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 Saw these two ads on facebook.   Who is the realist?    The guy who has 8 Will Clark cards for $12 or the guy with 8,000 Jack Clark cards for $25?

Hahaha.  That's the hardest I've laughed all day.

I want to buy the Jacks, just to enter the price I paid, 8000 times over.  $25 ÷ 8000 = $.003125

Given their respective popularity with collectors, I'll say Will, as ridiculous as it seems.

So the guy gets to 5000 Jack Clark cards and decides, "I only need a few more thousand".     If he tosses them in the ocean,  the value of Clark cards will skyrocket.

Aah, but there will be balance, Joe-San. Hefty fine for littering oceans.

I don't know how I missed this thread before now. The "realist" is certainly the Jack Clark collector. Will Clark was a borderline HOFer with a long career for several teams, but those 8 cards would have to be nice ones to get $12 for them. The Jack Clark collector just wants to get rid of the cards now. Jack also had a long career with multiple teams as a decent player.

My personal opinion would be that I wouldn't buy either unless they wanted to split it up. Both players spent time with the STL Cardinals and those are the only cards I would want from either collection. Jack was with STL much longer than Will, so I'd be more interested in his cards. But I also wouldn't want a bunch of non-STL cards for either. Since Jack was with STL in the 80's, I probably have a bunch of those cards already. Will was with STL in the late-90's, but for a very short time (only 1 season?). Having an extra 8K JC cards wouldn't be a smart move on my side. But only a dozen WC cards wouldn't take much space or be too hard to trade away the ones I don't really want.

And NJD, the price never "skyrockets" from dumping a bunch of over-produced cards. All of us long-time collectors know that many thousands of late 80's and early 90's cards have been destroyed in the past 20+ years. Even while the demand for them has continued to rise over the past 10 years, the "value" hasn't changed at all. It will rise some eventually, but I'd say it takes another 20 years before late-80's cards go up in value and actually join the label of "vintage". 1980-85 MLB cards should have joined the vintage label a few years ago but they still aren't considered that b/c of the sheer volume of cards released then with even more in the late-80's to mid-90's. JMO on this!

I was kidding about the price sky-rocketing.   I dare say that I have been collecting at least a few years longer than you and I know they don't skyrocket.   Then again, there is the common Andy Pafko that's worth a bunch.

Hmm? Would condition matter? I seem to have one that I discovered in a box of modern cards a friend gave me awhile back. 

Only if he gave you the Pafko from the correct year.  And condition may matter just a tad.

NJDevils, and here I thought you were one of those newcomers into the hobby who had never collected before (from that other thread) and needed some counselling on the trends in value of cards from the 80s and 90s. .