The Registry is a powerful drug

eagles33 · November 7, 2021 10:56AM

I shifted collecting focus to Presidential inauguration tickets. For some reason Coolidge and Harding tickets are pretty rare and never come up for sale. A Harding ticket was recently listed with two Grant tickets. I was expecting the Harding ticket to go for about 300 and the lot went for over 5k. There isn’t really a psa registry for this but I assume that other people needed the same ticket for their collection. What are some other examples of crazy prices driven by the registry

NGS428 · November 7, 2021 3:28PM

That is what the registry does (among other things, many good). Examples are everywhere.

DBesse27 · November 7, 2021 7:36PM

2005 Topps Total Matt Light RC (with Dan Koppen and Steve Neal) PSA 10 just sold for $97 + shipping, which was about 3x the previous sale. For a freakin Topps Total card of freakin O linemen. This is absolutely driven by the registry, as it’s Light RC and he’s in several Patriots greats themed registry sets. A secondary factor would be that Neal was a NCAA champion wrestler and wrestling fans might want the card. I know $100 isn’t the same as $5K, but it still seems like a lot for a card of “big uglies” from an unpopular set, especially given the previous sales of the same card in the same grade.

1951WheatiesPremium · November 8, 2021 2:22AM

I paid too much for this, Chad, and I will almost certainly never make it back:

Registry driven, for sure.

Worth it…

…for the first and only complete set in PSA slabs. It was an auction so someone else wanted it and they never surface. 😃

jay0791 · November 8, 2021 2:58AM

Yes the registry is pure poison. We are all addicted. I have overpaid just to get a card.
However, in the last 3 years there was a few that are low pop and always seem to be off in the grade I want (centering and print defects). I thought the asking price was outrageous !!!! They sold. Nothing has shown up since.

Now I feel the opposite. Time travel back....I'm buying.