Fanatics article on CNBC

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Originally Posted by glchen

Personally, I think Fanatics will just buy one of the existing card companies. Why re-invent the wheel of how to make the cards, distribution, etc? Personally, I think they should just buy Topps, but they may pick a cheaper alternative. Hopefully, this will reduce the supply of the given number of different cards for a player each year, and the number of parallels, but I'm not optimistic there.

Originally Posted by 53toppscollector

Where I would be hugely alarmed is if Fanatics created their own grading company to essentially pre-grade their own cards. That creates a HUGE conflict of interest.

For as many issues as we have with the current TPGs, at least they aren't manufacturing the cards they are grading.

Both of these were covered in the article.

1) Fanatics wants to create a direct to consumer model. The article discussed buying Upper Deck, Panini or Donruss/Leaf.

2) Fanatics will sell a card, and then the buyer has the option to grade it, vault it, or flip it.

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