What would you ask the Card Companies? Contest Thread

#1 - Back in the day, Pacific brand used to put points on their wrappers which you could accumulate and submit to the company for free stuff like binders and card holders. My question is why isn't there some sort of loyalty program
with the companies for free stuff. It's a win/win for both sides.

#2 - Some of the most fun I've had in the hobby in recent years was with the Topps The Cards Your Mom Threw out promotion with codes in the packs for a random Topps card from the vault. After redeemed, you could trade these cards with others and cash them in at the end of the season. Even the next year with the Diamond anniversary cards was fun, but then everything went to virtual crap and nobody cared anymore. I think a program that is interactive on the internet, allows you to trade with others, and rewards you for more participation would be fun for the hobby.

#3 - It would be nice if the companies would pick one product to be there "Top tier" entry for the year and not try to make 4 different ones. Most people thought National Treasures was the top brand for basketball, but then Panini release Immaculate and Flawless to confuse matters. 10 years from now, which Kyrie Irving RC will be the 2003/04 Exquisite Lebron?

#4 In my opinion, the hobby should be grateful for the boom of the group breaks. Would it be so hard for the companies to revive the "case-topper" for sealed cases. This would be an easy way to provide a "freebie" bonus to the Chad's of the world for providing a great service to his customers. 

1. Can we get a few less redemption's??
2. Can we get a few more Paul George autos!!! Whoop! #PG4MVP

1 are any of the the other companies besides topps going to be doing some mma releases?

2 why do redemptions expire?

1st.  can they please stop making rc cards that all look the same to /499 /399 /299 /199 /99 /49 /25 /15 /10 /5 and then 10 1/1's  A little less versions and then instead of 90% rcs and 8% 2nd year guys and a couple HOFers   why not more like 50% rcs 25% current stars no 2nd year cards of bad players and 25% HOF or good veterans 

2nd.  Can they try and make SETS that are collectable in every Product like top 50 QB's of all time or TOP 100 Players of all time they do some sets like this but not every product has cool sets to build

3rd.  Maybe consider haveing a promotion where you keep the UPC Labels of all the boxes we buy and after we get say 100 box tabs we can send those in for a nice card or special box made for that purpose. 

1.What are the steps you are taking to circumvent or prevent counterfeiting? I see adding QR Barcodes as a useful tool
2. How do you plan to "Innovate for the Future" keep products fresh and not seem like every product is the same as the next?

I thought of another though it is linked to redemptions,,,   Why not include a pack or 2 of cards when you FINALLY mail redemptions out as a gift to the customer.. We buy products that cost hundreds of $'s every day only to pull IOU's that can take in my case over 3 years to get and even then i still got a replacement when i pulled that card it was a Kobe Patch auto to /5 prob worth $500 to $600 by the time i got it you have made Gold Standard that had TONS of kobe autos and saturated the market by the time i got the card it was a $250 $300 card I lost $200 to $300 because I redeemed it and you took 3 1/2 to get me a card!!

also if you know a guy like Julio Jones is not signing why keep putting redemptions in for his cards?? 

How many hockey products will UD be releasing next year as the sole license holder? Any plans on bringing back some of the great older products like UD Mask Collection and UD Portraits with the mini busts inside?

Will Panini be releasing hockey cards next year without the license the same way that In The Game has been doing for years?

Thanks!
Denny

1) with so many high end products coming out these days (or labeled as high end by the companies), why are there still so many single color relics that are being used as "patches"? You would think that they could be put a little better so that your big hit isn't a solid white piece of number or something awful like that.

2) to the same topic as above - Topps, why do you call a piece of white jersey material in some products relics or jerseys while in other products that same jersey swatch is considered a patch? There's always been a discrepancy as to what you consider to be a patch.

3) to all the companies, what are y'all's takes on the repack boxes/companies? ie: Heroes of Sport, Sbay, and so forth?

Question 6 [for Panini]:  Can you please publicly release the financial data showing how much of a profit you made from 2013 Prominence FB, so I know exactly how much stuff I need to steal when I break into your headquarters in an attempt to restore karmic balance to the universe?  Honestly, like a politician who gets caught taking campaign contributions from an organized crime syndicate or third-world dictator, you should really donate those ill-begotten gains to charity, issue a heartfelt public apology, and hope that we can all just forget that the whole thing happened.

On a related note, if there is a 2014 Prominence, I will be forced to give serious thought to boycotting all of your products and possibly reviving my once-promising arson career.