I think there's a bigger problem with actual shady behavior (scams, misrepresentation, market manipulation, et cetera) in this hobby than with unfounded accusations leveled at people in order to gain clout. Individual influencers make for better content than soulless corporations, because they're hu...

ZiggyNo is the only content creator I've seen who's actually been watching Fanatics Live breaks, and he's got some concerns. His biggest issue is with the "Wheel of Bullcrap", which is a live auction for a random team, and as each team is picked, the next random is auctioned off until all ...

Here's my best pickups from the show today - first, a gloriously miscut 1966 Topps Batman Black Bat #3 The Bat Signal https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53047723177_bd25494d30_w.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53048491899_68f4edb214_w.jpg Then, not one, but TWO copies of 1969 Topps Man on t...

Panini does do a bit of embossing right now, mostly in Elite and Illusions. I haven't seen much in Topps products, though, which is a bad sign going forward.

The chrome stock obsession and, more importantly, the parallel explosion, eat up the budget required for those advanced print techniques. Chrome stock is more expensive than paper, first of all, but I think parallels are the worse offender. Remember, for each different color parallel that involves c...

Topps Chrome Black and Topps Cosmic Chrome are totally separate products from plain ol' Topps Chrome, "Chrome" just means they're printed on chrome (plastic) card stock. Black and Cosmic have different checklists, base images, inserts, etc. There are a bunch of sets related to normal Topps...