Hobby evolution....

CDsNuts · May 4, 2008 4:06PM

Just 12 years ago, a perfectly centered 1982 Topps Cal Ripken with perfectly sharp corners sold for the same $35 that a 60/40 1982 Topps Cal Ripken with two touched corners. Now the centered one with sharp corners sells for $500 while the other one sells for around $20.

Edit- I really don't have a point. I was just thinking about going to card shows in the 90s and unless a card had an obvious flaw like 90/10 centering or a crease, it was considered mint to most.

VitoCo1972 · May 4, 2008 4:16PM

<< <i>Just 12 years ago, a perfectly centered 1982 Topps Cal Ripken with perfectly sharp corners sold for the same $35 that a 60/40 1982 Topps Cal Ripken with two touched corners. Now the centered one with sharp corners sells for $500 while the other one sells for around $20.

Edit- I really don't have a point. I was just thinking about going to card shows in the 90s and unless a card had an obvious flaw like 90/10 centering or a crease, it was considered mint to most. >>

Well, you hit the nail on the head with show pricing these days. Unless you go to a hardcore show like the National, 1/2 the dealers think that stuff is still mint. Hence - why eBay dominates local card shows. I especially love the dealers that think card grading is "just a fad."

nam812 · May 4, 2008 9:48PM

You really need to let go of the 90's. The 90's can not move on until everyone lets go, and you are the last one holding on. Just release your death grip and let them go. Let them go. Let them go. Let them go. (repeat chant)

CDsNuts · May 4, 2008 10:12PM

With the lights out it's less dangerous. Here we are now, entertain us........... At home, drawin pictures. Of mountain tops, with him on top......... California, no doubt about it. In the city, city of Compton.......

I can't hear you, la la la la la la.......

nam812 · May 4, 2008 10:20PM

Keep covering your ears and singing your 90s songs, but they aren't coming back Lee. Jeremy's gone man.

Rogermnj · May 4, 2008 11:08PM

Come on nick, the guy plays with cards for a living, he is not going to let go of it.

Why do you think he bought those uncut sheets, you know he is just going to wrap himself in them when they arrive and roll around in them singing regulators..

Morgoth · May 4, 2008 11:27PM

Actually Lee, unless the card can grade a 9 and is just 8 material it is worth only about 20 to 30 bucks raw. Think about how much Boggs, Sandberg and Gwynn RCs go for unless they are 9s. Shows just how much material was out there that even for HOF RCs they have to be virtually mint to be worth anything.

nam812 · May 4, 2008 11:45PM

If Lee makes some sort of shirt and pants from those uncut sheets, and snap a few pictures of him wearing them for the boys on the message boards, I will then only refer to him as King of all 90's.

CDsNuts · May 5, 2008 12:51AM

Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole. Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold.

VitoCo1972 · May 5, 2008 12:53AM

<< <i>Sixteen in the clip and one in the hole. Nate Dogg is about to make some bodies turn cold. >>

Regulateeeeeeers, MOUNT UP

Hobby evolution....

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