The State Of Game Used!!

[jbean023]

I was researching a few items today when I came across something that I thought I should share with the game used community. I've seen a lot of questions on the state of game used and it goes both ways with the responses. I've said before anyone that doesn't think game used is flourishing is wrong and here's a little research to back up my thoughts. In a big time auction house 2009 auction I found some of these items and thought to myself, I wish I was a serious collector 4 yrs ago and could of bought half of these items. Here's a list of some hammer prices in 2009 and imagine what they would get today from recent auctions. ALL GAME USED

Baseball Jerseys:

Miguel Cabrera 2004-$245
Chipper Jones 2007-$720
Greg Maddux 1997-$1,055
Andruw Jones 2006-$218
Jimmy Rollins 2006-$250
Pedro Martinez 1997-$970
Vladimir Guerrero 2002-$395
Robin Yount 1985-$1,166
Ken Griffey Jr 2002-$580
Pujols 2002-$1,282
Mid 80s Nolan Ryan-$1,433
2002 Juan Pierre-$100
2004 Matt Holliday-$303
2007 Tulo-$250
1996 Gwynn-$535
1998 Piazza-$541
1975 Reggie Jackson-$2,308
1994 McGwire-$541
Jason Giambi 90s USA uniform-$291
Nomar Garciaparra 90s USA uniform-$396
2000 Tejada-100
2002 Ichiro-1,282
2007 Felix Hernadez-$572
1983 Rod Carew-$670
1992 Puckett-$635
1995 Bernie Williams-$722

This is AUCTION prices and only some imagine all these at auction now and that's baseball.

On to football, well last year at the Super Bowl auction Tom Brady jersey sold for 40,000 plus that's more than some whole football game used section 5 years ago in an auction house catalog.
1975 Namath-3,000
1985 Marino-3,100
1995 Jim Kelly-$541
2000 Seau- $869
80s Kosar-$539
80s Moon-$446
2004 Marvin Harrison-$437
2000 Tim Brown-$596
1996 Aikman-$733
2002 Emmitt Smith-$605
2000 Champ Bailey-$150
80s Eric Dickerson-$596
2004 Emmitt Smith-$436
2000 Jerry Rice-$795
Mike Singletary Pro Bowl Jersey-$719
2004 Urlacher-$1,058
2001 Cris Carter-$368


I mean wow Im amazed by this, O wait hang on you can have a nobody from NFL Auctions for $600 or you can have an Eric Dickerson gamer??????

[Jim65]

I would love to find a Marino gamer for 3100