How the coronavirus, the internet and tons of money unexpectedly fueled sports cards' biggest boom.
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id...s-biggest-boom
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How the coronavirus, the internet and tons of money unexpectedly fueled sports cards' biggest boom.
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id...s-biggest-boom
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Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
Lummy (10-19-2020)
Is that Alfred E Neuman? Awesome. LOL.
I used to have a $%$%load of Rugby League cards when I was 8/9/10. I never really got into collecting basketball cards.
You know what would be a great idea? If they could find a way to combine identity politics with sports cards. I bet that would be a big hit.
I don't get it because the cards fueling this craze are not older and rare. These are mostly new cards printed within the last 10 years, even the numbered ones imo are not rare and i don't see them retaining these kind of values for very long. Imo someone found a way to intentionally drive the market up to levels never seen before, youtube is now littered with videos of people buying couple year old packs for sometimes thousands of dollars in the hopes of finding rare rookie cards.
The card makers have also responded by creating sets that cost sometimes hundreds or even thousands of dollars brand new. I don't understand it but if people want to spend a ton of money on something that has already shown how it can very quickly collapse then by all means, guess it is no worse than buying and selling stocks right now but as you can imagine what that does to most who treated it as a hobby.
carolina73 (10-28-2020)
I remember the card boom back in the 90s, that was crazy. Card shops were popping up everywhere, it was big business. People liked the cards with the current stars. But the bottom dropped out of that market real quick. Some cards were rare, but so many different companies were printing up so many different cards that it didn't really matter. One player might have 40 different rare cards in a given year.