this was my thought until i actually got a set. when i opened the album for the first time the lid on the card holder of the game used ball card fell off and the ball card fell out of the album. not a good first impression.
some of the cards just dont look mint. they look like they have been 'handled', have slight bings on the corners, as if whoever was inserting them into the album pages shoved them in.
later on i also noticed when i looked at my album from an angle in the sunlight i could see traces of wipe marks on the case, which i think is glue marks from where the medallions and game card were glued into the outer case.
maybe this is just being picky but if you take a bunch of the commons out of the pages and hold them together they are not exactly the same size. you know how usually if you have a pile of cards from the same series they are exactly the same size. the hawks cards have a few odd cards that stand out by being a half a millimeter longer or wider, as if they have been guillotined by hand ?
dont get me wrong the set is fantastic, but i thought for the pricetag it just got let down by the finishing polish