Some more 90's Insert Love INSANITY!!!

[Russ S.]

Not my auction, and no I didn't win.

But a Ripken 1998 Topps Gold Label RED /50 just sold for $156.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEDWX:IT

10 Unique bidders. Yeah, Ripken isn't collected much.

 

[trevordchi]

:shock:

Set collectors probably had a bit to do with it.

 

[Russ S.]

:shock:

Set collectors probably had a bit to do with it.

Probably so, but you can't deny with 10 different bidders, this was a war with the Ripken Collectors.

Hope we won!

 

[George_Calfas]

$156 is insane and awesome int the same breathe. Sorry you did not win though.

 

[Russ S.]

$156 is insane and awesome int the same breathe. Sorry you did not win though.

Tell me about it. I was shocked!!
And supposedly, sales are down across the board. Really? LOL
Maybe for crappy Prospecting! But Player and set collecting is alive and well!!

Seeing this sale, makes me think my Ripken Red Crusade is worth at least a Bentley! Maybe even a Jag.

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

As someone who is slowly piecing together a master set of Gold Label basketball, you'd be surprised at some of the prices on the red labels. I've seen some of the bigger name players sell for up to $200 and even the class 3 commons can go over $25. My first example was a Gary Trent class 3 #/25 that started minimum bid of .99 and BIN of 9.99. I figured I could get it less than the BIN and so did others so that got killed quickly, and the auction ended around $18. Gary Trent is a scrub bench player at best.

 

[George_Calfas]

[quote="George_Calfas":3ohrdqdq]$156 is insane and awesome int the same breathe. Sorry you did not win though.

Tell me about it. I was shocked!!
And supposedly, sales are down across the board. Really? LOL
Maybe for crappy Prospecting! But Player and set collecting is alive and well!!

Seeing this sale, makes me think my Ripken Red Crusade is worth at least a Bentley! Maybe even a Jag. [/quote:3ohrdqdq]

And set collecting

 

[George_Calfas]

Russ, also surprised this stayed low, grade hurt the price.
[ebay:12u45q8t]120491830695[/ebay:12u45q8t]

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

The best cards are always sought after by player *set* collectors.

[quote="Russ S.":148kpyll][quote="George_Calfas":148kpyll]$156 is insane and awesome int the same breathe. Sorry you did not win though.

Tell me about it. I was shocked!!
And supposedly, sales are down across the board. Really? LOL
Maybe for crappy Prospecting! But Player and set collecting is alive and well!!

Seeing this sale, makes me think my Ripken Red Crusade is worth at least a Bentley! Maybe even a Jag. [/quote:148kpyll]

And set collecting[/quote:148kpyll]

 

[Russ S.]

Russ, also surprised this stayed low, grade hurt the price.
[ebay:iysy6xrt]120491830695[/ebay:iysy6xrt]

Yeah, had that on my watch list. I'm strapped, or I would have picked it up.

The best cards are always sought after by player *set* collectors.

[quote="Russ S.":iysy6xrt][quote="George_Calfas":iysy6xrt]$156 is insane and awesome int the same breathe. Sorry you did not win though.

Tell me about it. I was shocked!!
And supposedly, sales are down across the board. Really? LOL
Maybe for crappy Prospecting! But Player and set collecting is alive and well!!

Seeing this sale, makes me think my Ripken Red Crusade is worth at least a Bentley! Maybe even a Jag.

And set collecting[/quote:iysy6xrt][/quote:iysy6xrt]

FINALLY. We agree 100%.

 

[XdanX]

Needless to say I was very happy with this sale last night.

http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-STANDING-OVATI ... 20ae1fe27a

 

[Russ S.]

Needless to say I was very happy with this sale last night.

http://cgi.ebay.com/2000-STANDING-OVATI ... 20ae1fe27a

Congrats on the sale.
I picked mine up for around $30 about 2 or 3 years back.

 

[Hallsgator]

As someone who is slowly piecing together a master set of Gold Label basketball, you'd be surprised at some of the prices on the red labels. I've seen some of the bigger name players sell for up to $200 and even the class 3 commons can go over $25. My first example was a Gary Trent class 3 #/25 that started minimum bid of .99 and BIN of 9.99. I figured I could get it less than the BIN and so did others so that got killed quickly, and the auction ended around $18. Gary Trent is a scrub bench player at best.

He was a beast at Ohio though.

 

[70Chip]

Wow, some of those prices are quite surprising...Makes me want to dig into the "old" stuff and see what I can find....But of course, anything Ripken stays with me

 

[marterburn]

:shock:

...makes me wonder what this would get at auction....i've only had it as BIN in the past.

 

[JEA2880]

It depresses me that $156 is considered "insane" for that card. I had the Griffey /100 back in the day and sold it for $300. Oh how times change...

 

[cmixer]

Gold Label are awesome -

I found a dude at a card show selling old packs of this recently;
bought about 20 packs and got a "platinum" #/100

Sold it to the Glaus collector here for about $10 or so ...

- - - I'm STILL looking for some football (Ike Hilliard & Jacquez Green) Gold Label cards - they are hard to find!

 

[carrsallstars]

I have thought that the 98 and 99 Topps gold labels were nice cards that were a bit undervalued... I figured that the set design with all the classes and labels kept people away. I managed to pick up Manny pretty cheap and filled out my checklist... but in trying to upgrade condition on a few I have gotten blown out of the water over the past year+

 

[Fandruw25]

This Andruw ended last night. After seeing this thread I bumped my max bit up a bit and still lost

[ebay:xtaxo5o3]290370205181[/ebay:xtaxo5o3]

1/25

 

[Russ S.]

This Andruw ended last night. After seeing this thread I bumped my max bit up a bit and still lost

[ebay:lrbkt8kh]290370205181[/ebay:lrbkt8kh]

1/25

Sorry bud.