Emerald Masked Men Redemption Program

[doniceage]

Collectors of the 2010-11 Between The Pipes are well aware of the error that was made on the back of the Emerald Masked Men cards. The Emerald Version of the Masked Men Cards was announced on the In The Game website as out of 340 of each card; however, 1/1 was printed on the back of each and every Emerald Masked Men card in error.



Even though there is nothing that we can do about this error except apologize, we want to give collectors an option to make their Emerald Masked Men cards more valuable.



To accomplish this we have created the Emerald Masked Men Redemption Program. We had two choices for this program; redeem a player's Emerald Mask Men cards for a Redemption Card of that player or redeem any Emerald Mask Men cards for a random redemption card ( a program similar to the He Shoots He Saves Program). We decided to poll collectors at the Spring Expo to determine which way to go but collectors were split down the middle and no clear-cut suggestion could be formed.



Then one collector breaking Between The Pipes at our booth suggested to Dr. Price that we should try and do both, that is the suggestion we are going with.



So here is the Emerald Masked Men Redemption Program.





Program One:

Send in 17 Emerald Mask Men Cards for any individual player listed below and receive a Masked Men Game-Used Memorabilia card numbered to ten of the player you have redeemed.



Program One Checklist

Cam Ward
Carey Price
Corey Crawford
Dwayne Roloson
Henrik Lundqvist
Ilya Bryzgalov
James Reimer
Jaroslav Halak
Jimmy Howard
Marc-Andre Fleury
Martin Brodeur
Michal Neuvirth
Miikka Kiprusoff
Pekka Rinne
Rick DiPietro
Roberto Luongo
Ryan Miller
Semyon Varlamov
Sergei Bobrovsky
Tim Thomas



Program Two:

Send in any 17 Emerald Mask Men Cards and receive a random Masked Men Game-Used Memorabilia card numbered to twenty from the players listed below. This program is similar to the He Shoots He Saves program as the redemption card is random from the list below.



Program Two Checklist

Alex Aluld
Andrew Raycroft
Antero Niittymaki
Antti Niemi
Brent Johnson
Brian Boucher
Brian Elliott
Chris Mason
Cory Schneider
Craig Anderson
Curtis McElhinney
Dan Ellis
Devan Dubnyk
Jason LaBarbera
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
Johan Hedberg
Jonas Enroth
Jonas Hiller
Jonathan Bernier
Jonathan Quick
Kari Lehtonen
Marty Turco
Mathieu Garon
Niklas Backstrom
Ondrej Pavelec
Pascal Leclaire
Patrick Lalime
Peter Budaj
Tomas Vokoun
Tuukka Rask



There was never supposed to be any 1/1s in the Masked Men insert set, none were produced. We learned of the error the day before the product's release. We immediately sent out a Newsletter, posted the information on our website, Dr. Price blogged the information, we went on all the hockey forums, Beckett and sent emails out to all our direct dealers and distributors so that collectors were informed of the error as soon as possible.



Again, we realize that this program does not make up for the error but we wanted to give collectors other options for their Emerald Masked Men Cards.



All the information on the program will be outlined on the 2010-11 Between The Pipes Product Page under a link entitled Emerald Masked Men Redemption Program. This Emerald Masked Men Redemption Program will expire on April 30, 2012.

[westaylor]

I need 17 Neuvirth cards. There are like 3 for sale between the Beckett marketplace and ebay. This is gonna be tough

[Yipper]

I think it means, you need 17 from the list below. Not 17 of the same card.

[RGM81]

That depends on whether you want to do the first or second program.

If you do program 1, you would send in 17 of the same player and get a GU card of that player.

If you do program 2, you would send in any 17 and get a random GU card of one of the players on the second list.

WTTF: Carey Price Masked Men Emerald. LOL

[ralral33]

personally this really sucks imo,why 17 cards its not our fault itg screwed up ,so the little guys that do not by cases are SOL.lol

[comfortably9numb]

yeah...i understand where tehy are coming from though...you can't simply just have a 1 for 1 redemption program...it helps people that A) Bought a case and B) were trying to collect the set, thinking they were getting very rare cards...i don't think its a very bad program...like i said...they can't do a one-for-one redemption program thats worthwhile to the collector..but my opinion may be bias as i didn't bust any BTP yet this year

[Megadeth]

i agree with nuqua, this program isn't good unless you already do have 17 of these cards sitting around. And if you do have 17 of these sitting around you probably already have or are close to the 200 he shoots he saves inserts that are needed for their other redemption program. I understand that they can't replace each card for a 1/1 nor do I expect them to at all (that would be out of control). But at the same time its not our mistake and the average btp buyer (correct me if im wrong here) i doubt will have more than 1-3 of these cards. Would be nice to get something extra (like i said not expecting high end at all in return) but something for even just pulling 1 or 2 of these cards. Thats just my two cents, nothing more.

[max91ess]

i agree with nuqua, this program isn't good unless you already do have 17 of these cards sitting around. And if you do have 17 of these sitting around you probably already have or are close to the 200 he shoots he saves inserts that are needed for their other redemption program. I understand that they can't replace each card for a 1/1 nor do I expect them to at all (that would be out of control). But at the same time its not our mistake and the average btp buyer (correct me if im wrong here) i doubt will have more than 1-3 of these cards. Would be nice to get something extra (like i said not expecting high end at all in return) but something for even just pulling 1 or 2 of these cards. Thats just my two cents, nothing more.

thats why i just sold all of mine:), had like 5-6, and got nice money for them

[CoolHandLuke]

Not impress by the redemption program. Who will gather 17 of the same player. If you do and have to pay for them, imagine how much a jersey produce to 10 to repair a error will cost you. I am not going to run to buy more card and start a bidding war to get 17 cards...

I rather keep my money and buy some other carey price jersey at pr/10, the number (17) is way to high.

[RGM81]

personally this really sucks imo,why 17 cards its not our fault itg screwed up ,so the little guys that do not by cases are SOL.lol

I don't think that it's a coincidence that it's 5% of the current print run on the Emerald cards.

Think of it as "trading up" - you wouldn't trade an insert /340 for a GU /10, so you gotta give a little more.