Last night a 2001 Greats of the Game redemption card for a Willie Stargell autograph card sold on EBay for $256.43. For those unfamiliar with the card, Willie Stargell died before he was able to sign the cards planned for distribution. Fleer ended up creating a Willie Stargell GU uniform card #/700, titled Stargell Stars, to fill the redemption orders.
I have, what I believe most would consider to be, a complete master set of 2001 Greats of the Game. I have all the base cards, inserts (Retrospection Collection), autos (including the 2 variations of the Blair card), and GU (Feel the Game Classics, and Dodger Blues, and with the Stargell Stars substituting the auto that should have been in the set).
My question to the forum is this, should redemption cards be added to checklists? Does the answer depend on whether a picture of the player was on the card? For example, the auto redemption cards for 2001 and 2002 Greats of the Game used the same photo that was used on the auto card, but the 2004 Greats of the Game redemption cards only had printed descriptions of the cards.
Also, Beckett's pricing policy for redemption cards is that they are worth the same as the actual card, but should they be? I turned in a 2001 Greats of the Game redemption card for the Mays auto (before the deadline) only to be told that they didn't have enough to honor the redemption card. Then there were all the redemption cards I turned in of the 2004 Greats of the Game set, only to get cheap basketball cards after Fleer went bankrupt.
What's your thoughts on redemption cards?
