I’ve never been big on unlicensed products. I know a lot of people avoid such because they are harder to sell and generally less desirable. I personally just don’t like the blank helmets and jerseys, but there have been a few exceptions. I picked up a Nolan Ryan color blast last year that I love and I just bought this Drake Maye. I thought it looked cool and the pats colors are pretty vibrant. While the Maye and Nolan are certainly for the PC, I am curious about the long term market values of unlicensed products.
More specifically, how do you think unnumbered inserts, SPs,and SSPs hold up value wise? Obviously, pure eye appeal plays a part in value, but so does general rarity. I fear that when it comes to unlicensed SSPs, the general public does not pay close enough attention to those sets and the value becomes diminished long term because people forget the cards were an SSP in the first place. Sure, someone can always lookup a checklist, but the sheer volume of initial bidders will inevitably be less if the print is unrecognized. For instance, let’s pretend the Maye card above is an SSP. Let’s also say that Maye remains consistent and his general market value goes on a consistent increase for the rest of his career. I hypothesize that the increase in value from year 3-6 would be much more drastic than the year 6-12 increase due to forgotten rarity. Is this reasoning flawed?
This hypothetical, of course, assumes a perfectly even increase in value without any variables causing a boom on the general market of the card.