1925 Gehrig Exhibit Card.

Peter_Spaeth · #1 01-31-2021, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Schlesinj

The PSA Mantle 8 Mantle over $1,605,150.

Two Jordans $738k each.

Just a couple of weeks ago, a Jordan sold for 222. I... don't... get.....it. My spider sense says 2016 is happening again. Cards that aren't hard to find going 3.5x in a couple of weeks?

rats60 · #2 01-31-2021, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Just a couple of weeks ago, a Jordan sold for 221. I... don't... get.....it.

One sold a day before for 350 on eBay.

Peter_Spaeth · #3 01-31-2021, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by rats60

One sold a day before for 350 on eBay.

As the Dinah Washington song goes, what a difference a day makes, I guess.

insidethewrapper · #4 01-31-2021, 10:27 AM

In the last published Standard Catalog of Vintage Cards the 1925 Exhibit Gehrig was listed at $12,000 in Near Mint Condition.

Snapolit1 · #5 01-31-2021, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

In the last published Standard Catalog of Vintage Cards the 1925 Exhibit Gehrig was listed at $12,000 in Near Mint Condition.

Well, that's says a lot about the value of the Standard catalog. I bought one 3 years ago for multiples of that.

pokerplyr80 · #6 01-31-2021, 10:34 AM

Well at 700k I think a lot of people who bought psa 10 Jordans for 20-25k will be selling. We should find out soon if there is really enough demand to sustain these prices. Same with 9s at 60k that were readily available for 5 not too long ago.

Any time prices increase this much this fast it feels like a bubble waiting to burst. But it would only take a small number of hedge fund types, billionaires, etc jumping in to shift the market. Especially if they decide to start buying prewar cards.

Peter_Spaeth · #7 01-31-2021, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Well at 700k I think a lot of people who bought psa 10 Jordans for 20-25k will be selling. We should find out soon if there is really enough demand to sustain these prices. Same with 9s at 60k that were readily available for 5 not too long ago.

Any time prices increase this much this fast it feels like a bubble waiting to burst. But it would only take a small number of hedge fund types, billionaires, etc jumping in to shift the market. Especially if they decide to start buying prewar cards.

It feels like manipulation to me -- create FOMO out there, then dump some of your holdings at major profit -- but who knows.

MattyC · #8 01-31-2021, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

It feels like manipulation to me -- create FOMO out there, then dump some of your holdings at major profit -- but who knows.

Agreed. I don't buy for a second that there's been some sudden, literally overnight influx of uber-wealthy buyers who only now discovered a passion for sportscards of all sorts (Jordan, Mantle, Ruth, Gehrig, etc., etc.). A passion so intense that it leads them to spend sums of the riches they were so savvy enough in life to obtain— sums that break wholly with all past data and pricing history.

swarmee · #9 01-31-2021, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MattyC

Agreed. I don't buy for a second that there's been some sudden, literally overnight influx of uber-wealthy buyers who only now discovered a passion for sportscards of all sorts (Jordan, Mantle, Ruth, Gehrig, etc., etc.). A passion so intense that it leads them to spend sums of the riches they were so savvy enough in life to obtain� sums that break wholly with all past data and pricing history.

As with what's going on with GameStop, the current values are becoming "untethered from the underlying fundamentals," IMO. All the cook groups manipulating prices over the summer seem to just be the start of this. The government keeps printing free money, and people keep sticking into riskier and riskier investments since the regular investments aren't paying out.
And since groups of people are controlling the small investment schemes and driving them "to the moon" by HODLing, then cash out and have more and more funds to spread to other investments to repeat the cycle.

Republicaninmass · #10 01-31-2021, 01:25 PM

Many of these cards I feel will be listed again and again for higher and higher prices, and eventually through auctions houses with hidden reserves until the "madoff shareholders" are left with a loss.

Exhibitman · #11 01-31-2021, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by swarmee

As with what's going on with GameStop, the current values are becoming "untethered from the underlying fundamentals," IMO. All the cook groups manipulating prices over the summer seem to just be the start of this. The government keeps printing free money, and people keep sticking into riskier and riskier investments since the regular investments aren't paying out.
And since groups of people are controlling the small investment schemes and driving them "to the moon" by HODLing, then cash out and have more and more funds to spread to other investments to repeat the cycle.

I am not familiar with that term, what does it mean?

I'm not sure there are fundamentals with baseball cards...

If this continues for a few more auction cycles I am going to sell my collection and pay off my house. If not, f***it, I will just enjoy my cards and pay the mortgage.

investinrookies · #12 01-31-2021, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Well at 700k I think a lot of people who bought psa 10 Jordans for 20-25k will be selling. We should find out soon if there is really enough demand to sustain these prices. Same with 9s at 60k that were readily available for 5 not too long ago.

Any time prices increase this much this fast it feels like a bubble waiting to burst. But it would only take a small number of hedge fund types, billionaires, etc jumping in to shift the market. Especially if they decide to start buying prewar cards.

I can think of several prewar cards right now that seem like screaming values compared to some modern day stuff. Ruths, Cobbs, gehrig and some of the key T206 cards.

swarmee · #13 01-31-2021, 11:46 AM

And how many of those 1986 Fleer Jordans are trimmed, recolored, overgraded, or just plain counterfeit?
One of the main "blow-outed" trimmers, Robert Block, was known to have owned like 3% of all graded PSA/BGS Jordans. But taking those cert numbers out of circulation would just make the other ones sell for even more, I guess. It's a weird, weird, weird, weird world.

But right now, it's a dick measuring contest from people who got rich with bitcoin and gamestop, I guess.

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