OT: When a Card is so Unpopular, it Becomes Popular

[packs]

Are they, though? There's currently 183 cards sold 3 at a time for $14.99. If you bought all them in sets of 3, you've spent $914 before shipping. If you sold 181 of those cards for $5 per card, and then sold the Kendrick and Markakis for a hundred or so apiece, you've only made $200 on a $900 plus investment.

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by packs

Are they, though? There's currently 183 cards sold 3 at a time for $14.99. If you bought all them in sets of 3, you've spent $914 before shipping. If you sold 181 of those cards for $5 per card, and then sold the Kendrick and Markakis for a hundred or so apiece, you've only made $200 on a $900 plus investment.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but if it's in reference to my post, I was talking specifically about the Kendrick card. They sold for $5 on Wednesday morning and $55+ after the print run was announced. So yes, it became popular suddenly and strictly because it was unpopular. That did not happen with other cards that had low print runs. Once it was announced that it was the hardest card to find in the set, then it became sought after. If someone bought them at the bulk rate ($3.75 each for 20 cards) then you get quite a return on that investment.

[packs]

Ah, my mistake. I thought you meant major profits on buying the entire set.

[wolf441]

It is such a foolishly market manipulated set. Card #171 Shin-Soo Choo had 2,737 made. Card #177 Tim Beckham had 2,777 made. There are multiples of both cards selling at less than $15.00 buy it now. Topps made 2,633 Howie Kendrick cards, and it's suddenly selling for $50+? You could have bought as many as you wanted from May 8-15, but now it's extremely desirable?

[Rich Klein]

In a way this reminds me of 1996-97 Topps Chrome Basketball. There was almost no dealer interest in ordering so the only way this product appeared was through retail channels and not heavily printed.

Then you had cards such as a Kobe Bryant RC and those cards exploded in the secondary market. Yep, that's correct, no dealers wanted the product until they could not have any and then the prices exploded.

A perfect corollary to this disucsion

Rich

[Throttlesteer]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

In a way this reminds me of 1996-97 Topps Chrome Basketball. There was almost no dealer interest in ordering so the only way this product appeared was through retail channels and not heavily printed.

Then you had cards such as a Kobe Bryant RC and those cards exploded in the secondary market. Yep, that's correct, no dealers wanted the product until they could not have any and then the prices exploded.

A perfect corollary to this disucsion

Rich

Or those green and red metal ones people are paying stupid money for.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Throttlesteer

Or those green and red metal ones people are paying stupid money for.

Ah yes, the world of Precious Metal Gems (also basketball) which has become the best 90's insert set.

Rich