2018 Topps Living Baseball Forum

Are the rules being followed here?

Are the images that are being posted being verified with copies of the ACTUAL cards before being posted here?

Are ANY of these images scans of the actual cards, or is our entire checklist made up of mock ups?

Edit: I literally was "asking for a friend" - as this was actually a question brought up by someone in the IR. I'm not sure who my friend is, but they are most certainly my friend now. :)

Vroomed do you feel like a teacher no one’s listening too. Seems like there’s 2 convos going on here and no ones concerned about no having the correct scans. I’m with you I think if you don’t have the card in your hand you probably shouldn’t add it. 

Yes, I sometimes do. Just like when I was the leader of my son's Cub Scout den. 90% of the time, no one was listening. That was ok, because 90% of what we did was only for fun. :)

I'm okay with people using ACTUAL scans of the cards. I'm not okay with mockups. We had an incident earlier this year with Topps Series 1 where the photo on the Posey card Topps mocked up was never used. So, when people started adding their cards, everyone who had a regular base card thought they had a SP. But no one had the base card. Actual scans - cool. Mockups - uncool.

I’ve dedicated to keeping real prices and up to date prices on the topps living set. There are some wild swings in prices. Buy with caution if you are buying off of eBay. In one day a card can sell as much $16 to as little as $2.50 for almost no reason at all. It’s quite interesting watching the development of price. 

It’s special set since it has a start date but no end date. What do we do with cards that go over a year? I’ve see  hyphenated dates on other sets. That seems appropriate for this one. Each year just update hyphens.

As someone who uses this list daily, I don’t want it broken up into individual years. Maybe by decades but not by year. There are too few cards issued every year. It would be more of a hassle breaking them by years. 

I asked the Admin this question and this was their response...

"Since it will span multiple years, probably starting a new set is the way to go.  This is the way Sports Illustrated for Kids is handled.  The numbering is continuous across years there as well.  Later on down the road, it would make it easier for people to find because there will always be a set listed in the current year - they won't need to know that it all began in 2018 in order to find the set".

I have created a new set name called 2019 Topps Living.  My plan was to add cards 124-126 to the 2018 set and then start cards 127-130 with the 2019 set.

It would be nice at some point if there was a way to combine a set like this together so that it would show up as one collection.

So your telling me with all the advancements in technology you can not have a link in each year that leads you to whole set. Amazing. 

So if you only know the name and team which quite a few people list it that way without number on eBay you’ll find your self clicking on how many years at some point? 

I don’t collect the other set you talked about but if I did I’d find that to be a hassle too.