I simply do not understand Modern - Doncic vs Mantle

[uniship]

What I found surprising was just a staggering amount of dollars being thrown at modern. Whether it was a good investment or not.

(And of course, all of us original old vintage gangsters see modern investments as mostly silly and insane. - let’s all admit we’re extremely biased).

But seeing the sheer volume of dollars being spent on a Justin Herbert rookie gave me great hope that there’s tremendous upside in true vintage rarities and iconic cards because historically we just hadn’t seen that kind of dollars being spent on a regular basis until the modern insanity kicked in

So please let them continue to love the modern world and spend tens of millions of dollars or maybe hundreds of millions of dollars so that one day when they wise up they can come down to the vintage world and we can all profit handsomely

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by uniship

So please let them continue to love the modern world and spend tens of millions of dollars or maybe hundreds of millions of dollars so that one day when they wise up they can come down to the vintage world and we can all profit handsomely

And that has already happened. Vintage HOF rookies have been brought to crazy levels by the modern crowd. For example, you used to be able to buy a PSA 1 Leaf Jackie for under a grand, but now you need 5 - 6k. You need about 25k just to own the ugliest 52T Mantle you can find.

[egri]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

And that has already happened. Vintage HOF rookies have been brought to crazy levels by the modern crowd. For example, you used to be able to buy a PSA 1 Leaf Jackie for under a grand, but now you need 5 - 6k. You need about 25k just to own the ugliest 52T Mantle you can find.

When I started my signed 1953 Topps project in 2014, Stachel Paige was a $1,000 card, and there was always one, if not a few, on eBay. Maybe $1,200 if the buyer had to have it now, or $800 if the seller was trying to move it quickly, and it stayed at that level until the pandemic. In 2020, it started becoming a $2,000 card, and I figured there were some old ones being brought out of the woodwork by the higher prices and things would settle down. Instead, it has continued to climb; I was blown out on one a few months ago at over $8,000, and he doesn't come up as often as he used to either.