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[alexgross.com]

13 hours ago, october said:

Card prices are completely insane right now. PSA 10 Jordan rookies were $30-50k a year ago. Now they are $700k...and there are hundreds of examples in that grade.. That's the definition of ludicrous. It's a bubble, it will pop, and it will end in tears.

...and you can buy an entire game used Jordan jersey, not just a postage stamp sized cut-up piece stuck on some cardboard, for less than that card brought. Makes zero sense.

yes this is really the point, and i think its one reason the sports card world was dead for so long, until more recently. what would you want more, a sports card of your favorite player, or the actual jersey they wore in a game? seems like a no-brainer as to which is more special and valued by most people. a sports card has no connection to the person. a mickey mantle rookie card has more significance i guess because in that era, everyone collected baseball cards, and that era is long past so it is a nostalgic item. why modern cards are so hot is truly baffling. i suppose the popularity of NBA globally really helps. but it does not seem sustainable in the way that key comics values have been reliably on the uptick for a few decades now. 

[PKJ]

Everyone stating the sports card market is insane is correct(so is Pokemon). I personally only collect Mantle for Baseball but have or had Rookies of the the big boys of all sports. I have owned a Greztky OPC rookie forever that I paid $40 bucks for way back due to it having a crease, that card is at PSA right now to be slabbed and sold as even junk versions of that card are selling for 2k.

 On Jordan. I have a few items and agree I would rather have a game used shoes since his shoes were a large part of most of our lives when we grew up in the 80's. I wanted to get a 8.5 of his rookie card for a while and have had an auto alert on it for years, was second bidder on several for about a grand. A friend asked about buying one and I showed him this. The screenshot is a search with "at the time" a crazy ask for a 8.5 with a buy it now of 7500 and on the right is the buy it now is currently for the same grade card. This is a 3 month spread mind you, not a year ago or two years ago, October to Late January. 

 I do think the modern card chasers are in for a huge let down, much like those of us who chased Gregg Jefferies RC's in the 80's. 

Edited February 7, 2021 by PKJ

[Dark Knight]

On 2/7/2021 at 8:44 AM, PKJ said:

Everyone stating the sports card market is insane is correct(so is Pokemon). I personally only collect Mantle for Baseball but have or had Rookies of the the big boys of all sports. I have owned a Greztky OPC rookie forever that I paid $40 bucks for way back due to it having a crease, that card is at PSA right now to be slabbed and sold as even junk versions of that card are selling for 2k.

 On Jordan. I have a few items and agree I would rather have a game used shoes since his shoes were a large part of most of our lives when we grew up in the 80's. I wanted to get a 8.5 of his rookie card for a while and have had an auto alert on it for years, was second bidder on several for about a grand. A friend asked about buying one and I showed him this. The screenshot is a search with "at the time" a crazy ask for a 8.5 with a buy it now of 7500 and on the right is the buy it now is currently for the same grade card. This is a 3 month spread mind you, not a year ago or two years ago, October to Late January. 

 I do think the modern card chasers are in for a huge let down, much like those of us who chased Gregg Jefferies RC's in the 80's. 

Haha funny you mentioned the bolded part because that was when I sold my 8.5 Jordan rookie  Who would've known it would reach to $20k right now.  Only reason why I wanted to sell it is because the card had a small "fish eye" at the bottom border which bugged the heck out of me.  I was intending to upgrade to a 9 but got distracted by other things...  Oh well.

Edited February 9, 2021 by Dark Knight

[PKJ]

4 minutes ago, Dark Knight said:

Haha funny you mentioned the bolded part because that was when I sold my 8.5 Jordan rookie  Who would've known it would reach to $20k right now

Certainly not me, I was underbidder on probably 4-5 when they were selling for $1400 a few years ago, since they never really moved from that point I would always bail at $1400, those cards never moved that fast then all of the sudden insane trajectory. In 2019 it started to bump above 2K then a year later it was 6k, six months later 20k, I think we all know if a comic does that the sell off is coming.

[Dark Knight]

Yeah I remember seeing something similar several years ago where the same card just all of a sudden jumped up in value and then in less than a year dropped back down to earth. Some say it was due to some "buyer's group" that artificially were pumping up the price. So yeah I know that a bottom is coming. What goes up, must come down with practically every single investment type I've seen.

[Bluemedgroup]

On 2/4/2021 at 12:37 PM, piper said:

I finally took the plunge and picked up this nice presenting all be it low grade copy. Hopefully, I didn’t buy it at the peak of this crazy run up!

 

a 3.5 just sold for $9k, so if you are under that, you should be good.  

[piper]

1 hour ago, Bluemedgroup said:

a 3.5 just sold for $9k, so if you are under that, you should be good.  

[Ubergeek]

6 hours ago, Bluemedgroup said:

a 3.5 just sold for $9k, so if you are under that, you should be good.  

Or this...

[Mr bla bla]

17 hours ago, Ubergeek said:

Or this...

FOMO running wild ....

[PKJ]

2 hours ago, Mr bla bla said:

FOMO running wild ....

Nailed it, the Heritage copy I mentioned a while back being overpriced, scooped up at around the same time all these sold.

[Chillax23]

55 minutes ago, Batmanis#1 said:

The X-Men the only team I never got bored of. Great story line and characters. Magneto one of the coolest villains of all-time. I enjoyed every movie they made and I am looking forward to new cartoons and movies. Maybe even a cool video game would be nice even for this old man.

Pizza + Ice-T + X-men = awesome evening!!!

Agreed - and I feel like the best part of X-Men #1 is that you get the team and concept of the X-Men PLUS Magneto.  I will admit my bias and state that Magneto is a top five comic character of all time for me - just a really complex villain turned anti-hero, turned villain, turned hero. #Magnetowasright

I am also looking forward to the MCU version of the X-Men - I felt Fox really nailed it with First Class and Logan then it fell apart a bit - so excited to have the rights in the hands of Disney/MCU.

I think this book still has room to grow - even though I downgraded my copy from a 4.0 to a 2.5 recently  

[Mr bla bla]

7 minutes ago, Chillax23 said:

Agreed - and I feel like the best part of X-Men #1 is that you get the team and concept of the X-Men PLUS Magneto.  I will admit my bias and state that Magneto is a top five comic character of all time for me - just a really complex villain turned anti-hero, turned villain, turned hero. #Magnetowasright

I am also looking forward to the MCU version of the X-Men - I felt Fox really nailed it with First Class and Logan then it fell apart a bit - so excited to have the rights in the hands of Disney/MCU.

I think this book still has room to grow - even though I downgraded my copy from a 4.0 to a 2.5 recently  

What are youre top 5 x-men storylines from the last 20 years. 

Mine in no particular order:

Morrison

Wheedon

Hickman (hox pox)

Remender X-force

Williams, Kent: Wolverine Meltdown

 

[piper]

1 hour ago, Mr bla bla said:

What are youre top 5 x-men storylines from the last 20 years. 

Mine in no particular order:

Morrison

Wheedon

Hickman (hox pox)

Remender X-force

Williams, Kent: Wolverine Meltdown

 

New X-Men, Astonishing X-Men (Whedon only) and House of X/Power of X are all excellent.  I read these all fairly recently in Omnibus format.  For me I stopped reading after Byrne left the title and they started doing did all the crazy crossover events.  New X-Men et al was such as refreshing change after the 90's crapola.

 

[drotto]

This book is still on a rampage.  I always compare to  4.5 (because I own one), one recently sold for $11200 after basically a record setting 10k sale only a month earlier.

[dikran]

Bought a 2.5 for 5k around Thanksgiving. Even I thought I was crazy... 50% appreciation and 3 months later, I’m more eccentric than crazy 🚀🚀🚀🌛

[Bluemedgroup]

10 hours ago, drotto said:

This book is still on a rampage.  I always compare to  4.5 (because I own one), one recently sold for $11200 after basically a record setting 10k sale only a month earlier.

Dang, I sold a 5.0 last year for much less than that.  Time to fire up the DeLorean.  

[Chillax23]

Here is my new copy - downgraded from a 4.0 to the 2.5 below and just got it back from reholdering (needed to get it into the new slab): 

Sorry for the bad pic - but it’s a good looking 2.5 in hand (the colours are quite nice - but it is the lighter green “variant” hahahahaha). 

[Hollywood1892]

Just picked up a 5.5 recently. Didn't realize how popular the book was, just saw an opportunity. I don't know how many will agree with me, but Magneto is my favorite first appearance in the book. Also something very few will agree with I enjoyed X-Men Apocalypse 

[Chillax23]

55 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Just picked up a 5.5 recently. Didn't realize how popular the book was, just saw an opportunity. I don't know how many will agree with me, but Magneto is my favorite first appearance in the book. Also something very few will agree with I enjoyed X-Men Apocalypse 

Magneto is easily my favourite appearance in the book - such a great character. 

[dikran]

This book has always had so much going for it... SEVEN (!!!!) major first appearances? Check. All time classic villain? Check. Number 1? Check. Societal importance? Check. Pop culture relevance? Check.
I’ll never stop pumping this book's tires! 😂