2015-16 Upper Deck Buybacks Hockey Cards

best product of 15-16. no McD and amazing value. has anyone checked what in-store signings go for these days? and you get a COA for each sig. love this stuff!

When are these up for purchase? Or are they already on sale?

Got a 20 dollar card with no auto on it. That is so so lame.

Different and fun product for the price. Some of the cards that are just repacked from previous products are pretty week $5-$10. UD should have at least put in cards worth at least $25 given the price. The hand numbered stuff is pretty cool though. Upper Deck did a very poor job with the markers/pens the players signed the cards with. They should have sent them the same ones used by UD to number them. Many of the autos look terrible, because the cards were not designed to be signed originally. I would say about half of the autos are bubbly/streaky or blend into the card and get lost. I like the idea for the product it was just not executed very well.

Why would they not sticker the signatures they “bought” back with a cert as they have done in the past? This make zero sense. I would bet the farm many of these cards are just extra cards that didn’t make pack-out or were left over from volume decreases. Even if that is the case, sticker the cards! seems lazy and poorly executed.

Ron, that’s because not all the cards are freshly signed. UD also bought cards already signed by those players. I pulled an SPx 2009/10 Rookie card of Schneider. This is a card originally signed by the player. UD simply through it again in the flow, if you catch my drift. Also, there are some unsigned cards there. I pulled a Dual Tundra Tag 1 of 1 no signature.

And this is a question for Trey. Am I correct in the following assumption?
If there are 100 base cards with 49 + 24 + 5 = 78 variants each, than it means there’s a total of 7800 base cards. Every pack contains one base card, which means there are 7800 packs/small boxes. Every big box contains 5 small boxes/packs, which means there are 1560 of them. Every case has 3 big boxes, which means there were only 520 cases produced.

Just read of a two pack break of UD Buybacks and in the first pack the collector ripped on Hobbyinsider.net the buyback auto did not have any marking to show it was a buyback. It was a Matt Duchene Glacial Graphs card and it was just as if the collector had bought a pack of Ice.

I would have thought that UD would have marked each auto in some way as a buyback but that auto had NO marking of any kind.

Only a two pack break but that is not good if others are the same way in my opinion.