OT: When a Card is so Unpopular, it Becomes Popular

[packs]

Ah, my mistake. I thought you meant major profits on buying the entire set.

[wolf441]

It is such a foolishly market manipulated set. Card #171 Shin-Soo Choo had 2,737 made. Card #177 Tim Beckham had 2,777 made. There are multiples of both cards selling at less than $15.00 buy it now. Topps made 2,633 Howie Kendrick cards, and it's suddenly selling for $50+? You could have bought as many as you wanted from May 8-15, but now it's extremely desirable?

[Rich Klein]

In a way this reminds me of 1996-97 Topps Chrome Basketball. There was almost no dealer interest in ordering so the only way this product appeared was through retail channels and not heavily printed.

Then you had cards such as a Kobe Bryant RC and those cards exploded in the secondary market. Yep, that's correct, no dealers wanted the product until they could not have any and then the prices exploded.

A perfect corollary to this disucsion

Rich

[Throttlesteer]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

In a way this reminds me of 1996-97 Topps Chrome Basketball. There was almost no dealer interest in ordering so the only way this product appeared was through retail channels and not heavily printed.

Then you had cards such as a Kobe Bryant RC and those cards exploded in the secondary market. Yep, that's correct, no dealers wanted the product until they could not have any and then the prices exploded.

A perfect corollary to this disucsion

Rich

Or those green and red metal ones people are paying stupid money for.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Throttlesteer

Or those green and red metal ones people are paying stupid money for.

Ah yes, the world of Precious Metal Gems (also basketball) which has become the best 90's insert set.

Rich