What is the long-term value of Game-Used cards?

lancemountain · #1 12-23-2010, 02:07 AM

I can understand the feelings of "ruining" a Cobb bat for a card, but to be fair.....

Topps can make thousands upon thousands or more cards with a Cobb bat embedded. So yes, a Cobb gamer was destroyed...but instead of being in one person's collection, it is in thousands of baseball fan's cards. It only takes a sliver of the bat for many thousands of collectors to have a piece.

Just mho

teetwoohsix · #2 12-23-2010, 03:14 AM

I think we will all be long gone before any of todays modern cards start holding "real value"........100 years from now maybe?

I agree with David and Frank about cutting up bats and letters and all that- just WRONG. All the way around.

But I am not against modern cards using "older card type designs",,,,sort of paying homage to the true classics. Just don't destroy precious artifacts so everyone can get "a crumb".

Clayton

michael3322 · #3 12-23-2010, 04:23 AM

These are all excellent points guys. Thanks for weighing in.

I'd love to hear someone who collects these cards comment to so that the rest of us can better understand why they are putting their money into these cards. After all, if no one was buying these cards, then they wouldn't be increasing as a percentage of cards sold these days. People ARE buying them and collecting them.

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