Josh Bard PHOTOMATCHED 2007 Padres helmet...worn from Opening Day til May 8th

[kingjammy24]

Re: Josh Bard PHOTOMATCHED 2007 Padres helmet...worn from Opening Day til May 8th

Thanks for your post. I'd have to agree...it has to be simply the fact that I've been selling too many photomatches from players just not that big. I've sold a few good ones in the past (like the Delmon Young photomatched bat, Braden Looper photomatched jersey), and on those I made pretty good profits, so I guess now I should just stick with mainly high-end items. Thanks again.
-Kyle

hey kyle

i don't even think that the only desireable items are high-end (read: high priced) items. i think there are many different aspects to an item, other than price, that could make it desireable. you could focus on highly-hyped, "flavor of the month" players. just be sure you get in early enough and dump them before everyone realizes they haven't lived up to their hype. or you could go for older, rarer items. whatever the niche is, i think you've got to first ascertain that there's a real market for it and i think there are definitely substantial markets out there for items that aren't necessarily high-end/high-priced. despite his abysmal downfall, there are still a rabid group of loyal canseco collectors out there for example who'll pay good money for prime items of his. take a player like pat borders who's a complete nobody to the majority of the collecting world but a very desireable acquisition to the small group of serious jays collectors who focus on their two back-to-back world series years. what i'm saying is that it's not all pujols jerseys and ripken bats. there are definitely tons of desireable niches out there that aren't high end. i guess josh bard isn't one of them.

good luck.

rudy.

[kylehess10]

Re: Josh Bard PHOTOMATCHED 2007 Padres helmet...worn from Opening Day til May 8th

hi kyle

i'm not a "big fish" when it comes to wheeling and dealing pieces so take my opinion for what it's worth.
i don't think a photomatch, as solid as it may be, can alone bring a good premium to any item. i think the item has to be "in demand" to start with. i don't mean this as any sort of slight. i'm simply saying that a photomatch isn't going to add that much to the helmet of a guy who hit .202 with 1 HR and who may be a couple strikeouts away from spending the next 6 yrs in the minors. perhaps without the match, the piece wouldn't have even sold. i'm not sure how lucrative your MO of finding low-priced pieces and photomatching them is going to pan out, especially given the time you're spending. are there many josh bard fans out there? i think photomatches bring a substantial premium when applied to highly desireable pieces. find a solid photomatch to a pujols jersey or ripken bat and you'll see a substantial increase over a non-photomatched counterpart. i just don't think enough folks care enough about josh bard for a photomatch to make any difference. truly if it's one thing i've learnt in collecting, it's quality over quantity. if i had $2k to spend on a bat, i'd rather have 1 ripken bat than 45 common players. i won't have a problem reselling the ripken bat in the future but i'll probably struggle selling each and every one of those common player bats. i don't think you can photomatch anything and automatically see a tidy profit. as an early-90s jays collectors, someone could offer me a mauro gozzo jersey photomatched six ways till sunday and the photomatch wouldn't make any difference. i simply don't want a mauro gozzo jersey, photomatched or not.

rudy.

Thanks for your post. I'd have to agree...it has to be simply the fact that I've been selling too many photomatches from players just not that big. I've sold a few good ones in the past (like the Delmon Young photomatched bat, Braden Looper photomatched jersey), and on those I made pretty good profits, so I guess now I should just stick with mainly high-end items. Thanks again.


-Kyle

[kingjammy24]

Re: Josh Bard PHOTOMATCHED 2007 Padres helmet...worn from Opening Day til May 8th

I would love to hear thoughts from members as to why my auction sold for so low. I was shocked to see that this helmet sold for $21 last night. Is $21 really worth a photomatched helmet? I'm pretty much disgusted by this price being that I spent so much time going through each game on MLB.tv and getting all the screenshots. I always thought photomatched prices would bring a good premium, but apparently not.

hi kyle

i'm not a "big fish" when it comes to wheeling and dealing pieces so take my opinion for what it's worth.
i don't think a photomatch, as solid as it may be, can alone bring a good premium to any item. i think the item has to be "in demand" to start with. i don't mean this as any sort of slight. i'm simply saying that a photomatch isn't going to add that much to the helmet of a guy who hit .202 with 1 HR and who may be a couple strikeouts away from spending the next 6 yrs in the minors. perhaps without the match, the piece wouldn't have even sold. i'm not sure how lucrative your MO of finding low-priced pieces and photomatching them is going to pan out, especially given the time you're spending. are there many josh bard fans out there? i think photomatches bring a substantial premium when applied to highly desireable pieces. find a solid photomatch to a pujols jersey or ripken bat and you'll see a substantial increase over a non-photomatched counterpart. i just don't think enough folks care enough about josh bard for a photomatch to make any difference. truly if it's one thing i've learnt in collecting, it's quality over quantity. if i had $2k to spend on a bat, i'd rather have 1 ripken bat than 45 common players. i won't have a problem reselling the ripken bat in the future but i'll probably struggle selling each and every one of those common player bats. i don't think you can photomatch anything and automatically see a tidy profit. as an early-90s jays collectors, someone could offer me a mauro gozzo jersey photomatched six ways till sunday and the photomatch wouldn't make any difference. i simply don't want a mauro gozzo jersey, photomatched or not.

rudy.

[kylehess10]

Re: Josh Bard PHOTOMATCHED 2007 Padres helmet...worn from Opening Day til May 8th

I would love to hear thoughts from members as to why my auction sold for so low. I was shocked to see that this helmet sold for $21 last night. Is $21 really worth a photomatched helmet? I'm pretty much disgusted by this price being that I spent so much time going through each game on MLB.tv and getting all the screenshots. I always thought photomatched prices would bring a good premium, but apparently not. Could it be that my pictures aren't working? I used HTML, and I know it can have it's difficulties, but I wonder how this ended so much lower than what I expected, especially being photomatched.

[kylehess10]

Re: Josh Bard PHOTOMATCHED 2007 Padres helmet...worn from Opening Day til May 8th

This helmet is now on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=250325223255&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=015

[kylehess10]

I have for sale a photomatched Josh Bard 2007 Padres helmet. There is a white mark on the front of the helmet which has been photomatched from April 8th through May 8th, but the helmet was most-likely also worn from April 3rd - 7th since the mark probably just wasn't on the helmet yet, meaning this helmet would be from Opening Day. The helmet shows great use, and has a crack on the very top part. His fingerprints from his batting gloves can be seen all over the helmet. His number "28" is on the back and he wore this helmet for 1 homerun, which was on April 30th. My asking price is $125 which includes priority mail shipping with delivery confirmation. My e-mail is kylehess941@hotmail.com