Topps seems to be cutting back some of the benefits of their 582 Montgomery Club. The new details of the club for 2023 were announced this week.
The cost to renew your current membership is $149.99. For new members it will be $199.99.
Current members can renew their membership starting at 11:00 a.m. ET on 12/5/22 to 11:00 a.m. ET 12/7/22.
New memberships open up at 3:00 p.m. ET on 12/7/22 to 3:00 p.m. ET 12/9/22.
With the reduced price comes a reduced amount of sets. Members will receive (1) 582 Montgomery Club Factory Set (Fall 2023), and (1) 20-card set (Spring 2023).
Members will have early access to order the following list of products before the general public:
- 2023 Bowman Chrome Sapphire
- 2023 Topps Chrome Sapphire
- 2023 Topps Chrome Star Wars Sapphire
- 2023 Topps Chrome Bundesliga Sapphire
- 2023 Topps Finest Flashbacks Baseball
- 2023 Topps Chrome Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire
Products available for early access in this year's membership will be limited to the products listed above.
Members are bound to the (1) membership/household rule; Topps reserves the right to cut off your membership at any point if you're suspected to be exceeding the (1) membership per household limit and have not explicitly received permission in writing from Topps to do so.
Topps reserves the right to alter pricing and/or products at its sole discretion.
I plan to keep my membership. Last year to renew it cost $299.99, and $599.99 for new members. It would be cool to see that (1) 20-card set be some type of members-only Sapphire product. Throw in some managers and mascots.
Based on the way it sounds the products on the early access to order list is rock solid.
People who had more than (1) membership per household have already begun to get cut off from their membership.
Topps at least plans to keep this club around for another year. Beyond that who knows what will happen.
The Topps 582 Montgomery Club was never meant for people to flip sealed boxes on the secondary market. That was a side effect of Topps not knowing what to price certain products at, and crazy economic conditions. Topps has gotten smarter when it comes to pricing these online-exclusive products. And the economic conditions have changed drastically since 2020/2021.
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