A Cards Worth

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

you said "Most cards are readily and frequently traded to the point where we can pretty easily determine value. And since many are sold by no-reserve auctions, in these cases the buyers set the market price"

this isnt true in many sets (maybe true for T206 only lol)

many caramel cards are not readily available and some E cards havent seen ebay in quite a while!

would you call 20 graded SGC versions and 12 graded PSA version of a card "readily available?" this is the case for many E cards

Hi Scott,

I agree that E-cards are generally a lot tougher than the mainstream T-cards (in fact I've been known to raise that point in posts as well), but I'm often surprised how readily available a lot of these cards are anyway.

I'm a couple cards away from a graded Dockman set that I built over the last 3 years. Most of these cards have a PSA pop in the 20s...much scarcer than T206, but I can pretty much buy them every day of the week. In fact, I'm very cheap and don't spring for BIN cards much...so I still built the set bit by bit from well-priced auction buys and the odd purchase from other collectors on this BB.

I know there are a lot of E-cards scarcer than Dockman, but honestly the only ones I find elusive in terms of my collection are E107 and E125 (both types have come up regularly, but a tough hunt for specific subjects I need). Everything else comes up at auction repeatedly if I keep my eyes open for it.

That's my perspective anyhow.

Cheers,
Blair