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My wife bought me a blaster box of 2023 Topps Chrome Update for Christmas, and I encountered something very strange when I opened the packs. 

The box states there are 4 cards per pack, 7 packs per box, 28 cards total. 

The first pack I opened only had 3 cards inside. Before looking at each individual card, I thought, "There must be some autograph card or really rare insert in this pack" to explain the reason for only having 3 cards. Nope, just 3 base cards. Then, the next 4 packs each had 5 cards. Again, nothing out of the ordinary other than there being one more card per pack than state. In total, the box contained 31 cards, 3 more than the 28 advertised. 

Has anyone experienced this recently with Topps? I wonder if there was a quality control error on their end when filling these packs. I'm certainly not complaining as it's always nice to get a few extra cards.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas!

I’ve seen some be opened and like this.

Not Chrome, but I have seen people complain about not getting an auto or a relic in the 2023 Heritage High Number Baseball Hobby boxes.  With that said the hobby box I opened had two relics in it.  Also, half the box was duplicate cards.  The first Hobby box I opened had one relic and no duplicates which left me with four cards from a complete base set, minus the missing SPs. Quality control at its best!

Quality control at Topps during the pandemic era has been crap so not surprised really. Enjoy the freebies.

I have run into a lot of this with various Topps baseball products in the past couple of years. Sometimes I have cards missing from packs and then extras in others. One blaster box of Stadium Club I opened a year or two ago had 5 extra cards crammed in a pack and they were all black foil parallels, while another pack had just 1 base card in it. I also noticed that the randomization of cards in boxes has gotten much worse in the past couple of years. I find several doubles when opening just one blaster box and then I get the exact same sequence of cards when opening multiple boxes.