Yes, it only makes sense if you have something incredibly unique/special/valuable and paying that sort of money will increase the value of your item. That should logically narrow down the types of items we see, but I've seen people show off a generic SI or OMLB with inscriptions that were signed at these rates. Really?! To each his own. If it makes you happy, I'm happy for you.
I would never be paying three-four figures to have anyone autograph an OMLB considering how extra temperamental they are with the passage of time. If people want a signed ball, there are tons from the Feeney-Coleman eras available for fractions of the Tier 1 pricing. While all of these baseballs have always fought their own condition battles, people will be safer in picking something up that's already 25-50 years old so they can ascertain how the ball fared with the passage of time. You may not find the inscriptions you were so hoping for, but wouldn't you rather have a signature that won't disappear?
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