Fleer Retro thoughts so far

[33WING]

The card collector:
Is Upper Deck manipulating the market with primary investors placed to push up the value of the sales and generate a huge demand for the unsold stock at hand?

They do have the FBI hot on their tales so they will need the best lawyers in town.lol

 

[ARTHY23]

I sort of cant be bothered doing a thread up atm, so I'll just post the one hit for now:

First time pulling a jordan auto so yeah, pretty glad I didn't put on eBay or ended up selling it lol.

hope my comment made you bust it.. lol see knew something like that would happen!!

 

[edz]

Yes it did LOL. Was thinking about it at work

 

[hector]

very nice card that jordan auto.....i wonder how many of them there are

 

[ARTHY23]

hahaha good stuff!! now u have a sick
Jordan auto in your pc!! congrats!! ahh work.. why did u have to remind me? I don't want to go tmw.. lol

 

[Cobretti]

very nice card that jordan auto.....i wonder how many of them there are

red seems to be the most common one, seen 5 of them so far.

hope my comment made you bust it.. lol see knew something like that would happen!!

I also nagged him to do it as I need his regular hits haha. I hoped he pulled a green jordan PMG, but this is a nice second prize haha.

 

[33WING]

Nice work edz, jackpot right there.

 

[ohyeah]

very nice card. I wanted to find one as well.

 

[ozballer23]

Still watching a fair few cards from the set on eBay. Noticing the red pmgs dropping in price a little. Mj inserts still selling through the roof, no surprises there!

 

[Mico]

I thought the yellow ones a short print parallel of the regular insert but i cant find anything on it. Wonder what makes tgem go that colour???

I think the yellow/orange ones were either test ones released by UD or excess stock that was auctioned off. Either way they werent in packs.

 

[NewtotheGame]

I don't like how the Stars or Court Masters are not embossed like the originals. I don't really like this stuff so much.

agreed, fleer retro is overpriced....it is all skyrocketing right now, but i doubt anyone will be able to sell at this price again after the market drops, suppose, most of these cards are going to serious collections and wont ever surface again...wat a shme

 

[lukesicari]

does anyone think the prices of fleer retro will drop to the pre sell prices, ever?

 

[khouzza]

agreed, fleer retro is overpriced....it is all skyrocketing right now, but i doubt anyone will be able to sell at this price again after the market drops, suppose, most of these cards are going to serious collections and wont ever surface again...wat a shme

Totally disagree with it dropping in price, while there's a chance to hit a MJ/Lebron auto, a MJ/Lebron PMG and those MJ Buybacks it will continue to rise in price.

 

[sgt_pepper]

/\/\ no. but it should come down some after a while...

 

[drob50]

I think there is ZERO chance of it coming down! The reason for the price rise was because of the lack of stock! They are only going to get rarer, so there is no way it will come down!

 

[sgt_pepper]

I think there is ZERO chance of it coming down! The reason for the price rise was because of the lack of stock! They are only going to get rarer, so there is no way it will come down!

what about when alot of the top cards start to surface? its already started to drop slightly from $700 to $600. saw a case for $3500 on e-bay.

 

[drob50]

what about when alot of the top cards start to surface? its already started to drop slightly from $700 to $600. saw a case for $3500 on e-bay.

I don't think they ever REALLY went to $700. I think there was a bit of manipulation going on, but with the speed of the hype, people were buying first and researching later!

There were people on Blowout who weren't getting bites at $4000 for a case, yet eBay was 'selling' them for $5K???

There are still more Big hits left than what have been pulled!

 

[sgt_pepper]

/\/\ yeah, i was thinking more long term. theres bound to still be stock even after a bunch of greens and most of the buybacks have surfaced. cant see people spending as much then, but thats just a guess.
doesnt matter for me, since i missed the boat pre-sale, and dont want to wait for any significant price drop (if there is one), so im stuck forking out about $500 a box. i dont think the overall product is worth that, but its more about trying to pull something i wouldnt be able to afford otherwise.

 

[NewtotheGame]

I think there is ZERO chance of it coming down! The reason for the price rise was because of the lack of stock! They are only going to get rarer, so there is no way it will come down!

true, but still its sad

 

[drob50]

In saying all of this about Retro, there is one MAJOR bonus about the impact it is/should have on the hobby!

That is, that from now on, NO ONE can bag Panini for the amount of sticker autos used in a product!

Out of all the autos I got (around 45 in total) only 2 were ON CARD