Titanium craziness

[Tivo32]

Just plain absurd & ridiculously to have SN# after the player's jersey#!

Ultra-low-printed-rookies are killing the hobby in my opinion, too much $$$ and too HUGE risks of potentially flops (like Patrick Stefan who was so HOT and ULTRA-expensive in early 2000's and tunrned into a HUGEEE flop and his cards got almost worthless nowadays)

$900 for a "nonbody" RC is just ******* brutal....3x more expensive than my most expensive card ever bought in 2008!

I would respectfully disagree with this. We as collectors set prices. That is why we are seeing game used cards plummet in prices. Most collectors don't want these. The prices on the Titanium RC's are set by collectors. For an low numbered RC to go for $900 shows that collectors want this. Look at baseball cards. Collectors go nuts for prospecting in hopes of hitting it big on 1 or 2 rookies. Every year Topps sells thousands upon thousands of cases of Bowman to collectors who hope to hit a low numbered parallel of a big prospect. I don't see why a RC card selling for $900 out of a $85 to $100 a box product is a bad thing. I think it's an incredibly good thing for the hockey card hobby.

[Frendo]

I would respectfully disagree with this. We as collectors set prices. That is why we are seeing game used cards plummet in prices. Most collectors don't want these. The prices on the Titanium RC's are set by collectors. For an low numbered RC to go for $900 shows that collectors want this. Look at baseball cards. Collectors go nuts for prospecting in hopes of hitting it big on 1 or 2 rookies. Every year Topps sells thousands upon thousands of cases of Bowman to collectors who hope to hit a low numbered parallel of a big prospect. I don't see why a RC card selling for $900 out of a $85 to $100 a box product is a bad thing. I think it's an incredibly good thing for the hockey card hobby.

Yes but it's not fun if the players who you was spending a big amount of $$$ turned into a flop.

It's sick to see many younger players in nowadays are so over-valued for alittle of effort compared with during my school-time.
Players who produces 30-50 points per season values in nowadays like a +90-pointer in my time.

In 94-95 there was only a handful of RC's who got a high BV (P.Forsberg, P.Kariya, J.Carey and for a short time B.Lacher because those was able to put in good stats then) and in nowadays as good as "all" RC's gets insane prices in selling at ebay even if the player never played just ONE game in NHL.

It's better to pay $900 for a Orr/Lemieux/Gretzky/Howe Quad /4 auto than $900 with a potentially nonbody....

I may rambling nonsences and off-topics now (if it's so I'm sorry).

Ok we all got different opinions about everything.
But I'll NEVER understanding how some are able to paying outrageous amount of $$$ for RC's who never will be a star or just plays in 3rd or 4th lines in the future.

Enough of this, I respect all who decided to paying up those amount of $$$ because it's their own $$$ and have all rights to do what they want then.

[Yipper]

To me, there is nothing wrong with this set or "shocked" about the prices. It happened years ago with 00-01 set. Like others have mentioned, the Kovalchuk and Conklin.

It's not about who the player is but more of what is.

Right now, it is going to be the lowest true rookie numbered card out there and probably stay like that for a while.

It also takes 1 set collector and instantly the price is through the roofs.

The evidence you can see with /4 is probably a set collector. $900 is not bad.

The Koskinen at this point will be certain to go for $3-5k.

This is not a high-end product, but definitely a high-end rookie set.

If some of you can tolerate a 10x patch premium on Cup cards, how is this not justifiable?

Don't get caught up in the fact that is doesn't have an auto or game-used piece. That is completely irrelevant for this set.

It's brand image and recognition. Only Titanium will do this well, if UD made one... it would probably sell lower.

I am always happy to see cards with no auto or jersey or patch or a combo do so well. It's kinda refreshing and a blast from the past at the same. Everything that seems to be valued these day is a game-used or auto card(and most of those are almost worthless). It's nice and all, but seeing this do so well in the market makes the hobby look well. It's collectable, desirable, and probably even better than the Ice Rookies /99. I see people drop big bucks for those. I am fan of those cards, but a bigger fan of these Titanium rookies.

They are: Clean and simple. Rare and unique. Nicely made cards.

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haha, there might be a PC collector out there too... I know I would be willing to pay $400 + for a Yip /18 if they made it last year and at the going rate.