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When the Strasburg superfractor was first listed at the $20,000 buy it now, I couldnt believe that it would even come close. I have always said that when it comes to normal cards from normal packs, there is a ceiling of 10,000 that is almost impossible to break, barring unusual circumstances. Obviously, after all the attention that this card has gotten, the modern card ceiling has been shattered and then some. I literally cannot believe how much this card sold for. It is practically unfathomable.
Although you could easily buy any other card from any other set along with an autograph of any living or dead player, plus a down payment on a nice car for this price, someone still thought it was a good idea. I completely disagree, and here is why. In 2010 Bowman Chrome, Strasburg will have an autographed Superfractor, and at the point of release, the price of this card will drop - DRASTICALLY. The first autographs out of Chrome are always more important than the non-autographs (see Jason Heyward), and this will be no different. Try reselling this card at the price it sold for come october and it will almost be impossible to get half.
My theory has been that its okay to spend a couple hundred on an untested guy, because its only a couple hundred. Its not going to make or break someone. 16,000 bucks can easily mean the difference between financial success and failure for a good part of this country, and to risk it on the arm of a guy with no big league experience is ludicrous, no matter how good his numbers are.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
After All That, Strasburg Finally Sells
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You need to remember not everyone buys cards with a profitable motive. Maybe the guy who now owns it, wanted to do just that, own it. It just cost him a whole lot more than it reasonably should have. I think no matter what happens with Strasburg, this card will hold it's own little place in collecting history. Besides, for all we know it could have been Strasburg himself who overpaid for this card.
ReplyDeleteWhile $16,000 is a lot of money to most people, I don't think it applies to the person who won this auction. Whatever he or she loses on this card in the future, I don't think it will have much of an impact on their financial situation.
ReplyDeleteI honestly feel like this should have gone for more, but seriously, $16k isn't bad.
ReplyDeleteI just want to know how much the red 1/1 auto is going to sell for (and, later, the autographed Superfractor).
What gets me is that there's NO WAY the value of this card could ever go up. I mean, if the buyer is in it for the investment, it's the worst investment ever. Buy Freddie or Fannie stock if you're feeling lucky. If you're just a collector, and you seriously have $16,000 to burn on cards worth nowhere near that much, take a look through my game used cards, pull out a Beckett, and make me an offer.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the seller, though! $16,000 is a lot of money to even the working class wealthy. Well done. I would never buy another pack of cards again, because what pull could possibly be better!?
hahah. 16k for a card that aint 50+ years old is stupid. lol. idk if it was a lebron exquiste 23/99. still not a good idea
ReplyDelete16k!!! once the auto one from bowman chrome comes out this will lose 10k of its value instantly.
then the idiots that paid almost 3k for the orange border auto /25! what the hell is wrong with these people?
from what the seller says on the auction there is no superfractor autograph of strasburg, so the buyer doesn't have to worry about a loss of value due to the auto version being pulled.
ReplyDeletethere is no strasburg chrome auto in this set, but there will be in 2010 Bowman chrome which comes out in a few months. There is a red Strasburg 1/1 auto in this product, but the superfractor is still the superfractor. I say the Auto super in the next product cuts this value in half.
ReplyDeleteThis card has nowhere else to go but down. Stupid, stupid purchase. I don't care how much money the buyer has, this was just a dumb purchase that will only depreciate unless Strasburg starts out red-hot and wins like 7 or 8 games in a row and the guy re-sells it shortly thereafter.
ReplyDelete$16,000 for a baseball card?
ReplyDeleteHas anyone heard from Keith Olbermann lately?