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Please do not submit card backs to card you do not have in hand. I have seen this many times on parallels where one person will submit the card back to all the parallels. You can not assume all the backs are identical to the base. Such was the case today when I went to add Darryl Strawberry card R9 to my collection and noticed the front image missing but back image there, which was not the same colors as the card I have in hand; upon further inspection I see the same card back was submitted for the base and the 2 parallels by the same person and the front of both parallels have been submitted by others. I now wonder if the other parallel even has the correct back image attached to it.  Yes I have submitted an IR for this image so I can replace it with the correct image. However this is a "waste" of people's time that run this site and have to deal with IRs. It would be way more beneficial to everyone if we all only submitted images of cards we have in hand.  :) 

I find this issue with numbered gold parallels for topps. 

I have a 2015 Aroldis Chapman gold parallel out of 2015. The TCDB listing had the back of the regular base as the back shown for the parallel. No numbering on the back. I had to submit my own backing so that it didn't look like that.

It's very sad really. 

I found this with some of the early 90s upper deck with the variations of the different holograms. One being submitted for all of them so I couldn't look at the card back to see the difference...

This also goes to the approvers who approve those submissions in the queue. I have seen a lot of these, mainly in football, and I have started rejecting them as "wrong card". Would be interesting if you were only able to submit cards if you submit both the front and back together. 

I have seen many back only images in the crop queue and just ignore them. Maybe Admin could change the point rewards to Zero for back only submissions. I never thought about rejecting them as wrong card.

There is one specific style where each parallel for that specific player is all the same card back with the same hidden serial number. The SN should be 50 when it says 1. Just a criminal move. I also hate it when people take the card from somewhere else, and its not in their collection, want list, or FS/T. It's ridiculous and you're right, it's a waste of people's time.

It has been quite helpful for me because I only have the fronts of most cards.

There are a lot of cards that I know have identical backs. Either SN on front or distinction on front like color, and feature on the back e.g. Prizm non SN.

I wish I had the backs but I can't go back in time because they aren't my cards.

I feel your pain.The blank backs (o-pee-chee hockey parallels for example) tend to have been all scanned by the same user ... and all of the same card back! That's a quick 600-800 points depending on the size of the set. Looks kinda odd on the site too, the back is on the checklist page but the front of the card isn't. 

I have been thinking about this lately. Who submits one side and not the other? I can see if one side is damaged and wouldn't be seen as a great example, but I think there are far too many examples of a card listing having a scan of only one side. 

This may be a bit of a hot take, but if you cannot submit both a front and back image, just don't submit any at all. This isn't the first time I've heard of a member being confused because of this type of thing, which seems to happen far more often than it should

100% disagree. If we are crowdsourced we are trying to get the best information POSSIBLE. That also means that if you are only able to upload the back or the front becuase of anything you stated then do it. Plus your scan could be good for one and not the other which means that only one side gets added to the database. 

Now I hate that only oneside gets uploaded. But sometimes that still needs to be uploaded to give us a start.