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PERFECT analogy, Andy!

Except that practice squad players are still pretty great players...maybe this guy is still the waterboy.

Unless it is Pop Warner practice squad...

I've said this before, a card is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.  If you have Yankee baseball cards for sale and have a shop directly across from Yankee Stadium, chances are you might be able to charge $1 for even a basic common card and get someone willing to pay it.  You might be able to get top dollars for a KC autograph of a player that never made it past the practice squad if you find the right KC fan.  Does that make either case worth what they find someone willing to pay?
Another point I see touched on here is that there is a difference between a set price vs individual card prices.  Cards in a set might routinely sell for a few cents for commons and $1+ for any level starts, maybe even a top card in the set is over $10, but that doesn't make the value of the set or even boxes of unsorted cards from that set equal to the values all added up.  I've seen sets with a star player that sells for $10 sell for just a little more than the cost of that top valued card.  It's almost like you buy the top card, you get the rest of the set free in a way.  Yet if you break it out and sell individually, you end up with many times more.

There is always a guy at this card show I go to in Iowa for what ever reason has Tom Savage Autos rediculously Priced 0 clue why. Idk if he sees me buying em on ebay or what but at the latest show i went to Dude had a /50 Topps Fire Tom Savage auto for $50 (insane) but in the same Box had a Mel Renfro /35 Steel Signature On card auto for $35 (perfectly reasonable for a card show). It is one of the funniest things encountered this guy at least twice in 10 years of going to card shows and i know its him cause of his crazy tom savage prices.

Ickrotachi

If at some point (which will never happen), everyone everywhere just stopped paying more than, say, $50 for a card, then individual card's prices would drop, boxes would drop in price, and the hobby would become more affordable.

I like how the seller assumed you legitimately thought he was innocent, when all you were doing was stating a fact that countered his narrative for price gouging.

I like how the seller assumed you legitimately thought he was innocent, when all you were doing was stating a fact that countered his narrative for price gouging.

I have a lot of cards I keep a watch on in eBay. If it has been listed for a while, I'll usually make an offer, usually with an explanation for why I think the offer is fair, because the price is too high and the demand is low. Then I make a note of the date and offer price in my watchlist and if the offer is declined, then I wait a year and try again. 
There's one card I have been watching from a seller (we'll call him "Wealthy in sales") for about 6 years now. It's a 2016 Panini TCU Collection jersey card black parallel SN10 of Aaron Green, a guy who had almost no pro career. Originally, he was asking $59.99 I think. I asked if he'd come down because that was way too high for that card. The guy tells me he "can't" because cards from that set were actually really popular and he was going to raise the price on them. He pushed it to the current price of $89.99 and it has sat there for at least 4 years. He has a couple of other cards from that set (all SN10) that I also need, and he wants ridiculous prices for them as well, even though they don't even feature a player or have any MEM or AU. 
At what point do you realize NOBODY is ever going to pay the price you think it's worth and just accept an offer just to move it?