Poll-Will GU cards hold their value?

AlanB

I say no because the card companies have flooded the market with so many of them, most have become undersireable to have because the players are no namers or the item on the card is irrelevant to the player.

colton

I dont think like Kobe jerseys will

autobilia

"Game Used" Jerseys, Patches, shoe cards, and vintage game used bat/jerseys/pants will. The warmups, event used, player worn, wall, dirt. goal posts, seats, etc. won't.

AiRjOrDaN22

they better

YanksFan

Say you pull a Gold jersey from lets say Topps. It's numbered to 50. Your like, what a great pull, but then you notice that every Topps and Bowman product(10-17 different brands) also have the same player with a similary #'ed card. So instead of having a rare card thats #'ed to 50, from Topps alone, that jersey is out of 500-835. Not as rare now huh? Look back at like 98 or 99 UD. Babe Ruth bats were booking at 1000+, now some book for 100. Thats friggin babe ruth! I think autographs by themselves(no gu'ed) will rise in price, but normal gu'ed(including #'ed) will just continue to slide down in price. Nolan Ryan jersey used to book around $200 2 years ago, now most book around $50. There nice to collect, but not to invest in, unless you have like a whole set of patch cards(3-4 colors), then they would be rarer, and more amateur collectors would try to purchase them, thus helping them to retain their values.

KLS23

Yanksfan,

Great analysis....and I agree with you all the way. It's fine to collect GU if you like it - just don't think of it as an investment.

Ken

autobilia

I don't see any cards as investments. Game used have gotten out of hand and unlike the old days, a player has about 25-30 different rookies. I know a player has a #1 rookie, but there are tons of substitutes. In the vintage days, it's either get 1 of his 2-3 max rcs or don't have his rookie card at all which means more demand.

UofAWildcatFan

I think some of the very, very rare games used of past HOF player COULD hold their value or go up.

Game used cards used to be crazy hot. They are still hot, but in no way do they hold their value. Beckett over prices on everything as we all know. Whenever a new product comes out Beckett prices the set high. By the end of the year that set is usually worth far far less then it was when it first came out.
The prices of Game Used cards seem to be affected the most.

Like Yanksfan said, game used are not that rare anymore. By the year 2010 I'd bet most of the stars today have 50-150 different game used cards. Multiply that by around 500 and you've got the total amount of Game Used cards out there. There is nothing rare about this. Card companies know Game Used cards are hot, hence they will continue to print out more and more of them every year, hence they will become less and less rare, hence becoming less and less valuable. Overproduction does not equal demand. Have fun!!

Lway7fan

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE FACT GU WON'T HOLD THEIR VALUE,WITH A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS. STAR ROOKIE
JERSEYS SUCH AS MANNING,MOSS,CULPEPPER,AND A FEW OTHERS WILL HOLD THEIR VALUES AS LONG AS PLAYERS FULFILL THEIR EXPECTATIONS. THE OTHER EXCEPTION I THINK WILL BE AUTO/JERSEYS

autobilia

<< <i>I think some of the very, very rare games used of past HOF player COULD hold their value or go up.

Game used cards used to be crazy hot. They are still hot, but in no way do they hold their value. Beckett over prices on everything as we all know. Whenever a new product comes out Beckett prices the set high. By the end of the year that set is usually worth far far less then it was when it first came out.
The prices of Game Used cards seem to be affected the most.

Like Yanksfan said, game used are not that rare anymore. By the year 2010 I'd bet most of the stars today have 50-150 different game used cards. Multiply that by around 500 and you've got the total amount of Game Used cards out there. There is nothing rare about this. Card companies know Game Used cards are hot, hence they will continue to print out more and more of them every year, hence they will become less and less rare, hence becoming less and less valuable. Overproduction does not equal demand. Have fun!! >>



That goes for anything those. Look at all the different rookie cards and parallel rookie cards out now. The problem with game used is that a lot is not game used. Who wears warmups in the game. They wear them before the game, but don't wear them while playing in the game. Stadium seats, what players used stadium seats? What players used that wall. That was was always there even when the game is not going on. Then you have the "player worn" and "event worn" in which those were worn during the photo shoot for the cards. I like patches because a few of them let you know what year those jerseys came from. For example, the Jackie Robinson 5th Anniversary patch. You can look up when they wore those patches. I've recently seen a Steve Olin/Tim Crew patch in which those patches were worn in 1993. Unique patches will definately hold their value because they are already selling up to 10x OVER book value.

YanksFan

I hope eventually(8-10 years) game used will find it's niche. Just like refractors were really hot in the early 90's with Topps Finest, then cooled down until 1998 and on. Now they've found there niche as a step above the base rookies. Eventaully, most card companies will not include gu'ed(I think UD will keep them) and they will become harder to pull. The prices will slowly rise(stuff from around now will stay low, since the availability of the product) and companies will just have them as a stepping stone from base cards and inserts to autographs, sortof a midway point, with autographs being the hardest to pull. But, I'll stick with collecting Topps rookies. Not hard to pull, and you don't have to watch the price drop every month.

Cardinal88

I think auto/jerseys, college jerseys, patches, shoes, and actually game worn pants or jersey and helmets will hold their value pretty good.. The thing I dont see is why some sets have 117 jerseys in them, and you look at the list and the players just suck.. I just pulled a Napoleon Kaufman jersey out of Private Stock, I mean who really wants these guys, unless the person is a fan of him or the team.. These are what are hurting the gu hobby... If they take out some and keep them to mainly stars and some of the better RCs it would be better, it would take the odds down and hopefully pull the price up on some of them... I mean some of the commons are $8, even some of the better ones, Fred Taylor (injury prone) is at $10 or so in some of the brands..