2018 Panini Elite Extra Edition Baseball Forum

A selling point for this set:

10 parallels printed on 7 substrates.

What does that even mean?  You really made your 957th product of the year just to say that?  Could a dealer really talk a buyer into a box of these, based on that selling point?  "Man, get me some of them Obsidians... Dude, they don't even have substrates.  Now these Elites have seven of 'em... Man, I'm sold!"

I'm really starting to question my life choices.

So does that mean there are 70 parallel sets?!?! OMG that is SO pathetic if that is the case. I'm so past the parallel thing. Two or three sure but 10 and up is idiotic!!!!

Eh, the entire color parallel low numbered subset thing is just due to fall hard. Sure some of those other colrs look sharpe but I'm not wasting my card collector budget chasing those things.

That's the way I take it.  10 parallels and each has 7 of their own parallels. 7 different substrates (backgrounds). Kind of like those Tek parallels with 30 or 40 some different background designs.  LUDICROUS!!

My son collects some of the prizm parallels of his favorite Lions player but he is still a kid sort of (17 years old). He teases his Dad for collecting those base Packers cards. I just tell him that first, we are both most likely going to spend more than we ever get out of what we collect if we ever sell and that I'll just lose less per card. I guess his prizm rainbows are sort of neat and he likes pulling them out and looking at them. I just get as much joy out of looking at my stack of Brett Favre base cards over the years.

Been out of the card collecting world for about 25-30 years after our local card shop burned to ground. The owner died as well, running in and out trying to save his stock. The wife has been pestering me to get rid of my collection. Began looking on-line for resources to value the collection and found the Trading Card Database through a random Google search. Started entering my cards and then fell for an estate sale buy and added a few hundred thousand cards to the collection and yes the wife is up in arms! At least she had more shelves put up in the garage. Started pouring through the estate collection and found some newer cards. Hit the drop down button on one of the newer sets and was shocked to see all the subsets available. Had to learn a new language, parallels, memorabilia, auto, refractor, printing plates, serial numbered, die-cut.... I may regret entering the collecting world again. 

It seems Bowman does not want to fall too far behind in the insert/parallel madness.

https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2019-bowman-baseball-cards?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sportscards+%28The+Cardboard+Connection%29

"Adding another option, the Bowman Chrome Prospects line features a whopping 17 Refractor parallels. " 

and if that's not enough, "Finally, a new year of the set-within-a-set insert kicks off via Hobby-only 2019 Bowman Sterling Continuity."

WOW!!

Kari

It was getting bad with 13-15 parallels, this is just overkill.