Red Hindu Challenge!

[Chicago206]

Originally Posted by JP

If you're looking only on Net54, your chances are slim. More collectors here than sellers, and those that do sell on occasion may not want to sell just so you can prove a point to others... Try some auctions outside of eBay and a show or two....sure to find a few for that price. Or maybe make an offer on some of the crazy priced ones on eBay. Won't hurt.

You also are basing your opinion on only 2 months of being in the hobby, while many of us here have been doing this for a quarter century, and others half a century....

Im basing my opinion not on 2 months of being in the hobby (its closer to 5 actually) but rather on realized CURRENT pricing. I went to the Chicago Sun Times show in March. 150 dealers, 0 red hindus. I scour ebay constantly. Other than the two way overpriced BINs and the card with half the back missing, there have been no red hindus. There are only a couple lots with red hindus in the current 2 major auctions (1 lot features 8 cards). I dont think you are giving enough credit to how rare this variation actually is. To say it can be had in PSA 1 with any frequency at $500, and then to tell me you know this because you have collected baseball cards for 25+ years only shows me one thing. That you have not been tracking the recent sales and very scarce availability of this particular card. I'd like to see a couple of real world auction/sales data thats recent that support your claim.