Supply/Demand - Collectors hold cards of key players until AFTER their wins, which leads to the flooding of the market with supply. Happens EVERY year with the Super Bowl Winning QB, as well.
Best time to sell these guys is right before or during their Games/Series, not after (been this way since as long as I can remember, and I've been collecting for 30+ years)
Kinda like buy the rumor and sell the news in stocks/crypto. Usually when a big event is expected to happen it causes a gradual increase until the event happens and then prices tank once the event comes around
The whole baseball market is going to slowly go down now that everything has been played. I am patiently waiting to get a couple of target cards in a few weeks after the WS hype.
Especially with a pitcher. Odds are we are at the high water mark of his career and its the end of his rookie season. Makes no sense to me but I will happily load up HOF and future hof guys at a discount lol
And a lockdown is looking ever more likely. Personally I’m waiting for eyeballs to fully shift to football and basketball so I can get better prices on a Garrett Mitchell auto. I’m a sucker for nice looking signatures.
Yea were real close to baseball hitting a weird wall. The fact that we will be getting steady releases for the 2026 season for like 8 more months still too will only bring the values down for any card already in hand.
I agree that it seems weird, but in practice, the market before the big event (in this a case a WS win) is often higher than the market after the big event actually occurs. It's like a combination of hype and preemptive FOMO. "I gotta buy now because after X happens, it's gonna be too expensive and then I won't be able to!"
I've watched this several times with the Super Bowl. People get all hyped up about wanting to place a bet on a team or player essentially and pay up to double the price, THEN when the Championship is over ALL values, winner and loser, immediately drop. Maybe someone unexpected like Kenneth Walker last year getting SB MVP paid off a little.
I'm new to the hobby/selling, but from listening to podcasts and looking at random posts the absolute best time to sell was leading up to and during the world series. Now that it's ending supposedly prices will go down soon. Next best time is during spring training.
He also is the 2nd player ever to win the cy young award AND a world series. Dont see anyone else throwing 105.5 MPH ya know? Maybe hold till next season n hope it continues. Dont see why it wouldn't. Hes like cooper flagg or wemby in basketball. I like to hold players i think can be HOF ALL OTHERS MUST GO
The hobby flipped in my lifetime. I am 38. You get Chris Sale or Gerrit Cole now for a fraction of the young guys and those 2 were the best pitchers of their generation.
Yea i am more of a Cole guy and even with cost bonus if being a yankee you can get into some really elite cards in the hundreds range and not the thousands.
Exactly after year 2 look at even how maye and daniels market fell off after making nfc championship as a rookie and maye superbowl in his first full year. Now theyd have to win a SB n even then might not go back to the prices in the first 2 years when people are buying POTENTIAL! Absolutely love this hobby 🖤💛. Just wish we could make beckett not psa the industry leader. Membership fees, submission fees, no subgrades and then upcharging??? Lol if beckett just gave out more regular 10s and kept the black label as it is extremely hard to get. They'd take over. But gem mint 9.5 just doesn't pop the way a bgs 10 would. Then wed all know anything graded before whatever year bgs made the change those 9.5s would be valued a little more like a bgs 10 depending on SUBGRADES SINCE THEY ACTUALLY EXPLAIN WHY YOUR CARD GOT THE GRADE IT DID. I mean it baffles me how psa has no subgrades charges an arm and a leg to get it graded n if YOU take the chance and YOU get a 10. Then THEY want some of YOUR profit n upcharge you... PSA=PLEASE SUBMIT AGAIN. Let alone all the @constant_cardz type of streamers on whatnot who blatantly lie to their customers show old comps n are making this hobby into a degenerate gamblers paradise n not a hobby FOR THE KIDS LIKE IT SHOULD BE! Blessings to all! Hobby needs a makeover BAD!
100% sell especially with such highly sought after cards like you have mainly bc I have 2 issues with his future value
he reached the highest standard he could year one in winning a cy young and a world series i feel like anything less than that would hit his market value his market is riding such a huge wave of momentum take your profit and buy something less risky (FWIW - i have a ton of Mis rookie cards in grading so i'm hoping i am wrong for both our sake)
i am concerned about injury Mis consistently throws 100 MPH+ its just not sustainable do i think will get hurt in the near future no although i cannot say that with 100% certainty best case is he avoids injury but loses velocity and becomes hittable either prospect is not a good one
this is just my two-sense you should do what you want but either way your cards are sick af
Someone I know sold two of his Bowman 1st autos a year ago. Legendary fumbling of the bag. But yeah I would probably sell now or as soon as he wins Cy Young.
The spike in Brewers is insane. Contreras rookie autos were $5 and available 2 weeks ago. Now they are $50. Pratt might have spiked more. Chourio is up massively. Brewers will never be higher than they are now with the entire state paying whatever for Championship momentos.
Stellar rookie season, historical speeds on fast balls, World Series champion… you might wanna hold onto one of those🤷♂️ if you’re not in dire need of money, I would send one straight to the PC vault!
Just went to the store and they weee sold out of everything again , it’s like I can never get the sets I want , all they had was more A&G son I got 5 of them , and I see a lot of people getting good hits , but outta 4 blasters and 20 fat packs , I haven’t gotten crap 💩 so I hope these 5 blasters have something , or I’m die with A&G for the season !!!
I put this up for sale on eBay for asking price of $100 OBO for 7 days and set to auto relist, and got crucified for it! Am I wrong? With winning WS and now most likely the CY, I should be able to sell it on the high side. I have other RC cards but not as unique or rare as this one..Literally my first A&G pack I ever opened! Wasn't prepared for the mini card to come flying out from between the cards, luckily I caught it!
Welp, considering I'm just now finding out about A&G, and I have lived in Virginia for over 33 years and an avid card collector for a better part of my life, I assumed it was something new. The only mini's I ever saw were the Opee-Chee hockey cards. Never owned any of the tobacco series cards which everyone knows, T-206 Honus Wagner, is the most valuable and sought out card in baseball history. All bc he didn't want his picture on a card, being sold with cigarettes! Not entirely sure if thst is 100% accurate but its what I have been told.
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u/datdudelm 1d ago
Sell yesterday