New card collectors never cease to amaze me. Yesterday, this Upper Deck Babe Ruth signed ticket card sold for more than 40K on eBay. CLICK HERE

I just don’t get it. It’s not like this thing sold for 15K or even 20K. It sold for the same as a Mercedes for crumps sakes! Wow.

Ruth items like this sell all the time in major auctions. In fact, I bet you could find this exact same stub in a past auction (before UD performed its magic on it), and I would also be willing to bet that it sold for less than $10,000.

Maybe I am underestimating Upper Deck’s power in the hobby, but the fact that they slapped a border, Jimmy Spence authentication sticker and a “1/1” notation on it, to me, shouldn’t warrant another 30K onto the price.