Any Opinions on the Helmar cards on Ebay ?

[dabigyankeeman]

When we are asked why we say the price is too high, well in my case, a card is worth what i personally am willing to pay for it. With a very very few rare exceptions, i dont feel new cards are worth $50 or $80 dollars. If I am going to spend that kind of money, there are a ton of old Yankee cards from the 1920's (probably black&white cards in lessor condition) that I can buy for that price and I personally would rather have old stuff than something just produced. So when I say the price is too high, I am saying its too high for me, obviously some other people (the people winning the bidding) dont feel that way.

[rainier2004]

I think the artwork is nice on these cards and the cards themselves are intriguing. I just wouldn't spend too much on these. I would buy a couple reprint sets though, but respect Charles' concern of undermining the originals. Good luck!

[ChiefBenderForever]

Anyone dumb enough to buy as original is just that , stupid . Do they put fake on cz earrings? Fake on bogus rolex? Retro toys ? He doesn't have to date them , original art can be done however one wants. It's high quality stuff, $100 doesn't seem to bad when 1/1 Topps garbage goes for $1000s, it's all relative. Congrats on your success very unique product .

[novakjr]

The one really interesting thing about these, is that no matter how beautiful, rare or collectible these are, they've made grading impossible. Assuming at some point the TPG's decided to grade these, they couldn't properly without knowing the original extent of the artificial aging. Basically, when NEW, these are already in somewhat of a beater-like condition. So theoretically, a 3 or 4 is actually a 10..

Personally these don't interest me much. BUT if I were a "player collector" who had probably already achieved completion(or near completion) of said player, I'd probably jump through hoops to add these pieces to my collection.. Highly collectible Players with a very limited number of items available, like Sockalexis, Moonlight Graham(well, you get the idea), I would expect to sell for pretty high prices.