Collectible card industry

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Ruffneck your dead on. The market is oversaturated and you make a good point about ebay- the sellers cant control the prices anymore. I remeber when becket actually listed every brand and year ever made with no problems. Now there are a million freaking brands every year and one year takes up 15 pages.One of the reasons older cards are worth so much is because there werent that many produced and people didnt take good care of them. If everyone has 20 mint roger clemens cards they arent going to be worth as much.
My dad still has a lot of his older cards. He has a Mickey Mantle that he did math homework on. For the most part they are not in good condition at all. One excpetion is he has 4 Nolan Ryan rookie cards in mint condition because he is a Mets fan and always took good care of the Mets players cards.