[Hofcollector]

All of the new products as a whole go way down in value as soon as the initial singles craze is over. Everyone who doesnt buy boxes or cases waits for the hits or their favorite players to be pulled and pays ridiculous amounts of money for them on the secondary markets. Of course 99.9% of those cards take a huge nose dive by the time the next Beckett comes out. Quite frankly, the card industries cant afford to put out one major release a year. There is way too much demand and the hobby would die. The high end online dealers where most people get their cards trade these things like stocks. If a player hits 3 homers one night there is a massive spike in the interest of his cards and they need the cards to move. This sounds pretty dumb, I know, but this is how it's done now. It's done on a minute to minute basis. They need multiple issues of high end auto's and relics in order to keep people stimulated.