Last month, I ripped a pair of 2024 Historic Autograph Co. All-Time Greats boxes. One of the gimmicks of the set is that you can mail in 15 wrappers for a chance at either a Barry Bonds or Pete Rose card. Since I broke the two boxes as part of a group break, I felt that I should turn in the wrappers so I took the requisite number and mailed them off. After that, I'll admit that I promptly forgot about the whole thing until a small, padded envelope showed up in my mailbox yesterday. Inside that envelope was our promised redemption card:
That's a Barry Bonds card; more specifically, it's a Tier 3 Barry Bonds (#110 in the set). At the time I wrote my review of one of the boxes we ripped, I didn't realize that cards #109 (Rose) and #110 (Bonds) were redemption-only cards but were still considered part of the base set. I don't love it when card companies do that, but hey I doubt too many people are trying to build the full Historic Autograph Co. set, so no real harm here.
In the end, I'll give the Historic Autograph Co. credit for shipping the redemption card quite quickly (less than a month from the time I mailed in the wrappers). Furthermore, I'll fully admit that I like the concept of getting "free" cards, even if those free cards require buying lots of packs. I kind of miss the old Pacific points idea where each wrapper could be saved and then used to get something neat. (I never bought enough Pacific to actually get anything with my points, but the concept was always intriguing to me.)
The wrapper redemption story that sticks out in my mind involved 1992 Fleer Ultra. I was trying to build a master set, but Fleer made you send in some wrappers to get two of the Gwynn inserts. Luckily the owner of the card shop I worked at sent in a bunch, so I didn't have to.
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing off the cards from the box break! Kudos to HA for trying something new, but they must have no licenses at all so all the players are zoomed out.
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