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Originally Posted by ninjacookies
Wait, so are you saying Jordan does not have a huge collector base? I'm a bit confused as to what you're saying here.
It's almost as if you're acting like Jordan is Jerry Stackhouse or something. To say he hasn't and continues to be one of the top sought after person in the collecting world is ridiculous. That's like saying Mickey Mantle has no cult following and his prices have nothing to do with him being one of the most popular players in baseball history.
Additionally, I'm not sure how short your memory was/is...but the Jordan PMG was listed as one of the top 5 Jordan cards in existence every month in the pages of Beckett even back in the late 90's. Along with his 97-98 UD AS Jersey auto. The green pmg jordan never sold for under 2k if it surfaced back then, unless the person who owned it was absolutely clueless as to what they had. And yes, back then I was a HUGE sucker for his UD Sign of the Times gold autos and Inkredible autos (both of which had BECKETT BOOK VALUES of $2.5k+ out the gate). Which is the reason why I was never able to own one back then lol.
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I followed Beckett magazine more than religiously back then........
Those prices are nothing compared to the shilling that started in 2007. Where was this "cult" before then??
The prices when they first came out didn't last... because all the way till 2007, a card like the Jordan PMG Red was listed on ebay, and SITTING, for $350 with zero takers. Until of course a few geniuses decided they would ruin the hobby for true collectors, and stock up on cards they thought their story could fly with. And of course they'll start off with Michael Jordan...
So the initial hype and prices paid was understandable at the time, but they didn't last, they went down, down, DOWN............... Just like everything else. But of course it was revived with the shill party of 2007(yes, I just coined that!) The Shill Party of 2007 (REGISTERED TRADEMARK~SportsItUpCards/2014).
Since then everything I said has been proven, and people have been exposed. So that's pretty much how the cookie crumbled. This cult wasn't here before 2007, and surely they're not around NOW! Especially since all this fraud was exposed. Not like there were people camping out sleeping in front of the walmart waiting to buy old stock of 90's cards they had sitting in the back storage room that they forgot about. It was all an illusion, and along the way some were lured in for the ride, and they almost believed that Jordan inserts of the 90's, and eventually 90's inserts in general, were the greatest cards ever. Now of course we fast forward to today, where even though these cards are STILL shilled, people are now edumacated!
