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marshall barkmanI used to deal in very high end game used and rookie cards of the modern era. The people who buy and trade these cards are generally young and love to gamble. I know a kid in Atlanta Ga who used to buy 10 to 20 cases of certain products looking for a big hit and if he got it then dump the rest of the cases and boxes.
When Donruss introduced Timeless Treasures it really started the game used market to skyrocket. At one point in time the Gehrig 1/1 jersey auto sold for over 10,000 and the Ruth was around 23,000. People pay more of a premium because the card is considered a part of that set and there is only 1 available in the set where a check or cut signature is a part of nothing and really is not even a baseball card.
The madness has gone down alot because of the over saturation of game used product and the countless rumors that half the stuff is not even real. Do you really think that when you pull a Shoeless Joe Jackson bat card or Mickey Mantle bat card that those are real? The bat chips could be off any old bat and i have always thought that.
At one point in time if you had a Ichiro multi colored patch card then those babies were worth 500 to 3000 depending on the print run. At the 2004 show at Chicago i sold a Ichiro patch card numbered to 5 which was a piece of the Mariner logo for 1750, also i then sold a Ben Roethlisberger jersey patch auto for 1000 which was 7/10 and considered a 1/1 because it was his jersey number.