really cares about them is just about creating the "illusion of value"....just like making it easier to pull autos, when most of them are scrubs.
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This exactly. It's partially what has driven the price 24HHN to stupid levels and people think it's great. 98% of those parallels is just perceived value, but in reality adds very little value. Yet, people are just falling over themselves to purchase the product. Kudos to Fanatics/Topps; they fed the sheep. I recently saw Jabs Family open 5 blasters that he purchased for $40 each (and what he is subsequently was asking his viewers to pay), getting the 3 green (whatever) parallels of nobodies and 1 chrome /699 per box. Not worth $24.99, let alone $40! It's comical looking at some of the '24HHN cards on Ebay and what sellers are trying to get. Even more comical (to me) is actually what few of the cards have sold for. I just want to grab ahold of some of these people and shake them until they come to their senses. But, in the end, who am I to tell people how to spend their money. Let me add, I view all this from the point of me being a collector....I don't purchase to sell/flip. If I did, maybe I would think differently. However, it seems like the collector is the one getting bent over and stuck paying the $200 per box if they want the product.