Your Daily Shenanigans

Posted on January 25, 2011 by | 11 Comments

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If this is true, boo on you Panini.

I said IF.

-b

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11 responses to “Your Daily Shenanigans”

  1. Kevin | January 25, 2011 at 9:11 pm | Reply

    I call Shenanigans on the guys story, especially since the he won’t say what the original redemptions were.

    • beardy | January 25, 2011 at 9:14 pm | Reply

      Yeah, I have a real problem with that too. But if the Bradford is legit it means that they held on to THE best card in the entire Certified release. It should have been in a pack, somewhere. For all we know, that could have been one of his original redemptions, though, so you could be right.

  2. sportscollectoroz | January 25, 2011 at 9:23 pm | Reply

    That’s what I hate most about redemptions – they pocket some of the nicest cards in the set to serve as replacements for redemptions they can’t fulfill.

    Oz

    • Kevin | January 25, 2011 at 9:26 pm | Reply

      Saving a few nice cards to send as replacements seems like a collector friendly thing to do actually.

      Typically and unfulfilled redemption is due to a player not coming through, having some decent stuff on hand to send in it’s place seems like an OK business practice.

      • beardy | January 25, 2011 at 9:28 pm |

        Not when they’re 1/1’s of the top rookie in the set.

      • sportscollectoroz | January 25, 2011 at 10:11 pm |

        We’re talking about at least two unethical business practices. (1.) Card manufacturers are releasing product information guaranteeing certain cards in the set without knowing for sure if they can be fulfilled. (2.) They are removing high profile, high dollar items from the card collecting market, items that collectors invest hundreds of dollars in product to find.

        Solution: Get rid of redemptions. Nothing positive comes out of it.

  3. Kevin | January 25, 2011 at 9:31 pm | Reply

    yeah, but I don’t believe that story. What would Panini have to gain from doing that?

  4. sanjosefuji | January 25, 2011 at 10:42 pm | Reply

    No way this guy’s story is true… I second the shenanigans call.

  5. themojohand | January 25, 2011 at 10:59 pm | Reply

    Regardless this type of mistake is from a distribution standpoint, and not a production one. Mistakes like these are almost never intentional. Trust me I have worked for some of the biggest industries in the world, and have heard far more crazy stories like an employee dropping his cell phone in a bag of chow ( yes it got packed out). From million dollar giveways distributed into every bag instead of one.

    Im sure there is an explanation for this one.

    • themojohand | January 25, 2011 at 11:03 pm | Reply

      Its very easy for things to make it to the wrong area in a factory. Its actually more common then you would think. Most of the times Its a new employee who made the mistake, or someone’s just having a rotten day ( like we all do) or some other situation like that.

      These mistakes I can live with Its the quality/ production ones that irk the shit out of me.

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