That many MJ rookie cards should make you wonder how many are elaborate fakes. Modern cards are MUCH easier to fake than 1950s on back. You just can't fake old card stock and printing techniques. Just look at how many old-time fakes have been outed right here on this forum. But the question is, did they really print that many MJ RCs? If so, why are they so over the top in value?

Sure. Small set so every box would get 3 - 4 cards and 3 stickers. Look at a Beckett from 1986. You could buy a set for $9.99 and a box for $16.99 - and no one wanted them. Too busy chasing that Canseco rookie.

Ugh, don't remind me. I remember going go a show in 1987 where a dealer had an entire table of 1986 Fleer basketball and all I could think was "worthless crap" as I passed by. A hundred bucks applied that day and I would be retired today.

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If it makes you feel any better Adam, in early 2015 one of my professors told my class about Amazon's new cloud service and how it was going to put them head and shoulders above the competition. At the time, Amazon was trading in the low $300s. I figured they were a used book seller that had been walloped by the dot-com bubble and were all hat and no cattle. They closed yesterday at over $3,300.

It doesn't but thanks.

in 2015 A PSA 10 Jordan RC was a $25,000 card. The most recent one sold for $369,000 in the October Goldin. So better than Amazon. Buy 100 shares at $330 a share, worth $330,000 today. Buy a Jordan at $25,000, worth $350,000 today. And that is after having been over half a million earlier in the year.

If we're talking about Market misteps, I decided to get in on the AMC craze. Had a cool 500 shares at about 2 bucks per share. Sold when it went to 8 bucks a share. At one point in the craziness of the market it peaked at over 60. Definitely a rough pill to swallow. Certainly wouldn't have been able to retire, but would've been able to put some more money away for a house!

Pet peeve: Listings/headings that really avoid showing what you're getting or not getting (to the point of intentional misrepresentation with the hope of tricking someone)

Example: "1965 Topps Football complete set (missing #122)" as a heading on ebay. No mention of who that is, and no mention of the one missing card at all again in the description further down.

You're selling this set without the Namath rookie. Just own that fact. Doesn't have to be presented front and center in bold, but going this far to not clarify it comes off sleazy

I dunno, that seems pretty straight to me. What I don't like are the listings with "reprint" buried in the item details or at the bottom of a long-winded description about everything else under the sun.

The Term “Collector Grade”

To me from previous experience it usually means cheap off grade cards by frugal collectors.

Used to...seen the prices on a collector grade Ruth or Cobb card lately?

Just something to ponder...

Betty White was alive for all 27 NY Yankee World Series championships.

...and you resent her for it?




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