Remember eTopps? mailday

SteveO21 · 03-10-2017, 04:28 PM

You guys remember Topps, right? Well you probably also remember eTopps. It was ahead of it's time and Panini is just now catching up to the idea. Well eTopps officially died back in 2012, but the basketball side of eTopps died in 2008. The idea was great, but the execution was sometimes poor and things really went south with the increased cost to have your cards shipped to you.

The card I got in the mail today is one that I have wanted for a while, but I've only ever seen 1 of them on eBay. That 1 has been sitting there for at least a couple years with a BIN that I'm not willing to pay. I had never really done any research on the card but I knew that I liked it and wanted to own it. I dug up the old eTopps website and started digging around for info on the card. Turns out that part of the eTopps autograph program was pretty cool. They would announce upcoming autograph sessions with players and you could elect to have your eTopps cards produced and then autographed at these sessions for a set price. They would set a cut off date for when you had to place your order and then after they were signed at the session would be returned to Topps and processed to be shipped out to you. Pretty cool process. You can read more about it here, if you want.

Well, earlier this week I did one of my random searches and saw that there was a copy up at auction so I decided I'd put in my snipe. I won it for just a hair less than my max bid. After researching the card, I found that only 67 of this card were signed, and the original cost was $44.95. Pretty happy to get this copy for about 44% of the original price. Card also has a hologram on the back with a matching serial number. The COA is pretty cool because it states specifically the date that the card was signed. This one happened to be signed 1 month before my 23rd birthday. I was in Haditha, Iraq on this date, most likely standing behind an M2 waiting for something to happen.

2006 eTopps Autographs #JO1 Jermaine O'Neal 2006 eTopps McDonald's /67 by SMosley21x, on Flickr

Anyone else have any eTopps autographs? Looks like the basketball autos were fairly limited. Only players I see on the checklist are Iverson, JO, Bill Russell, Melo, CP3, Rodman, DWade, Magic, Telfair, Shaq and Vinsanity. Only 1 of them had print run of 100 or more, with CP3 signing 112 of his McD's AA card.

03-10-2017, 04:28 PM	#1
SteveO21 Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: near the cards Posts: 10,810 vintagepacers Steve_O_21	Remember eTopps? mailday You guys remember Topps, right? Well you probably also remember eTopps. It was ahead of it's time and Panini is just now catching up to the idea. Well eTopps officially died back in 2012, but the basketball side of eTopps died in 2008. The idea was great, but the execution was sometimes poor and things really went south with the increased cost to have your cards shipped to you. The card I got in the mail today is one that I have wanted for a while, but I've only ever seen 1 of them on eBay. That 1 has been sitting there for at least a couple years with a BIN that I'm not willing to pay. I had never really done any research on the card but I knew that I liked it and wanted to own it. I dug up the old eTopps website and started digging around for info on the card. Turns out that part of the eTopps autograph program was pretty cool. They would announce upcoming autograph sessions with players and you could elect to have your eTopps cards produced and then autographed at these sessions for a set price. They would set a cut off date for when you had to place your order and then after they were signed at the session would be returned to Topps and processed to be shipped out to you. Pretty cool process. You can read more about it here, if you want. Well, earlier this week I did one of my random searches and saw that there was a copy up at auction so I decided I'd put in my snipe. I won it for just a hair less than my max bid. After researching the card, I found that only 67 of this card were signed, and the original cost was $44.95. Pretty happy to get this copy for about 44% of the original price. Card also has a hologram on the back with a matching serial number. The COA is pretty cool because it states specifically the date that the card was signed. This one happened to be signed 1 month before my 23rd birthday. I was in Haditha, Iraq on this date, most likely standing behind an M2 waiting for something to happen. 2006 eTopps Autographs #JO1 Jermaine O'Neal 2006 eTopps McDonald's /67 by SMosley21x, on Flickr Anyone else have any eTopps autographs? Looks like the basketball autos were fairly limited. Only players I see on the checklist are Iverson, JO, Bill Russell, Melo, CP3, Rodman, DWade, Magic, Telfair, Shaq and Vinsanity. Only 1 of them had print run of 100 or more, with CP3 signing 112 of his McD's AA card. Last edited by SteveO21; 03-11-2017 at 01:40 PM.