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How in the world can Cabrera, McCutchen, and Verlander Rookie and 2nd year cards go down. Mark Teixeira, Steven White, Mike Costanzo, Jason Bay, and Joey Votto cards didn't go down. I have nothing against the last 5 players. I am just using them as an example. A lot of you have explained before your thoughts as to why and I thank you all for imput. No one will ever convince me that there isn't some type of manipulation going on. I do not have dozens and dozens of any of these players, so it isn't that this will hurt my retirement. By the way, I have no Cabrera, 4 McCutchen, and 2 Verlander. Does anyone else feel this way? I did not post this to start any type of agruement, but probably will. I really don't understand as to someone's thought process to do this.

Good question. I've been wondering the same thing myself (regarding Verlander). I'm an active buyer/trader for Verlander and i haven't really noticed the prices cooling, yet the BV has gone down 15-25% on a lot of my higher end cards. -I'm not a seller, so it's not a big deal to me, but it's still a little puzzling. As a buyer though, it's frustrating when I offer 125% of the BV on $30-100 cards and get rejected on ebay. Hard to explain.

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-Also, I'm a big collector of Cabreara. If anything, the prices of his cards have doubled on ebay in the last couple months. I haven't monitored the BV though. If the Cabrera BV has taken a hit recently it would shock me. (Like I said though, I haven't been keeping an eye on BV. I just buy what I need/want). In fact, lately, I've been getting outbid more often than not. And I'm not a sniper/low bidder. I see what I want and put in my max offer. Maybe I'm going about it all wrong. I just figure that if I bid what the card is worth (to ME) then I either win or I save my money for something else.