Topps Customer Service .....OUTSTANDING!!!

Bet you all thought I had something nice to say..... LOL!

I emailed Topps about my redemptions for 2 Dexter Fowler Finest auto patch cards and why they have been marked shipped for months now and why I have not received them yet. Funny thing is I emailed them on the fourth of February and they belt out a reply of "why it was processed yesterday". Here is their reply:

Subject
RE: Redemption Issues [Incident: 091215-000012]

Discussion Thread
Response (Daniel) 02/04/2010 10:46 AM
Hello,

Thank you for your inquiry regarding Topps. The products you are expecting may take up to 4-6 weeks to reach their final destination from the processing date. The date the order was processed was Feb 3rd. Thank you for your continued support of Topps.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service team (By Phone: 800-489-9149, or by Email:support@etopps.com) if you ever have any other questions, comments or suggestions. A customer service representative will be available to answer your questions between the hours of 8:30am-4:30pm (EST), Monday through Friday.

Sincerely,

Consumer Relations
The Topps Company, Inc.

First off I am not supporting TOPPS anymore period. It's done and over with as far as I am concerned. I had 2 Tommy Hanson Finest autograph redemptions and only one was sent to me and the other one is now apparently pulling this shit:

Shipment of this redemption card has been delayed

Redemption Code:	FBB7H5GNR2
Code Entered:	05/07/2009
Redeemed Card:	MLB Rookie #10 DP10 2009 Topps Finest Baseball
Status:	Pending

Oh what the f&#k happened? Did we run out of sticker auto's? God TOPPS is so misleading anymore. Last year it took over a year to get my redemptions from Finest which were messed up and then had to be sent back to the morons and even then it was not corrected properly as the cards came back damaged again. Then you screwed me over on my Allen & Ginter box from this past year and still never corrected the problem even after I sent everything back to you including the whole box of damaged cards, the proof of purchase, my blood, my semen, my urine, a copy of me opening the box, a copy of me boning the hell out of your mom, screwing your cousin sue, mounting Aunt Jean, and then making your grandmother scream, etc.

"thank you for your continued support of Topps" they say. I depart leaving a Samuel L. Jackson quote:

“Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell!”

Ravishing Relics: Apollo 10

Chicken Scratch of the Day

Joe Mauer was the 2009 American League's MVP. Joe was the best catcher in all of baseball for 2009 in my opinion. Joe has a MVP style signature as well.

A picture is worth a thousand words

Look at the lovely picture of Julius Jones. I wonder what ideas come across one's mind when they get a good look at this card. Let's speculate:

1. Satan has decided to play football- LOOK at the horns circled!

2. Julius Jones realized that Starbucks will not name a new cup of coffee after him: "The Joltin Jump Jiven Julius Jones TD expresso".

3. Julius realizes that Dallas is much warmer than Seattle.

4. He actually saw the scoreboard and his dreams of winning were washed away.

5. The waterboy stole his gatorade.

Fill in your thoughts!

"Cool Oldie of the Week"

My question for you the reader is: what is Dave staring at?

Enough Already "State of the Union Address"

Fore score and thirty days ago the last post was made on here. It was done with the warmest of intentions and done with the thought of others in mind wishing them to have a safe and happy holiday. Since that time life for me had changed a little bit. I did not have the freedom of "free time" because my work was bogging me down with long hours and was stealing any free minutes I may have had to "blog". Then my hours changed again upon the completion of my multiple tasks thus leaving me feel very unenergetic and annoyed. So the ol' hitching post here on "E.A." was left go for a while as I began the recovery process to a better mental health awareness (like that's gonna happen). While I did manage to check out some blogs, I also wanted to take a minute and comment on some articles that seem to be a never ending battle in our hobby world.

After sitting back and seeing what has unfolded in digressing hobby news and with what TOPPS and UPPER DECK have begun to unfold from their plates have left me feeling rather...numb. UPPER DECK is in court again and admitting to more wrong doing. The Upper Deck Company imported 611,000 unauthentic Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards and is being sued by Konami. Discovery in the lawsuit revealed that employees of the Upper Deck Company, including its Chairman, Richard McWilliam, participated in a 2008 meeting in Mr. McWilliam's office, where they discussed that the cards made without authorization by Upper Deck did not look authentic enough, and where Upper Deck's chairman then shredded samples of the counterfeit cards. Jan 26th is the court date to determine what damages should be awarded and how much it will cost. Another potential problem is UPPER DECK is not releasing photos of their 2010 cards probably because... (using Richards voice- psst hey Topps: WE HAVE GUYS IN MLB UNIFORMS-HA!).

TOPPS is now again issuing patch cards that are NOT GAME USED and have failed to listen to the hobby plebs who ask them to stop making them for the sake of humanity. What is it with TOPPS and their COA on the back of their cards? Is TOPPS telling you that the 09 Tribute Babe Ruth bat card is not really a bat card but instead a seat card that was used by some baseball fan who had some pretty lethal beer farts unleashed into the wood from his sphincter? Then TOPPS gets this bright idea to release a National Chicle Baseball set and the designs looks like someone turned it into a version of "Garbage Pail Kids play baseball". Does Topps even try to make good card designs anymore? Look at this item: Ebay Item #350302731147 . Three patches and one wood? Why not all patches?

Here are some other notable complaints:

1. Sell Sheets- false advertising
2. Redemptions- all companies are guilty!
3. Coalition
4. Customer Service
5. Quality/Quantity
6. Redemptions that are out of stock and replaced with a bat boy's jersey card when your redemption was for three autographs limited to 10. This is done simply because the redemption has been referred to as "BECKETT's BOOK VALUE" according to the fine folks at customer service.
7. Brett Favre: Will he or won't he?
8. Peterson fumbling
9. Tim Tebow....Sorry but NO ONE is that innocent.
10. Lane Kiffin

More and more fakes are showing up on EBAY like it was nickel night in the Texas whore house. For example we have morons like this (http://www.sportscardsuncensored.com/2010/01/kevin-burge-threatens-legal-action.html) who know are getting squeezed for their wrongdoings and want us to back off. Excuse me but if you're doing something wrong and we have proof that your doing something wrong don't you think your gonna get busted sooner or later? KEVIN BURGE you have been identified and you know damn well what you're doing is wrong. It is our American/Canadian right to support our brothers and sisters in the hobby to watch out for people like you who seem to mislead the public in "what you're selling". It's people like you whom I've had the pleasure of busting personally for fraudulent items on more than a few occasions in the hobby business. Since EBAY has had scammers popping up quicker than a prom dress flying off on the night of the prom, do yourself a favor and educate yourself on what is legit and what isn't legit. If you don't know then ask a fellow hobby member from such forums/blogs as:

http://sportscardinfo.wordpress.com/ ask Andrew
http://www.sportscardsuncensored.com/ ask Gellman
http://waxaholic.blogspot.com/ ask Brian
http://www.freedomcardboard.com/ ask Chris
Heck ask me as I am a bit of an expert!

Please pray that the COLTS win the Super Bowl so we don't have to here, "who's dat" for the next year. It was bad enough that Cincinnati had "Who Day" so why can't the Saints be a little more original.

Happy Holidays

To all of my Friends, may you have a wonderful Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. May God send Angels to protect you in your travels and may he send tums for all of the food comas you're endure from the multiple family meals you might have to attend. Good nite y'all!