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Why is a Barry Bonds Topps 1986 baseball card worth so little?

In going through some of my childhood things, I found a Topps 1986 Barry Bonds baseball card and have been researching its value. The card was kept in a baseball card album and is in near mint condition, as best I can tell. 1986 was his rookie year, and he played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, back then. Yet this card seems nearly worthless. I understand that a card is only worth what people will pay...yet this is Barry Bonds. Why is it selling on eBay for only a few dollars?

Public Comments

1. No one likes bonds that why
2. Because toilet paper is cheap
3. Trust me I feel your pain on this one... But the reason that card, and really all cards from this era are worth so little, are because so many of us really got into collecting in the mid to late 80's. People were starting to talk about how much cards from the earlier era were selling for around this time and things went crazy, companies like Fleer, Bowman, Upper Deck, etc. etc. starting popping up to compete with Topps who was king as everybody wanted to collect. Now, that is the reason that cards from the 80's and 90's pale in comparison to other years. Now, the other guy was right too about people not liking Barry Bonds, but the other thing that made card values across the board drop is eBay. We now see how many of each card actually exist out there and unfortunately its a lot more than we'd like. So prices of cards, unless you get them graded and they grad a perfect 10, aren't worth much.
4. It's because the Topps and Fleer offerings of the past were pretty much either off centered, dinged or bent easily on the corners and edges and were very mass produced. Upper Deck on the other hand, produced mass quantities of cards, but for the most part, were mostly in great condition when you pulled them due to the card stock being a bit more sturdy. Barry Bonds is not the only player suffering from low Topps values, with the exception being Michael Jordan, Mickey Mantle, Joe Montana or Jerry Rice among other star players, for example. The haters, fake fans and bandwagoners probably are not aware that trading cards are just like playing the stock market, and the price guides dropped Barry lower because of his inactivity in the sport this season. His card values do not have anything to do with steroid allegations and/or his upcoming trial.
5. have you not been listening to the news? duh, its barry bonds
6. Because its barry bonds