89 Fleer basketball stickers - argh!
burghman
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Is there anything more maddening than '89 Fleer basketball stickers? Aguirre 9s were sold in 2017 for up to $1800, and one McHale 10 sold for $5K last year! The drop is precipitous, though - Aguirre 8s are under $20; McHale 9s go for <$30 and 8s are under $5. Perhaps the market peaked last year, or maybe the population warrants it (2 Aguirre 10s and 11 9s out of 202 pop; 4 McHale 10s out of 250+ pop).
Anyway, after staring at my 3 '89 stickers and finally realizing that they're not going to morph into 9s or 10s, I took some inspiration from Balrog. Oh, yeah, my 3 OC 88s also wanted to get in on the action.
Jim
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88-89 Fleer stickers are the stuff of nightmares when it comes to finding high grade copies. I’ve been on the hunt for a Larry Bird 10 for years
1988 fleer Dominique Wilkins sticker in 10 just sold for 12.5k+ 10 days ago with pwcc. Meanwhile 9s go for around $20. lol
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-Fleer-Sticker-Dominique-Wilkins-11-PSA-10-GEM-MINT-PWCC-/352328593281?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=mm7b5pF5wMXnK0SzY0YOZtnuRCQ%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1988-Fleer-Sticker-11-Dominique-Wilkins-Hawks-HOF-PSA-10-IMPOSSIBLE-CARD/382376210932?_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=2&asc=50544&meid=e1a9ce6ae93a4be785096cd1b4cbe6b8&pid=100011&rk=4&rkt=12&sd=352328593281&itm=382376210932&_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850
Sequential order. Someone killed it!
Damn, good for them! I’m sure there are other items like this that aren’t really mainstream, but the drop off from 10 to 9 (or even 9 to 8) is staggering. From the examples here, the single grade drop nets you less than 1% of the sale price of the higher grade. If the 52 Mantle had the same price structure, a PSA 10 would go for north of $200 million based on Evan’s recent sale. Who knows, maybe that’s what it would take to pry the current owners’ hands off of their 10s?
Jim
Man, I don't even try to mess around with those things. I have fond memories of them like everybody else but I just take my 8s and 9s and sit comfortably on the curb sippin' my lemonade and cheer the true athletes on as they race by. Lot of respect for those of you out there in the Fleer stickers trenches. I've done a few of those care packages where I bake some cookies, have a kid draw a picture, and then I toss in some Hustlers and mail it to the front lines but that's about as close as I get to the combat.
Arthur
holy moly that is riduclous. How do you even have 2 Gem Mints of an impossible card let alone submit them back to back. Now I am curious to spend the next hour searching certs backwards and forwards to see what else this luck box hit. LOL. Thanks @Dpeck100 xD
OMG.. These were both reviews. HOLY MOLY again!
https://www.psacard.com/auctionprices/basketball-cards/1988-fleer-sticker/dominique-wilkins/auction/696776/
https://www.psacard.com/auctionprices/basketball-cards/1988-fleer-sticker/dominique-wilkins/auction/698901/
So somebody turned an $80 investment into $25K?
Somebody must have missed the white chipping on the back of both cards....I dont feel either one of them were a 10 quality
...and the reviews were from the same seller... ugh, sick to stomach for that seller.
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
i've sent in multiple jordans that i thought might be 8s that were 5s. it's like they cut these things with misangled scissors