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1patriot6886 · ‎10-20-2019

Please stop listing cards in the title and then all the way down in the description you add it is a reprint! Yes I know everyone can’t afford the original card but it is to me to be deceiving and should say reprint directly in the title or eBay should have a whole separate category for these cards.To me this kind of insulting to the players and would never stick a reprint in with my collection of original cards of that specific player.

These cards in my opinion are for one a rip-off and a good portion of them do not say reprint on them anywhere and have deceitfully been aged to look like the real card . I think they should be banned from selling or be in their own category.Its bad enough the card manufacturers flood the market with originals over the years decreasing the value of your collection “1980’s cards for example, and now they control the value by limiting the numbers printed. But wait you can not even bother to buy packs anymore and purchase the cards from these companies with the high value they determine. Collecting is not for children anymore unless purchased by the parents since they have priced them so high . The days of buying a few pack of cards with your allowance money is long gone kids .They have made it addictive so you keep buying boxes of cards hopefully to score a 1/1 auto card of a top player but to find out the player you received isn’t even playing that year and in the minors! It’s all about big money now and looks like it will always will be . Reprint cards are made to deceive others into thinking they bought a real valuable card and thankfully I haven’t bought any !!!

tomin_us2013 · ‎05-10-2020

I just saw one of these thieves sold a mahomes rookie auto for $299 yesterday...It had rp mixed in the title where you would usually see rc

1patriot6886 · ‎05-10-2020

Had the same done to me but opposite, was told a T206 Cobb was a fake By a PSA professional and sold it as a reprint and was actually a original!!!!

jack_bucks_ghost · ‎05-10-2020

it's really bad with the Trout reprints right now, but is still worse with older cards ('52 Mantle is another bad one, where you also see listings that claim "it's not authenticated, so i'm listing it as a reprint, but it might not be"). and yes, the card companies have ruined the old hobby of simply collecting cards. now it's "investment"--which really just means "game of chance"...collecting today is just legalized gambling.

luckythewinner · ‎05-10-2020

@jack_bucks_ghost wrote:
the card companies have ruined the old hobby of simply collecting cards. now it's "investment"--which really just means "game of chance"...collecting today is just legalized gambling.

Collecting vs. investing is an issue with consumers, not the card companies. The card companies just gave the card community what it wanted.

The vast majority of collectors did not just want to collect, they wanted to collect AND cash in.

IMHO anyone who owns a single graded and slabbed card is part of the problem.

jack_bucks_ghost · ‎05-10-2020

well that's one way to look at it, i guess...with all of the forgeries out there (and on eBay), collecting vintage cards necessitates grading and authentication. and the card companies pandering to the case break folks has pretty much ended collecting as it used to be (collectors are still out there, they're just not spending money on exorbitantly priced hobby boxes or "spin the wheel" case breaks)--they just wait and buy singles and sets on eBay in the secondary market). as with any product, companies marketing strategies play a huge role in shaping consumer habits--the card companies are a great example of this.