Actually the connection is far less intimate than it was back in 1990. How many of you actually pick up the phone to talk rather than send a text or an email?
There's something to be said for face-to-face interaction that has been greatly eradicated with the advent of emails and text messages...
The reason why they don't advertise is because there is little to no upside in doing so. These companies care about their bottom line only, which makes sense considering they're operating a business.
This is why you see stocked shelves in Wal-Mart and Target but cobwebs in local hobby shops, if...
If memory serves me correctly, the Gooden is tough to find centered.
And for the poster who commented on the number of PSA 10s for the three cards - the number isn't very high, actually.
What's more surprising is that only 486 total Goodens were graded as compared to Puckett and Clemens.
That show, which you said was on a Tuesday night (which is true), was one of the most active shows in NJ for years and years and years. The Parsippany, NJ, Tuesday night show was legendary in the 1980s and 1990s. When I used to work down the street in the late 1990s, there would be a line that...
And to top it off, the irony is that the Gooden card "books" significantly lower than both the Puckett and the Clemens, and yet the PSA 10 is roughly the same or a bit higher.
OK. Maybe not so much irony.
A bankruptcy filing by Upper Deck could prove disastrous for the hobby.
Just think about the sheer amount of autographed LeBron James, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods memorabilia that would flood the market at pennies on the dollar in order to pay their creditors.
There are a lot of dealers...
There's no flip to be made unless you pull the card from a pack. His prices will start out the gate skyhigh.
We've seen this with Ichiro and Shinjo and Ishii and Hideki Matsui and Kaz Matsui and Dice-K. We know how this story will end.