Coins got beat down because Investors got into the market & inflated the
prices with fixed price guides. The same people tried that with cards,
remember CCP????

The investors pulled out of coins and left the collectors holding the bag.
The card people saw this coming to cards and stopped it in the early 90's.

E-Bay and the disreputable dealers drive the prices lower because the buyer
takes the risk they will get beat. They bid less based on 1 or 2 negative
feedbacks and then collector's come to card shows expecting the E-Bay
prices. Never taking into account that it costs $250-300 to do a mall show.

Cards are not a profiteering business, unless you want to sink tons of money
every month buying the hot new stuff and ripping it open in hopes of finding
the 1/1 or rare auto rc ...

Sounds like the only people making money here are the graders and
manufacturers ...

last time I checked $50 gets you a single jersey or auto card ... and great
news IT'S BRET BOONE !!!!!



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"pkstore2" wrote in message
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E-Bay has done for the greed of the hobby than any grading company ever
could.

You can't be serious? Ebay is nothing more than modernization of mankind.
Real auctions have been around for over 100 years and all that Ebay is ,
is
a venue that is in space where people can bid around the world 24/7. If
something goes for more or less than it is worth that is business. People
make & loose money on cards there everyday. It is no different than a
storefront or a show dealer in business. Look at the coin & stamp industry
and ask those dealers how that hobby was before grading and then how it is
now years later. Same answer...there basically is no hobby anymore except
for the people who grew up with it 30-40 years ago.