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Posted By: John

Bruce We think you're way off base

First of all our hobby and the collections within are not stock they are not gold and not land. The prices are not regulated per say by anyone and they never have a daily or general finite price or trade value. For the most part like it or not your collection is only worth what someone is willing to pay you at the time of sale regardless of economy.

Not saying stock cant go down or land cant take a dump. But if you go to sell stock today say Microsoft it will be bought at a certain value. Nobody's going to say its worth $19 a share how about I give you $15 and will call it even.

Cards trade up and down all the time Ive bought cards in good economies for great prices and I've bought similar cards in worse economies for more money. Cards are all over the place dont believe me look at how many posts over the years on this forum that say "did anyone else think this went really low?" These posts which I would bet there are a ton of date back years or more. Furthermore these discussions have been had for years in hobby circles well before our forum.

The only things baseball cards have is a ball park that most of the well traded examples sell within the truly rare are all over the place from cheap compared to mainstream cards to out of this world daddy needs Powerball money!

As for a great depression you and I had this discussion once before my first hollow threat of a lawsuit via email from you ahhhh memories

http://www.network54.com/Forum/153652/message/1205609405/last-1221775667/We+think+%93we%94+need+a+reality+check%21

Are we in for some tough times you bet but are we looking at another dust bowl no get real. Most American's wouldnt know true poverty and hard times if it sat on them. And I have poised this question to you once before if there was another Grapes of Wrath scenario around the corner are those affected really going to be concerned about their card collections or feeding their families.

As for big dollar items most folks that are buying Wagner's aren't really affected by economies sure they can lose money and be hit hard but it's all relative. Most of those folks in bad economy will now have only one Ferrari have to fly first class and sell the G series jet and only have to live with one or two homes. And these very folks will buy some great cards cheap due to older say regular collectors who may need some scrap to get by and who may part with prizes from his or her collections.

P.S. Bruce I caught the Ringer on TV the other night the one of the actors looks a little bit like you no joke see for yourself.