While sports memorabilia in general has has a decreasing trend since 2004, autographed sports memorabilia still increases in value every year — depending on who signed and authenticated it.
There is still a lot of fraud in the sports memorabilia marketplace, especially on eBay. Legitimate vendors have tried to curb this for a long time but it is a tough battle. Baseball memorabilia remains one of the most popular Google searches, followed by football memorabilia.
Sports memorabilia stores in the US have gradually decreased, due to the amount of Internet sales that take place. Signed sports memorabilia has probably retained its value so well because of the fact that autographs are limited and scarce — when an athlete or celebrity dies, you can’t get their autograph anymore, it is basic supply and demand economics.
That’s why it is still a good investment to purchase autographed memorabilia, just make sure you get an authentic autograph.
Sports memorabilia framing has also increased in popularity. Even in a struggling economy, jersey framing sales have still maintained and in some cases have increased. You can find out more about jersey framing and jersey frames here. Having said that, one of the biggest searches on Google right now is “sell sports memorabilia” which means a lot of people in this economy are trying to get rid of the memorabilia they have had for years.
In my opinion, the best thing to do is to hold on to your sports memorabilia, don’t sell it in a down turn because you won’t get the true value. Hold on until our economy comes back and then sell it if you want — authentic sports memorabilia will always go up in value as time goes by, especially if it is authentic.
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