2013 Bowman Inception Baseball Cards

Why isn’t Aaron Judge on this checklist? I know they did included him in the set. Its so hard to find his card in this set even thou it was made.

WHERE ARE MY REDEMPTION AUTOGRAPHS FROM INCEPTION BASEBALL???

I entered (9) Inception Baseball autograph Redemptions Online right after the product was released.
It’s now over a YEAR later and I’ve not received more than one of the redemptions I am owed!
I’m waiting on (4) COREY SEAGER Autograph Redemptions which could be worth nothing by the time Topps sends these out.
I know I’m the ONLY one in this hobby who buys cards like this so that I can trade them (once received) for items I need so that I can make my yearly 30,000+ card & autograph donation to hospitalized children. I’ve done this EVERY YEAR since 1989.
This was a great product, but like almost every other Topps product since 2012, the redemptions dragged the product down in the dirt!
Since 2012, Topps’ Customer Service has been USELESS! You’ll hold for 30+ minutes if you call (then you are LUCKY if you ever get a human- and their humans LIE to you too!), & they don’t answer e-mails anymore (YET THEIR WEBSITE STILL PROMOTES THAT AS A WAY OF CONTACTING THEM???).

Once Customer Service is useless, what usually happens to the company? Just refer to the past companies that have followed this path: Signature Rookies, Score Board, Pinnacle, Upper Deck, Donruss/Playoff. NEED I SAY MORE?

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Just got back into collecting after almost 20 yr hiatus..started with the light stuff..topps, bowman, then i moved onto platinum, and now? What have i gotten myself into?! What started as an innocent chase of puig-sanity i am now at my hobby shop every single day for the past 3 months and moved on to the hard stuff: inception. I pulled the trigger on the $120 box assuming i would at least come close to recovering my investment if i were to sell on ebay but it appears to make 1/3 back would be lucky. Of 2 boxes i pulled slade heathcott auto relic (i think thats what it is) and a soler auto are the only 2 i can remember worth speaking. Pretty weak in my opinion, i think for a buck twenty, you should at least be guaranteed 1 valuable card. But will i stop? No. After i got my fix at the hobby shop i normally move onto kmart target or models for a few blasters to support my habit. I truly have a problem $150-$200+ everyday! I tell my wife they only cost a couple bucks cause what does she know so she thinks its a great hobby. Best of luck to my fellow feinds. “May we all hit the puig autos we so desire”.

Another product with a design that will appeal to some while turning others away, Inception is a beautiful and well-rounded product IMO.

I love the “artsy” nature of the player images, the renderings are a welcome departure from traditional on-field photography, and autos & auto/mem’ issues from baby-faced prodigies such as Correa, Almora, Buxton, Rendon, Russell Hanson, Polanco and Fried, amongst others, are all the more impressive when paired with ‘graphs from more experienced youngsters such as Machado, Bundy, Myers, Taveras, Springer & Taijuan Walker.
The real chase, however, is for Yasiel Puig’s sig’…& that has taken box prices to “seriously!?!” Dollar figures. My LHS was selling Inception for $110 upon release…and that price is now a fond memory with boxes selling for $125-$130 ($130 is the pre-lunch price).
My last observation echoes a previous post; as well-executed as the product is… Bowman Chrome pricing is a multiple higher. As an example, I snared a Xander Bogaerts Chrome auto RC for $75 (now closing around $110/120) 3 months or so ago. I just grabbed an Inception Bogaerts auto jersey issue for a very reasonable $25.
The room for investment growth within Inception exists… but it seems that such growth is limited to just a few prospects whose autos have yet to really hit the secondary market.

GQ have 2 autos and 2 memorablias for less money, more fun and more time to break and enjoy without those sticker auto. Ok, that’s not the same card quality or thickness on GQ. I buy 2 group break on this product, I pulled Giolito, Rendon and Profar auto for 90$. Ordinary.

Got a Buxton base auto and a Wil Myers Patch auto 5/5 … Not bad for a 100 box

Great checklist, but aside from a few it looks like values are 20-40% lower than Bowman Chrome autos. not great investment set. card design is ok i guess.

I bought a box of these cards and opened them up two days ago. I got a nice box with 5 autos including a Byron Buxton #/75 which I’m pretty happy about. I am concerned however as EACH card has the same imprint from printing. Has anyone else had this problem? I wouldn’t think they are supposed to look like this but I can’t find another such incident reported on the web.

I Like the border they put on the printing plates….2011 supreme did it ,then stopped in 2012…everyone should border the printing plates

I have opened this stuff and it is absolutely beautiful. Not crappy lile football(damn the cards condition were bad) this stuff is nice

How is it that these cards are on ebay
before the release date?

no one seems to know if the prospects and rookies also have a “base” card autograph or if they start at /99 copies and go from there. Does anyone here know? The problem may lie where you only find very minimal cards of the hot players and a ton of the lower end guys. I guess this is the way football ended up. I personally can’t wait for this stuff and I’m kicking myself for not getting in when it was $650 or so a case.

Actually the finished checklist sounds pretty decent. Looking forward to seeing it. I have the Nationals and Rays in a case break

I wonder if the Puig will be a redemption?
And it seems to have a lot of sticker autos
will have to down grade from a 5 star to
a 4 star.

One other thing, You would think they would perfect the making of the football cards with all the chipping and stuff, before making another set of them.

Yet another 1 pack low number cards per box set. Cheaper for companies to make and easy to charge high and steal your money.

I know what I am saving my money for this year. This Product will be Hot !