What card price increase (over the last 5 years) shocks you the most?

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Details, please. I feel like my boxing stuff is sitting still or regressing even. Though a 1939 African Tobacco Louis PSA 5.5 hit a heck of a price this morning on eBay.

You don’t remember Johnson skyrocketing almost overnight in 2020? You could get a decent looking T218 for $30 in 2018. His stuff is still trading at multiples of what he did pre-pandemic but it was pretty wild for a little bit in 2020.

[obcbobd]

All of them :-(

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

You don’t remember Johnson skyrocketing almost overnight in 2020? You could get a decent looking T218 for $30 in 2018. His stuff is still trading at multiples of what he did pre-pandemic but it was pretty wild for a little bit in 2020.

Ahh, 2020. I thought you meant in the last few months. Not that I plan to sell my T218 until the end--it is one of my favorite cards--so prices weren't really material to me.



I do wish I'd sold my T227 into that market...Oh well, it is nice to look at.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Ahh, 2020. I thought you meant in the last few months. Not that I plan to sell my T218 until the end--it is one of my favorite cards--so prices weren't really material to me.



I do wish I'd sold my T227 into that market...Oh well, it is nice to look at.

I love his T218 and T227 poses. Johnson had a lot of good looking cards. The T218 is a superprint and one of the most common of all T cards, so it's price still seems far too high for what it is, but you know what opinions are like. I've got all his T218's but I need 2 more of his T227's. Those are going to hurt to get...

[Eric72]

1981 Topps Larry Bird is one of many examples which surprise me. From unremarkable to four-figure card.

1990 Jordan, same thing.

Shaq rookies...


Wait, is it modern basketball? Is that where the irrational exuberance is most prevalent?

[fkm_bky]

+1 for the T206 Cobb Red. It's one of the most common T206's out there and the prices are ridiculous for something so available. 52' Mick comes in a close second for me.

Bill

[Yoda]

Charlie Brown's idol Joe W.....A scant 2 years ago one of the 2 known copies came on the market and fetched 85,000 DodgyCoins. A mere 8 months later in a private sale Joe passed hands for a remarkable 25 box cars of rhubarb. The new owner of the card wishes to be anonymous.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Charlie Brown's idol Joe W.....A scant 2 years ago one of the 2 known copies came on the market and fetched 85,000 DodgyCoins. A mere 8 months later in a private sale Joe passed hands for a remarkable 25 box cars of rhubarb. The new owner of the card wishes to be anonymous.

The "box car" buyer certainly was a rube. Charlie Brown's hero wasn't Joe W, it was some guy named Shlabotnik...

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

I love his T218 and T227 poses. Johnson had a lot of good looking cards. The T218 is a superprint and one of the most common of all T cards, so it's price still seems far too high for what it is, but you know what opinions are like. I've got all his T218's but I need 2 more of his T227's. Those are going to hurt to get...

The 1952 Topps Mantle is a DP; doesn't matter. Demand > supply = big $$$

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The 1952 Topps Mantle is a DP; doesn't matter. Demand > supply = big $$$

It seems to me extremely unlikely that there just happened to be an immediate increase in demand of such magnitude that a common card went up 10x at a seemingly random moment. I also suspect this is why it’s slowly been coming down, those small number of people who seem to be buying most of them and pumping it up aren’t sustaining forever. There’s a Green Johnson for every T card collector.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

It seems to me extremely unlikely that there just happened to be an immediate increase in demand of such magnitude that a common card went up 10x at a seemingly random moment. I also suspect this is why it’s slowly been coming down, those small number of people who seem to be buying most of them and pumping it up aren’t sustaining forever. There’s a Green Johnson for every T card collector.

I don't want a green Johnson

[gonefishin]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Ahh, 2020. I thought you meant in the last few months. Not that I plan to sell my T218 until the end--it is one of my favorite cards--so prices weren't really material to me.



I do wish I'd sold my T227 into that market...Oh well, it is nice to look at.

I held on to some of my key boxing cards, and decided to send PSA my 1936 United Tobacco Joe Louis for grading this week. In about 3 months I should get it back. It looks better than the quick pictures I snapped that are attached. I just snapped them to have a picture in case it gets lost. Just wondering your thoughts on it? Regardless of grade, I think it's a cool card.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Saw a good one today, PWCC so who knows, but a PSA 7 George Best RC at 30K. That's 40x LOL what I paid for mine just a few years back, if that long ago. Madness.

[Exhibitman]

Great card, except it was made in 1940-1941. The album discusses fights in 1940. Some moron labeled it with the early date and it has stuck.

[Yoda]

Don't have any comps but:
1. Tiger Woods
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Mike Tyson
4. And I suppose Hulk Hogan

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Don't have any comps but:
1. Tiger Woods
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Mike Tyson
4. And I suppose Hulk Hogan

Definitely agree on Tyson. He wasn't even the best of his generation, unless getting KTFO by Holyfield and Lewis qualifies you as the best. His RC is disproportionately costly as compared to those of Holyfield and Lewis, though Lewis' RC is a common as dirt 1991 Kayo.

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Don't have any comps but:

2. Michael Schumacher

Almost everything Formula 1 has exploded in price over the past year. It's a combination of the Netflix Drive to Survive series and Topps now having a license to produce F1 cards. I can't believe how many $10,000+ cards the Topps 2020 set has produced. Even mid-pack runners have some $1,000+ manufactured scarcity/autograph cards from the 2020 Topps set.

Along those same lines, Lewis Hamilton's 2006 Futera pre-rookie card is extremely rare, but I still found the $312,000 sale at Goldin to be shocking. Ditto for the $900,000 sale of a 2020 Topps 1/1 Superfractor of Hamilton at Goldin.

On a smaller scale, Niki Lauda's rookie card is a sticker from the 1974 Vedettes set. Nearly every example in the past year or so has exploded close to the $1,000 range, with higher grade versions selling in the mid four figures. That is shocking to me.

The 1984 Ayrton Senna Panini Scratch N' Play is another example that has gone crazy in the past year, with several examples selling for $10,000+ and as much as $30,000 for a higher grade example.