Supply and demand but we all know that if you are opening anything new and have a hot cards you should probably just sell it because you can rebuy it down the road for much less. Here is my I know I am old but.......
The thing I miss the most about the old topps days is the backs of the cards. I loved the days when the card backs had the statistics for each and every season of a ball player. It was great to get a card of a 41 year old Rusty Staub and they had to change the text size to fit it all in. It was great to look back and see the incredible numbers Gearge Brett put up in 1980 when he hit .390. Now you might get last year and career totals or you might just get a short bio on the back of the card. You are missing the boat here Panini. All the focus on the front and color variations, auto and short numbered but how about including some information where someone can look at a card back and see some of teh incredible numbers Doc Gooden put up in the beginning of his career?
I'm soon to be 50 and my hay day of collecting was the very late 70s and the 80s. Ah, those were the days for me.