Has everyone gone mad?

[wonkaticket]

Originally Posted by freakhappy

It only takes a few people to hype this sort of thing up and then the prices start to go crazy.

One thing we need to get away from is trying to advertise a card as valuable because "it's as rare as a BL 460, etc.," I could list thousands of cards that are rarer than a BL 460, Drum and such that aren't remotely close in price. A printing error is a printing error and just because part of the "L" is cut off, it shouldn't inflate the price 100x. That being said, to each their own...

Mike, nobody inflates the prices on their own. The collecting community sets the prices and causes any amount of cards to be more valuable than a another at any given time. The only reasons that matter are supply and demand. The rest of the spectrum is trivial.

As for drawing a connection between say BL460 and this back error I think it's fine its making a connection between backs within the same series of cards. I've been looking for these cards as have a handful of collectors and I can say they come up very rarely. Is it silly perhaps but interesting nonetheless. No more silly than plate scratches and lines on T206s from the printing process.

Does that make them worth a certain price? Who knows? At the end of the day all of this stuff is only worth what somebody is willing to pay. In this case there were two people willing to pay over $900 for this card. So that makes these items desirable and valuable regardless of how you define them.