As someone else suggested, maybe it's only the high-end stuff that is currently retaining its value.

Then, too, neither a few adamant Sellers, intent on getting "their" price and rejecting what you may think are reasonable offers, nor a few better-off-than-average collectors being willing and able to shell out whatever they need to for a coveted item, are necessarily accurate indicators of the market in general.

As I wrote before, the bats I'm talking about are not from superstar or HOF players...but the $6 bat came from Devon White, and the $16 bat came from Johnny Estrada, and I have never seen their stuff go for such paltry prices.