Mailday: Adrenaline Rush Beauties and rant

[PenaltyMan]

Bought the Hasek for $25 CDN out of this set. Can't believe this "rookie" went for less

In the words of Dennis Leary: "I don't wanna go off on a rant here, but..."

Despite the influx of low-numbered parallels out there, does anyone consider how tough these cards really are to come by? Perhaps all it really comes down to is demand more than supply these days. I mean, supply of this card is /10, but demand must be so weak that I can snag this for around $20 CDN shipped. I just don't get it myself. I once saw a guy buy Gretzky out of this blue set for $2200 CDN back in 1999! Now it recently sold for like $155 US. The same man bought the Retail Aurora Front Line Red of Gretzky for $3000 CDN a few weeks later! The only real way to create a valuable collection seems to be with vintage stuff, especially graded cards, as even the rarest cards these days don't hold much value for long.

To add to my rant here, I see new stuff today as the classic 'pump-and-dump' market where the hype of new product increases the prices a lot, then the prices crash back to earth with the buyers of the new product left holding the bag.


Oh well. That's the hobby these days - sell when things are new, buy after everything drops through the floor in price. I always saw cards as both entertainment and a type of investment, but I suppose it's simply the former for the most part.

 

[sprague11]

I hear ya - One of my buddies has been trying to sell the Patrick Roy Black Diamond Quad Horizontal card for the longest time (books at 800 bucks, 1 in 11000 packs or something like that) and routinely gets offers of 45 bucks for it.

 

[langway05]

Wes

Nice nab!

BTW! Are you going for the set?

Congrats & thanks for the pic. As well as the 'Chuckle!'

Brian

 

[PenaltyMan]

Wes

Nice nab!

BTW! Are you going for the set?

Congrats & thanks for the pic. As well as the 'Chuckle!'

Brian

Thanks for the replies so far, guys!

Brian - nope. I have enough on my plate with RFTCs and the Ti /99 set. I'd sooner go after the 99-00 Paramount HOF Proof set /35 then the adrenaline rush blue set. Too many ideas man

 

[quincy]

I hear ya Wes. I routinely get ridiculous offers of $100 or thereabouts for the Center Ice Proof Patrick Roy /10. People simply do not appreciate how very hard those parallels are to find.

 

[BlindThomen]

I don't get it either Wes, but that's a sweet card nonetheless!

As a player collector, I'm fine with paying up to $70 (or even more, depending on the card) for a parallel #'d out of then.
Sometimes, in my opinion, people tend to think eBay is the whole world of collectors. Do a little reserch and you might be surprised, that's all I have to say.

BTW, I always find the argument "that much for a card, and it's not even a GU/AU/Patch or whatever" very amusing.

 

[BlindThomen]

I hear ya - One of my buddies has been trying to sell the Patrick Roy Black Diamond Quad Horizontal card for the longest time (books at 800 bucks, 1 in 11000 packs or something like that) and routinely gets offers of 45 bucks for it.

That's just sad (the offers), and it's 1 in 30,000 packs, by the way.

 

[PenaltyMan]

I hear ya Wes. I routinely get ridiculous offers of $100 or thereabouts for the Center Ice Proof Patrick Roy /10. People simply do not appreciate how very hard those parallels are to find.

I guess I'll refrain from offering ya $75 for it

I'd honestly see a fair price for your Roy at around $400-750 US. That and the Sundin seem to be the only Center Ice Proofs I've ever seen. Honestly, who opened tons of Pacific Retail just to pull those gems?

That's the thing though, I might as well just buy the odd shiny card here and there, but focus more on vintage if I want my cards to even retain some value.

Interestingly enough, I started my 5x7 uncut Zenith set with the original intent of trading the singles for vintage RCs and singles. Ditto buying newer RCs for the same purpose. I'd flip maybe a few RCs /1500 for BV6 a piece in exch. for maybe a Denis Savard RC or a fair-poor cond. Bobby Clarke RC or something like that. The point was to solidify the value of my collection.

I still remember when my Roy RFTC from 96 BD booked at $800 US. Now it's $250. I understand that patch/autos out of 3, 1 or even -5 draw attention away from the older, tougher singles, but to drop the value below a third seems a bit much.

 

[MGiuseffi1969]

Wes, Nice lookin' pickup, and a great steal. As for the "older" SSP parallels and inserts. I must agree with you that they get no hobby love these days, but that's OK with me since I still need a bunch of them for my Leetch and Messier collections. One thing though, you can pretty much throw Beckett BV out the window on most of the 1990's cards since they haven't been adjusted in years. Mike