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Russ S.
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Wow.
Card with a $5 jump.
Hot and impressive.
Card with a $5 jump.
Hot and impressive.
hoopster3977
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Russ, when you own as many Story auto's as I do, it is significant.
Russ S.
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Lol. I guess it would be.
Good luck.
Good luck.
bradical
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irregardless sic!
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We've been through this time and time again, the Hot List is based on % change.
Therefore Story's autos going up buy 50-75% exceeds whatever Harper related suggestion you posted this week...
Russ S.
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Unless someone can prove the Boyd auction was shilled, I believe an increase from $207 to $330 is pretty significant. Like 62.7% significant.
Who's happier, those folks still with Harper Chromes seeing the resurgence, or those with Stories seeing a $5 increase?
Love the list as always.
Rock on.
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Who is happier? Doesn't matter to me.
Most Harper Chrome Autos the prior week were more around this price [phil]221027962256[/phil] making the move a bit less. I typically try not to pick the highest sale one week and the lowest a prior week if there are an abundance of the cards that have sold, which in Harper's case, there are.
sportscardtheory
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Honestly, not saying this to be rude, but who cares what percentage a card goes up. I would rather make $100 on a card that went up 10% than $5 on a card that went up 75%. I think you should be paying more attention to actual increased value and less on percentages. You are missing a lot of great cards and players that are much better sales and are "hotter" than some of these $10 Minor League player cards. Just some constructive criticism, not meant to be argumentative. I enjoy your Hot Lists, just making a suggestion to maybe help make them even better.
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Gotta find a niche, mine is % increase...certainly merit to what you are saying as well.
shayscards79
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To be fair, this list is probably just important to those buying just as much as the person trying to make a buck.... or 100. Its intesting to see what people are going after regardless of price.
BowmanChromeAddict
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I love these lists because I personally find reading them to be hilarious even though I don't understand half of the references. The most informative post of the week is the Nomination thread. Love the content that gets thrown around in there.
bradical
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Dollar-cost-averaging is your friend.
Take that $100 you wanted to spend on one card and buy-up numerous lowered end cards. Say you bought 20 of the same cards @ $5 each, its much more conceivable that card could go from $5 to $10 or $15 over another card go from $100 to $200 in the same time span.
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You probably aren't the only one who doesn't get half the references. My brain admittedly works in strange ways, I wish "this is the story of a girl" hadn't been the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a chrome autograph with a rockies prospect on it.
hoopster3977
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I bought both of these graded, right now at market value more than 100% increase.
This is from the graded set I have completed.
This is from the graded set I have completed.
ThoseBackPages
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sadly, i get most of the references lol
hoopster3977
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Phil, great column as usual. I look forward to it every week.
Thanks!
Thanks!
bballcardkid
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Only thing I dislike about that is, I hate having a substantial percentage of the cost of my card wrapped up in shipping. You buy a $7 card + $3 shipping, 30% of the cost is to get the card to your door. The ebay value on that $7 card would have to double to $14 in order for you to make $1-$2 after fees, and as this list suggests, you have to be hot in order for low end cards to get a modest $5 bump.
I'd much rather invest high end because when the player gets attention, they actually move enough so that it's actually worth your while and time.
