Postwar Vintage vs Modern ?

[SPMIDD]

Originally Posted by cesarcap

Why can't we just leave the junk wax era in it's own separate category?

Are you saying that my 200 Juan Gonzales rookie cards will never be worth anything?

[cesarcap]

Are they graded PSA 10??????

[SPMIDD]

Originally Posted by cesarcap

Are they graded PSA 10??????

No...I was just trying to be funny. My apologies.

Live and Let Live , I grew up in the 1960's buying baseball cards and started collecting and saving them in the mid 1970's Im 59 yrs old and still collecting but only pre war and post war my modern cut off is 1985

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by SPMIDD

No...I was just trying to be funny. My apologies.

He was being sarcastic too... ;-)

[swarmee]

I think it's fun listening to young kids these days talk about "vintage" being 1999-2000 Pokemon and 1993-94 Magic cards.

[cesarcap]

I indeed was trying to joke around about the PSA 10 grade although I do find it absurd that 86 fleer hoops (same era essentially) in PSA 10 buys houses currently.

[swarmee]

There are a lot of pictures of the Federal money supply charts being shared by my Facebook friends which makes it look like there is a lot of money out there compared to 20 years ago.

[cardsagain74]

I gave up on fighting any of this the moment I first heard a Bon Jovi song from my childhood on the "classic" rock station about 5 years ago

[cardsagain74]

Originally Posted by cesarcap

I indeed was trying to joke around about the PSA 10 grade although I do find it absurd that 86 fleer hoops (same era essentially) in PSA 10 buys houses currently.

A year ago, a set of those PSA 10s would've gotten you a shack in a real small town. Now it'll buy a nice 2-3 BR in the suburbs.

What's even crazier is it's far from just the best football/basketball/hockey "new vintage" cards of the '80s that have appreciated that way. Most other '80s PSA 9s and 10s of Gretzky, Lemieux, Jordan, Bird, Magic, etc have done just as well. Stuff totally in the background like an 84 OPC Gretzky or '88 Fleer Bird in those grades has gone up just as much.

The fact that an '88 Fleer Magic Johnson PSA 9 costs $50 now (when you could barely give them away for $10 a year ago) might say even more about the $ coming into the hobby than the gains in the headline cards.

[vintagewhitesox]

Originally Posted by SPMIDD

No...I was just trying to be funny. My apologies.

I thought it was funny.