Worst buy of all time??
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Re: Worst buy of all time??
I would not put that jersey anywhere near a top 5. Sure, someone out there lost 90 percent of his investment -- if not, more -- but how could you compare a loss of $18-20K to the millions being lost on other items, like the McGwire HR ball?Looking for ...
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Re: Worst buy of all time??
Maybe percentage wise it could be top 5?Comment
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The McGwire ball takes the cake.Comment
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What other items, other than the McGwire ball, lost millions of dollars, or more money that the Sanchez jersey? OJ Simpson jersey maybe? Something from Tiger Woods?Comment
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What about something from some of the "future stars" baseball prospects that start hot disappear? I don't wish failure on anybody, but like some Bryce Harper stuff has gone pretty high in the past, if he never comes around that stuff would pretty much tank.Comment
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If we're talking percentage loss, then let's look no further than some rookie that received a ridiculous amount of hype.
-Remember when the Stephen Strasburg Boman Chrome Superfractor sold for $25,000? It's probably worth about 10% of that now. Even if the guy has a Hall of Fame career, it won't fetch anywhere close to half of that in the future. And still, it's an insane amount for a modern rookie card that isn't even graded.
-The 2001 Michael Vick SP Authentic Patch/Autograph rookie card sold for almost $5000 at his peak. Now you can grab one for around $250. Probably not worth even that now.Comment
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Someone paid $25K for a modern card? I don't care if it's graded, certified and blessed by the Pope, that's ridiculous. I will never understand people getting so excited about cards because they're "1/1". It's a manufactured, i.e. artificial, collectible. Is having something, however cheaply-made and ephemeral, that no one else has really worth that much money to any sane person?Jeff
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Not long after this, Topps did a Bazooka Joe comic featuring Gonzo and his gum, and auctioned the original, poster-sized artwork, signed by Gonzo, for charity. I was the winning bidder, but my sister paid for it - a little over $1,200, I think. Gabbert emailed me immediately after the auction ended, wanting to know who I was. The piece was later featured in an SI article about "odd collectibles".Jeff
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Someone paid $25K for a modern card? I don't care if it's graded, certified and blessed by the Pope, that's ridiculous. I will never understand people getting so excited about cards because they're "1/1". It's a manufactured, i.e. artificial, collectible. Is having something, however cheaply-made and ephemeral, that no one else has really worth that much money to any sane person?Comment
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That is exactly why it was a GREAT BUY! He got an MLB license to sell McFarlane Toys after that, which he then branched out to all the other sports. Genius.Comment
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McFarlane's action figures are such a radical departure from anything that existed at a comparable price before; look at one of the old "Standing Lineup" figures and then at one of McFarlane's little masterpieces; it's like the difference between a stick figure doodle and a fine art portrait. Quality like that speaks for itself.
Plus, McFarlane didn't need the publicity that buying the McGwire ball got him - he was already well known in comic and other pop culture circles, which comprise a ready-made market for his non-sport, comic, t.v. and film character figures.Jeff
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Re: Worst buy of all time??
Someone paid $25K for a modern card? I don't care if it's graded, certified and blessed by the Pope, that's ridiculous. I will never understand people getting so excited about cards because they're "1/1". It's a manufactured, i.e. artificial, collectible. Is having something, however cheaply-made and ephemeral, that no one else has really worth that much money to any sane person?
Then you have the modern memorabilia/autograph cards that do have some inherent value in them, but they are still insanely overvalued. I mean, look at this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2009-10-UD-E...item4d21ab2951
For that price, you can probably get a full game used jersey of each of them!
Babe Ruth cut signatures regularly sell for 10K plus, when they're taken from a letter or check that would probably go for $3k-5k. The sports card business, aside from the horrors they commit cutting up historical pieces to put them into cards, creates this insane market printing $10,000 bills by slapping a 1/1 on the back.Comment
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I'm assuming that the only reason anyone makes those auto/memorabilia cards in the first place is so that they can sell a pack of ten or so cards for $5-$8 to a guy who's looking for one, correct? Somebody like me who just wants the cards will buy the whole factory set for fifty, rather than open endless packs looking to make a set. When I was a kid - here I go dating myself again - wax packs (do they still call them that?) existed because they cost a dime, which was about all most kids had to spend on baseball cards at any given time; I'm not even sure that they sold complete card sets back in the '60s, and if they did I'm sure I couldn't have afforded one. Who would buy the packs these days without the possibility of a "valuable" card inside? Despite my encouragement, none of my four boys ever showed the slightest interest in collecting cards, and if one of them had a few bucks he'd have been much more likely to buy a dvd or comic books with it. So a pack of cards today is a sort of lottery ticket, you might say, and it's almost exclusively the grownups who are buying them.Jeff
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