it's not a stupid question, but the answer is "no" they always make more that are never packaged and sent to the secondary market, they know that there are bound to be some that might get damaged by the machines they use for packaging, so they set them aside, generally, they make an additional 40 cards each of every card that are bound for replacements on a first come first served basis. the rest are destroyed, my bad one was destroyed, they did even pull out the "Y" with the auto, the whole thing gets destroyed and
another one is sent to a different company for serial number stamping and returned to upper deck for them to ship it to me...the whole process took about 2 months total...not bad...I noticed another Letter Marks sold tonight for $696 and some change...Jim