Stupid relic cards

[Snapolit1]

Not trying to belittle anyone. . . . but you really have to be pretty far out there to think this 2017 concoction is a special collectible, or has some kind of intrinsic value. As someone said, it does look like a piece of plastic that busted off someone's running shoe.

[mark evans]

I agree. I don't know much about marketing (took a 3-hour course in college nearly 50 years ago) but I think I could come up with a better idea for selling cards in my sleep.

[Batpig]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Not trying to belittle anyone. . . . but you really have to be pretty far out there to think this 2017 concoction is a special collectible, or has some kind of intrinsic value. As someone said, it does look like a piece of plastic that busted off someone's running shoe.

I understand what you're saying, and I'm not a fan either, but everyone has their thing. When you boil it down, there's not much of a difference between modern shiny and a T206.

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by Batpig

I understand what you're saying, and I'm not a fan either, but everyone has their thing. When you boil it down, there's not much of a difference between modern shiny and a T206.

+1....if anything it's the modern market that drives our hobby. Most modern collectors have also shied away from relics and just want on card certified autographs.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

+1....if anything it's the modern market that drives our hobby. Most modern collectors have also shied away from relics and just want on card certified autographs.

Sorry, but no. This is a scam to get card collectors to pay over a thousand dollars for a pack of cards that really has little value. Collectors have stopped buying this. It is now breakers selling lottery tickets to gamblers, a chance to win a specific player or team if it comes out of the pack. Gone are the days of collectors buying a box of cards to get an autograph card or relic card, that is a rarity today. The "modern" market is no more than legalized gambling, no different than playing slots at Vegas. Panini only made 10 of this card to hope someone buys in to their scheme.

[Snapolit1]

I'd love to bring this card to a jeweler and ask him what he'd give you for the stone. I'm sure he would laugh uproariously.

[drcy]

My philosophy is one should collect what one wants to collect.

Though my other philosophy is about how seriously you take things.

[drcy]

double post

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I'd love to bring this card to a jeweler and ask him what he'd give you for the stone. I'm sure he would laugh uproariously.

yep!

But as has been said...people enter the hobby are are confronted with this SHIT...but it gets them in...and after they get burned by these worthless contrived cards they seek a more stable and predictable investment vehicle...such as a t206 cobby...or a goudey ruth...and the wheels go round and round!

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Batpig

When you boil it down, there's not much of a difference between modern shiny and a T206.

totally disagree with this statement, btw!

[Snapolit1]

I thinking cutting up bats and jerseys and buttons is an abomination . . .and I assume 99.98% of that stuff is completely bogus. But at least it is baseball theme. But why pair a baseball player and a bogus stone? Just absurd. Next maybe someone can combine a Babe Ruth card and a microscopic fleck of titanium.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

I thinking cutting up bats and jerseys and buttons is an abomination . . .and I assume 99.98% of that stuff is completely bogus. But at least it is baseball theme. But why pair a baseball player and a bogus stone? Just absurd. Next maybe someone can combine a Babe Ruth card and a microscopic fleck of titanium.

Yes, it is an abomination. I take comfort in the thought that anyone who is unprincipled enough to destroy a valuable historical artifact in order to put a fragment of it in a baseball card is also unprincipled enough to lie about destroying the valuable historical artifact in the first place.

On the other hand, a Joe Jackson card with a speck of Kryptonite would get my attention.

[Fred]

Now I get it... I had to look closely at the card. At first I thought someone put the image of a band-aid in the middle of the card. Ok, there's a real blue sapphire in the middle of that thing... yeah, that's a really cool baseball collectible....NOT.... What are these companies thinking? Yeah, let's sell a card with Lou Gehrig on it, maybe the baseball card collector will like a blue sapphire to go with it...

[Exhibitman]

They're not bogus stones. No need for that. Non-gem grade sapphires, rubies or diamonds are abundant and cheap. The idea is stupid.

As for modern, I collect some because I enjoy it but I am all about the visuals. If the card is FUGLY I don't care if they glue a chunk of the holy grail to it, I ain't buying. That Gehrig in the OP is a particularly crappy looking one. Some modern sets are pretty interesting with intricate cuts, non-traditional materials, etc.




This one seems appropriate for the season:

[Fred]

Looking to start a crypto-code baseball card currency.

Need backers!

First 10 people with $10,000 to get me started are guaranteed to double their money after I get about 40 more people to invest.

Anybody available to help me out (I mean to double your money)?

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by Fred

Looking to start a crypto-code baseball card currency.

Need backers!

First 10 people with $10,000 to get me started are guaranteed to double their money after I get about 40 more people to invest.

Anybody available to help me out (I mean to double your money)?

Bitcards?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Batpig

When you boil it down, there's not much of a difference between modern shiny and a T206.

I'm sure that in some sense this is true. Just like in some ways there's not much difference between a Porsche and a Volkswagon. But for me, I'll take the Green Cobb and the 911.