I was looking at the prices for some of the recently-released Adrian Peterson cards and found something that just doesn't make sense to me. There are two different Peterson rookies from similar products that have a patch, autograph and are numbered to 99. One is selling for around $700 and the other is selling for $2,500. Why is there such a huge difference?

The first product is Playoff National Treasures. The card is vertical, which is usually preferred. It's got a nice big patch, with a signature and, like I said, numbered to 99. Boxes of National Treasures are selling for around $400 and the product appears to be doing very well with collectors. There are two completed sales on ebay, with one for $592 and one for $689.

The second product is Upper Deck Exquisite. The card is horizontal with a nice big patch, signature and numbered to 99. Boxes of Exquisite are selling around $525. There are six different completed auctions on eBay and the final sale price ranges between $1,705 and $3,600.

What am I missing here? Both are in the highest-end products known to mankind and everything else is extremely similar. Playoff has a great reputation in football cards, which is obvious when you look at the Playoff Contenders Peterson rookie (limited to 355) and see that it sells for $320 to $440. Does the Exquisite name mean that much to collectors? It does in many cases in basketball, where it debuted in 2003-04 and blew everyone away with the first $500 pack (which now go for around $4,000). But in football, both National Treasures and Exquisite have been around for two years. Can anyone explain this one to me?