General Forum

I have a similar Jordan ripping off the '86 Topps design. I seem to recall posting one of those here as well.

Illeagal or no, that is a sweet looking card. 

It may violate the law in the retail space but it does not have anything to do with an archival service. The site is not selling the item, only documenting that it exists.

It doesn't matter to me if admin says this is a type of thing not to be tracked. It makes sense from a retail perspective, but being involved in archival research of products for the past 20 years, this never made sense from that angle. The only thing I can see is perhaps having a probation period of 5 or so years before publically documenting illegal items, to take care of any situations where the site would act as advertisement for a currently produced product.

MJ's baseball career was pretty useless.

I must agree that this site should not track "custom" cards, a nice word for phony/counterfeit/copyright violation cards.  But, I must admit some of these cards are quite alluring.  For instance, I like Rusty Staub ... someone "created" a 1972 Topps card of him with the Mets and is selling it on EBay.  I wouldn't buy it online, but I'd be tempted to look it over closely at a card show.  As an alternative, wouldn't it be nice if Topps created a genuine 1972 retro card to fill this gap?  How about a genuine retro card of Rico Carty in a Cubs uniform or Donn Clendenon in an Expos uniform or Tim McCarver in an Expos uniform or Matty Alou in an A's uniform?

BTW, in my Rusty search on EBay, there's this dreadful 1964 phony Topps rookie card with Staub and Jim Wynn w/ the Colts.  At least the seller was upfront by saying it was created on a printing press in 2009 ... whew, somebody didn't know how to operate it ... that card is a piece of crap!