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Posted By: Bob

One thing to remember is that no cards fluctuate within their grade like the SGC 10s. You can have a card with a beautiful front but some back damamge which is a 10 or a horribly mutilated, but original, card which is also a 10. Some collectors don't mind a little back damage and are able to consider their purchaes an absolute steal while others want the integrity of the card with nothing missing, even on the back, and thus would prefer a horribly mangled, but complete, card.
I know that in the E98 series, SGC is brutal on paper loss, even if it is slight and also enamel chips from the front borders, so you can get a really nice card in an SGC 10 or 20 holder that snyone would be proud to own. Factor in that and, with the exception of Scott M.'s "green ghosts," the highest graded of many of these E98s are 60s and 50s, and you'll see that the difference between a highly graded card and a lower graded card isn't as profound as in the tobacco card sets.
The higher graded E98s seem to pretty much be in collections now but you can still pick up some nice ones at auction or on ebay at reasonable prices, at least compared to a year ago. The E94s, on the other hand, have held their value much more than the E93, E95, E96, E97 and E98.