Dmitri Young collection

[packs]

I guess but it's the nicest Clemente rookie. I think it's a lot crazier from an outsider's perspective to pay a few thousand dollars for a scrub's T206 because it has a Broadleaf back. At least you're getting Clemente's rookie. How do rationalize to an outsider why you paid a thousand dollars for a card because it's back was upside down? People are into what they're into.

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by packs

I guess but it's the nicest Clemente rookie.

according to who? the geniuses at PSA?

[ullmandds]

In my mind there is no comparison...spending a few K on a t206 drum common which there may exist 10 copies...vs 1/2 a mil on a card where hundreds of thousands of them exist...it just so happens this one is really...really new?!

Sorry...to each their own but I've never been able to relate to the condition "rarity" collector...whatever the hell that means!!!!

[wondo]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

In my mind there is no comparison...spending a few K on a t206 drum common which there may exist 10 copies...vs 1/2 a mil on a card where hundreds of thousands of them exist...it just so happens this one is really...really new?!

Sorry...to each their own but I've never been able to relate to the condition "rarity" collector...whatever the hell that means!!!!

Hey, they are really all just man-made pictures basically on cardboard. Can't eat 'em!

Anything more than .01 is ludicrous - right?

[glchen]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

In my mind there is no comparison...spending a few K on a t206 drum common which there may exist 10 copies...vs 1/2 a mil on a card where hundreds of thousands of them exist...it just so happens this one is really...really new?!

Sorry...to each their own but I've never been able to relate to the condition "rarity" collector...whatever the hell that means!!!!

There are also fewer than 10 copies of some back variations of the E121-80 commons, but no one cares. Absolute rarity doesn't always determine price. It's the old supply and demand. It's a nice Clemente RC, although I do think the price is nuts. However, I also think the price of many T206 rare backs are nuts too. To each his own on what he wants to collect and pay for. As others have said, it's just cardboard, same as my frozen pizza box.

[drc]

As I occasionally say, "It's not my money."

[ullmandds]

mmmmmmn...pizza!

[hcv123]

I am BLOWN away by the final hammer on the Clemente Rookie. A 9 sells/sold? for ~20-30k. 432k!!! Crazy. I believe that may be the highest price ever paid for a post war card (perhaps until a PSA 10 52 Mantle hits the auction block again). I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it.

-Howard