Wondering what a PSA 7 Roberto Clemente rookie card sold for ten years ago? Pondering the price history of 2011 Topps Update baseball boxes? That data is now available—free. PWCC Marketplace has launched a searchable database of sports card transactions conducted on eBay dating back to 2004. Free to anyone who signs up on the company’s website, the database … [Read more...]
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What’s Hot: It’s Bowman and, Well, Everything Else
It is time for another edition of What's Hot and I feel like answering that question by yelling "EVERYTHING!" at an uncomfortably high level. I am talking megaphone loud, arena time-out loud and just-got-new-speakers loud because there are many more than five releases that are not just hot, but on fire. Collectors are buying just about everything. As I said before, … [Read more...]
Brady Sales Soaring; But He’s Not the King of Cards
No football player’s cards in recent years have been as actively bought and sold by collectors as Tom Brady. Fourteen of the 15 most watched football cards on eBay at the moment are of Brady. His rookie cards have skyrocketed in value. Yet over the last 12 months, he’s not the top-selling player in the sports card category. eBay's researchers tell Sports … [Read more...]
eBay Acquires Terapeak; Will Offer Sellers More Data, Tools
eBay has signed an agreement to acquire Terapeak, a Toronto-based company that uses supply, demand and pricing data to help sellers make decisions on what to sell, when to sell it and at what price. Upon the close of the transaction, eBay will begin integrating certain functionality from Terapeak into its Seller Hub. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The two … [Read more...]
Dylan Larkin Rookie Cards Heat Up
If the formula for a successful NHL trading card season includes a heavy dose of top, young players, the 2015-16 season is already one of the best ever. Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel may have gotten a lot of the early attention but Dylan Larkin rookie cards are now getting plenty of attention from hockey card collectors. Michigan Man The Big Ten Rookie of the Year at … [Read more...]
Mr. Mav: Dirk Nowitzki Rookie Cards Pre-Date Millenium
There aren't many players left in the NBA who were born in the 1970s and began their career in the 1990s. Two of them are now among the NBA's top six scorers. You can find Dirk Nowitzki rookie cards in 1998 and as recent as right now. The 37-year-old native of Germany has moved into elite company on the NBA's all-time scoring list. As of this … [Read more...]
Hottest Mike Trout Cards on eBay
Mike Trout grew up wanting to be Derek Jeter so it's almost fitting that Trout, a New Jersey native, be the player many believe will pick up the mantle as the unofficial 'face of baseball'. At a couple of weeks shy of his 23rd birthday, he was the youngest All-Star Game MVP since Ken Griffey Jr. The hottest Mike Trout baseball cards range from his 2009 Bowman … [Read more...]
Madison Bumgarner Baseball Cards Bringing the Heat to eBay
He's only 25 but if it seems like Madison Bumgarner baseball cards have been around for a while, you're not seeing things. The 25-year-old San Francisco Giants ace now owns three World Series rings, a 4-0 career Series record with an eye-popping 0.25 earned run average and .528 WHIP. Bumgarner's very youthful face first showed up on a rare 2006 Topps Aflac All-American set … [Read more...]
