(07-14-2012, 02:27 PM)blackitalian Wrote: I was looking on ebay and seeing all these 1/1 baseball autos that are going for ridiculously high prices. why do people think just because they have a "1/1" auto that all of the sudden its worth thousands of dollars. makes no sense at all. Of course any auto is going to be a 1/1 because no two signatures are the same. just because upper deck only released one doesnt mean a thing at all. without the upper deck case its still just a cut signature. people dont buy the case theyre buying the autograph and paying way to much. the people that think these 1/1's are somehow better than a regular cut auto need some serious help
I'd agree 1/1s of cut autos and/or memorabilia pieces are a little different than 1/1 parallels of regular cards or of on-card autos.
I think its because cards with cut autos and/or memorabilia are less about the card and more about the cut auto and/or memorabilia - it has to do with card design I suppose. While this can also be true of on-card autos, it doesn't seem to be to the same extent.
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