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Say Bye-Bye to Donruss!

frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Donruss is history! At least in baseball.

Donruss Story

Shane

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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,471 ✭✭✭✭
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    Loves me some shiny!
  • mcholkemcholke Posts: 1,000 ✭✭
    Huge news, thanks for the heads up. It will be interesting to find out why Donruss did not get the renewal.

    Collecting Tony Perez PSA and Rookie Baseball PSA

  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Could Joe Orlando of had something to do with this? We all know how Pacific lost its license, did DLP do the same thing????

    For collectors this is bad, Playoff had put out some very nice products. This will only make Topps and UD feel like they can cut more
    corners. I predict that DLP will be out of business this time next year, they can't stand on football alone!

    JS
  • orutulsaorutulsa Posts: 127
    Wonder what it costs these companies for their MLB license and what they're allowed to do under it???
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kevin
    I like the competition to keep these guys on their toes! Hopefully someone will pick up the license.

    Topps best watch it - guys like us spend a lot of money - they lose us and they'll be looking for a new line of work.

    mike
    Mike
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,098 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We all don't know! How did Pacific loose its license?

    Shane

  • mcholkemcholke Posts: 1,000 ✭✭
    Pacific license article

    Related to your Pacific question. In doing a google search I found this article. In a subsequent article it indicate Pacific elected not to renew the license.

    Collecting Tony Perez PSA and Rookie Baseball PSA

  • TheCARDKidTheCARDKid Posts: 1,496 ✭
    Does anyone else have hope that maybe the modern card market will come back to its senses? Maybe the worst of the glut is overwith?

    I read some articles related to the Fleer bankruptcy that said MLB could start cutting back on the number of licenses issued.
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    I agree that Donruss has put out some good product but I feel that Topps is the leader right now and will only get stronger.

    Sure they have some "down and dirty" sets but the pulls are much better and the prices are going up.

    Topps Finest Basketball right now is a great series and going strong.

    Topps 50th Anniversary FB came out today and is supposed to be fantastic. I have three cases coming in.

    Sure Upper Deck has the higher dollar pulls and is much fancier but you pay for it too.

    Try finding a premium Upper Deck product that you can buy for $400 a case in presell and get what you expected.

    I say "Bring on the Bowman Chrome and Topps Turkey Red!"
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭


    << <i>Does anyone else have hope that maybe the modern card market will come back to its senses? Maybe the worst of the glut is overwith?

    I read some articles related to the Fleer bankruptcy that said MLB could start cutting back on the number of licenses issued. >>



    There is the new MLB policy about draft/prospect/rookie cards, which I have yet to figure out.

    This is going to make next year's baseball issues interesting.
  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭


    << <i>Does anyone else have hope that maybe the modern card market will come back to its senses? Maybe the worst of the glut is overwith?

    I read some articles related to the Fleer bankruptcy that said MLB could start cutting back on the number of licenses issued. >>



    Got a long ways to go than just the companies folding, esp when one company releases dozens (hundreds?) of variations on the same theme each and every year.
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    I agree. I'd like to see each company limited to 2 or 3 releases. Maybe a premium, middle, and economy line. Unlike Upper Deck which has a few hundred sets each year.
    IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO NOT SELL ON EBAY
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    Steve and MT beat me to it. But even then-- what's the point of limiting releases? The current market evolved this way for a reason; namely, because people got sick of buying mass produced cards. You limit Topps to two issues, for example, and now you're left with 1,000,000 RC's of the flavor of the month. Does anyone want to go back to that?

    Some people think the modern market is 'too confusing'. Nonsense. Simply pick a couple sets that you find attractive, and buy those cards. You don't have to know the ins and outs of every issue to enjoy buying modern cards.
  • CariconCaricon Posts: 819 ✭✭
    I really like Donruss baseball. Sad to see them go. I started to collect heavy in 1992 and bought a lot of Donruss
    that year. Which was way over produced. But those inserts and Diamond Kings kept me going. Should have
    bought Leaf that year, but I was new to the hobbie and didn't know. Now I actually look at the back of packs to
    see the odds of getting things before I buy. I just hope that the companies that do stay around don't start to
    over produce too to make up for the slack.
  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
    hope topps dont boost the price of heritage.....DOH!!! ONE MORE YEAR TOPPS...JUST HOLD ON FOR ONE MORE YEAR!!!! 1957 BABY!!!!
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    No more Leaf Certified? No more Prime Cuts?

    Sad news. And, JS is probably right - how can they survive on just football products? Doesn't look good at all.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Funny how it might be sad to see Fleer and Donruss go at the same time when alot of us collect mainly from a time when Topps was the only game in town.

    ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    I guess this was bound to happen. The market could never sustain the staggering amount of product being put out each year, and the increasing cost of producing and buying "premium" packs and boxes with cut autos and GU snippets. What was next, Babe Ruth's game-used underwear? Bristles from Mickey Mantle's toothbrush?

    Like the 750-pound man, carrying all that excess weight was bound to result in a heart attack eventually. I'm sorry two major players are casualties in the same year, but we can hope a more sensible array of products will result.

    The surviving card makers surely will see that just because they CAN create 500 swatch cards out of every pair of Orlando Cepeda game pants they find, it doesn't mean they SHOULD. And that just because Jose Canseco and Willie McGee are willing to sit down and sign thousands of cards to help fill the various sets, it doesn't mean they should LET them. And that 10,000,000 cards is still 10,000,000 cards, whether its 10 major sets each year or 100 small ones.
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