Written by When a manufacturer like Panini, Upper Deck or Topps enters the early stages of product development, who exactly should they target? Who should they aim to please? This is the preeminent question in the Hobby today because the entire industry is based on trade-offs. But, who will make the trade-offs and are they worth it? Everything basically [...]
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Panini Introduces A Mid-To-High End Product: Luxury Suite
There’s long been a niche between the $90 and $375 per box market that’s been unfulfilled, especially in hockey. The question at hand is pretty simple: Does Panini Luxury Suite fulfill that void? Are we looking at a product that’s loaded enough to justify the consumer spending the equivalent of two boxes worth of product? [...]
READ MORE »Official Ginger of Topps Archives Via Panini’s New Routing Table
I’m pretty excited at these preview images. To be honest, I can take or leave Crown Royal. It’s not really my thing and the bushed metal stuff at the bottom really bugs me, but the rest of the stuff looks terrific. Well start with Leaf Limited, or Panini Limited, I guess. This is the only [...]
READ MORE »Rookie Premiere Fun!
I can’t bring myself to hate this photo: Sure, the autographs are all on fabric that’ll eventually wear, fade and bleed. Yup, the autographs will covet a premium because they’re on an “EVENT USED NAMEPLATE 1/1 OMFG SICK!!” even though the players wore the jerseys for 10 minutes. I just can’t bring myself to hate [...]
READ MORE »I Think Andy Dalton Is The Official Rookie of Topps Archives
Panini just posted a picture of teammates, Andy Dalton and A.J. Green, signing on card for 2011 Donruss Elite Football. I’m not sure what’s going on in the middle of the card, but the base set normally stays pretty true to baseball (which was uh-mazing). Well, A.J. Green definitely looks like a football player although [...]
READ MORE »Topps and Panini At The Rookie Premiere
Very rarely does Topps’ online team beat Panini to the punch, but they did today posting the very first photos of the rookies! This was obviously followed by Panini who apparently decided to stand as far away from Topps as possible: Anyways, the first thing you’ll notice is that a lot of the players are [...]
READ MORE »20 Years From Now, We’ll All Want Stickers
I’ve been browsing the twitter pages of Topps and Panini during the Rookie Premiere and it’s finally occurred to me: 20 years from now, we’ll all be yearning for the days of stickers. Over the last three or four years, the collecting universe has voiced their opinions on stickers and they absolutely hate ‘em. The [...]
READ MORE »Panini Dominion Hockey
First thing’s first: This is the Cup-Killer, the National Treasures of Hockey, the $350-per-box, 8-card goodness that promises six autograph or game-used cards with a minimum of three hard-signed autographed cards. Now, let’s keep it real, this is a $50-per-hit product. You can probably guarantee yourself a shitty double jersey card (left), so realistically, we’re [...]
READ MORE »How To Protect The Consumer And Your Brand Without Price Fixing
Upper Deck and Panini have instituted tools that genuinely harm the competitive balance of the trading card market and by taking away price reductions as a tool, the consumer is invariably harmed. Obviously, the stated goal is to increase competition in other sectors of service, but price is still a retailer’s greatest tool to attract customers especially [...]
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Panini’s HRX, Totally Certified, And Questions About The Intelligence Of Basketball Fans.
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Panini has absolutely loaded Totally Certified this year, and part of that loading includes their HRX Video Card. The HRX video card, thankfully features an autograph version, but again — it’s still just a video trading card. To be honest, Totally Certified falls a bit short for me. I loved 2010/11 Certified in Hockey, but [...]
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