It's amazes me what people are willing to pay for this!

[3arod13]

It's amazes me what people are willing to pay for this!

Currently at US $3,149.00 with 6 days left

[trsent]

It's amazes me what people are willing to pay for this!

Currently at US $3,149.00 with 6 days left

Doesn't having David Wright on the card hurt the value?

[3arod13]

Doesn't having David Wright on the card hurt the value?

I know we've discussed this before, but I just to get it.

A Mickey Mantle signed post card sells for around $100-$125. Cut the signature from that post card, put it on a card, insert it into a pack, and now it's worth more than $1,000.

I honestly just don't get it.

[thomecollector]

I can't believe they would take a signed Mantle ball, and destroy it. Then have someone else sign it....What waste.

[trsent]

I know we've discussed this before, but I just to get it.

A Mickey Mantle signed post card sells for around $100-$125. Cut the signature from that post card, put it on a card, insert it into a pack, and now it's worth more than $1,000.

I honestly just don't get it.

All they have to do is make it a trading card, put "1/1" or any low number and suddenly the card is highly collectible and valuable.

People go to card shops instead of casinos these days - They hope to pull one of these cards, sell it on eBay and pay their mortgage. I have watched people spend thousands in a day for hundreds in cards. I have also see the opposite.

[3arod13]

All they have to do is make it a trading card, put "1/1" or any low number and suddenly the card is highly collectible and valuable.

What collector don't realize is, when these type cards first come out, the hype is there and everyone is chasing them for their collection. Down the line, they won't be worth close to what was paid for them.

[mvandor]

Really don't get card collectors of modern cards, and I could NEVER support destroying items to make cards. It's sacriligious to the hobby.

[godwulf]

I think it's all part of the "manufactured collector's item" mentality. Some card collectors don't seem to get it that just because something is one of a kind, or one of five, ten, a hundred, whatever, that it's only ever going to be worth what somebody else is willing to pay them for it.

They may derive some kind of satisfaction in knowing that they've got a card that no one else does, and that's great - chances are just about 100% that there will be more such cards, similarly "rare", and that everyone who wants and can afford one will eventually have one...and that they will then be stuck with them for life, or will have to sell them at a loss.

[joelsabi]

i guess theres some mantle collector who is a completist that just needs this card. if i was that mantle collector, i would be upset with every new release. you think your collection is complete and now they added another card and 1 of 1 to boot. then again they just might be happy that they can still add to the collection. i dont have that deep of a wallet so i cant relate.

how many 1 of 1 are there anyways of mantle? 1 of 1 are overrated anyways. most of the really desirable are the ones that you at least see in circulation and you feel you have a chance at it.

i tried to be a arod card completist (want 1 of each card) but came to me senses and got rid of most my cards when parallel and insert became the rage. this also the time when graded card was at its infancy and people said it reminded them of the collapse of the coin collecting industry. i kept only a few. my favorite is a sealed pack with a RC and Wave of the Future both visible. I kept an error card of Arod 94 SP but not sure what to make of it. was it cut from an uncut sheet or came from a pack?

[costas]

ever since reading that book on the fake Mantle signatures, I don't trust these things