Anybody noticing? Tell your MJ story, etc

[rats60]

The Jordan RC is like the 1952 Topps Mantle. It doesn’t matter that there are rarer cards or other players as good or better with rookie cards. The demand for those 2 cards dwarves all of their contemporaries. .

[WillBBC]

Originally Posted by rats60

The Jordan RC is like the 1952 Topps Mantle. It doesn’t matter that there are rarer cards or other players as good or better with rookie cards. The demand for those 2 cards dwarves all of their contemporaries. .

This is the KISS explanation that I actually believe trumps everything else.

[irv]

My only Jordan card I purchased years ago.

Have all his cards gone up?

[ruth-gehrig]

Heritage Jordan Rookie PSA 10 at $69k with BP and 6 hrs left

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by rats60

The Jordan RC is like the 1952 Topps Mantle. It doesn’t matter that there are rarer cards or other players as good or better with rookie cards. The demand for those 2 cards dwarves all of their contemporaries. .

That's a very good explanation for the 1986 Fleer price rise (I won't call it a RC since there was a licensed card the year before, just like the Mantle), but does not explain why prices are surging on other early Jordans and slightly later Jordan inserts, Pippen and Rodman RCs, and a host of other basketball rookies and inserts. I don't have a Fleer card and I've watched all of my other Jordan cards rise. If this keeps up much longer and at the same rate I will probably take some profits.

[55koufax]

Heritage Jordan Rookie PSA 10 at $69k with BP and 6 hrs left

Heritage's 10 RC closes for $96,000 with BP. How insane is this? Same buyer coulda picked one up for:

4/28/20 $50,000.00 Listing
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4/19/20 $51,600.00 Auction
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3/26/20 $45,100.00 Auction
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3/25/20 $49,995.00 Listing
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3/22/20 $48,600.00 Auction
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1/21/20 $39,600.00 Auction
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12/17/19 $37,877.00 Auction
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[bruin805]

In 2019 I decided I wanted to buy some of the Jordans that I couldn't afford as a kid (started collecting around 1988). Picked up the 86 Fleer in a PSA 8.5, the 87 in a PSA 9, the 88 in a PSA 9 (I still have the one I pulled from a pack as a kid but it's a 7 at best), and the 89 in a PSA 9, all for pretty reasonable prices.

After the Last Dance, they've all more than doubled in price compared to what I paid.

I'm not likely going to sell these, as I just wanted to own them, but I'm happy to see that the demand has gone up.

[Exhibitman]

I ended up selling off one of my Star cards; double the price in a less than a year. Wish I could do that with my IRA.

[rjackson44]

All jordans are selling commons inserts etc ,,

[ZiggerZagger]

I was fortunate to decide to buy MJ's early Fleer issues a couple of years ago in PSA 8 or so. Not the stratosphere, but solid.

Ended up obsessing over finding a well-centered copy of his '86 RC, and could not find one in an 8. So I got a nice PSA 7 for $923 offer on eBay in late 2015.

I thought it might have the juice to go higher, so I finally convinced myself to send it to PSA for a Review in holder, with minimum 7.5. I thought there was maybe a 10% chance of them bumping it.

Imagine my surprise when PSA was feeling all sorts of crazy that day it graded and took it to a PSA 8! (see pics) Mind you, this was submitted in the holder. Never heard of such generosity before then or since. I am still amazed.

Other good fortune with MJ, I bought a PSA 8.5 of the Fleer Sticker for under $400 in 2018, because I couldn't find a centered 8.

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Also had recent success with this Gold Refractor I happened into coming back a PSA 10 after sitting on it for 5 years -- sold last month at the peak. It'll all fund Vintage baseball, as it should!!

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