Like 'em? Hate 'em? Indifferent?

At first when the whole "fad" started I thought they were dumb....why would i want a manufactured patch that was never touched by the player?

Recently, however, I've started to view this thing a little differently. Unless we are lucky enough to pull a game-used patch, most of these "game-used" pieces we get are the same old same old (unless we're talking vintage players, of course). At times if we don't pull a jersey/bat/whatever of a player we like, it's treated almost like a common base card.

I remember in my younger collecting days how they were no game-used. Instead, the "hits" were creative, well-designed inserts. The manufactured patches bring back a little bit of this creativity in the patch design. And, in some cases they are much more eye-appealing than a plain one-color jersey of a player I'm not interested in.

I pulled my first manufactured patch from a 2010 Topps blaster yesterday. At first, I wasn't impressed but I'm beginning to like it. I'm definitely happier with it than I would be with a jersey of a backup player.

If the card is designed well, and the manufactured patch is well thought out, I like them. The sets that have the manufactured patches just to have them when they aren't necessary are the ones that really tick me off.

I really don't like manufactured patches! They seem like another gimmick the companies use to make more money. That's my opinion though.

Indifferent, really.

I have mixed feelings about them. I like these when they are autographed so there is something real to them, but what I have disliked recently is the trend by manufacturers to offer this as a "hit" as opposed to putting the real stuff in the packs. Prices keep going up but the quality of the products keeps going down or staying the same. Would I rather have this then a low-end scrubs gu card, maybe, guess it would depend on how bad the scrub was. Don't get me wrong they look nice, but it is similar to walking into a sport shop and cutting out the letters off of one of the fake jerseys. Never got near my player so holds only slightly more value than a base card.

I agree totally. They're a creative difference to the game-worn patches, but they don't do anything for me.

I like some of them, but don't think they should be put in products like premiere and stuff like that. Maybe in lower end stuff

I'm all for it if Kenyon Martin is involved... but as far as I know he hasn't been so whatever.

I wish they would use them more as a historical tool. Make manu patches that are like patches a team wore on their jerseys (like a anniversary patch, or a patch remembering someone).

Or manu patches of honoring captains in sports...that would be cool.

I'm mostly indifferent to them. I am bored of the reebok symbol patch pieces and the "laundry tag" pieces.

I do sort of dig the concept that Topps is doing with the "Historical Commemorative" Patches. They are reproductions of patches that were worn on uniforms, or specially commissioned commemorative patches for some sort of anniversary. I don't mind that as much but only really like a handful if any to have as a PC thing.

I am sort of warming up to the "Hat Logo" cards.

Hate em....absolutely loathe them....only own one...and I can't deal it....Won't buy any product with them in it...did I mention I hate them??

You hate them?

Manufactured patches are worthless, in my opinion. They have no real value, unless they are autographed by the player or players.

The problem with manufactured patch cards they often look bad. I've yet to see a design in the basketball hobby that looks good. Furthermore, they have quickly become another fad in the hobby, and the only positive thing to come from them is they help increase the value of actual game-used pieces.

So, instead of card manufacturers spending the money to buy actual game-used jerseys, we're being charged even more for manufactured pieces (in terms of by-the-pack and by-the-box). If a company loads its product with manufactured pieces, then the price of said product should reflect it. I'm not seeing that.

Thank goodness I collect Gary Payton, because all of his memorabilia cards contain worn pieces (so far), whether it's from an event, practice or game.

I don't like them very much. Sometimes they look nice but I'd rather do without them. Plus manufactured patches have made it extremely hard to find real patches, especially letter patches. I think it's stupid to put an auto on a patch that the player didn't wear.