2004-05 SkyBox Autographics Basketball Forum

This is now my most hated set ever.  I bought on eBay what I thought would be an autographed card of a family member's all-time favorite player, based on the name of the set.  Today I received what I would compare to an Upper Deck Silver Signature card in the mail.  Granted, the seller wasn't at fault.  He didn't claim it was signed.  I was going by the name of the set, as Autographics was the name of the cross-brand autograph cards that were inserted into Fleer/Skybox packs before I took a break from collecting.  I wasn't in the hobby in 2004-05 and had no idea they had cheapened the name by using it for a base set with facsimile autographs.  So when I saw it was a "SkyBox Autographics", I assumed it was an autographed insert card from a SkyBox pack based on history.  In the seller's scan, the silver foil looked like black ink, as we members know often happens when scanning foil.  So the seller didn't deceive me.  Skybox deceived me, years after going out of business.  I did overpay for what I ended up getting ($4 for a Jason Williams card that can't be worth more than a quarter).

Sorry guys.  I just needed to air my frustrations over that one.

 I agree that was a weird name to give  a set.   I think I picked up a couple in one of those 100 card packs.   I saw nothing "autographic" about the card.

That is a tough break, but at least you didn't buy a quarter card for $50. Your pain is felt.

You have every right to be upset with Fleer. By definition autographic means "A person's own signature, especially considered as a collector's item"

So, should the base set cards have FAC in Note1?

At least yours has facsimile autographs on the base set.  1996 Autographed Racing doesn't even have that.  The autographed cards were the box hits, and you could pull redemption cards for autographed memorabilia.

It might have made sense at the time, but definitely deceiving now.

-Tom

I remember when they brought the set back in 2003-04 as a non-autographed base set there was quite a bit of uproar in the hobby back then as well. Wait, it gets better. The autographs in the 2003-04 set are called Autographics...so the autographs are technically "Autographics Autographics". The relic cards were called "Jerseygraphics"...both with parallels that the parallel name appears nowhere on the card, only on the packaging. I didn't open much of the 2004-05 set and I don't have a single autograph from the set. I don't know what they called the autographs that year.