Another Panini Prime Auto Topic - DUAL Autos where are you??

[Nicholls9]

As Prime has a bunch of Nicholls cards, I've been following the boards, breaks and ebay pretty closley for the past month. Between C&C and Youtube, i've probably watched 100 case breaks plus a ton of box breaks and searched all the box breaks (HI, C&C, SCF, Beckett, Blowout cards, etc) I can find. I've picked up all 5 Nicholls Genuine Marks that have surfaced and 1 of the Captains cloths. I've seen 4 of the 12 Prime Numbers come up but have not gotten one yet. The only other Nicholls cards in the set are the Dual auto with Robitaille and I have not seen any. The checklist says:

Prime Signature Dual #16 Nicholls/Robitaille /25
Prime Signature Dual #16 Gold Nicholls/Robitaille /15
Prime Signature Dual #16 Holo Nicholls/Robitaille /5

Have you seen any of these cards?

I checked ebay auctions, current and completed and found the following cards have been posted:

#2 - Hull/Hull: Reg and Gold
#3 - Price/Roy: Reg and Gold
#5 - Lindros/Tavares: None
#6 - Neely/Esposito: None
#7 - Thomas/Rask: None
#8 - Schenn/Schenn: None
#9 - Joseph/Potvin: None
#10 - Hagelin/Erixon: Reg, Gold and Holo
#12 - Roenick/Mikita: Reg and Holo
#13 - Luongo/Kesler: Reg
#14 - Trottier/LaFontaine: Reg and Gold
#16 - Nicholls/Robitaille: None
#17 - Graves/Gilbert: Reg
#18 - Bower/Vachon: Reg and Gold

I did these numbers last week and maybe they have change. Are these duals really that hard to find? Does anyone have examples of the cards I was unable to find? I realize there are other places cards are sold/traded and I've really looked around without success.

Is it possible that zero of the 45 autos have surfaced and 9 of the other 22 Nicholls cards have? I guess so.

Just wanted to bring it up to get some feedback. I emailed Chris a few weeks ago and realize he is pretty busy with Dominion so I didnt expect to hear back.

If you have a Nicholls/Robitaille, I'd love to see it!

 

[gobuffalo2331]

I too was wondering the same think last week. I've barely seen any of the duals at all.

 

[sedinfan]

I haven't seen any of those cards (though haven't been searching for them)... but I'm finding it curious that I have yet to see a single Sedin Genuine Marks surface - the checklist says there's 6 of each twin... I find it odd that I've picked up both halves of the Captain's Cloth, but have not seen a single copy of the 12 Genuine Marks cards there should be. I wonder if anyone else has found similarly for their PC guys that a specific card has never surfaced - maybe a snafu in the packing out process and entire print runs of certain cards just never made it into wax?

 

[chadsexington]

I haven't seen any of those cards (though haven't been searching for them)... but I'm finding it curious that I have yet to see a single Sedin Genuine Marks surface - the checklist says there's 6 of each twin... I find it odd that I've picked up both halves of the Captain's Cloth, but have not seen a single copy of the 12 Genuine Marks cards there should be. I wonder if anyone else has found similarly for their PC guys that a specific card has never surfaced - maybe a snafu in the packing out process and entire print runs of certain cards just never made it into wax?

I've been wondering as of late if coincidentally, some cards are all packed into and part of certain allocation groups that are packed and sitting in a warehouse, but haven't been sold or distributed yet. I know a couple people trying to complete a base card set from the UFC Expo, and 6 cards have never surfaced. A seventh was as well until one popped up last week. It's no conspiracy against set builders though. One eBay seller came in and bought the majority of the stock of the product and is sitting on it. Assuming he's sold some of it to other vendors though since there are a couple eBay sellers BIN/BO-ing them at 4x the price the boxes were originally sold for.

I'm assuming the base cards were probably all packed into these boxes and just haven't surfaced because nobody wants to pay $80+shipping for what is equivalent to a jumbo pack of cards that were originally $20. I sure don't.

 

[Burner]

Also, most of them are redemptions are they not?

 

[go_leafs]

they will be in the Bonus packs of Rookie Anthology, next year .............. i kid i kid

 

[bergy37]

I haven't seen any of those cards (though haven't been searching for them)... but I'm finding it curious that I have yet to see a single Sedin Genuine Marks surface - the checklist says there's 6 of each twin... I find it odd that I've picked up both halves of the Captain's Cloth, but have not seen a single copy of the 12 Genuine Marks cards there should be. I wonder if anyone else has found similarly for their PC guys that a specific card has never surfaced - maybe a snafu in the packing out process and entire print runs of certain cards just never made it into wax?

I haven't seen a single Genuine Marks of Patrice Bergeron either.