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llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
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Tristar is purchasing HOF Plaques, baseball cards, etc., with autographs and cutting them for insertion into their holders. Does it bother you that they're cutting cards to remarket them in their product?

Edited to add website: Tristar Signa Cuts
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  • metrothememetrotheme Posts: 548
    I think they're gross and do not like them. They're taking perfectly intact documents (cards, photos, HOF plaques) and in my opinion destroying them to make these god awful cuts. I can see stuff like an album page or a program, etc, which was basically the purpose of a "cut" signature.

    What's even more wild is when these "cuts" sell for more than the actual document they cut them from b/c they've artificially created a "scarce" product.
  • csmtampacsmtampa Posts: 1,828 ✭
    Why people collect those hideous things is beyond me.

    You can purchase the full autographed item usually for less than the cut goes for.
  • sportscardtheorysportscardtheory Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭
    It's disgusting and I would never in my life own one of those pieces of garbage.
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  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    It appears they'll "cut" anything... HOF Plaques, checks, documents, baseball cards (including older cards), photos, etc.

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  • byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭
    It's bad and Upper Deck has done the same thing....They once took a Dennis Johnson auto insert of theirs and then turned it into a cut....which then sold for even more money than the insert. I guess we should all take our autos and turn them into cuts huh?
  • PeteZariaPeteZaria Posts: 288
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  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    Tri-Star signa cuts are terrible especially when the chop up cards and photos. Chopping up a Swell cards and HOF plaques is awful. Practically every Walter Payton cut is the phone cards from 1995. Upper Deck followed Tri-Star in doing this.
  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    When they do index cards it doesn't look bad. I got Dave Wilcox and Ron Yary.
  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭


    << <i>When they do index cards it doesn't look bad. I got Dave Wilcox and Ron Yary. >>



    It doesn't look bad... they cut the 3"x5" into an oval shape, but they still cut the card?
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  • ToroToro Posts: 1,515
    They look terrible. I think the definition of cut went a bit too far. It used to be "cuts" were from plain pieces of paper that a star had signed that when cut to a certain size and displayed with a photo to make it more appealing and to simply just look better. The card companies think of it as anything they cut is a cut. It's terrible seeing cards and photos that are cut up because they look dumb.
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