TTM Advice: Pens

[TheBoxBreaker]

Hi guys,

Soon I'm going to try sending out a few cards to goalies. I've done TTM before but it annoys me that sometimes some goalies sign their cards using a thick, black marker while others (in the same set) sign with a thin, blue one. The whole idea of a set is for the cards to be somewhat similar.

My question is: Would it be a good idea to include a pen in each letter, perhaps writing: "Please sign the card using this pen." That way I would assure that at least most of the goalies would sign using that specific pen, and I would be able to create a set with similar autograph thicknesses and colours.

Is it a bad idea? Perhaps someone at the club would think that the letter feels weird, open it only to discard either the pen or perhaps even the whole letter. Has anyone tried anything like this in the past?

The custom set I'm working on features the autographs of CHL goaltenders, but by the time I'll be sending out the cards, a lot of these goalies will play in the NHL or AHL.

Any advice and feedback is appreciated. Thank you!

-Ethan

[indyreds]

I personally would not pay the extra postage and or risk the damamge to your good and envelope that sending a pen may cause. I have heard other do this though!

[TheBoxBreaker]

I personally would not pay the extra postage and or risk the damamge to your good and envelope that sending a pen may cause. I have heard other do this though!

Okay, thanks for the comment. I appreciate it!

[chrisborene]

I've sent a few sharpies ttm before and have always got them signed in the color of the sharpie I sent, never had a problem with bent items.