National pricing

[Johnny630]

Ten years from now we will all be looking at these prices and saying to ourselves man that was cheap back then.

All the good stuff is going up up and away. Get it before it's out of reach.

[Touch'EmAll]

I would bet the big '52 Mantle at Heritage will help fuel vintage prices. Don't see how the Mantle auction would have a negative affect of nice vintage stuff. I am still having hard time pulling the trigger on similar such cards I used to buy, but now the gap may even widen. My recent motto, "don't sell what you have, just be sure to keep it, 'cause you probably aren't going to replace it."

[darwinbulldog]

The Topps era cards that show up most often in the auctions are generally down about 50% from their peak. It's a fool's errand trying to predict what they'll do over the next year, but it's easy to predict that sellers are not going to be extrapolating from the past 17 months of downward slide in setting their prices today.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Check out today's article in the Athletic about the current state of the card market. Good stuff

[Ray Van]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

Check out today's article in the Athletic about the current state of the card market. Good stuff

Haven't read the whole thing yet but skeptical when seeing this early comment in the article:"What is happening now, those within the industry told The Athletic, is that some cards are coming down in price — market corrections, mostly in resale — and the overall market is slightly cooling off of 2021’s record year for retail and resale."

If looking at the hobby as a whole, not vintage, I'd suggest that MOST cards are coming down in price and the overall market is SUBSTANTIALLY cooling off of 2021's record year.

Pretty much everyone interviewed in the story has a vested interest to maintain that the market is healthy despite the recent downturn.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Ray Van

Haven't read the whole thing yet but skeptical when seeing this early comment in the article:"What is happening now, those within the industry told The Athletic, is that some cards are coming down in price — market corrections, mostly in resale — and the overall market is slightly cooling off of 2021’s record year for retail and resale."

If looking at the hobby as a whole, not vintage, I'd suggest that MOST cards are coming down in price and the overall market is SUBSTANTIALLY cooling off of 2021's record year.

Pretty much everyone interviewed in the story has a vested interest to maintain that the market is healthy despite the recent downturn.

ya weirdly written stating over and over the market is healthy...yet noting numerous areas where prices have come down. quite verbose as well.

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

Check out today's article in the Athletic about the current state of the card market. Good stuff

Damm. Starting to think I was the only person seeing this. Lots of people told me I was dreaming or crazy.

[glchen]

Personally, I think the Athletic article (Link) is very reasonable in its analysis, and I agree with a lot of it. With the stock market dropping significantly, inflation, recession, etc, it makes sense that the card prices should also drop. However, there are still a lot of folks with plenty of money. The iconic or really rare prewar cards that everyone wants are not going down. (Modern is a different story with too much artificially created supply such as refractor variations.) I remember a few years back saying that I was waiting to buy the E98 Black Swamp Cobb PSA 9 when it hits $3-5K. That was a pipe dream that is never happening. I seriously doubt that the 1921 E121 Ruth in PSA 3 will ever come back to 10K or the 1915 CJ Cobb PSA 4 will similarly come back to $10-15K. Everyone wants these cards for their collection, including me!

Here's my recent Gehrig pickup that I paid out the wazoo for.

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by glchen

Here's my recent Gehrig pickup that I paid out the wazoo for.

Love it.

[Ricky]

Originally Posted by Touch'EmAll

I would bet the big '52 Mantle at Heritage will help fuel vintage prices. Don't see how the Mantle auction would have a negative affect of nice vintage stuff. I am still having hard time pulling the trigger on similar such cards I used to buy, but now the gap may even widen. My recent motto, "don't sell what you have, just be sure to keep it, 'cause you probably aren't going to replace it."

My motto as well…