Card Prices Back?

[Bosox Blair]

(Ignoring the issue of whether you call the economic situation a depression or a recession...)

I think prices are somewhat stronger now than they were early this year, but it does depend on what cards you are considering. I base this on fairly limited data - mainly my impressions of the REA auction this spring vs. the B&L auction that just closed. Again, this is pretty unscientific, but I thought the prices at REA were pretty soft on a lot of great, rarely-seen material. At B&L, I thought the prices were closer to years gone by on the higher-quality and high-demand lots. However, I did notice that prices on single commons at B&L (even ones in quite high grade for the sets - a.k.a. low pop commons) went very cheap at B&L in general.

As for Ebay, I have not seen much of interest in many months.

Cheers,
Blair