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Posted By: John

Rob and Mike..LOL


Yawn…this whole this was the right time to buy and now is not because it’s more expensive is really nothing more than self serving verbal therapy at its best. It may make the buyer feel better about his or her purchases but in the end all of these card prices are relative.

What is a relative good deal or price to some may be an astronomical price to others, and what may be an outrageous price to me may in fact be a bargain to some folks.

When it comes to the big 3 there have never been bargains or right times per say to buy these cards. At any given time during our hobby’s history these cards have carried a premium of some sort. True I long for the days of the first price guides we all do, who wouldn’t want to buy a Wagner for $25 and Cobbs for $5-10 but that goes for any collectible who wouldn’t go back and buy artwork , land etc.

Let’s face it I know of a few folks who bought Wagner’s for 25k and Doyle’s for 18k back in the day late 80’s early 90’s. I was a teenager in those days even if I had one of those cards offered to me then even at those prices it would be the same has having one offered to me today for 500k. Even old school collectors passed on Wagner’s for a few $100 bucks why? Because they remembered when they were $20, and they thought to themselves the same thing we do….”boy that’s a lot of money!”

The big 3 have never been cheap during each of their perspective times, it appears that way looking back today but in the end they have always been pricey, there has never been a deal on these cards! Perhaps in the future our kids will look at us and say…”Dad you had a chance to buy a Wagner in VGEX for 450k, were you out of your mind, do you know how much that card is worth today?”