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$8k for a box of cards with guaranteed wemby autos, doesn’t that flood the market? It’s crap like this the companies pull for quick cash grabs with zero concern that only a small minority of the hobby can afford and they r getting close to pricing everyone out. I mean even $400 retail for a box of cards that 85-90% u see negative return on is criminal and should prob be closer to half that amount.
@@speedyjustice4you Exactly. Buy cards that will hold value. Don't buy packs. If you need to, package up the singles you buy and open them back up, like it's a new pack. You'll be delighted every time.
I agree way too much money for little return. Buying singles isn’t the best either bc the value of most cards decrease. All the selling platforms tax like crazy.
People who quit sports cards are the same people who quit many other things that they don't understand. These are the people who live for the dopamine hit and often are lacking critical analysis on their financial choices. People that have made the most money in sports cards have held cards for over 40 years. It's a long game, not a short-term get rich game. That's why people leave the hobby because so many people fail to play the long game and buy into the correct cards to hold.
That's funny that the exact reason I quit collecting is that I critically analyzed the value of investing in cards. Too volatile unless it's about 6 players and they are extremely expensive.
I've had my "collection" for 40+ years and it is said to be the junk wax era and aren't worth much. Even holding items for that long don't guarantee money, as grading those items now don't get but 7's or 8's at the best. Grading has become more critical etc... so really it's just about buying things for my PC. Raw. Prices aren't worth what people want for new, unproven and very few HOFERS. Too much money or injuries to sustain a HOF career. If you are lucky to have a 10 year career, you're not going to make the hall. Not HALL OF FAME numbers
@@williampotts7205 If you would invested the same money into the stock market at 10% a year average you'd be up way way way way way more than anybody who buys and sells cards. Same with many things nowadays
I'd LOVE to see what the cost basis is for all this shiny crap that they print to no end, with half a billion parallels. Stuff probably runs them $25/box, all in, just to dump it on anyone throwing stacks of cash at them for $800/box. I have been buying, almost exclusively, only singles for the better part of the last decade.
I quit due to prices and losing every time I bought a box...I still enjoy card content but I don't buy anymore. I'm done throwing my money in the toilet
I first started collecting as a kid in the 1960s, but when I hit my teens, girls took priority. Along the way, I married and started collecting again. A few years ago, I passed everything on to my son (except for my Brady Bunch Collection), and kept going until after TB12 retired. With the outrageous prices of newer products, maybe I will spend more of my money on grading. It was fun while it lasted - but all things must end . . . eventually!
I have been thinking about it myself. You can't rip packs at a decent price anymore, when you do buy a pack of cards you get destroyed. I go to card shows and everything in a slab is priced 50% or more above what I can buy it on ebay. I have been stuck in only baseball because gamblers took over football and basketball. When I bid on a card I want I have to worry about shill bids and assholes that think they are going to get rich buying this stuff and if I happen to win then I got to worry about the seller canceling the sale and relisting it cause the did not get what they wanted from the auction. Now is probably a good time to sell anything you don't believe in long term because there are people just stacking this junk thinking they going to have a gold mine in the future. We all know how that worked out from the 90s.
Trimmed and soaked cards, shill bidding, breakers getting loaded boxes, counterfeits, CT scanners to see what's in unopened packs/boxes, sports card show thefts, overpriced/expensive new products which focus more on gambling than collecting. But other than that, its great hobby!
I’ve been refocusing my collection on early 2000s cards that are still affordable. Every card I need from the 90s is $1000+ which doesn’t seem smart to buy, I can pick up stuff in the 2000s for $15-$20 a piece. Interesting video, I’m not the gambling type so I personally don’t buy into break and I don’t rip packs often.
New product is lowest priority in my collecting. 1. Seahawks Cards 2. Complete Topps football sets 1948-80, Topps hockey, 3. 1989 score football graded 9; 10’s
I’m not a wax guy, haven’t opened much since I was young. Enjoyed it as a kid for sure, but the prices on the new products are outrageous. And I’ve bought into breaks and mystery bags; we all learn the hard way the value is never there after getting burned. I stick to singles now and have actually started getting more interested in pre-war and vintage again.
Also, all the dealers are worried about are the high end cards. No one wants mid to low end cards anymore. It has become more of a business than a hobby.
The dealers are businesses. So are the card companies. So are the graders. So are the makers of supplies. So are the RUclips channels. They always have been.
Not all “dealers” are legit businesses. They are flippers. I’m talking about card show guys. I’m not saying they are doing anything wrong, it’s just become a money grab instead of collecting.
@@andyhill6991 those tables they set up cost money. Travel costs them money. The cards cost them money. The time organizing, traveling, and working the show is time they can’t spend working a job. They do this because they plan on earning it back. They deserve every cent they can get for making those cards available to people who want to buy them like you and I.
@@andyhill6991 Next time you go to a show ask a dealer with a big table how much money they spent on sleeves and top loaders, how much their display case cost, how they got it all there and what that cost them.
@@andyhill6991 that table space, travel, and the cards all cost these folks money. The display cases aren’t free, the thousands of top loaders weren’t free. Their time preparing and working the show is time they can’t work a job. They’re doing it because they like cards and they want to make some money doing what they like. It’s never been a charity, it is a business for card show dealers.
Fanatics end game…..mix sports cards with sports gambling. Packs and/or boxes include redemption for free bonus bets, better odds, meet and greet with sports people, memorabilia, free tickets.
While that young lady might be correct overall anyone that doesn't think trading card prices have been nothing short of ridiculous for too long and much longer than has been inferred is nuts.
Funny this video popped up. I actually decided the other day I am getting out of sports cards. Personally, I just have other personal and financial goals at the moment. Maybe I will come back to it down the road. For now, I am going to sell my collection.
I could wrap this up in a 10 second video. People are quitting cards who were never in cards . I mean, they were never really collectors in the first place. Singles can still be bought, great cards can still be had for cheap. I say….. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out :)
Kudos! Well said. I'm middle middle to upper middle class and the cost of this hobby is passing me by. 6-7 years ago I was buying hobby boxes. Now joining "breaks" of any decent product is becoming exorbitant. Don't even get me started on slabbing. I understand the need but slabbing drove the average collector out of coin collecting and it will do the same for sports cards. As I've said before, it's ultimately nothing more than a sports fan with his/her pretty cardboard
I haven’t bought into a break since 2017. I quit because I never felt like it was worth it. But I like the concept of getting only cards from my favorite teams. I last bought a pack of cards in 2019. It took a moment to figure out how I wanted to collect but I feel like I am figuring it out. Only took 3 or 4 years. Haha. What I don’t get is how people have managed to make it until now breaking and opening packs. I don’t have the stomach for the losses.
Over priced with low value. Gotta get a case hit to make your money back. Rookies that haven't played are now more valuable than awesome vets for the first year then their price drops 90% unless they are that 1 dude. It's a disaster
Price point of blasters and retail have me shying away. I'll spend it on Prizm, Optic, and Select but I'm definitely not spending it on all the other stuff. I use to, but not anymore.
Modern people are quitting cause the flip is dead. Many modern dealers switching to vintage. My local went from almost only modern to majority vintage. It’s simple modern prices plummeted retail prices didn’t. Plus people are holding cards that have no ROI. Shows are back to veteran collectors and the Zion cases are few and far between.
Sold pretty much everything I had(Mainly because I just moved across country) But when I start buying back it will be just rare vintage and numbered singles Pre 2022. No more new hobby products for me, Even blasters have been priced out at the current prices just a giant waste of money with the over production increasing each year.
The Golden Boys Lawrence, Burrow, and Herbert lost with a couple of them not having a win yet. Those cards will be beer coasters in a couple more years
Someone put out a great video a couple years ago and the theme I got out of it was “nothing makes you devalue a dollar more than sports cards” you can premise your card buying by saying “at least its not drugs” but that is setting the bar pretty low in my opinion
First packs where 1986-1987, have never left but my enthusiasm and attention paid has gone up and down many times. Haven't bought sealed since 2022 bowman baseball and likely won't for the foreseeable future. Having a lot of fun just collecting junk wax Era from my childhood and the occasional goat auto on a key or iconic card.
Good video Dustin! I may have mentioned before that one important thing for a person in retirement is to have a hobby. Instead of breaks, I'll buy discount stuff at Walmart and open it at home for fun. I also collect vintage sets, and a cheap alternative is to find a Junk Wax era star to collect. For me, it's Kirby Puckett. I also have a show inventory for cards that I have that need a new home. Keeps money in my pocket for my collection. I've been around many people that have collected their entire life, right down to the end. I don't plan on getting out any time soon.
I'm having a great time with base cards: got me a binder for each mlb division. Now every active player on the roster of a team gets his space within a column of the 9 pocket page. Transaction means he's moving to another team page. Otherwise, he gets his place in the free agent monster box or lands in the retirement box. All in all, I'm happy with each variation of a base card and don't have to be disappointed with a no hit baseball hobby box.
I 1st got back in right around 2020 or so. I used to collect in the 80s and early 90s. I think a few sports card videos showed up on my youtube recommended page. At that point the only thing I'd spend money on was on good beer and wings. I remember I went to a card shop and asked how much a hobby box was. When he told me the price, I laughed and asked for the real price. He told me it was. I remember it was over $350. The last pack of cards I bought before that was no more than $1. I gave up very quickly buying blasters and anything like that from any store. Too much of a risk. I've been having a great time buying the singles of players that I like to watch, or think will have a great career and some older cards. My card purchase prices aren't that much since I don't buy the 1/1s or the super bedazzled red shockwave triple refractor downtown color blast cards. I've seen a good number of videos where it seems like these collectors are trying to keep up with the joneses or want to buy this or that because of what they see from certain RUclips card content creators.
Most of my buying over the past few months has been on COMC. All the piles from my physical collection have been organized and put away for the time being.
I’m quitting opening packs but not the hobby as a whole. I think there are a lot of people in this category as opposed to quitting all together. I’m simply going to buy singles until there is some sort of market correction to these current insane box prices.
I love it! Follow all the sports, draft picks that correlate with fantasy sports and sport handicapping. Breaking is bad from $ perspective, so target.
You know how I feel about this😂 after you see 500 negative video thumbnails and tons of content talking about anything negative in the hobby, with scanning machines or prices dropping or taking shots and people like Geoff Wilson, there’s just so much negativity spread through RUclips that I don’t blame people for feeling like it’s not exciting or fun anymore. the RUclips community seems to want to drive people away instead of emphasize a fun narrative.
@@TheSportsCardDad you know how years ago people dubbed CNN as standing for constant negative news? People who watch the news have been proven to be less happier people. I don’t have the time to try to be a force in this hobby, but if I would attempt to do it, I would have the most positive upbeat channel on RUclips. Of course, I would not attract all the people who really love negativity and drama. And absolutely all the negative unhappy people would be taking shots at me like they do at Geoff Wilson. I would be happy to do an interview with you anytime and let the hobby hear what I have to say. For example, The only way any card values can go up, is by somebody being willing to pay more than the last comp. If buyers should only buy under the previous comp, then it is nothing but a race to the bottom and card values could never go in the upward direction. It’s crazy, the way, stupid people think. When I’m buying stocks, I’d be crazy to only buy them when they are going down and try to catch a falling knife. It is much smarter to buy a stock when it is in an upward trend. These card collectors/investors are just ridiculous.
@@BRIANCARRUTHERSI’m confused. So you want your portfolio manager, or your ‘stock YT channel’ to always stay positive and tell you everything will always go up? That would seem disingenuous to me
@@TheSportsCardDad No not what I’m saying… in these brief comments. But there are guys like Harry Dent who’ve been predicting doomsday in the stock market for 25 years and I choose not to watch his stuff anymore 😆 Don’t get hooked on the stock market analogy I gave. My point is that so many people get into this hobby because it’s fun, and then they discover RUclips content channels that make it less fun and creates anxiety around it. I know you take my comments with a grain of salt and that’s totally cool. You are doing you and I am doing me. That’s what makes the world go round. That’s how the middle is found. Everyone of us is a marketer for the hobby. We all contribute to the morale at large. When the content shift towards negative, people find other things to put their attention on.
I tried collecting but having cards just sitting around in your case is boring to me. So I grade to flip nfl prospects in offseason and it’s exciting to get the psa order back and auction them off. I take the profit and put it into mahomes rookie cards. I’m enjoying the hobby so I guess I collect mahomes cards and I’m a Brady fan lol
Unfortunately the hobby is now becoming a casino on the go. The hobby is now similar to how slot machines are priced. You have penny slots (retail boxes) $5 Slots (hobby boxes) $100+ slots high rollers (new wemby box) this hobby is very addictive. People are hooked and hobby card addiction will be a Netflix Documentary.
you can only continue to bring in fresh marks for a given time before they figure out the scam. As I've said a zillion times, People do not enjoy getting their teeth kicked in & handed to them. Many of them WILL quit. No matter if they "buy what they like." That phrase is the dopiest joke in the hobby. The names of all the cards regodamnediculous and growing by the second. All diluted contrived GAR BAGE'
Sports cards is not a hobby anymore it’s a business. There’s too many way over hype cards. Too many flip cards for way too much money. The sports card industry needs to collapse.
It is a simple getting scammed , deceived and hustled leaves a sour taste ! I f you just start out collecting or getting back in usually you do research and if you look on RUclips people telling you the hype of lies ! That will make anyone quit !
People quit when they lose their shirts in breaks, one lucky hit does not make up for the misses, you have a 6% chance in making just your money back in a break
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I can see it happening. It is expensive. If you buy the cheaper stuff like hangers and blasters, you usually get nothing in it.
People are quitting because the price of retail is out of control and the product is completley water downed
Buy singles :)
$8k for a box of cards with guaranteed wemby autos, doesn’t that flood the market? It’s crap like this the companies pull for quick cash grabs with zero concern that only a small minority of the hobby can afford and they r getting close to pricing everyone out. I mean even $400 retail for a box of cards that 85-90% u see negative return on is criminal and should prob be closer to half that amount.
@@speedyjustice4you Exactly. Buy cards that will hold value. Don't buy packs.
If you need to, package up the singles you buy and open them back up, like it's a new pack. You'll be delighted every time.
I agree way too much money for little return. Buying singles isn’t the best either bc the value of most cards decrease. All the selling platforms tax like crazy.
@@jeyDsixx18 If you take out the gambling aspect you'll lose a lot of the customers
Sports cards quit me. I haven't opened a single box of 2024 football. Exclusive deals and the price points make it insane to open
Oooo I like how you put that, ‘sports cards quit me’, hope all is well man
Seems like RUclips creators are the ones quitting…. Most of them TALK about other people’s cards rather than their own collections/cards. 😂
If they showed off their own cards they would come across as amateurs thus threatening their celebrity status. You can throw SCD into the mix.
@@johns.8246 lol 😂 my collection is pretty wicked 👍
@@TheSportsCardDad Would SCD sell his soul so he doesn't have to work a " real " job ?
People who quit sports cards are the same people who quit many other things that they don't understand. These are the people who live for the dopamine hit and often are lacking critical analysis on their financial choices. People that have made the most money in sports cards have held cards for over 40 years. It's a long game, not a short-term get rich game. That's why people leave the hobby because so many people fail to play the long game and buy into the correct cards to hold.
That's funny that the exact reason I quit collecting is that I critically analyzed the value of investing in cards. Too volatile unless it's about 6 players and they are extremely expensive.
I've had my "collection" for 40+ years and it is said to be the junk wax era and aren't worth much. Even holding items for that long don't guarantee money, as grading those items now don't get but 7's or 8's at the best. Grading has become more critical etc... so really it's just about buying things for my PC. Raw. Prices aren't worth what people want for new, unproven and very few HOFERS. Too much money or injuries to sustain a HOF career. If you are lucky to have a 10 year career, you're not going to make the hall. Not HALL OF FAME numbers
@@williampotts7205 If you would invested the same money into the stock market at 10% a year average you'd be up way way way way way more than anybody who buys and sells cards. Same with many things nowadays
Topps is driving more people away from wax ,then bringing in
I prefer a nice Vintage baseball card from Greg Morris over a blaster box from Walmart.
Good stuff!
Topps Now is the last gasp of the junk wax era 2.0. The value of cards will be cut in half within the next two years.
I'd LOVE to see what the cost basis is for all this shiny crap that they print to no end, with half a billion parallels. Stuff probably runs them $25/box, all in, just to dump it on anyone throwing stacks of cash at them for $800/box. I have been buying, almost exclusively, only singles for the better part of the last decade.
I quit due to prices and losing every time I bought a box...I still enjoy card content but I don't buy anymore. I'm done throwing my money in the toilet
Buy singles and some cheaper retail
I first started collecting as a kid in the 1960s, but when I hit my teens, girls took priority. Along the way, I married and started collecting again. A few years ago, I passed everything on to my son (except for my Brady Bunch Collection), and kept going until after TB12 retired. With the outrageous prices of newer products, maybe I will spend more of my money on grading. It was fun while it lasted - but all things must end . . . eventually!
I have been thinking about it myself. You can't rip packs at a decent price anymore, when you do buy a pack of cards you get destroyed. I go to card shows and everything in a slab is priced 50% or more above what I can buy it on ebay. I have been stuck in only baseball because gamblers took over football and basketball. When I bid on a card I want I have to worry about shill bids and assholes that think they are going to get rich buying this stuff and if I happen to win then I got to worry about the seller canceling the sale and relisting it cause the did not get what they wanted from the auction. Now is probably a good time to sell anything you don't believe in long term because there are people just stacking this junk thinking they going to have a gold mine in the future. We all know how that worked out from the 90s.
Trimmed and soaked cards, shill bidding, breakers getting loaded boxes, counterfeits, CT scanners to see what's in unopened packs/boxes, sports card show thefts, overpriced/expensive new products which focus more on gambling than collecting. But other than that, its great hobby!
I’ve been refocusing my collection on early 2000s cards that are still affordable. Every card I need from the 90s is $1000+ which doesn’t seem smart to buy, I can pick up stuff in the 2000s for $15-$20 a piece. Interesting video, I’m not the gambling type so I personally don’t buy into break and I don’t rip packs often.
New product is lowest priority in my collecting. 1. Seahawks Cards 2. Complete Topps football sets 1948-80, Topps hockey, 3. 1989 score football graded 9; 10’s
I’m not a wax guy, haven’t opened much since I was young. Enjoyed it as a kid for sure, but the prices on the new products are outrageous. And I’ve bought into breaks and mystery bags; we all learn the hard way the value is never there after getting burned. I stick to singles now and have actually started getting more interested in pre-war and vintage again.
How's that song go? 'I got 99 problems but collecting overpriced ultramodern junk ain't one'?
I buy mostly from the quarter boxes at shows and fill binders. Now I've got binders loaded with Hall of Famers, Parallel ''s, Star RC etc...
Also, all the dealers are worried about are the high end cards. No one wants mid to low end cards anymore. It has become more of a business than a hobby.
The dealers are businesses. So are the card companies. So are the graders. So are the makers of supplies. So are the RUclips channels. They always have been.
Not all “dealers” are legit businesses. They are flippers. I’m talking about card show guys. I’m not saying they are doing anything wrong, it’s just become a money grab instead of collecting.
@@andyhill6991 those tables they set up cost money. Travel costs them money. The cards cost them money. The time organizing, traveling, and working the show is time they can’t spend working a job. They do this because they plan on earning it back. They deserve every cent they can get for making those cards available to people who want to buy them like you and I.
@@andyhill6991 Next time you go to a show ask a dealer with a big table how much money they spent on sleeves and top loaders, how much their display case cost, how they got it all there and what that cost them.
@@andyhill6991 that table space, travel, and the cards all cost these folks money. The display cases aren’t free, the thousands of top loaders weren’t free. Their time preparing and working the show is time they can’t work a job. They’re doing it because they like cards and they want to make some money doing what they like. It’s never been a charity, it is a business for card show dealers.
Fanatics end game…..mix sports cards with sports gambling. Packs and/or boxes include redemption for free bonus bets, better odds, meet and greet with sports people, memorabilia, free tickets.
While that young lady might be correct overall anyone that doesn't think trading card prices have been nothing short of ridiculous for too long and much longer than has been inferred is nuts.
I remember people quitting the hobby 10 years ago before I was on RUclips because the post office raised their prices
lol different times. Now people are happy paying an arm and a leg lol
Funny this video popped up. I actually decided the other day I am getting out of sports cards. Personally, I just have other personal and financial goals at the moment. Maybe I will come back to it down the road. For now, I am going to sell my collection.
I could wrap this up in a 10 second video. People are quitting cards who were never in cards . I mean, they were never really collectors in the first place. Singles can still be bought, great cards can still be had for cheap. I say….. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out :)
Kudos! Well said. I'm middle middle to upper middle class and the cost of this hobby is passing me by. 6-7 years ago I was buying hobby boxes. Now joining "breaks" of any decent product is becoming exorbitant. Don't even get me started on slabbing. I understand the need but slabbing drove the average collector out of coin collecting and it will do the same for sports cards. As I've said before, it's ultimately nothing more than a sports fan with his/her pretty cardboard
I haven’t bought into a break since 2017. I quit because I never felt like it was worth it. But I like the concept of getting only cards from my favorite teams. I last bought a pack of cards in 2019. It took a moment to figure out how I wanted to collect but I feel like I am figuring it out. Only took 3 or 4 years. Haha.
What I don’t get is how people have managed to make it until now breaking and opening packs. I don’t have the stomach for the losses.
Over priced with low value. Gotta get a case hit to make your money back.
Rookies that haven't played are now more valuable than awesome vets for the first year then their price drops 90% unless they are that 1 dude.
It's a disaster
Price point of blasters and retail have me shying away. I'll spend it on Prizm, Optic, and Select but I'm definitely not spending it on all the other stuff. I use to, but not anymore.
Modern people are quitting cause the flip is dead. Many modern dealers switching to vintage. My local went from almost only modern to majority vintage. It’s simple modern prices plummeted retail prices didn’t. Plus people are holding cards that have no ROI. Shows are back to veteran collectors and the Zion cases are few and far between.
Sounds like we have our hobby back
@@WestTexas_Cars_Cards_Chips Were getting there!
Sold pretty much everything I had(Mainly because I just moved across country) But when I start buying back it will be just rare vintage and numbered singles Pre 2022. No more new hobby products for me, Even blasters have been priced out at the current prices just a giant waste of money with the over production increasing each year.
The Golden Boys Lawrence, Burrow, and Herbert lost with a couple of them not having a win yet. Those cards will be beer coasters in a couple more years
Wild stuff
Thank you for reminding me to enjoy and appreciate what I have, that leads to a appreciation of my life in general 😊
Someone put out a great video a couple years ago and the theme I got out of it was “nothing makes you devalue a dollar more than sports cards” you can premise your card buying by saying “at least its not drugs” but that is setting the bar pretty low in my opinion
As a guy in his 40s I only jump back in when a specific new player seems exciting. Shohei Ohtani in his rookie year was the last guy I collected.
Selling more. Buying a lot of 100 and keeping a few, selling most. No boxes.
First packs where 1986-1987, have never left but my enthusiasm and attention paid has gone up and down many times. Haven't bought sealed since 2022 bowman baseball and likely won't for the foreseeable future. Having a lot of fun just collecting junk wax Era from my childhood and the occasional goat auto on a key or iconic card.
Good video Dustin! I may have mentioned before that one important thing for a person in retirement is to have a hobby. Instead of breaks, I'll buy discount stuff at Walmart and open it at home for fun. I also collect vintage sets, and a cheap alternative is to find a Junk Wax era star to collect. For me, it's Kirby Puckett. I also have a show inventory for cards that I have that need a new home. Keeps money in my pocket for my collection. I've been around many people that have collected their entire life, right down to the end. I don't plan on getting out any time soon.
man Kirby Puckett was so awesome, smashing homers. And I remember so much buzz in the card shops back then for his cards
@stuke1976 While SCD goes by many names, please call him Dustin
I'm having a great time with base cards: got me a binder for each mlb division. Now every active player on the roster of a team gets his space within a column of the 9 pocket page. Transaction means he's moving to another team page. Otherwise, he gets his place in the free agent monster box or lands in the retirement box.
All in all, I'm happy with each variation of a base card and don't have to be disappointed with a no hit baseball hobby box.
Love it
To much product for to too much money.
I 1st got back in right around 2020 or so. I used to collect in the 80s and early 90s. I think a few sports card videos showed up on my youtube recommended page. At that point the only thing I'd spend money on was on good beer and wings. I remember I went to a card shop and asked how much a hobby box was. When he told me the price, I laughed and asked for the real price. He told me it was. I remember it was over $350. The last pack of cards I bought before that was no more than $1. I gave up very quickly buying blasters and anything like that from any store. Too much of a risk. I've been having a great time buying the singles of players that I like to watch, or think will have a great career and some older cards. My card purchase prices aren't that much since I don't buy the 1/1s or the super bedazzled red shockwave triple refractor downtown color blast cards. I've seen a good number of videos where it seems like these collectors are trying to keep up with the joneses or want to buy this or that because of what they see from certain RUclips card content creators.
I only buy stuff in the NBA pre 2020 now. and if its on discount.
Most of my buying over the past few months has been on COMC. All the piles from my physical collection have been organized and put away for the time being.
some gems pop up on comc for sure
I’m quitting opening packs but not the hobby as a whole. I think there are a lot of people in this category as opposed to quitting all together. I’m simply going to buy singles until there is some sort of market correction to these current insane box prices.
I love it! Follow all the sports, draft picks that correlate with fantasy sports and sport handicapping. Breaking is bad from $ perspective, so target.
I totally undertand about budgeting and collecting. It is better to have extra $ to spend on cards than needing $ to pay the bills
You know how I feel about this😂 after you see 500 negative video thumbnails and tons of content talking about anything negative in the hobby, with scanning machines or prices dropping or taking shots and people like Geoff Wilson, there’s just so much negativity spread through RUclips that I don’t blame people for feeling like it’s not exciting or fun anymore. the RUclips community seems to want to drive people away instead of emphasize a fun narrative.
Nah I just like well rounded discussion. And that happens somewhere in the middle
@@TheSportsCardDad you know how years ago people dubbed CNN as standing for constant negative news? People who watch the news have been proven to be less happier people. I don’t have the time to try to be a force in this hobby, but if I would attempt to do it, I would have the most positive upbeat channel on RUclips. Of course, I would not attract all the people who really love negativity and drama. And absolutely all the negative unhappy people would be taking shots at me like they do at Geoff Wilson.
I would be happy to do an interview with you anytime and let the hobby hear what I have to say.
For example, The only way any card values can go up, is by somebody being willing to pay more than the last comp. If buyers should only buy under the previous comp, then it is nothing but a race to the bottom and card values could never go in the upward direction. It’s crazy, the way, stupid people think. When I’m buying stocks, I’d be crazy to only buy them when they are going down and try to catch a falling knife. It is much smarter to buy a stock when it is in an upward trend. These card collectors/investors are just ridiculous.
@@BRIANCARRUTHERSI’m confused. So you want your portfolio manager, or your ‘stock YT channel’ to always stay positive and tell you everything will always go up? That would seem disingenuous to me
@@TheSportsCardDad No not what I’m saying… in these brief comments. But there are guys like Harry Dent who’ve been predicting doomsday in the stock market for 25 years and I choose not to watch his stuff anymore 😆
Don’t get hooked on the stock market analogy I gave. My point is that so many people get into this hobby because it’s fun, and then they discover RUclips content channels that make it less fun and creates anxiety around it. I know you take my comments with a grain of salt and that’s totally cool. You are doing you and I am doing me. That’s what makes the world go round. That’s how the middle is found.
Everyone of us is a marketer for the hobby. We all contribute to the morale at large. When the content shift towards negative, people find other things to put their attention on.
I tried collecting but having cards just sitting around in your case is boring to me. So I grade to flip nfl prospects in offseason and it’s exciting to get the psa order back and auction them off. I take the profit and put it into mahomes rookie cards. I’m enjoying the hobby so I guess I collect mahomes cards and I’m a Brady fan lol
Haven’t ripped wax since@2012. All singles now. Do miss the ripping but it’s just too expensive
We are all quitting.
Barkley lost 25 million. Mickelson has lost around a 100 he’s said
Hey Dustin congrats on the board and you're putting together an awesome Collectibles collection. Right on
Thanks man!
Still waiting for Brad to make that comeback
Aren’t we all……lol
Overpriced new products,Counterfeits,Not worth the gamble anymore😔
People can collect so many cards where they can run out of room with to many cards.
I’m not quitting there’s still pre 1990 sets to get
Compulsive behavior is a form of thee Ostrich effect. None of us can face the realities of this world anymore.
This is good advice.
Unfortunately the hobby is now becoming a casino on the go. The hobby is now similar to how slot machines are priced. You have penny slots (retail boxes) $5 Slots (hobby boxes) $100+ slots high rollers (new wemby box) this hobby is very addictive. People are hooked and hobby card addiction will be a Netflix Documentary.
I stopped buying two years ago and I don’t regret it one bit. I still follow the hobby but it seems to get worse with every release.
I now only collect OU auto cards
Who wants to buy my 25,000 lot of commons I paid thousands for in retail boxes. 😮
Got my red Ohtani auto /5… I’m good
Wasnt the Dad in back to the future Crispin Glover ?
My bad, it’s signed by Tom Wilson (Biff). Even better!
Would be great if you could get Crispin to sign it as well
Sell nothing boy that Rings a strong Bell for me.
Baseball Topps, chrome bowman paper n hockey ud are only new products I break wax on
you can only continue to bring in fresh marks for a given time before they figure out the scam. As I've said a zillion times, People do not enjoy getting their teeth kicked in & handed to them. Many of them WILL quit. No matter if they "buy what they like." That phrase is the dopiest joke in the hobby. The names of all the cards regodamnediculous and growing by the second. All diluted contrived GAR BAGE'
Eff cards, let's see those Les Pauls!!!!
A box of 8 cards for $8,000???? What the Fanatics is going on here?????
Take a look at non sports vintage
New product s being priced for breaks now.
Only buy Joker RC's
More money for stocks???.... You mean wax? 🤣
Great video
thanks buddy, hope you are having a good week!
Quitting searching too much on the Internet. Got most of the cards that i want. Will just sell them whenever. Hopefully i can make $2m
What happened to the knee pads for SGC? Now you switched to PSA? No loyalty in the hobby should be the next video
lol Both companies are great 👍
Sports cards is not a hobby anymore it’s a business. There’s too many way over hype cards. Too many flip cards for way too much money. The sports card industry needs to collapse.
It costs 79 cents to print a sheet of 75 cards
It is a simple getting scammed , deceived and hustled leaves a sour taste ! I f you just start out collecting or getting back in usually you do research and if you look on RUclips people telling you the hype of lies ! That will make anyone quit !
People quit when they lose their shirts in breaks, one lucky hit does not make up for the misses, you have a 6% chance in making just your money back in a break
FANATICS IS RUINING THE HOBBY THAT I LOVE WITH THEIR BULL$HIT, JEFF WILSON, JEFF WILSON!!!!!