I only collect and sell cards, and in that context, the prices make limited sense. Koufax has been an autograph guest at shows for decades. If you just want an autographed card, there are hundreds out there at any given time available for a lot less. Where it does make sense to get them signed would be on the rookie and on a rare card that might be a 1/1 when the inevitable happens and Koufax passes away.
What is going on, really, is a cycle of price escalation. The price of having an item signed has been raised every time and the asking prices for signed cards have been adjusted accordingly. A few months later, Harlan Werner (Koufax's longstanding agent for signings) raises the price on the signings and the sellers raise too. If Shelly is right that they are not selling out, we may have reached the price point where the market is saying "enough".
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