1996 Upper Deck USA Basketball Forum

Is it appropriate to have the Exchange set as a mail-in insert set as opposed to part of the base set? The base set is skip-numbered and these appear to be the cards that fill in those sections. To me this parallels what Upper Deck did with some other sets around this time, offering mail-in exchange cards for trade cards and the like (see 1995 Upper Deck baseball). I will say I'm not familiar with how this set was released, so it could be different.

Thank you.

It's an inconsistency I've noticed in the database.  Some sets the mail-in exhchange rookie cards are listed in the base set and then some sets they are listed as a Mail-in set with Inserts and Related Sets.

I can see arguments for both sides.  They ARE base cards but had a different form of distribution other than packs.

There are also insert sets like some of the early/mid-90s Fleer ones where the first 10-12 cards are inserts and the last 3 were available through a mail-in wrapper offer, so instead of splitting those off, we just combined them into one insert set and marked the last 3 as "EXCH". It depends on the set, I guess. If it's only a few cards from a mail-in offer, they're usually just put into the base checklist. If it's an entire set available from mail-in, like a "Rookie Exchange" type of set, then it gets its own set under "Mail-In".

Looking at the set above, I remember fixing the Skybox one a few months ago where the Barkley and Richmond cards were separated out and we ended up merging them into the base and insert sets and marked them as "EXCH", and it seems like the same should be done here.

Just curious and I don't recall, anyone know why Barkley and Richmond were only available through mail-in on Fleer, SkyBox and UD and not included in the regular sets?

Richmond and Barkley were the final two players selected and at a later date tothe first 10. Presumably they were only named after the sets were released.

As another note, Glenn Robinson, who is represented in the sets, was injured and did not play in the Olympics being replaced by Gary Payton.