We've talked about prices paid for rare cards in this thread. Here's a 36-card lot that someone paid too much for - $199.99 for 36 Arby's Hanna-Barbera cards (sold 6-3-25). Yes, you get the full 30-card set plus 6 duplicates in one shot. However, the singles tend to go for around $3-4 each and you can usually find lot of 3-6 cards for about a buck a piece. If assembling this set is what you aim to do, you should be able to do it for around $30-40 if you're not in a big hurry. Maybe that collector just had to have the whole set in one shot at that moment.
I noticed this sale because I was checking to see if the cards were still selling in the same range as they have been. I was at a flea market yesterday. One seller had about half the set in a big box of mixed base cards, vending machine cards, and promos. I couldn't remember which ones I was missing so I bought 5 and got them for a buck a piece. It turned out I already had 4 of them. Oh well.
While looking at sold listings of various "Lost in Space" cards on Ebay, I saw that a "Lost in Space" (Inkworks, 1997) 3-card strip sold for $40 on Ebay but when you click on the listing, you learn that the listing was actually ended because the strip was no longer available. It might mean that the seller sold it elsewhere or maybe misplaced it. If so, Ebay shouldn't list it as a sale.
Anyway, if that strip sold even close to $40 anywhere, that would the most I've ever seen that go for. Years ago, it was a $3-5 card because Suncoast stores everywhere had a stack of them near the registers so they were easy to find secondhand if you didn't get one yourself.This message has been edited. Last edited by: catskilleagle,
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I have not been following the sales of this card. But I have noticed there have been high prices being asked for it recently. Wich have made me wonder why mabey people just grabbed them then just discarded them later on and they have become rare.
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