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Originally Posted by Exhibitman
100% agree. Absolute rarity is wonderful. When you have a truly rare item, you can set the price and hold out to get it.
I loathe manufactured rarity. The problem with manufactured rarities is that demand for them hasn’t built organically and over the long term. The manufacturers keep churning them out, year after year, in every series and set, and they get hyped relentlessly to push the issue out the door, until the next wave of cards is issued and they become yesterday’s news. Also, when every card has a rainbow of parallel manufactured rarities, player collectors get frustrated and burned out, and they quit. The result is a mountain of very low print run cards that fall in value after issue and stay way down by comparison to the initial price run. Reminds me of bad IPOs.
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Reminds me of the overproduction of cards in the 80's. Too many rare/desirable cards produced by the manufacturers that ended up swamping the demand.
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Working Sets:
Baseball-
T206 SLers - Virginia League (-2)
1952 Topps - low numbers (-1)
1954 Bowman (-5)
1964 Topps Giants auto'd (-2)
Last edited by Bigdaddy; 01-05-2024 at 09:13 PM.
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