I would not buy Topps Kobe RC as an investment card

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Originally Posted by rats60

Keep posing your nonsense. PSA 10 Kobe RC populations
Bowman’s Best 1141
Collectors Choice 349
Finest 2531
Showcase 58
Fleer 253
Hoops 436
Metal 114
EX2000 22
Skybox 541
ZForce 200
SP 858
Stadium 223
Topps 2235
Ultra 288
Upper Deck 726

If Topps is so rare and hard to grade, why are the pops on other paper RCs so low compared to the Topps? Most collectors from the 90s don’t grade their base. It is easy to say make x dollars grading and getting 10s, but the flip side is lose money when they come back 9 and sell at raw price. This grade all your base RCs is a new phenomena with today’s collectors. And we haven’t addressed the elephant in the room. What happens to the pop when the card doctors target this card and start turning raw and 9s into 10s. At today’s price and if the price holds, it is just a matter of when.

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 been jumping at the chance the last three months to pay $200 2 day service to get those cards graded a psa 10 and turn a $30 raw card into a $2,000 plus graded card before the other thousands of kobes get graded........

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.
Compare that to the 10,000 plus PSA 10 base rookie cards of Zion and Luka and Ja Morant......

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.