[CollectingAmericasPastime]

Originally Posted by swarmee

You joke about Vizquel, but last year there were two Venezuelan oil tycoons buying all his limited 1/1, 1/5, 1/10 cards for THOUSANDS, bidding each other up in an ego contest. Check worthpoint if you have an account. If you had the first one on eBay, it went for a ton. The second one fell off a cliff, and the third would sell for peanuts.

Grocery stores are empty - what's left have insanely inflated prices - and these "tycoons" are jacking up the price of a baseball card instead of giving back to their struggling country.

I'm a diehard Indians fan, and loved watching Omar play growing up. He was a magician. His stuff shouldn't be worth any more than the next borderline HoFer.

I hate this Transcendent crap.