ratio of heritage short prints

[Jay Boston]

Hello,

I just purchased a base set of 1-425. New to newer cards. Thought the set looked cool. Now working on the short prints.

Is there a set ratio of the short prints vs. the base cards? 10 to1?
Are the short prints about 10 times more expensive?

Thanks

[dodgerfanjohn]

Which year are you looking at? This year?

Generally SP commons from current year go for around $2 but it will depend on if you are buying them individually or in a lot plus what the interest in that particular set is.

From earlier sets(say 2001-2011), the Yankee SP's can be a beast to find and sometimes sell on ebay for WAY more than they ought to, I presume due to collectors just desperate to pick one up. Jeter is probably the biggest PITA.

[Jay Boston]

Yes. 2014. Thought they might be in the $2 range.

Thanks for the heads up with the earlier years.

[dodgerfanjohn]

Looks like several sellers have lots up at BIN of $2 a card.

Parkerj33 has them at $2.50 and is very reliable. While priced a little higher, if you contact him directly, he discounts by $0.25 per card in off ebay transactions and also tends to have better prices than ebay when he has star cards in stock.

Since you have no sp's you may want to wait for a lot to appear. Often you can get cards as low as $1 a piece in these situations. You'll need every card in the lot so there's no hassle at this point of getting duplicates you have to resell.

[swarmee]

try comc.com; it's perfect for this kind of collecting, plus they've got Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales going on.