Stars Come Out For Derek Jeter —Cagle
You would think that, given it is Jeter’s card, rumored one-time girlfriend Mariah Carey could’ve been deposited into the stands. Better yet, Jessica Alba. Now there’s value-added.
Could it be that this is just a stunt to bolster flagging card sales? Nah. But it was interesting to see copies being hawked on the eBay auction site for $200-plus. Even several days after the story broke, a couple of thousand auctions were generating between $20 and $40 each. Topps doesn’t release print run figures but, suffice to say, the Jeters won’t disappear any time soon. If you want speculative investment material, wait until the “corrected” versions come out in the 2007 Topps factory sets. More often than not, corrected versions always command higher bucks because they come out later in the year, when collectors have already finished their sets, and are in shorter supply.