eTopps: I smell a bad idea

I will admit that I am new to baseball cards of today and only restarted my collection late 2007. Maybe I am not up on all my lingo yet but I know a bad idea when I see one. At first glance I thought eTopps was a Topps release that put some of our favorite players in different uniforms and/or a unique on-line exclusive card set. After doing some research I find out that in reality eTopps are cards that are only available through Topps’ website and are meant to be viewed on a computer screen. So basically, you pay a ridiculous fee for a card that doesn’t even list in Beckett and you never actually recieve it in person but instead it is stored by Topps for “safekeeping”. If you don’t like the idea of keeping them at Topps’ warehouse you can choose to have them delivered but of course, that too will cost you extra and when it arrives it will be in an ugly unbreakable case so don’t even think about trying to actual make physical contact with t...