Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Card















capewood said...

I think, like with other ospects of baseball card collecting, that the graded card has become a glut on the market and as such has lost any intrinsic value it might have had. I could see getting a valuable, rare old card graded, if for nothing ore, the protection value. I just took a quick look on eBay. Right now you can bid on a 1968 graded 8.5 Sandy Valdespino card. 4 bidders have jacked up the price all the way to $6.50. Good old Sandy was a 7-year outfielder or a number of teams with 362 games played and a 0.230 career batting average. Beckett says the undraded card is a common worth $2.50. I don't understand why anyone would grade such a card and why anyone would want to buy it. Doesn't it cost like $10 to get a card graded? How can you turn around and sell if for $6.50?


NMboxer said...

How do people store or display or play with graded cards? The whole thing is incomprehensible. Like we need more plastic in the world.

Anonymous said...

I hate graded cards. I have never owned one or desired one. I almost bought one the other day, a Griffey 1989 UD, but decided against it. Why? Because it was only an 8.5. I would rather have it ungraded than to have it graded so poorly.