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Judge/Ohtani Logoman sale
Let’s talk about the Ohtani/Judge Dual Gold Logoman 1/1 selling for $2.16 million. Is $2.1M a massive steal for the ultimate modern baseball card, or is it proof that the market for high-end modern non-rookie cards is starting to find its ceiling? Some people expected $4M+. Did the buyer get a bargain, or did the seller get out at the perfect time?
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Honestly i find it so interesting that a piece of cardboard can go for so much. And its hard to say if the buyer got a deal. I mean look at what kevin o leare and a group of others paid for that one card. I think if someone wants a card bad enough expecially for pc they may pay way over what the card is really worth. I mean look at when we where kids looking through becketts pricing guides and most cards where dollar or less got lucky to have something 50 bucks or in the hundreds. I know the hobby does scarcity now which drives prices up but i think at times thats inflated and the scarcity isnt as much there as we think. Obviously 1/1 card would be as thats suppose to be the only one of that in existence.
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Definitely not a PC card at that price. That card will more than likely be a $10 million card one day
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yeah and thats crazy to me.. but sports cards and tcg are not investments
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I am still leaning toward bubble. BUT I’ve been wrong in the past about what I thought were bubbles in different areas.
When you go to a card show do you think most people are collectors or investors? I find that interesting. There’s a show coming up locally in August and I’m hoping to feel well enough to go. I hope to have the energy to look around some and pay attention to how people are buying to see if I can make a guess. And I wonder how often investor/collector overlaps…when someone loves the cards AND is investing big bucks with their buys
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I think it’s 50/50 I mean I do both. I have investment cards and I have heart cards.
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I bet a lot of folks are 50/50 themselves. I kind of started that way but have shifted mostly to what I enjoy without much thought about cards appreciating in value
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I have shifted to trying to find a great copy of a buzz player’s rookie, get it graded and flip
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From what I’ve seen that’s a solid strategy. I’ve held on too long to some cards from those buzz-cresting rookies. Getting them graded is something I didn’t think of but feels very smart to me.
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It’s hard rn with PSA value being shut down. You really gotta like a rookie to send it in
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Yeah and it’s too risky for value to go with another company than PSA. At least right now
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The card’s value I mean. Not the value level
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Personally I’m just saving up my cards to send in later. I am eventually going to send in to Degree once those new slabs are out but those are just PC cards
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Yeah I am doing the same. Have my want to grade cards separated by PSA, and Degrees new slabs once they come out and Degrees normal slabs
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I think people see outrageous prices in basketball and get surprised when it doesn’t translate to quite the same amount in Baseball and other sports. Basketball is unique in that it has a MASSIVE fan base in China, which as we all know has a huge population, so there is a level of demand that other sports don’t see globally in the card market. Soccer is of course global, and seems to be gaining some traction in the hobby, but there isn’t as much fervor around the card collecting hobby in a lot of the European countries as there is in the US, China, and even places like Australia for the NBA. Plus, Jordan might be the most iconic global sports figure in the past 50 years. I think over time, the hobby will start to grow a bigger fan base in Europe and sports like Soccer will start to be in higher demand.
Baseball is huge in the US and Japan, especially with the ascension of Ohtani, but until other countries start to really join in, I think it will always fall a bit short of the dollars we see go to things like the Jordan/Kobe Logoman/Auto.
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That’s fair on the global demand, but I don’t think supply is the best explanation. If anything, the hobby had more licensed competition back then—Upper Deck, Fleer, SkyBox, Topps, Donruss, Score, Pinnacle, Leaf, and others were all producing cards. Today, baseball is essentially a Topps monopoly. I think the bigger difference is where the demand comes from. Basketball has a uniquely global collector base, plus Jordan and Kobe have become cultural icons beyond sports. If MLB can continue expanding internationally with players like Ohtani, Soto, and the next wave of stars, I think baseball values have plenty of room to grow.
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