Since they knew it was going to be a redemption all along, it would have bee sweet if they would have made it a bigger card so that they could fit more costume, and have more room for sigs. I guess if you people overseas had someone that you REALLY trusted here, they could redeem it and send it a lot more securely to you than artbox might, but I agree, I would much rather have it not be a redemption.
I'd like to think that there would people on here who I could entrust to redeem that card for me if I was very fortunate to get one of them Zach, but there's a lot of people who don't have that kind of support to fall back on and they will be the ones who will get hammered with Customs fees and all the rest of it when they send them in.
I do understand Artbox's worries over possible damage to the card if it had been pack-inserted, so it makes sense for them to do it this way I suppose.
They wouldn't have ever made this card oversized to all the rest either - everyone would be baying for blood over how to store it for starters plus the added printing and post-printing costs associated with doing a card in a different format to the rest in the set.
I'm grateful everything is one side of the card rather than having two costumes/autos on either side cos that would have looked horrible.

WOW Tom!!
Once the word gets out that the card is back from signing and good to go, the heat will REALLY be on to get one of them!

I look forward to seeing the scan when you get it Tom - it's probably the nearest I'll ever owning one of them.

Nope, we haven't had any info on the Hermione book prop card yet and Ron didn't post any card info about it either - the number prop I mean ....