The Value of 2012 / 2013 Cards

[cyclones79]

I think Topps should recalculate the number of cards in circulation for each card.

If a user hasn't logged on in 6 months/9month/a year/whatever time frame you want to use, their cards should no longer be calculated into the total number of cards available.  I think it would show a truer sense of the value and rarity of a card.  

I think many 2012 / 2013 cards are like this.  They may have a card count of 1,000, but maybe only 400 are currently being circulated, because 600 are sitting in accounts that aren't being used.

Much like real cards, a card released in 1960 may have had 10,000 produced, but the value or rarity is only based on the number still left in circulation, not the original number of cards made.

I know some people may log back on after a year and throw this out of whack.  I still think it will be closer to true this way than counting all of them.  They could even recalculate the first of each month or quarter or something like that as well.

What do you think Bunters?

[dbole123]

I agree. I am looking or the B&W Chipper Jones and when I do a blind trade most of the users that have him are from that year and don't have any of last years cards. So you know they are dead accounts. This makes trading for one hard and if you do have it it is even rarer.

[spudulene]

I disagree. While it is certainly possible, it doesn't happen at all with physical cards so why here?  Although the the number of virtual cards to be released is known, it is even unusual that one can know how many have been pulled.  Rarity is determined by self-reporting, not the company keeping track for the consumer. 

[John]

I'll go somewhere in the middle here. I'd like to see card rarity that looks like this: 100 (36). This means that 100 were issued originally, and 36 are in accounts that have been checked in the last 6 months (for instance). This could be done for all 2012 and 2013 cards, obviously it wouldn't need to be done for recent releases. That last figure (the 36 in my example) would go up and down as accounts came back to life or went dormant. It'd be interesting anyways to see some data on this.

John (JOHN1848 on Bunt)