Vintage RC price explosion

[ullmandds]

Agree with most of the sentiment here...I'm not a big fan of multi player rookie cards. So this crazy price escalation means...focus on 2nd year cards or cards you just like in grades you can afford!!!

[cardsagain74]

Been a nice year for vintage baseball of the '50s and '60s year, but if you regret having to pay up, the price increases are very minimal compared to a lot of other high-end cards.

PSA 9s and 10s of the best '80s rookie cards from the other sports like Gretzky, Lemieux, any '86 Fleer basketball HOFer, and plenty of others have increased 5 to 8 times in value this year.

If this were the late '90s in the stock market, vintage baseball has been like owning longtime utility stocks (while those top '80s high-end PSA cards are the tech boomers)

[rats60]

Originally Posted by cardsagain74

Been a nice year for vintage baseball of the '50s and '60s year, but if you regret having to pay up, the price increases are very minimal compared to a lot of other high-end cards.

PSA 9s and 10s of the best '80s rookie cards from the other sports like Gretzky, Lemieux, any '86 Fleer basketball HOFer, and plenty of others have increased 5 to 8 times in value this year.

If this were the late '90s in the stock market, vintage baseball has been like owning longtime utility stocks (while those top '80s high-end PSA cards are the tech boomers)

Wow! I have an OPC Lemieux RC PSA 9 that I couldn't sell here for 1k. It looks like it is 5500-6500 now.

[jb67]

Originally Posted by rats60

Wow! I have an OPC Lemieux RC PSA 9 that I couldn't sell here for 1k. It looks like it is 5500-6500 now.

I remember that card. I almost made a trade for it but instead ended up with your Dr. J. PSA 8 rookie. I think you ended up with the Bench rookie. If I remember correctly we did a trade and some cash involved. On the bright side I did get that Dr. J. to bump to an 8.5.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Agree with most of the sentiment here...I'm not a big fan of multi player rookie cards. So this crazy price escalation means...focus on 2nd year cards or cards you just like in grades you can afford!!!

Agree. I picked up the Bench and T Perez second year cards in November. I'm very happy with both. Hoping to pick up a Rose All Star RC soon.

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[cesarcap]

It does feel like a bubble. I told someone looking at hoops stuff, this feels like a few years ago when high end mid 80's rc cards went down, and he was surprised. But then later came back to me (I presume after researching)and said I guess cards do go down...