The sports card market is absolutely booming right now. I sold off enough of my other stuff to buy this. There are only 10 of them. It is indescribably beautiful.
Card market is booming, eh?
Is that just for newer players, or are older player cards jumping?
I've quite the collection of Barry Sanders rarities that tanked as soon as he retired.
Pretty much everything is going bonkers right now. Cards that sold for a couple bucks a few months ago are going for $200+ (in a high grade of course).
Mahomes stuff is astro-freaking-nomical! Higher now than when he won the Super Bowl.
Pretty much anything basketball related is at levels never seen before.
A Mike Trout card set a modern day baseball card record a couple nights ago at $900,000.
You would think high unemployment and quarantine would have lead to a huge drop in prices, but it's been the exact opposite. I assume it is because the casual collector with lots of spending money is locked inside their house with nothing to do but buy stuff online. [Reply]
Card market is booming, eh?
Is that just for newer players, or are older player cards jumping?
I've quite the collection of Barry Sanders rarities that tanked as soon as he retired.
There was a huge boom in high grade rookies. Happened kind of with The Last Dance and the Trump bucks.
Literally, junk wax hof rookies became worth money almost overnight. I don't get it. There isn't a 1989 topps football card on the planet I would spend $30 for (in psa10), but both Sanders', Aikman, Irvin, and Thurman Thomas shot through the roof. I don't know if it was a shill auction, but the Thurman Thomas just went for $177.
As for Barry Sanders, early stuff (in high grade) is worth money. I had sent in a 1989 score I had as a kid to get graded. I just needed it to round out a submission and hell if it didn't come back psa10. I was thrilled. At the time, that turned it into about a $175 card. Now its regularly going north of $650-700. [Reply]
Originally Posted by arrowheadnation:
Pretty much everything is going bonkers right now. Cards that sold for a couple bucks a few months ago are going for $200+ (in a high grade of course).
Mahomes stuff is astro-freaking-nomical! Higher now than when he won the Super Bowl.
Pretty much anything basketball related is at levels never seen before.
A Mike Trout card set a modern day baseball card record a couple nights ago at $900,000.
You would think high unemployment and quarantine would have lead to a huge drop in prices, but it's been the exact opposite. I assume it is because the casual collector with lots of spending money is locked inside their house with nothing to do but buy stuff online.
no kidding on Mahomes. I speculated on him in 2017 and bought a bunch of various cards in psa10 ranging from $8 to $15. I kept the one I figured would be used for the registry sets. The rest I sold when I thought they were high. I was wrong. I sold (4) cards for close to $900. Those same 4 cards would bring about $1500 right now. The one I kept is now averaging about $3100 at Auction. I'm into that one for $12, so I'm good.
The bottom has to drop at some point. The supply exceeds the demand, at least I would think so. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Randallflagg:
Damn fine pick up!! :-)
I have two full size helmets. One is signed by Montana and Dawson. The other, my Wife got me for Christmas - Mahomes signature.
My "plan" is to eventually get Patrick to sign the other helmet. *fingers crossed!*
Congratulations on the card!!
last night, for what ever reason, I was thinking of the KC helmet and in my minds eye, I put the red pants stripes on the helmet. I caught myself, thinking, no thats not how they look :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by arrowheadnation:
The sports card market is absolutely booming right now. I sold off enough of my other stuff to buy this. There are only 10 of them. It is indescribably beautiful.
I just recently got back into card collecting shit is expensive at times but my most recent hit was a Matt Carpenter auto [Reply]
