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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 595490, member: 13650&quot;]I think baseball and the card companys&#039; greed hurt baseball cards.&nbsp; I grew up collecting.&nbsp; I even briefly got back into it a few years back.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; A handful of companies producing cards with the occasional insert was all we needed.&nbsp; Not 20-30+ with branched out divisions of the same companies producing more and more &#039;special sets&#039; every year.&nbsp; &nbsp; Pretty soon collectors are divided into groups that are no longer interested in large portions of what&#039;s available.&nbsp;&nbsp; Too much supply.&nbsp; Not enough demand.&nbsp;&nbsp; And as you say, like with everything else, too few $$ chasing anything these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; On top of that, I don&#039;t know how many times I got burned once I got back in, buying up expensive rookie cards just to have news come out that the player was on HGH, steroids or had a corked bat.&nbsp; Not to mention injuries hurting careers.&nbsp; Then the values crash.&nbsp; &nbsp; I sold a BGS 8.5 94 SP A-Rod rookie in anticipation of news coming out that he would be on something.&nbsp; Got my money back out of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; A couple years later we come to find out he was on the juice as well.&nbsp; The card&#039;s worth about 50% of what it was now.&nbsp;&nbsp; Will it ever come back, who knows?&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; It&#039;s a shame, but I don&#039;t blame the collectors or ebay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Nice find on the 98 wide A M btw.&nbsp; I always keep an eye out for these but I thought they were worth a lot more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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