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Originally Posted by toyman55
$299.00 for his autograph? WOW! I remember in the early 1980's when you could take your kid to a card show and for 5 bucks get a signed picture and have a conversation with the athlete. My son and I got to meet Duke Snider, Bob Feller, Maury Wills, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Steve Sax, Muhammad Ali, among others and took pictures of it. Great times gone. I hear Mays charges for extra for anything other than his name and it is hard to read at that. Wish I had gone to more shows back when.
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With a lot of these living athletes, there is such a disparity between what the autograph is "worth" in the market, and what is being asked for an in-person autograph at shows. That Aaron standard auto is probably only worth about $55-$75.
At the 2011 National, I was a little tempted to get an auto from Wade Boggs, who I loved watching when I was younger. I believe the price for an auto was $50 or $60. Funny enough, at the table right by the entrance to where you go to get autos, there was a dealer who had a really nice 1980s Boggs card signed and slabbed by PSA/DNA...for $10. I bought that one and moved on... (And later I learned that Boggs signs TTM for under $20 anyhow!!!)
Sorry for the thread drift...
Cheers,
Blair