OT:2012 Topps Skip Schumaker Squirrel Variation prices on the bay

[packs]

The articles I'm reading say the product isn't launched until Wednesday. Are these people selling the card without actually having it yet?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by packs

The articles I'm reading say the product isn't launched until Wednesday. Are these people selling the card without actually having it yet?

It's possible, the one person has 60 cases so they must feel confident about getting a few

[novakjr]

packs. I'm not sure, but I'd assume the dealers, or perhaps people working at Target or Walmart have been busting these already based on the 79 pages of 2012 Topps stuff on ebay.. Wednesday's probably the general public release. But if you've ever know somebody who worked for a Walmart of Best-Buy, they can usually get you a new dvd a few days before release. I'd guess that the cards are a somewhat similar situation.

[Jantz]

That squirrel would go well with some farva beans and a fine bottle of Chianti.

Packs - I don't think all of those sellers actually own the card yet. The last link David posted looks like the seller took a picture of their computer screen. By the way, thats the same image Yahoo used for their story.



Jantz

[novakjr]

How in the hell is this card alone, sometimes topping the prices of full cases? As illogical as this whole mess is, paying more for the card, than you would a case, just seems flat out nuts...

[z28jd]

People see short-printed in the stories and assume the card is going to be extremely rare and since it is fresh in their mind they go to ebay, see the prices and say I have to get mine before they all sell out, not thinking there will be thousands of these cards around and there won't be hundreds of people willing to pay big bucks for a picture of a squirrel years or even months from now.

It is like what happens when a famous player dies, the prices of his autographs will go crazy that day and for the next week, people say that he obviously won't be signing anymore so I have to get mine now before they're all gone but the day before he died they had no intentions of getting his autograph. If they waited about two months instead, the price would be back down to pre-death levels and the autograph is still just as rare, possibly even more rare since a few could've been lost to attrition(lost in mail,fire,flood,etc)

This card will be a $5 card in no time, the gotta have it crowd will get theirs at any price and then the collectors will wait and eventually get one for a reasonable price

[HOF Auto Rookies]

Just like the 2007 topps jeter/bush/mantle variation, this card will be at $10 in a few months

[novakjr]

Well, at least the BINs have come down to the $200-250 range. Still ridiculous. But not as ridiculous as the jackass that just had to have it for $611.99. Haha. Not even two days and the price is already 33% less than what this clown paid... He's gotta be scratching his head right now..

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Jantz

That squirrel would go well with some farva beans and a fine bottle of Chianti.

Jantz

The traditional dish would be Brunswick Stew.