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olb31olb31 Posts: 3,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
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it's a 2005 card with both Ryan Braun and Nelson Cruz autos numbered 2/2 BGS 9 Auto 9. I am getting no love on this card and it seems like a decent one to me. Cruz just hit 40 homers for the third time I believe and Braun is a very good player also. it's both of their rookie years.

Not trying to prop my card(well maybe a little), but I am kind of amazed at the lack of interest. Any thoughts anyone?
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  • plattechplattech Posts: 32
    IMHO, maybe it is the fact it is BGS graded. I won't buy anything not graded by PSA.
  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    I think the fact that they both got popped for PEDs is hurting your interest. If neither had been caught I think you'd have a lot more interest. Braun's cards went in the tank after he got caught and Cruz's cards weren't that popular even before he was suspended. He's had a couple great years since coming back but there is probably still a cloud.
    Steve
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not a lot of demand for Just branded cards. There's a triple auto with both of them that hasn't been touched at $90 for a /3, so $500 for a /2 is probably scaring away any best offers for fear of offending you.
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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,735 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Not a lot of demand for Just branded cards. There's a triple auto with both of them that hasn't been touched at $90 for a /3, so $500 for a /2 is probably scaring away any best offers for fear of offending you. >>



    +1

    Significantly lower the BIN price and you may attract a comparable offer.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    Would agree on most comments. Minor league cards, with only a few exceptions are worth considerably less than their major league counterparts. Secondly, Braun and Cruz cards have never been what I would consider to be "high demand". I would start lowering your BIN by 10% per listing cycle until it is sold OR you reach the point you would rather keep it in your collection than to sell.
    IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO NOT SELL ON EBAY
  • cpettimdcpettimd Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    The Bryant Correa Trout Schwaber etc cards are the hot ones now- not sure if those guys generate much love from the modern collectors
    Collecting Clemente master (#6) and basic PSA registry sets, Hank Aaron master and basic sets, Mantle oddball issues, 1970's mega decade HOFs, 1967 Topps pin ups, and high grade Topps Clemente and Aaron. Numerous transactions with over 100 board members.
  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,457 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think it's the ped thing coupled with the high bin price keeping people away

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    great responses thanks. i will try lowering the best offer price.
    Work hard and you will succeed!!
  • seebelowseebelow Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭
    How'd you end up doing?
    Interested in higher grade vintage cards. Aren't we all. image
  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I lowered the but it now or best offer to $299. Still no hits. Cruz hit number 42 last night.
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  • miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think that as long as the Cruz/Braun/Rogers triple auto card from the same set is not moving while it is priced at $89.99, yours won't get any bites at the price point you are at either.

  • timpatgtimpatg Posts: 319


    << <i>I lowered the but it now or best offer to $299. Still no hits. Cruz hit number 42 last night. >>



    2 busted cheaters. Even if you included 2 $100 bills with the card you wouldn't get $299.
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I lowered the but it now or best offer to $299. Still no hits. Cruz hit number 42 last night. >>



    2 busted cheaters. Even if you included 2 $100 bills with the card you wouldn't get $299. >>




    If you included three, I would be a buyer
    IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO NOT SELL ON EBAY
  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,480 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The problem you run into for the last 25 years is "who hasn't cheated". The list is very short for the superstars. So does no one buy 1987 through 2008 baseball cards because someone "cheated". Jeter is about the only one that no one suspects.

    A lot people suspect Tom Brady and the Patriot Org. have done a lot of Cheating (maybe worse than taking PED's) . I guess you will be glad unload all your rookies to me for $1 apiece, huh?
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  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The problem you run into for the last 25 years is "who hasn't cheated". The list is very short for the superstars. So does no one buy 1987 through 2008 baseball cards because someone "cheated". Jeter is about the only one that no one suspects.

    A lot people suspect Tom Brady and the Patriot Org. have done a lot of Cheating (maybe worse than taking PED's) . I guess you will be glad unload all your rookies to me for $1 apiece, huh? >>



    Part of the reason why very few cards from 1987 through 2008 are worth more than little to nothing (aside from massive overproduction) is, in my opinion, because of PEDs. I believe people frown more on cheating at baseball than other sports. Further, air pressure in footballs is more akin to doctoring baseballs. Without debating which is a worse offense, card values suggest that PEDs are far worse.

    People generally considered to be clean have seen their card values hold up (see, e.g., Gwynn, Ripken, Larkin, Griffey, Jeter, Ichiro). Others have often lost 90-99% of their one-time value (e.g., McGwire, Palmeiro, Bonds, Braun).



    Edited to add: "more than" in first sentence.
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