2015 Panini Black Friday Trading Cards

@ Mike and Matt- you are both right! This product is better than many products out there, and it is easy to tell which ones have “hits” especially the material cards. The sad thing to me is that Panini doesn’t regulate how the product is distributed to customers. This can vary from dealer to dealer. Some you have to spend a certain amount of money. Others you need to buy a certain product, usually old releases that’s dead already, never a hot product that sells regardless. Some give you a mix of packs, others give you only the skinny ones and keep the fat ones for themselves. I wonder how many of these cards on ebay are being sold by shop owners?! I don’t know why Panini doesn’t do more wrapper redemptions for these promotional products. For example, we collect wrappers starting at the beginning of the year, and send them in to get these packs sent to us directly on Black Friday! Say 20 wrappers per pack. . . The one thing that has always frustrated the average collector like me, who by the way spends thousands of dollars on product each year, is the backdoor dealings by dealers and companies. Companies only take care of the dealers, never the customers. That’s why many card dealers have the same reputations as used car salesmen!

Mike, if you are so very disappointed with, as you says, the amount of junk out there, why do you continue to purchase cards? That makes no sense.

The only negative about this product is that most of the thicker packs are going to contain a “hit” or a serial numbered card. It’s very easy to see what packs are going to have the hits.

Like that they are numbering the rookies to 599 and already state that there’s only 40,000 packs. Just wish they did that for every rookie auto in every product. Then maybe I’ll be excited to get an auto again. I get more excited for a promo product that I get for free than the boxes of stuff I have to buy to get them. Sad so very sad at the quantity of junk out there.