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Old 05-20-2002, 07:59 AM
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Posted By: runscott

...great entertainment watching the snipes!

Do these normally sell this high? The prices were way, way higher than SCD catl'g. I thought I would pick one up for my type set, but I couldn't even touch the mascot.

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Old 05-20-2002, 09:02 AM
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Posted By: Bill Cornell

Now I see why my Tip Top collection is stalled at 1... the only card in that group that might be considered a bargain was the SGC 50 Wagner at a mere 3K. D322's are especially attractive cards, I think, and are certainly scarce/rare/uncommon. The prices realized last night should be the kind of "verifiable" evidence SCD requires for their price guide.

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Old 05-20-2002, 10:37 AM
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Posted By: Cy

Scott,

I watched those auctions as well. It was exciting to say the least. I also wanted to buy the Forbes Field card but it jumped well over my limit and I thought I had a high bid brewing. If anyone has this card, I wouldn't mind getting a price on it. But it was fun to see the numbers grow at each auction's final moments.

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Old 05-20-2002, 01:35 PM
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I don't know if one sale can, or should, determine value. I think the price guides should be an average of many sales and not be affected by one sale where for all you know the the bidder just collects that one set and just wanted his set average in the PSA set registry to be higher so they went crazy with the bids.

Considering what the commons went for, I will agree that the Wagner seemed to go cheaply. Same case with the E94s that were just sold.

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Posted By: Bill Cornell

Pete -

Agreed that it's just one sale, but this was a group of 25 cards that sold to mostly unique buyers, which to me indicates representative pricing that happens to be far below the last SCD prices (true for most issues). So few of these cards change hand in the public eye that I think it would be wrong to not pay attention to the prices achieved.

A larger point, I think, is that current price guide values are detrimental to collecting, since those stated values are almost always too low. This had led to a tendency by sellers to inflate the grades of cards so that they hit the upper price guide boundary (NM). No one will rationally quote "book value" unless that value is an accurate indication of the card's true worth, so cards get slotted above their real grades. My feeling is that SCD should be giving price ranges for scarce cards.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Cracker Jacks are expensive, too. And American Caramel.
(that set that came out in '33 with the red background, if I got the name wrong).

At first I thought you meant the 1947 Tip Top Bread! That's my Berra rookie card....also fairly pricey. But not THAT pricey!

The price guides are so busy trying to catch up with last years saler, they don't have time to look at this years. That's the way it seems.

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Posted By: leon

Came from Doug Allen and I bought it about 3 years ago on ebay. It is ungraded but probably vg-ex. I paid around $350.00 for it...which is about 25% of what the Clarke went for in this auction....wow.....seems really high......best regards all...

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