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It’s Friday and I just finished previewing and reviewing the latest basketball products for Beckett Basketball.
There were two unopened boxes of 2007 Ultimate Collection Football on my desk just begging to be opened. So, I decided to take a break and bust ‘em.
Ultimate Collection is usually one of my favorite products. The on-card autographs and simple, but slick, design make it one of the most attractive products every year. So, you can imagine the shock when I opened the first pack to find a (gulp!) sticker autograph. A sticker auto in Ultimate Collection? Please tell me this is a cruel joke.
Ultimate Collection was one of the last homes of the on-card autograph. Not anymore. Even the Rookie Cards, which used to be fantastic looking on-card autographs, are now essentially cut/trapped autographs. Plus, many of the other rookie autographs I’ve seen picture the rookies in college uniforms. Now, I’m a big college football fan, but isn’t it a little late in the season to be showing rookies in college uniforms on sticker autographs?
The overall design and the memorabilia cards I pulled (two of these come in each pack) look the same as the ones in SPx and Premier. All of these productsjust run together with their small, multiple jerseys swatches. Where are the patches and the jumbo swatches?
I used to say that Ultimate Collection was the little brother of Exquisite Collection. Apparently is has been disowned. The product certainly takes a few steps backward this year. Yes, you get more “hits” in each $100 pack, but quality has been sacrificed for quantity.
Oh, and of the four total packs we opened, our four sticker autographs were of rookies Michael Bush, Tyrone Moss, Aundre Allison and David Ball. We did not pull any base autographed Rookie Cards.
We hope you have better luck than we did. Let us know what you pulled.
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BOO…Shame on you Upper Deck. $100 a pack and you are using sticker and cut out autos? That is just crazy. Glad I don’t bust packs anymore.
Comment by Anthony J November 17, 2007 @ 2:04 amThe Ultimate Baseball and Football just didn’t seem very “ultimate” this year.
Comment by Scott November 17, 2007 @ 5:21 pmWith the backlash by collectors of STICKER AUTOGRAPHS, I think they’ll eventually fade away from the hobby. The sticker allows any piece of junk to be turned into a collectible and that item in fact was not signed, the sticker was. The signed stickers also sometimes have the signatures trail off the sticker and what you end up with is an incomplete autograph. The non-game-worn patches are also LAME too. So are the crash numbering of so many cards that are produced to “limited” runs. And the Parallels also are phoney. There are way too many artificially inflated collectibles made by the card companies. In theory, shouldn’t a 1/1 card of a common player like Orien Harris be worth more than the prized Honus Wagner since there’s only 1/1 of tha Orien Harris… (of course the laws of supply and demand relegates Orien to the junk heap)… High End card collecting is turning into a Sports Lottery, and gamblers are drawn by the high payout, bad odds… The Ultimate Collection should be “ultimate” and take their game up a notch by touting the best in the business, which would be ON CARD signatures. I hope all of the stickers on the stickered autographs begin to peel off with time and the card companies wise up…
Comment by Rick $ November 18, 2007 @ 12:56 amI think many collectors feel like Rick. I am not a fan of sticker autos but I am also not a fan of on card autos with dinged corners. I want my autos on the card but please Mr. Athlete treat them with care and don’t let them get damaged in your possession.
Comment by Joey November 19, 2007 @ 5:13 pmWhy can we continue to criticize UD’s use of stickers but you have shut off comments on the Gretzky situation?
Comment by E-Rock November 19, 2007 @ 11:21 pmI agree with Joey on this one. While I was reading the blog, I was thinking the samething. If an athlete has 500 on card autographs to complete, I would guess by the 50th autograph, care for each individual card would become less of a concern. Now we would have damaged cards filling out a product.
I think the higher end products (exquisite, national treasure, ultimate, etc.) should have on card autos with lower serial #d cards. This would allow the athlete who is signing to focus and care for the small amount needed to be signed, rather than signing a stack of 500. As well, rookies shouldn’t have insert autos in the higher end products; higher-end products should only have true base rookie autos. Also, the products shouldn’t be loaded with no name autos. Include a large number of rookies and a good number of veteran/HOF players. Patch cards need to be multiple colors, jumbo patches, and actual game-used!
Just my two-cents…
Comment by Josh Helms November 28, 2007 @ 10:25 amOT: Football box breaks
Does anyone else turn off the video box breaks when you see Tracy is participating? What a moron, what does this guy even do at Beckett????
Comment by Steve December 3, 2007 @ 7:08 pmApparently, I annoy you here at Beckett. Thanks for watching, though.
Comment by Tracy Hackler December 4, 2007 @ 9:33 amHey guys, I’m an autograph collector from NJ, I have a new website to display my growing personal collection, and I hope to meet new people with the same hobby as me, check out my site and let me know what you think, thanks again, peace
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