Some of these buybacks are a bit silly

[G1911]

Pulled one of these hunks of crap myself. Topps got lazy as hell in 2021 and didn't even put the in a wrapper, or pay attention whatsoever to where they stamp the card. You'd think they'd stamp the left side, and not the right here....

[G1911]

Pulled last week. Wrong orientation and poor placement. Sometimes the stamps are found oriented properly for a horizontal card, so Topps is capable of it. They often just don't. Kind of ruins what is otherwise a cool card. Bryant hit .165, so a batting pose is an odd choice for him in action

[ALBB]

I see the point of " ruining " the insert card..but If I collected new cards ( I dont) , I would find it " underwhelming " if my scarce insert pull was a VGEX shape 72 T common

[G1911]

Originally Posted by ALBB

I see the point of " ruining " the insert card..but If I collected new cards ( I dont) , I would find it " underwhelming " if my scarce insert pull was a VGEX shape 72 T common

The disappointing part is that the box topper insert is no longer even wrapped - it's literally just thrown in loose to bang around and get all the corners dinged. You can get oversized cards (I got a cool Hank Aaron out of this case) and poster inserts too instead of a buyback. I much prefer those to .10 cards we all already have and they stamped lazily.

My box before this had Bill Bonham, so I counted Bryant, as an SF native, a win.

I have never pulled a player better than Johnny Callison after a few cases worth...

[Exhibitman]

They should do what they did with that T206 deal: put the card into some sort of toploader so the card is not ruined in the process. But I agree that these are a silly insert. I don't want a 1972 Topps Bryant and especially not as a chase card. That's like getting dental floss for a birthday present.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

They should do what they did with that T206 deal: put the card into some sort of toploader so the card is not ruined in the process. But I agree that these are a silly insert. I don't want a 1972 Topps Bryant and especially not as a chase card. That's like getting dental floss for a birthday present.

I like how Topps 206 and 205 did it. The Mini-Framed Relics using the same frames are really nice cards too.

Boxes without a buyback as the topper are better. It can't cost Topps any less to buy stacks of old base, ship them to the packing building, and run them through the stamper, than to just print some more posters and 5x7's.

[deweyinthehall]

I've been scouring eBay lately looking for miscuts to try to piece together older sheets, and it is simply depressing the number of these older cards that now bear the "Buy Back" stamp...all they are now is ruined.