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- From: lynch@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Howard Lynch)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:28:26 GMT
- Subject: Re: What's the next BIG thing? (was Re: Does it BUG you?)
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- Organization: OCD IC MFG
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- / hpcc01:rec.collecting / rlopez@loanstar.tamu.edu (Robert Lopez) / 7:54 am Dec 17, 1992 /
- >If you want to know how the "Latest Hot Fad" got started,
- >see Donruss, 1984, Don Mattingly. The LHF has been burning for 8 years
- >now, which is pretty long. But it will fall, and I bet soon.
-
- How do you want to bet? Too bad you can't "short sell" baseball cards :-)
-
- Seriously, people have been saying that the bubble will burst on baseball
- cards since at least 1985! I rememeber seeing "news stories" of investment
- analysts who predicted a crash in the market in the mid-80's who in fact
- did find a way to "bet", buy selling short on Topps Company. They lost
- some money on this bet!
-
- The baseball card market is certainly changing. The products are changing
- rapidly, lots of inovative cards and marketing of the cards (ie. inserts),
- and their price is going up and up and up.
-
- It is interesting to note how soft the 'trade' market is for post-1987
- baseball cards. It is harder to find dealers willing to trade for these
- cards (not to mention 'buy' these cards), even for other post-1987 issues.
- There was a reflection of this softening in the market recently with the
- Beckett Baseball Card Magazine started droping the 'value' of most of the
- post-1987 sets and cards.
-
- The core of the baseball card market is its place in Americana. Americans
- love baseball, and they love being fans!
-
- Ah, just my $.02 worth, if that :-)
-
- Howard Lynch
- hl@hpocia.sj.hp.com
-