No PSA Love for Heritage?

mygotta

I was looking through the PSA Online Price Guide and there is no listing for Heritage sets besides a 2001/2002 Bowman Heritage. But boxes for 2001 Topps Heritage are $250 and up. Why is this? Is there nothing proprietary in those boxes? No demand besides a set value?

NickM

The following 2001 Topps Heritage base cards (including black back variations) have more than 10 cards graded: Jeter, ARod, Bonds, Clemens, Luis Montanez, McGwire, Griffey, Ripken, Garciaparra, and Piazza (Maddux and Rivera are each at 10). Almost 2/3 of the set have total pops of 0. There are likely HOFers with 1 card graded (Biggio, Glavine, Hoffman, Mussina) and a likely HOFer with 0 cards graded (Bagwell).
eBay active listings have 10 BINs (plus one Bonds that is a PSA error - a mislabeled Fleer Tradition). eBay completed listings have 12 sold cards - 3 Jeter, 2 Rivera, 2 Ripken, 1 Canseco, 1 McGwire, 1 ARod, 1 Griffey, and 1 Maddux.

That is too little collector interest in this set in PSA form to justify creating a price guide for it - and really, how accurate could any price guide be when most cards a buyer might want are far easier to obtain by self-submission than by looking for a graded copy?

Nick

bouwob

Heritage is a huge set that only set collectors appreciate. Topps has 20,000 different items in these sets. The people who collect these cards are more interested in set variations than grades.

Also this is the wrong forum for these cards, its a modern set so you will find many more graded by bgs than PSA.