2020 Topps Update Baseball Forum

At least you got your Update set. I ordered mine, waiting patiently for it to be delivered and was happy when on a Sunday I got the email saying it was in my mailbox (and a different eBay order also). Went down a little later and no Update set in my box. No worries I thought, wouldn't be the first time they put the key in the wrong box. Call the PO the next day and they are looking into it. Carrier insist the package was put into my apt's actual mail slot. No, only one of the two was delivered, this particular order wasn't. Couple days go by, no joy by the PO or a neighbor. eBay denies claim, tracking shows it was delivered. File formal claim with USPS, they deny because tracking shows it was delivered. I'm not to be believed when I say it wasn't actually delivered and the carrier screwed up. Oh well......  

Thanks for this thread!  I too was not impressed with the update set this year, but having received a blaster and hanger box for Christmas, I decided to go ahead and put the set together.  This year will be the 70th since I purchased my first baseball card and the only other time I saw this method of collation was in 1954.  It kind of confused me as much then as it did this year.  I do not keep my sets in binders, so I will store these by boxing them up in order, using the back of the cards as a guide.

Through the years, I kept up with collecting, but like others, it seems like the fun of it is dimishing due to many things.  I find the addition of variations of cards in a set an annoyance.  I don't see the need for 10-15 different variations of each card, nor do you need 20-30 (or more) insert sets for each set. I guess I can understand that the card companies have to make a profit, but turning off collectors would seem to be counter productive.

Please excuse the rambling from an old dude, but it seemed like a nice topic.

Happy New Year to all and happy trading and collecting!

Ora 

I just have to say is that if Topps used the base set like they used to, and just have all the players in there just once... I wouldn't have to be buying cards from their competitors to get cards for players they left out. I would dream for there to be a replacement for Upper Deck 40 Man, maybe that's too much to ask for.

I find affirmation from the poster n that shifting horizontal designs bug me to death.

Yeah the Update set has become just a bloated mess. I've gotten to the point where I just made the decision to no longer do the Topps flagship sets. I've got a run that I'm working on that goes back to '76 (my first year of collecting), which includes the base and Traded/Update sets, but I will no longer persue them in the future. I did get my Mariners Update set recently but as a fan, and for as much as I like Griffey, I don't need 3 cards of Junior in Update this year. I wouldn't mind the set size as much if it included some of the more obscure players in leiu of the HR Derby, All-Star and Debut cards.

It seems like the trading card industry has been nothing short of a disaster this year!