Posted By:
peter chaoGuys,
I believe that you look at the increasing prices for graded cards and the growth of the internet carefully, you will see that they correlate very closely. As customers bought more and more cards over the internet they realized that they would rather buy graded cards than cards in raw condition just because it was safer.
The second factor is the growth in the PSA and SGC registries.
The third factor is the auction houses are almost exclusively selling graded cards.
No wonder the price of high end graded cards are skyrocketing.
Peter