The 2010 baseball season saw the sport introducing a lot of potential star rookies with the likes of Buster Posey, Stephen Strasburg, and Jason Heyward. The 2010 baseball card product of Bowman Platinum gave collectors some nice rookie cards of those players and boasted 4 autographs per hobby box. I liked 2010 Bowman Platinum and ordered a case from Atlanta Sportscards. I got 2011 Bowman Platinum instead, rolled the dice by keeping and opening it, and lost out big time.
I opened twelve boxes of 2011 Bowman Platinum baseball cards and I’m not here to describe all of the contents or what I could have pulled. I’m a jaded customer here to complain!
I am not exaggerating by saying 99% of the baseball cards I pulled out of the packs were damaged to some degree. Well, give or take a percentage point. The cards had what appeared to be machine damage, crimped lines down the edges on the front right sides and top borders. On the backs of the cards all of the black edges were chipped up with white.
I got lots of doubles, autographs and otherwise. After a certain point it seemed like I was pulling a Jayson Werth base card from every pack. I have a seriously tall stack of these! As far as autograph doubles, not only was that the case, but many of them were just redemption cards and not the actual autographed card. There is a promise of three hits per box, in one of my boxes, all three hits were redemption cards. This means I have to wait several more months for Topps to send me the card IF they send THAT card at all.
The most valuable card I pulled out of the entire case of 2011 Bowman Platinum cards was a Starlin Castro autographed card with a piece of Game used jersey on it. The Beckett book value of the card was $40. It sold on Ebay for $19 with free shipping.
I would chalk this up to you win some and you lose some, but then, after some Internet reading and research, realized that the 2011 Bowman Platinum checklist released for the product is a sham. What was advertised to be and what really was made differ quite greatly, with many cards used to sell the product not even in existence!
2011 Bowman Platinum is one of the worst baseball card products I have ever opened. Just saying. I still like 2010 Bowman Platinum though.