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Originally Posted by smanzari
I'll just take mine as a lesson to stop buying from Topps and just get autos on the secondary market!
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I wholeheartedly agree with you, but feel kind of hypocritical/generally crappy being like that, as I know I as a collector/buyer benefit greatly from many of the super-buyers on here taking those purchasing risks. I admit I’m a total moocher in that regard.
But my genuine, big concern with pre-ordering these autos is how streaky so many of them are. There are a fair number of TN autos that can’t really be auto graded bc they would get 9s or below, which for a lot of collectors (including me) makes that card worth probably less than a raw.
I guess they can’t police them all, sig by sig, but some of them are awful. Lots of Trout TN autos are particularly bad, from what I’ve seen lately paying more attention to the auto cards than I ever did before.