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Originally Posted by MattyC
Is this the part where some of us cite cards that are going up in value? I never get the point of this fairly regular exercise, when no one really collects the true entire spectrum/market of baseball cards.
In other words, at any given point, some cards sell for a massive increase, others a modest increase, others modest or larger declines. One guy cites a PSA 7 Paige, the next guy hangs a lantern on the Shoeless Joes at Heritage or the Mantles at REA that sold for record highs, and on and on the cycle goes.
So why truck in broad generalizations? We can't lump together all sportscards into one "market" anymore than we can lump together all cards in the same grade.
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I agree, you can obviously cite cards going the other way (up). All I said in my original post is that in watching every major auction this year I can say pretty confidentially that a large swath or cards is either flat or down from last year. Obviously their are cards that have gone up. But when one of the first cards someone cites back to me is the Jackie Leaf card, and a quick search of VCP shows that card is actually trending down, I think that's worth pointing out.