odd discrepancy in singles sales vs wax sales

[Tim]

Can anyone explain the following?


2019 Prizm - single prices match sealed for the most part.
2019 Optic - wax is higher than singles.
1989 and especially 1990 Fleer - singles are higher than wax.


My experience until recently has been like Prizm. I would say that Optic is due to people wanting to open stuff due to virus but that makes no sense as it was happening before the pandemic.

[FGLBinger]

I’m guessing people just want a select few of the older cards and not the box of useless commons that remain. Newer stuff has more cards that are still desirable and have more value.

[Ober12]

How are you quantifying a matching price? Are you looking at the top cards available and the odds of getting them?

For older cards, I would guess that condition out of packs opened nowadays might not be great, so maybe there some risk baked into the wax price (and a premium on well-graded singles)

[yiguiri2002]

How are you quantifying a matching price? Are you looking at the top cards available and the odds of getting them?

For older cards, I would guess that condition out of packs opened nowadays might not be great, so maybe there some risk baked into the wax price (and a premium on well-graded singles)

This, Are you talking about ROI? Or a specific set/parallel?

Also, I don't think older wax can be compared to new wax because there is no player prospecting with older wax.