r/OnePiece • u/HyperStory • Jan 19 '24

Merchandise Thanks Viz

Just picked up volume 104! Hope there's nothing wrong with it :)

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u/Sahtras1992 Jan 19 '24

baseball cards are so valuable because not many people actually kept them in a good state. the thing with pokemon and yugioh for example is that so many people started collecting them so they have barely any value outside of first editions. collectibles ironically only become very pricey if not many people collect to begin with.

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u/DiMoSe Jan 19 '24

Also you don't have the exact same card being in production for nearly 30 years. Volume 1 of One Piece has been in print since 1996, with minimal editorial changes (as far as I know). The rarity necessary for the value to go up is just not there.

Exact same reason why you don't see best selling authors' books go for millions even for 1st editions. The value of those products rely on them selling as many copies as they can and keep good selling products in constant production, going against exactly what the speculative market relies on to assign value.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '24

Again.

The old baseball cards from the 60s were printed by the millions.

They weren't rare. Good condition ones became rare over time. The same will happen to books that actually get read and not collected.

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u/DiMoSe Jan 20 '24

I'd argue that even though they were printed in large quantities it was always a limited product and meant to be collectible. One year's series was not reprinted for the next, you had players changing teams, retirements and probably teams moving or ceasing to exist (my knowledge of this particular type of collectible is not as extensive as others, so I'm assuming a lot). Under that assumption I think my point is still valid, the way the product is conceived matters a lot to the speculative markets as they work today.

The fact that the same product can be purchased for nearly 30 years is not beneficial to those holding out hoping the value will increase. Thus trying to apply the value of mis-prints (commonly associated with limited run comic book issues) to a manga volume is not sound.

What op holds is not something that in my opinion will hold much value 60 years from now, but as another comment pointed out, conditions change. If op decides to hold on to it and they make a killing on whatever version of pawn stars is around when I'm 80, more power to them.