The 90-90-90 Rule

[Phill the Governor]

I remember hearing this rule about variant issues:

 

90% of variants lose 90% of their value after 90 days.

 

I always took took some degree of truth of of this, and personally I don't understand the need to collect variants. However, I'm wondering if anyone has researched, or knows if this "rule" has any partial truth in it.

 

Obviously I think this applied more to the market pre WD explosion, but regardless.

 

Discussion?

 

[krighton]

No

[ThoseBackPages]

Not for 9.8 WD's

[Phill the Governor]

Not for 9.8 WD's

 

Yes, this is a given.

[ThoseBackPages]

im WAITING for it to happen though!

[krighton]

I don't see any variant losing 90% of it's value....

 

so a $20 variant is going to be worth $2 in 90 days? I don't think even an Epic Kill variant would drop that much.

[jjoseph7772]

lose 90% of their value, No.Lose a percentage less than 90, probably

[krighton]

Now if it were 90% of variants will lose SOME of their value after 90 days...then maybe.

[jjoseph7772]

Exactly

[ItsJustRyan]

Sounds like an interesting research project. Pick 50 variants and let us know how it turns out. My hypothesis... If you are considering the market as a whole (including dog titles), then there may be some issue there with value. However, the way you have it worded (90% of value in 90 days) doesn't work out quite right. If that were the case a $3 variant would be valued at $0.30 after 90 days. Just a thought...

[BeachBum]

They only lose 'bout thee-fiddy

[ThoseBackPages]

maybe the OP was talking about the that Marvel puts out?

[ItsJustRyan]

Looks like I took too long to type (what they said)...

[ItsJustRyan]

They only lose 'bout thee-fiddy

[SuperBird]

Let me know when the Adventure Time variants go for 10% of what they do now, cause I be a shoppin!

[LarrysComics]

ok.

 

There are 14,000+ Revival 6's

 

20% of them are Phantom variants.

 

What do YOU think will be worth more in 10 years?

 

I know what I'm banking on...

 

The rare book ALWAYS wins.

[Chi Bamm]

I think it's longer than 90 days. 90% sounds right though.

[Phill the Governor]

Given the current awareness of speculation in modern books right now, I understand how this rule would not be fully in effect.

 

I'm just thinking of all those variant issues from the 80s and 90s, what happened to them? This is an actual question, I not trying to be snarky. I think this 90-90-90 thing took into account ALL variant issues.

[Phill the Governor]

ok.

 

There are 14,000+ Revival 6's

 

20% of them are Phantom variants.

 

What do YOU think will be worth more in 10 years?

 

I know what I'm banking on...

 

The rare book ALWAYS wins.

 

Time will tell? :shrug:

 

Not really what I'm getting at though..

[retrothecollector]

90-90-90-1990's??