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Posted By: greg

Dave,
You certainly make an aweful lot of sense.
There certainly appear to be many cards out there that are very desirable and price will be reflected by this (although I still can't fathom why in many cases). This desirabilty factor certainly doesn't make an item "rare" though.

In another collecting venue, I'm used to "rare" being the description of an item in which case only one or two examples of the item are known to exist (not one or two examples on ebay up at one time mind you). Supply and demand will always be an issue when commanding a price, and obviously there is a huge demand in the sports card field, but even with that, many of these so called "rare" cards can be found if you want to buy one. You may just have to wait a week or two before another one shows up on ebay or in a major auction.

Of course, as mentioned in other posts, many true "rare" cards cannot be found on a regular basis, which truly makes them rare.

To sum it up....I shake my head all the time when I see some of these cards going for the prices they achieve when there seems to be a neverending stream of them on the market.