2021 Topps Heritage Baseball Forum

i got 1 hobby box and  2 blaster box the blasterbox had many cards with errors as 1 side of the card does not match the back

front/back

tatis jr/brandon lowe

miguel andujar/michael wacha

scherzer/john means

goldschmidt/trout

luis robert/joey votto 

just to name a few so far up to 25 will recheck my collection my next day off

any ideas what to do??

sell them as rare errors / variations . The suckers are out there in this crazy market 

As far as the potential of listing them here, honestly, we don't know - YET.

While site policy is to not list wrongbacks (or blank backs), if it was an intentional thing by Topps, or something that was widely proliferated, it becomes something that IS listable. But at this time, it's still early in the release, and no one has heard yet of Topps doing this intentionally as a SP gimmick. We also aren't sure if this is a common thing. There's also the question of "do the correct backs exist or are these all like this (so far)?"

It is on our radar, and we're keeping a close watch on these. Any help in determining the answers to these questions is greatly appreciated.

Here's what I can add so far.

These seem to fall pretty much two per pack, placed upside down at the end of the pack. Topps seems to be known for placing inserts and SPs upside-down, so this might be intentional (forgive my skepticism, but we're talking about the set that completely forgot to print a Cavan Biggio card from their checklist...). Users on Reddit are reporting having 22 of these from a blaster, on average, while another user said that every pack in his case had two of them.

All of the wrong-backs seem to be the same across the set. I've read multiple reports of Luis Robert front/Joey Votto back, and Paul Goldschmidt/Mike Trout. 

Regular backs do exist for these players, as one Reddit user reported having three of his four Nick Solak cards with the wrong back.

Cardboard Connection doesn't mention these, nor does anywhere else that I've seen yet. However, CC does contain the line "While Topps mentioned "more unannounced surprises," they did confirm the return of Action Images (Hobby only), plus limited Nickname Variations and ultra-rare Throwback Uniforms variations." I can only assume that "unannounced surprises" and "printing a ton of the cards with the wrong back" go hand-in-hand, but it seems that as of now, Topps has been silent.

another thing are these only in "blasters" or regular hobby boxes as well ?

Every report that I've read from someone that has mentioned how they got their wrong backs has said that it's been from blasters. 

Just some examples of discussion. Does look intentional. I'm sure this is where Jason got some of his info. Plenty of listings on eBay.

And while trying to find more info I find something very interesting. This set is overstuffed with VARs (most on the 1:3000 range, one is even 1:17,000). Seems crazy to decide to make this year's set so packed when it is so difficult to find any of the product to begin with. Seriously, the last few years I could get the 1-500 set and 4-5 insert sets for $200. The 1-500 set alone is pushing $500 this year. Yeah, so, about that. If I were buying boxes to put something together I'd be upset (nice words, it's the forum) that I get these instead. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseballcards/comments/mgkho7/error_with_topps_heritage_2021_these_cards_have/

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseballcards/comments/mm4ywv/2021_topps_heritage_wrong_backs_i_checked/

i called topps today and the customer service guy said it was not intentional and to mail them in but maybe i copuld see some people looking to buy

I know from the one hobby box I've opened so far that a couple cards had upside down backs but thats the worse I found. Still very weird errors, but overall not listable onsite.

If it's not intentional, it certainly does not say anything good about their quality control department.  Of course, that many wrongbacks intentionally doesn't really say anything good about the company either.