Are vintage basketball cards market saturated?

[swarmee]

Card wouldn't get a 9 nowadays due to the 70/30 top-to-bottom centering. Surely that played into it not getting any higher bids. It really looks nice, otherwise.

[Dead-Ball-Hitter]

Agreed, the otherwise beautiful Chamberlain is a bit too off centered to bring the record dollars. Chamberlain is a strong investment, wait 16 months, hope the market doesn’t crash, post again.

[chriskim]

Thx for the analysis, i guess whoever paid $350k for it only bought a PSA 9 holder.

[slightlyrounded]

Originally Posted by chriskim

Thx for the analysis, i guess whoever paid $350k for it only bought a PSA 9 holder.

Well, since their ask didn't get hit they technically haven't lost a penny yet! "Only too soon, never too much" and all that.

[Exhibitman]

There's a lot of Fleer in nice shape (notwithstanding centering), more so than Bowman or 1957 Topps. Pre-1969 basketball is a backwater of regional, local and team issues, since there were only two mainstream sets during the first 20 years of the league's operations (excluding the NBL and 1948 Bowman). Those regional-local-team issues range from scarce to rare, so no saturation there.

[Arazi4442]

To get back to the OPs original question, I think it’s very possible that the vintage market is saturated. Seems to me like a lot of vintage basketball, especially ultra high end, is getting auctioned over and over in the last 18 months or so. If the prime driver of these price surges is flippers vs. collectors, I could see prices taking a decent dip pretty soon.

Feels like supply is significantly increasing and most of the demand is manufactured quick $ flippers. Someone has to hang onto these purchases at some point.

[Johnny630]

Much of this high end stuff is playing musical chairs from auction house to auction house push pump redo. All a game.