2011 Champions - Impressions
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beefman138
Card Hoarding Problem
Cheers guys,
I'm missing #'s 1,2,17, 37, 57, 75, 95, 119, 139, 157, 159, 177, 179, & 181.
14 cards short! If anyone has them ALL spare and wants to trade straight up for my 63 doubles, I'm in! Not sure if it's worth another $100-box investment...
---------- Post added 04-03-2011 at 04:11 PM ----------
I kinda liked it in those days - coz everyone at school had their cards with them and it was easy. And at 30 cents a pack, I'd love to be making the money I'm making now and turning the clock back to 1987! Boxes would only be about ten bucks!
I'm missing #'s 1,2,17, 37, 57, 75, 95, 119, 139, 157, 159, 177, 179, & 181.
14 cards short! If anyone has them ALL spare and wants to trade straight up for my 63 doubles, I'm in! Not sure if it's worth another $100-box investment...
---------- Post added 04-03-2011 at 04:11 PM ----------
Yer, reminds me of when i was a kid and had to actually really work to trade and complete sets
I kinda liked it in those days - coz everyone at school had their cards with them and it was easy. And at 30 cents a pack, I'd love to be making the money I'm making now and turning the clock back to 1987! Boxes would only be about ten bucks!
Don't worry about your rant I'm pretty sure they either don't read it or don't care.
Given some of the poor quality comments and looking at the number of inserts there is to complete the series and the total possible $$$$ investment I'm kinda OK with it...... as at least I feel justified in my decision to only collect for my PC......apart from 1 box and a folder......and a few packs here and there.........maybe a trade or two.....he'll it seems like I am collecting it...
Ross
Don't worry about your rant I'm pretty sure they either don't read it or don't care.
Given some of the poor quality comments and looking at the number of inserts there is to complete the series and the total possible $$$$ investment I'm kinda OK with it...... as at least I feel justified in my decision to only collect for my PC......apart from 1 box and a folder......and a few packs here and there.........maybe a trade or two.....he'll it seems like I am collecting it...
Ross
I hear you Ross.......I was only going to collect the Broncos inserts, was essentially done, just waiting for the rookies to arrive, donated all my inserts gems and rookie sensations etc to a friend then changed my mind an will try to complete all (except for the 59 rookie cards, I have my team that is enough) so back to the drawing board.
---------- Post added 06-03-2011 at 07:40 PM ----------
what are the 14 cards, base or SP's...............??
---------- Post added 06-03-2011 at 07:41 PM ----------
Yeh I have 3 here + stacks of base and SP's, I actually rang Select and all I got was to write a letter of complaint to their production manager.
They actually told you to write a complaint letter? Did you speak to Di?
In previous releases they have usually been happy to replace damaged cards although i'm not sure how that would work with Signature cards. Might try an email tomorrow, my question is, how significant does the damage have to be to warrant requesting a replacement? Here are the 7 Sigs i currently have and they range in quality a fair bit:
Heighington - Probably the clearest one i have, lucky happens to be my PC card
Yow Yeh - If you look really close you can see the couple of faint lines that the worse ones have but barely noticeable.
SKD - Like the Yow Yeh but a little worse. Still not very noticeable unless you are actually looking for it.
Brett Morris No.1 - Can start to see the white fade in the middle of the auto now. More prominent than the previous 3
Mortimer - Fraction worse than the previous Morris.
Brett Morris No.2 - Very obvious now, Can see the white lines through the middle as well as the start of the "B"
Gordon - Another bad one. Can see the main line through it from across a room
So where would you draw the line at what is/isn't acceptable. What is worth complaining about? Which ones would you request a replacement for in a complaint letter?
I think the quality was probably good originally, i'm thinking that the machine that gets the cards into the packets clearly doesn't get along with the ink on the signature cards very well, looks like some kind of roller takes off the ink during the process.
Hardly as bad as the rest of these cards, but i got a gem card today and it has a huge scratch across it, just my luck. Also i have had a few bad quality Silver cards come from packs too (they sort of looked scratched). Not sure if select would do anything though...
Unfortunately its not SELECTS control quality, its the CHINESE priners with the quality control problem.... these lines are the same issues AFL had in 2009, in the exact same spot!!! 2010 it was all fixed as their was just so many complaints!!! looks like the issue is back with a vengence though!!
beefman138
Card Hoarding Problem
Re Dave's post :
"what are the 14 cards, base or SP's...............??"
Dave, they're all base cards! And so are all my doubles, unfortunately. This will be the '1993 Regina' set of this generation. A Bloody tough set to complete!
---------- Post added 07-03-2011 at 12:21 AM ----------
A bit political, but companies like Select are clearly sacrificing quality for quantity. And cheapness. I'd love it if they would go back to the years from 2000-2004. Produce ONE main set per year (20 cards per team would be good) and produce them in Australia! That way they wouldn't be such sh*thouse quality, and nobody would mind paying $5 a packet. Offshore production, cheap as it may be in price, is too cheap in quality.
Bring back Scanlens/Stimorol! Or give Upper Deck an NRL licence...
"what are the 14 cards, base or SP's...............??"
Dave, they're all base cards! And so are all my doubles, unfortunately. This will be the '1993 Regina' set of this generation. A Bloody tough set to complete!
---------- Post added 07-03-2011 at 12:21 AM ----------
A bit political, but companies like Select are clearly sacrificing quality for quantity. And cheapness. I'd love it if they would go back to the years from 2000-2004. Produce ONE main set per year (20 cards per team would be good) and produce them in Australia! That way they wouldn't be such sh*thouse quality, and nobody would mind paying $5 a packet. Offshore production, cheap as it may be in price, is too cheap in quality.
Bring back Scanlens/Stimorol! Or give Upper Deck an NRL licence...
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