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Originally Posted by mintacular
I agree about prices spiking near spring training but disagree with the X-mas thing. I find that during X-mas people shop for themselves and splurge a little or that significant others get involved with a bidding war...The worst time to tell is Jan-Feb
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With all due respect to Patrick I have come to the realization of just the opposite. I do agree that some prices of cards will go up comming into the Christmas season but it seems to be specific cards that people would buy for themselves or significant others (e rookie cards, certain big names like Mantle). I find alot of good deals at that season for myself of "set fillers". Such as semi big names or lots of cards lumped together.
I also have found that the first two weeks in February to be a great time to sell. There are a certain amount of people getting thier tax refunds back as soon as they can and a fairly decent percentage of them spend it all like free money within a few weeks. They usually will buy lower conditioned cards in bidding wars because of the influx of money they aren't used to having. Unfortunatly, within a few weeks the extra splurge money has dissapated and they are back to normal week to week checks to make ends meet.
Of course maybe people just buy my cards low and I try to buy when they are high.... at least that's the way it seems.
Drew