By: Don

Don — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:02:13 +0000

I think the real issue here is the price of a pack of card today. When I was collecting in the early 80′s they were a quarter a pack. I would spend all my money on cards..Fleer, Donruss and Topps. I would buy them a pack at a time until I had the whole set. If I only needed a few cards, you couldtrade with a friend for the ones you neededthat he had.
Heck today I could not afford a baseball card hobby. If they wonder why kids are not buying cards, what kid has the type of money it would take to collect a whole set, one pack at a time?
If the prices were reasonable, heck I might even get back in. But the prices I see at Walmart for a pack of Baseballl cards is crazy.
Good luck Topps..

By: Will

Will — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:46:48 +0000

It’s hard to follow Eisner’s logic here. Kids are confused by there being….two baseball card brands? When I was a kid, we had, > FIVE brands (Donruss, Fleer, Score, Topps, and Upper Deck), and I don’t recall my poor fragile 10-year-old mind being confused at all. Perhaps if Einser and Topps planned to only release one set (say, the stalwart regular Topps set), that would be less confusing. But my guess is that one set wouldn’t pay for that fancy exclusive license.
Thanks for your rationalization, Mr. Einser. According to you, it would be best if Coke would be the only cola (Coke AND Pepsi?!? Who can keep track?), American the only airline, and UPS the only package carrier, just so our collective mind isn’t boggled by all those nasty choices we currently have to make. But I’ll stick by to my economics: competition among businesses improve the quality and reduce the cost of their products.

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