Prices coming down...

[Peter_Spaeth]

Yaz 8.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Staubach 8.

[Snapolit1]

Look at the bids at Heritage on the auction closing tonight and then tell me the sky is falling.

[bigfish]

The sky is falling on high grade 50's and 60's rookie cards. Manipulation is over.

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gerig , Cy Young, and rarer items continue to rise.

[Yoda]

The syndicates were very busy indeed last Fall. Hmm.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by bigfish

The sky is falling on high grade 50's and 60's rookie cards. Manipulation is over.

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gerig , Cy Young, and rarer items continue to rise.

Exactly.

[Jobu]

Just for fun, let's see the chart for the green T206 Cobb.

[sreader3]

Thanks for the charts Peter. Very informative. Looks to me like a healthy market with modest appreciation has returned after a Hunt brothers-type spike.

https://www.buyandhold.com/bh/en/edu...hunt_bros.html

[Leon]

But some of the high grade rookies are remaining fairly high, just not to the extremes with the fraudulent manipulation we saw.

Originally Posted by bigfish

The sky is falling on high grade 50's and 60's rookie cards. Manipulation is over.

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gerig , Cy Young, and rarer items continue to rise.

[jboosted92]

can someone explain the "manipulation" that occurred to me? thx

[Republicaninmass]

It will never just go away. Think of gas when it was 4$ a gallon, then I heard a few muttons heads talking last year "hey gas is unda two bucks", that seemed like a steal!

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by jboosted92

can someone explain the "manipulation" that occurred to me? thx

Long story, subject to 1000s of posts here. If I had to summarize it a long run-on poorly crafted sentence I would say that there were a stunning explosion in the "value" of some post war cards (mostly 50s and 60s rookie cards) in a brief few month period of time where after the fact there appeared to be some pretty good evidence that some (many?) of these record breaking transactions were likely sham transactions that were never actually completed, but merely designed to document "sales" in Vintage card Prices and elsewhere in order to run up the prices of these cards to inflated levels so others could then sell into that frenzy to make some serious money.

[MVSNYC]

Originally Posted by bigfish

The sky is falling on high grade 50's and 60's rookie cards. Manipulation is over.

Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gerig , Cy Young, and rarer items continue to rise.

You can add Mantle to your list above, as continuing to rise...check out Heritage.