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Originally Posted by tbob
Just wondering if it is due to: 1) the economy 2) caramel card hoarding 3) buyers are more collectors now than speculators and the cards are going in to collections and/or 4) they are truly scarce and things have just dried up.
The reason I ask is that the E94s, E97s, E98s and of course the E99s and E100s are nowhere to be found on ebay. Even cards which were relatively plentiful from time to time on ebay like the E95s and E96s are AWOL.
Anyone have an idea?
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tbob
I don't fully understand the differences among the last three choices. Does "hoarding" mean holding on to a bunch with an intention to sell later, when the ecomony improves? So aren't 1 and 2 close to the same thing? 3 and 4 also sound similar to me. In any case, and I wouldn't be surprised if 3 or 4 have contributed to make E cards harder to find. Almost all of the E issues are very limited in number, and if only a few people suddenly decided to collect a given set, it would be noticed. Beyond the reasons that you have brought forward, there may be another reason for the disappearance of the caramel cards. Yesterday, I was reading over the renewal notice for my collectible insurance and noticed a clause that says that the company does not cover "mysterious disappearances." I don't know how often baseball cards vanish into thin air, but maybe they sometimes do. I do know, however, that if they do, the CIA isn't paying for it!