Mini Plugs 2013 Allen & Ginter - Really?

[elbsportscards]

Wow, thought this was funny, but I had to say really? twice to myself when I opened a hobby box of 2013 Allen & Ginter last night and two of the packs each had a blank mini plug in them.

I understand the use of full size thick plugs to simulate a thick mem card to thwart pack searchers, but now its resorted to mini plugs LOL, Go Topps!

Anyone else had these in their packs?

Ed

[Murphy03]

You know, that is pretty smart on Topps part, a little extreme, but smart. This post did provoke another question though; how many people have a card shop that will let you search packs? The one that I go to doesn't practice pack searching for the most part, but I did watch a customer open a box of hobby something then he took all the packs out, grabbed all the thick packs, and put the rest back in the box. I kind of stood there amazed for a moment but figured its not my business. Does any else have card shops that that are pretty lax on searching?

[elbsportscards]

You know, that is pretty smart on Topps part, a little extreme, but smart. This post did provoke another question though; how many people have a card shop that will let you search packs? The one that I go to doesn't practice pack searching for the most part, but I did watch a customer open a box of hobby something then he took all the packs out, grabbed all the thick packs, and put the rest back in the box. I kind of stood there amazed for a moment but figured its not my business. Does any else have card shops that that are pretty lax on searching?

What I thought was funny was that this is Allen & Ginter, each pack contains a mini card per the product, so people would have no advantage searching these packs for a mini, its in every pack anyways. Maybe a bum mini sheet got through and I got two of the unprinted minis, oh well, was still a good box break anyways.