Topps should thank Strasburg
I just took a look on eBay at completed and current listings for these autos and it is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
2010 Bowman Strasburg Orange Auto 25/25
2010 Bowman Strasburg Orange Auto /25
2010 Bowman Strasburg Orange Auto /25
2010 Bowman Strasburg Gold Refractor /50
That’s 3 out of 25 of the orange auto’s and the product is barely a week old.
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Seriously. People have lost their minds over Bowman!
This should be a lesson to card makers about making autos on-card and to stop using sticker autos as much as possible. It's a much more attractive card.
Hopefully, that would be one benefit of having sport license exclusives. The time pressure to beat competitors to the market with lots of products does lead to more sloppy products with cut corners to make deadlines–and sticker autos are one of the most effective, yet lamest, means of cutting those production time corners.
Those prices are crazy! What kind of career will Strasburg have to have to let those people even have chance to get their money back a few years from now?