I picked up
my first laundry tag off a seller on eBay the other day for a reasonable $8.99
plus shipping and received it yesterday. The card is a 2009 Panini National Treasures
Rookie Colossal Prime Materials Laundry Tags Deon Butler card. I am super
stoked.
When I get a
card, I inspect it for damage and sadly found some on this card and while I am
bummed and considered returning it but, in the end, I decided to keep the card
because the damage is only visible at an angle.
A bungling
dealer decided to write out a tag on top of the card leaving an impression on
the card face. I have seen this happen quite a few times and it still surprises
me that there are sellers out there that don’t think. Remember, top loaders and
one-touch mags save card lives.
I highlighted
the letters and number that was written across the card face. Yes Butler's name and the serial number are written upside down from each other which means the seller rotated the card to do more damage.
I won’t get
in to the fact that Panini states “Game-Used” on the front, but on the back, it
says the jersey was from the Rookie Premier and that it was “Event-Used”. I
posted about it on Twitter and tagged Panini. I know with this card being
9-years old I am sure this discussion has been brought up before, but I am late
to the game.
