Is it time to ask AGAIN if T206 prices are falling?

[rjackson44]

A card is worth what someone is willing to pay for it 😎

[tab]

I would have been bidding but I guess they don't want my business. Tried to register a week or so ago. Never did get a response. Tried to get in contact with them by email, no response. Tried to register again , no response. I did check my junk folder by the way nothing there.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by tab

I would have been bidding but I guess they don't want my business. Tried to register a week or so ago. Never did get a response. Tried to get in contact with them by email, no response. Tried to register again , no response. I did check my junk folder by the way nothing there.

A year or two or three ago I also tried to register and never received a response. One would think that approving registrations would be a priority. They're one of the very few (perhaps the only) auction house that I haven't bid in.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by tab

I would have been bidding but I guess they don't want my business. Tried to register a week or so ago. Never did get a response. Tried to get in contact with them by email, no response. Tried to register again , no response. I did check my junk folder by the way nothing there.

A two minute phone call pushed my registration through about 5 minutes after I entered my info on their website during the auction prior to this one.

And if prices are falling I will take a couple of Cobbs off someone's hands, preferably PSA or SGC 3-4, common backs are fine.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

A two minute phone call pushed my registration through about 5 minutes after I entered my info on their website during the auction prior to this one.

And if prices are falling I will take a couple of Cobbs off someone's hands, preferably PSA or SGC 3-4, common backs are fine.

Just look at the 10 year history..some cards go up then come down then up again....I wouldn't worry about now....10 years ago from the non-stud cards...maybe that's when to ask the question..but 1 2 or 3 bad auctions in a row aren't enough of an indicator...the cards will likely have their ups and downs..

Dealers I know don't care about low auction results..they will keep citing a price from 3 years ago as to why their card is priced right...they don't care about any auctions that show a card going for lower..only auctions that enforce what they say even if its only 1 of the past 5 auctions..

[mechanicalman]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

And if prices are falling I will take a couple of Cobbs off someone's hands, preferably PSA or SGC 3-4, common backs are fine.

Based on the last two auction results, it would appear as though Cobb is immune to this perceived swoon. (Sadly, as I'm also looking to buy some mid-grade Cobbs.)

[GregMitch34]

REA results for t206 brown Hindus were very high, right?

[iwantitiwinit]

Originally Posted by GregMitch34

REA results for t206 brown Hindus were very high, right?

I'm specifically referring to t206's, relative to t207's you are probably right I don't follow them. I guess some REA lots did go relatively high but there were exceptions and it didn't seem like there were any lots going cheaply in REA in recent memory.

What some have said appears to be accurate, pricing for many of the truly rare cards are strong, but for many of the others prices have slipped.

[gs1968]

All the BL 350's went for very low prices. Bescher was a steal at 1200.00 fell asleep and missed it oh well

[Joshchisox08]

Originally Posted by mechanicalman

Based on the last two auction results, it would appear as though Cobb is immune to this perceived swoon. (Sadly, as I'm also looking to buy some mid-grade Cobbs.)

How about a Cobb for us poor people ??

[JustinD]

Currently on the hunt for a 2-4 Cobb myself.

Always plenty of competition for those. Those will slow down the day Goudey Ruths do.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Currently on the hunt for a 2-4 Cobb myself.

Always plenty of competition for those. Those will slow down the day Goudey Ruths do.

right we are mentioning two of the most iconic cards...even when the housing bubble crashed..the waterfront properties on the ocean didn't get hit as hard......when the card market crashes and it will..the collectors will be throwing their money into those types of iconic cards....

[jl9999]

Originally Posted by tab

I would have been bidding but I guess they don't want my business. Tried to register a week or so ago. Never did get a response. Tried to get in contact with them by email, no response. Tried to register again , no response. I did check my junk folder by the way nothing there.

I had the same issue with them. They e-mailed saying they wanted me to call them. Called repeatedly nobody ever picked up or answered of my messages. Sent multiple e-mails, nothing.





John Leso

[btcarfagno]

How many times have we had this discussion? At some point in the not too distant future there will be an auction house having an auction where the T206 results will be really high and we'll all look at this thread and be like


Tom C

[Yoda]

I was the happy and surprised winner of the Hart card. Just to underscore your point I figured it had to be at least a $1,000 card plus juice. Might get it switched over to SGC. If T206's are indeed trending lower, it might be a cold winter for a lot of dealers holding large inventories of them as well as the auction houses.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I was the happy and surprised winner of the Hart card. Just to underscore your point I figured it had to be at least a $1,000 card plus juice. Might get it switched over to SGC. If T206's are indeed trending lower, it might be a cold winter for a lot of dealers holding large inventories of them as well as the auction houses.

Was your card a PSA 9oc? If so, that's not a fair analysis on T206s. Qualified cards are always suspect to very low prices...

[Sean1125]

There are a few "player" exceptions to this rule, but the set, commons, variations, etc that aren't heavily controlled by the parties that be are dropping.

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by Sean1125

There are a few "player" exceptions to this rule, but the set, commons, variations, etc that aren't heavily controlled by the parties that be are dropping.

Sean- Then why do PSA SMR prices keep going up?? Not SGC, but PSA graded....

[Sean1125]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Sean- Then why do PSA SMR prices keep going up?? Not SGC, but PSA graded....

Can you give me some specific examples?

[mechanicalman]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Sean- Then why do PSA SMR prices keep going up?? Not SGC, but PSA graded....

My bet is that SMR prices are going up because they were inexplicably low to begin with. They are going up because they are actually closing the gap to true market value. For T206, the SMR prices on key HOF's finally appear to be within a standard deviation of VCP prices. However, compare prices of SMR Cracker Jacks, for example, to actual realized prices and it's easy to dismiss SMR as a good barometer of card values.

As an aside, it blows my mind that SMR values would ever lag true values as PSA has a vested interest in higher market prices at each grading level.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Was your card a PSA 9oc? If so, that's not a fair analysis on T206s. Qualified cards are always suspect to very low prices...

why do you compare your OC cards than to cards without qualifiers? Like you say a PSA 9 sold for $47,000! and you would be selling a PSA 9 OC..why quote the straight psa 9 when you know that qualified cards are always suspect to very low prices....i was just surprised of this recent comment..

[1952boyntoncollector]

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[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

why do you compare your OC cards than to cards without qualifiers? Like you say a PSA 9 sold for $47,000! and you would be selling a PSA 9 OC..why quote the straight psa 9 when you know that qualified cards are always suspect to very low prices....i was just surprised of this recent comment..

btw you do have some nice OC cards though.....

When I advertise qualified cards, sometime I give the SMR for unqualified cards. This is to emphasize how good of a value they are if you don't really care about flawless centering on a straight grade. It's not meant to be deceiving in anyway, it is what it is. The point I was making previously to the other poster, you can't compare qualified PSA cards with the current market on non qualified cards.