I see what you're saying, John and I agree. I guess my point is that when people start talking on here about something they admire or "should be valuable", it doesn't take long before that actually happens. There are a lot of very knowledgeable and well respected people on this board and when they start talking, people listen. I have no problem if someone wanted to pay a million dollars for that card, but I see more and more of these random variations being hyped up. We both know we could probably go through our T206 collection and find a "variation" on at least half of the cards...it just waters the true variations down imo.
We all know we have a Titus hoarder among us (and I know who you are!!
), but do you think his cards would have went up much if we didn't realize it and people started making a big deal about it? Just a few years ago he was going for around what a standard common goes for...now, he can't be had for under $200. Part of this is people are viewing his card as "tough" and they feel like they need to stash them away or sell them for a king's ransom. I never get too worked up talking about this sort of stuff, but I do like to throw out my opinion from time to time. Honestly, I think collecting some of these oddities are great, but I believe it gets to be overblown from time to time
Thanks for your take, John...always like to hear what you have to say!