1998 Collector's Choice Baseball Forum

* Series One home plate holograms were only available in packs
* Series One diamond holograms were only available in the factory set
* #202 Tony Barron was only distributed in Series One packs
* #202A Kerry Wood replaced #202 in the factory set

Quick question: why do we have listings for #202 in a diamond VAR and #202A in a home plate VAR?

Mass VAR add without the thorough verification that we try to do now?

Awesome find. Are the non-existent cards going to be removed?

They can be removed, but I wanted to make sure it was just an oversight when all the VARs were created before I kick off the process.

This is still going on with the more recent sets that have been added for the minute VAR of period or no period.  When I went through my 1992 Leaf set, I found 8 cards that had the "INC" VAR listed but probably do not exist.  I took the time to contact the active members who had the VAR of the Ripken Jr. listed asking them to verify their collection. Those who did as I asked removed the card from their collecction.  Unfortunately too many don't respond to messages or act on advice. The card in question was this one https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/192/cid/16170262/1992-Leaf-52-Cal-Ripken. Twelve members still have it listed in their collection and one listing it for trade (this member lists all of the VAR for trade with multiples of each so if you want one for your own collection, make him an offer.  Of course, I would ask that he verify the VAR). The other cards are also still listed and shockingly the members who say they have one are pretty much the same for all of the cards (a couple of Team Collectors are most likely the odd ones for each card). I had started a Thread on this issue but it got hijacked quite quickly by someone more concerned about the Black Gold parallel. This is the Thread https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/S/ID/192/?MODE=VIEW&ThreadID=32137&C=11. My reasoning for believing that the 8 VAR don't exist is well explained but the cards are still listed. Obviously, I am not viewed as an authority in card collecting. 

I have started going through the 1992 Fleer cards (about 10,000 cards for trade in my inventory). So far, I have submitted 2 IR for card images that are in error and the Lofton card https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/183/cid/17291033/1992-Fleer-655-Kenny-Lofton probably does not exist.  Only 2 mentions in collection are both Wants - good luck with that.

By the way, all of my cards are viewed under a light / magnifier so whether they have the period or not is accurately determined.

If there are cards listed that shouldn't be, an IR with an explanation would be helpful. The additions to the other sets is great. If we had realized that another resource would have yielded so many hits, we should've held off, but we had a large enough list that adding the single requests at this point isn't too bad. Thanks for the help.

Problem is that for the 8 cards I listed in my OP of the Leaf Base set thread, there are members who claim they have them in their collection (but could not be bothered to answer a PM asking to verify). The norm here has been that if some are listed as "In Collection", there is a strong hesitancy to remove them. If it were my site, the cards would be removed but it is not.

With the supporting evidence, we were able to get the 1991 Donruss erroneous additions removed through IRs. But we need the IRs to be able to start the process.

All 8 are in.  The #445 had a back image loaded again after the firstone was already removed. The "." is clearly visible.

Since it doesn't look like the two CC VARs exist, I'll submit the IRs to get them cleared out.