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Posted By: Anonymous

Two things...

First, why are these called "buy backs"?? Here in the hills of Kentucky, the way American English is used, I buy something when I give someone money or a promise to pay money in exchange for an item... And for me to "buy back" something, it would have to be an item I had at some previous point in time, that I am BUYING BACK (to me). I understand what they mean, but Topps never had these cards to start with. And truth be known, it is unlikely that Piedmont or Seet Caporal or any of those brands "produced" these cards, realistically they contracted with some lithography printing company to produce the cards.


Secondly, I don't doubt Joan may well be correct about appreciation of prices, for a few years... but they will go back down, or stagnate, in about 3 dozen years, after the players are retired. The prewar cards won't do that, they'll be "constantly advancing" to use Gen. Patton's nomenclature. Think of Model Ts. The price on those peaked when the kids who had a raggedy one as a first car reached retirement age, and wanted to "buy back" their first car... That put pressure on the Model T market. As those geezers pass on (replaced by us geezers) the demand lessened, and the prices went down a bit. When the A-Rod collecting snotnoses get ready to cash in on their piles of A-Rod cards when he makes the Hall, who will buy them?? Rod Carew cards flattened out, so will this new stuff.