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03-24-2015, 08:15 PM #1
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How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
I have been a long time collector of sports cards, and in today's hobby, a large staple of collecting is game used relics/patches. These can be works of art, but in the end a piece of memorabilia is desecrated. Do you trust the companies as to what they put in the cards being authentic?
Check out some of these:
Patch Showoff Thread
Flawless Patch Thread
My fellow board member's collection:
Baseball
Football
Basketball
Now, I also have to address this. We, as a forum, have caught the companies using 'fake' jerseys in their products. See here:
Flawless Error
Carmelo Fake (from the company of the collection above)
Has anyone on here ever saw a patch card, and instantly knew it was a fake like the two instances that we have?
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03-25-2015, 07:43 AM #2
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Re: How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
I once saw a Jimmy Smith Jaguars jersey card on eBay with a piece of number patch from a Patriots jersey.
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03-25-2015, 09:41 AM #3
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Re: How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
Most of the complaints about authenticity and sacrilege, etc. concern baseball and football game-used cards. But I've seen race-used cards with pieces if NASCAR bumpers, and the like. I'm no NASCAR fan, despite living in SC, but I wonder if similar concerns have been raised about cards with that kind of thing. How about the ones with presidential hair-cuttings or cut signatures, etc. Are there similar issues with authenticity and sacrilege there as well?
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03-25-2015, 09:44 AM #4
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Re: How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
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03-25-2015, 09:47 AM #5
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Re: How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
If its a new player or active player by all means go ahead and do it. There are 16 games a season and a chance for 16 new jerseys to be worn. It is NOT messing with anything of real value. I am a jets collector, A Geno Smith sold feom last year for 560$. I wouldn't care at all if It got cut up. But take an old player and a real nice piece and tear it up? No way. Why ruin a gorgeous Joe Namath jersey that may only have 10 out there in the world.
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03-25-2015, 10:50 AM #6
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03-25-2015, 10:51 AM #7
Re: How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
I once had a card with a piece of a Superbowl XX football in it. The logo had the gold foil in it, but that was not used on balls that early.
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03-25-2015, 11:07 AM #8
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03-25-2015, 11:08 AM #9
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Re: How do you guys feel about card companies and GU cards?
I mentioned this before, but I would like to see someone file a class action lawsuit against the card companies for game used cards that are blatantly wrong - such as that Patriots fabric on a card of a player that never played for them.
Also, didn't Jared O from JO sports state that he at one point sold fraudulent game used memorabilia to the card companies? From the card companies point of view - Owning fraudulent property in itself is nor illegal, but reselling as jersey cards, that might be a different story.
All the cards carry a similar COA on the back, once you see one wrong, it calls into question the authenticity of every card the companies sell.
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03-25-2015, 12:26 PM #10
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