Agree with this 100%, I actually don't mind such a high end product and was pretty excited to see what they could come with at the $1000+ price point, but the execution so far is looking very poor
Design - Though very clean it looks like they put no effort into it at all, basically every card is a white background with foil wording and boarders. Take the base auto card for example (http://paniniamerica.files.wordpres...012-13-flawless-basketball-autos-38.jpg?w=623) and compare it to this Exquisite card (which IMO is a blatant copy) (http://i.ebayimg.com/t/11-12-UD-Exq...eq/$T2eC16h,!)oFIeK7Zd76BSNiepw7Ew~~60_57.JPG) , both have the clean white design with foil, yet the Exquisite manages to look a lot better.
And also they took the PMG hype too far with the green and red foil, the only cards that actually look good with that are the Emerald base cards
And then when you compare it to Immaculate which is Panini's best looking product so far, it makes the design look even lazier
Checklist - Of course you can't blame Panini for the secondary market prices, but at $150 a card there are way too many autos of guys whose autos sell for under $10 usually like Randolph, Fox, Calderon, Dragic, Jamison, Varajao, King, Chambers,Eaton etc.