Good on that 11-year old.
Milk that Paul Skenes autograph card for all it’s worth.
Hopefully his right arm doesn’t fall off this year and render your signed card completely worthless.
Take diamonds for example.
Somewhere along the line, society deemed diamonds to be a stone of the utmost importance.
It’s never made sense to me how the demand for diamonds got to be so insanely high.
I know they look cool.
I know they’re rare.
I know they’re harder than Jennifer Aniston’s nipples on the set of Friends.
But the value of diamonds seem to drastically outweigh what diamonds actually bringing to the table.
Autographs I can understand alittlebetter.
At least there’s history (or an opportunity for future history) behind them.
But the value of an autograph still seems to greatly exceed what an autograph actually is.
At least not THAT much value.
But luckily, that’s not for me to decide.
The market dictates what autographs are worth, and autographs are big business.
All things considered, the autograph market is pretty niche.
It doesn’t mean shit to them.
But enough people value autographs that there’s real money to be made from them.
Adults who seek autographs have the reputation of being some of the worst people to exist.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a single good word said about them across the entire internet.
It goes child predators, adult predators, murderers, beaters of women, adult autograph seekers.
Just terrible PR for those guys.
The prospect of making a lot of money for very little work makes people lose their god damn minds.
That maybe they aren’t all quite as deplorable of people as we make them out to be.
Take Spurs dad for example.
Everyone assumes a game worn Victor Wembanyama jersey would mean sooo much to his son.
He’s wearing a tiny Wembanyama jersey, so Victor Wembanyama must be his idol.
Surely that jersey would have been a cherished memory he carried with him for the rest of his life.
What kind of scumbag would take that away from his son?
But who knows if that kid, or anyone in his family actually gives a shit about basketball.
Not everybody cares about sports.
Him and his dad might not be Spurs fans at all.
I got a plan to pay for that trip to Disney World you’ve been begging for."
That would be a pretty fun father-son bonding experience in it’s own right.
Obviously I have no idea what that family’s story is.
I’d imagine the kid is probably too young to even know what’s going on.
“sign, then sell the jersey on the internet.
Sorry, I don’t mean to get into defending adult autograph seekers.
It’s kinda funny.
Last week they dropped the first ever signed Robert Oppenheimer.
According to Topps' Twitter account, the Robert Oppenheimer card will be put into circulation.
Meaning, the signed Robert Oppenheimer card could be pulled by anyone.
Anyone willing to pay $5,999 for a ‘2024 Topps Transcendent Collection Box’.
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The following Monday, Topps dropped another highly-sought after autrographed card of Hall of Fame Biologist, Charles Darwin.
I’ve never dabbled in the world of autographs.
From I understand, purchasing an autographed trading card isn’t a bad investment.
The market continues to go up.
Kinda seems like autographs are “having a moment” right now.
Just for fun while I’m going down a rabbit hole of autographs.
What is the most expensive autograph in the world?
This is followed by another U.S. presidents signature, that of Lincoln for the Emancipation Proclamation.
Of that whole list, the John Lennon’s Murderer Signed LP is the most interesting to me.
That’s a hell of a piece of history right there.
