Future Stock??

I think the entity that is willing to do the most about it would be Topps since he is using the term "Refractor" on the back of the card.
 
That is a direct steal of pictures and illegal sell! unless they went to the live games and took all these pictures. I seriously doubt it. I was wondering when we will be seeing something like this. it's about time! lol
 
Craziness. Whoever is doing this is making tonne of cash. They have have a huge amount of sold items and some cards have even went for over $100. It makes me wonder who is buying this stuff?
 
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Craziness. Whoever is doing this is making tonne of cash. They have have a huge amount of sold items and some cards have even went for over $100. It makes me wonder who is buying this junk?

Whether it is right or wrong is another story but i don't like it when people call out other collectors for buying "junk". What you may perceive as junk another collector might like to add to his or her collection. To each his own.
 
Whether it is right or wrong is another story but i don't like it when people call out other collectors for buying "junk". What you may perceive as junk another collector might like to add to his or her collection. To each his own.

I agree with the sentiment but these are junk. That's his opinion and it's ok as well.
 
I agree with the sentiment but these are junk. That's his opinion and it's ok as well.

LOL, funny thing is I actually thought a few of them were kinda cool. I am just amazed at some of the prices people have paid for them. I have looked into having some custom cards made and I have seen some really nice and original looking ones people have posted here. I am definitely not against the idea of making your own custom cards. The only beef I have with an unlicensed product like this is the fact that they are selling them for profit. Also, the way they are presenting them may make them look legit to a new or for lack of a better term under educated collector. I just wonder if the bidders are buying for the sheer fun of adding a different item to their collection or it or if any of them are actually buying them as an investment?
 
I like how he's got "All Rights Reserved" on the back of the card.

I'll just ignore all the rights I've compromised to use these photos (likely without permission or compensation).......but don't nobody mess with my designs and such.

See this kind of stuff all the time on eBay. There are those who don't care about it though. And that's why sellers can make a few quick bucks on it.
 
I hate when people do this, but eBay never cracks down on these custom card sellers

Ebay would crack down on them if they sold the item and then the buyer didn't get what they were promised. Ebay is really good at that.

This is no different than those "Rookie Review" cards that came out during Crosby/Ovechkin's rookie year. A fool and his money IMO. I wish the people who contact me and tell me my prices are out of whack would contact these yahoos about the fake cards they are selling.
 
I only ever one bought a card off eBay that was a custom.
I just liked it and thought it would be a neat addition to my collection and looks purdee.. but I didn't pay no where near more than 3 bucks for it at the time.
 
A few years back I actually took the time to contact the four major sports licensing wings about a seller doing "tobacco" cards and if I recall correctly only one of them actually replied back with any concern, I think it was the NFL but I am not sure. In the end nothing ever happened and the seller continued listing thousands of illegal cards weekly and is probably still going. After that episode I will now just ignore them.
 
In the absence of evidence that this is a legitimate trading card company, with agreements at at least the player level, these seem like the very definition of "junk" cards to me - just like all of the Lindros foil cards that were cranked out in the tens of thousands (if not more) and numerous other examples of unlicensed, illegitimate cards that have illegally used the intellectual property of others in order to make a fast buck. They should be recognized as such by the hobby and valued appropriately - that is, next to nothing.

This is not about personal value judgments regarding how a card looks, etc.; rather, it is about maintaining the integrity of the hobby. If we allow every Joe Blow and his momma to stamp out a few cards and turn this into a home-grown collectibles market, there is will be little to no ability to ensure anything about the production process, from card stock quality to customer service to compensation to various owners of the intellectual property, and there would be little point in continuing to collect for me.

I would think these points would be self-evident to any thinking person and that therefore the classification of "junk" for these cards would therefore naturally follow without question. It's old territory discussed ad nauseam over decades, now.
 
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They're broders, plain and simple. Yeah, the occasional one is kinda nifty, but don't fool yourself - this is gross infringement.

Now, as to the question of why nothing is done? Selling these, the seller might make what, $10K? Fine.

Would UD do anything? One card release from UD produces substantively more than that in profits. ONE. And they do at least twenty releases. The leagues aren't going to do anything, because they have more than $10K lost in the couch cushions of any given commissioner's office.

If they want to be diligent and feel like this needs to be crushed, they will. Except that people keep buying. And where the market creates demand, people fill the demand.
 

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