by RacerDan on Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:23 pm
There were certainly a number of problems with the Elite auctions this year and I believe that some of those may have arisen from over-engineering the authentification process.
I do think generally though that the market in the UK is very limited. In London there were maybe five collectors tops that I knew were serious, while a bunch of others would just get one or two shirts. If anything it's gone backwards now too, with there being no London team. For other reasons I've been trying to sell an armful of Jason Robinson jerseys for more than a month and I've not had much interest at all, despite the fact he's still in the country. And, it's not because they're particularly highly priced - they're not - but even if they were there's no interest period, not much in the way of offers either.
I put it down more widely to there being too many jerseys out there. The Meigrey arrangement is great, I think, but possibly responsible for a bit of market flooding. I can't speak for all other clubs, but London too produced WAAAAY too many shirts, which drove their value down the pan.