No HOF for Dahlen, Price Drop?

[GregMitch34]

Again, you are referring to pricing as indicating they are scarce. In fact, there are generally several in lower grade available at eBay most times. I remember when Mike Powers prices were heading for the heights, then as more cards got graded you could see that it was barely more scarce than average. There are many other examples. All of those cards should get SOME premium but what they've gotten is way out of line, and will fall as pop reports continue to be stronger measure.

[Cozumeleno]

Originally Posted by GregMitch34

Again, you are referring to pricing as indicating they are scarce. In fact, there are generally several in lower grade available at eBay most times. I remember when Mike Powers prices were heading for the heights, then as more cards got graded you could see that it was barely more scarce than average. There are many other examples. All of those cards should get SOME premium but what they've gotten is way out of line, and will fall as pop reports continue to be stronger measure.

Several low-grade Dahlen Brooklyns on eBay most times? Not from what I've seen at all.

There's a total of one up there right now (Raw low-grade or below a Graded 3). Yes, there were several in the past couple of weeks with this HOF frenzy, but outside of that under normal circumstances, they are not easy to find there. In fact, if you search the completed items on eBay, there was only one other one up there from mid-August to today (again, outside of the past couple of weeks). I was personally looking for one for a couple of months before that and came up completely empty. Nothing on eBay. Posted in the B/S/T, to no avail. I had to resort to searching old Net54 threads and finding a seller who had previously listed one.

I'm not saying there's nothing true in what you say with regards to the rarity of the card overall, but I'll have to disagree on the eBay thing. The recent history before the HOF talk have shown them to be relatively difficult to find there.

Then again, maybe our definition of 'low-grade' is the difference here.