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Originally Posted by Fred
I heard the word "manipulation" somewhere just past the 17:45 mark. Pretty crazy stuff. What the guy seems to be saying is that rich people are playing this game. What happens when these rich guys get bored and find out that not everybody is going to play this game. For now, it's pretty sad to see this occur because those people are screwing up a hobby for the average Joe hobbyist. Now if average Joe hobbyist bought a ton of stuff a few years back and sells it now, then average Joe can make a few bucks and hope for the bubble to burst so average Joe can buy it back on the cheap.
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What's most interesting to me is that, for example, the 1986 Fleer Jordan PSA10 is not rare (unless your definition of rare is 312). It
s surely an iconic card and that certainly has value, but there are 7,700+ PSA8's for goodness sake! Mantle? 3 PSA 10's, 6 9's and 35 8's.....
SO I agree with you on the 'manipulation' - I'd hate to be holding the bag is those Jordan's go up to 400K (...and I know I risk this not aging well)..... just making the comparison, anyway!