1932 US Caramel Babe Ruth

[Peter_Spaeth]

I wouldn't trust most prices from spring and summer 2016, a period of manipulation IMO.

[pdi88]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I wouldn't trust most prices from spring and summer 2016, a period of manipulation IMO.

Can you expound on this a bit? Why do you think this happened?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by pdi88

Can you expound on this a bit? Why do you think this happened?

I don't mean to be a smart ass but it happened because some relatively well to do people saw the opportunity. It's been discussed at length on this forum if you do some looking around, maybe use "manipulation" as a search term.

[swarmee]

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ighlight=group

Basically there were a couple of people (5 according to the owner of PWCC in an article) who were buying up a group of post-war rookie cards to influence the market. Mainly 1952 Mantle, 1954 Aaron, 1955 Clemente, 1955 Koufax, 1963 Pete Rose. Prices increased 300%-500% for the cards in the same grades in a span of a few months.

One more recommendation when using PSA's auction prices tool, make sure the prices you're seeing are for the correct card and not a complete set headlined by that card. If the card is part of a group, they will remove that price point from their database if you click the "report this item" button.

[pdi88]

Originally Posted by swarmee

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ighlight=group

Basically there were a couple of people (5 according to the owner of PWCC in an article) who were buying up a group of post-war rookie cards to influence the market. Mainly 1952 Mantle, 1954 Aaron, 1955 Clemente, 1955 Koufax, 1963 Pete Rose. Prices increased 300%-500% for the cards in the same grades in a span of a few months.

One more recommendation when using PSA's auction prices tool, make sure the prices you're seeing are for the correct card and not a complete set headlined by that card. If the card is part of a group, they will remove that price point from their database if you click the "report this item" button.

Ah, that makes sense. Thx for the background. I will watch for the pricing too on PSA's auction tool, too.