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Originally Posted by lseecon
Kobe Bryant 1996 Topps PSA 10-----2,235 is current Pop report
Lets see where the pop report is in in 10 days. That will give all these people claiming they have or others have tens of thousands of raw gem mint Kobe base cards plenty of time to have had them graded at $200 a pop per PSA's 5 day turnaround service. Heck if you have dozens, whey not pay the $500 per card and get your Gem Mint PSA 10 Kobe cards back in ONE day from PSA and then sell them to all the "idiots" for $3,000 to
$6,000 who are overpaying for his iconic rookie base card.
Will people go through their 1996 cards and try and find gem mint Kobe rookie cards? I am sure there will be some of that, but his card prices spiked 6 months ago so they had plenty of time to do that. Why hasnt the number of 10s ballooned over the last 6 months?
While the card is by no means rare, it is condition sensitive and there are alot less raw out there then people think..
Come on lets see those hundreds of thousands of raw gem mint Kobe cards that are out there just waiting to become PSA 10s.
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Originally Posted by lseecon
This will be my last post on this topic. When you read just moronic and dumb posts you feel a need to reply and that's why i have been replying.
2. Clearly if that was the case, the number of 10s would have been much much higher over years. Nobody has hundreds of gem mint base Kobe's ungraded sitting around. Ok maybe one or two super collectors/hoarders do but those cards wont see the light of day anytime soon.
3. Its funny how the posters who want to bash the 1996 Topps Kobe keep claiming that there are tens of thousands of raw copies just waiting to be graded, but its not themselves that have those stacks of raw copies, its always "some one" else or "some body I know." If gem mint raw copies are so plentiful and abundant then how come all the "experts" who keep chiming in don't seem to have any?
5. Most of the raw copies that could gem have long been graded. Could we see an explosion of graded 10s? Perhaps another 1,000 get added to the mix over the next few months? I think that is highly unlikely but even if happens, there would still be less 10s than the Trout and Luka, Griffey, and a host of others. Could prices drop, sure, but it wont be because of an explosion of newly graded PSA 10s. That wont happen. Perhaps demand overall drops, but supply is not going to explode like all these posters and uniformed people keep suggesting.
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Originally Posted by lseecon
Thought it was a good time to bump this thread and check the pop report of the flagship topps rookie card, because certainly in the past three months, there must have been thousands and thousands of new PSA 10s graded according to some of the "savants" who post on these boards.
So three months later, only about 300 more PSA 10s graded? WTF? During the biggest price explosion of modern basketball cards in history? What happened to those thousands of gem mint raw Kobe 96 topps rookies that are sitting in boxes to be graded?
Even I am surprised the pop report on 10s has not budged very much during this period. Certainly, those who are sitting on hundreds and thousands of gem mint 10 raw Kobe flagship rookies
Have prices of Kobe rookie cards dropped like all basketball rookie cards the last three months----of course.......
is it because of a huge increase in the supply of PSA 10 1996 Topps Topps cards. Of course not.
Still crazy to me that there are only 2600 PSA 10 base topps Kobe rookie cards graded.
But hey there are thousands and thousands of these just waiting to get graded PSA 10------lets bump this again in a year and see how foolish some of these people bashing the iconic topps kobe rookie card are because there are thousands just out there waiting to become psa 10s.
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Originally Posted by mc1
The 1996 Topps Kobe is at 3572 PSA 10's.
Total graded Topps Kobe RCs = 26,976
The current market price of a '96 Topps Kobe paper rookie PSA 10 is ~$1500
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It is hilarious to go back in the thread and see the one dick who talked down to others be proven wrong. It's not just the woefully bad takes, it's the talking down like the OTHER people are the idiots. Who doesn't love a good schadenfreude.
The total pop has increased over 150% since the thread was started last August.
The Gem Mint Pop has increased 60% since the thread.
We haven't even gone through the mass of Kobe's that would have been submitted in the Q1 2021 wave yet, though they may be in higher service level batches...
It's as if the established members in the hobby who mocked you bass heads about this card knew what they were talking about...
Price is down roughly 80% on the PSA10 from last August. That's not even counting the geniuses who FOMO'd into this thing in Q1 of 2021. They're looking at massive losses as well.
Hopefully people didn't learn their lesson. I would like another dumb money run to pawn junk off to.