?? Breakers came into this hobby just to make money .they're not collectors and the people they service are not collectors . It's gambling for people that are too cheap or too young to go to Vegas @@mauriciobori
@@mauriciobori the hobby was completely fine without breakers before. I'm confused why breakers think they're anything more than a middle man taking a cut. Singles will still be getting sold by normal people buying product.
@@FacundoCampazzo123 They are a middle man thats not up to debate but the hobby is not the same without breakers they probably sell half of all product and that means millions enjoy and care for breaking so no just taking them out because they are opposed to your interests despite people liking and enjoying the breaking experience is not right
Breakers are in for the money. Their clientele is also in it for the gambling. There's not a collector in that house. The hobby will be just fine without them.
Bowman 1st cards overrated?? Brother it takes like 4 years+ to see those cards actually pan out. Most of the hyped prospects take years to become worthless. For the NBA/NFL, you know who is going to be a big name in the league by their second year of college. Those guys have a million+ rookie cards printed before even seeing a game
A few things - ** Hot Take - Companies need to go back to short printing & serial numbering base rookies like they did in the late 90's/early 2000's. This would limit them to 500-2000 and drive up the demand/value over what we have which is 10 billion of them printed and no one wanting them. > Vintage - mid-grade vintage dropping in value because the younger generation not knowing those players is exactly what's wrong with the hobby. It's all about money and not collecting. I primarily collect vintage going back to Ruth's era and I am in my 40's. I do it because I love baseball and the players of the past who made the game what it is. This younger generation is only in it for the flip and the profit, and that's sad. > Heritage - I think Heritage rookies and auto's are undervalued in general. Nicer cardstock and tend to not have the centering issues that chrome has. Chrome is full of crappy relief pitcher autos and has a ridiculous price tag. Heritage should be more valuable across the board, especially since they probably print less. > Breakers - Breakers suck. They jack prices up and do nothing but hurt the LCS. how many of them have been caught stealing cards? Not all, I know, but maybe that's just because they haven't been caught. I know several shops that can't get enough product because of breakers. Breakers are annoying to watch, while it might allow you into a product opening you may not otherwise be able to get into, you are often paying more than it's worth and getting nothing worth your entry. > Opening Products - Opening boxes is just stupid at this point. The smart money is just going to shows and finding the deals on singles. If people would just do that, companies would quit raising prices and people would see how much more they would be getting for their money.
Great video as always Scottie 🎉. For modern wax, yep it is a tough time to be buying boxes. Personally, I only go with a Topps Series 1 and 2 blaster for fun ( With no expectations other than to just pick up a few base rookies and maybe the odd cool insert/parallel). With Update, Bowman and Heritage it the same premise as well. After that, I go to the secondary market to purchase the single cards that I want for my collection. I do miss the thrill of a hobby/jumbo box; however, I don’t need yet another Dan Vogelbach jersey card as the “Feature signature/memorabilia” that I pull . With that said, I have had my share of luck as well over the years with SP’s and even a couple of SSP’s it is just that I can’t justify spending $100CDN++ on some of these boxes as the checklists are now also bloated (Making set collecting a thing of the past for me as well 😢).
I personally rarely buy boxes. I love watching what others get though. I have only opened a few boxes from 2019-2024, and i have more cards than I know what to do with. But I put them in binders and enjoy looking at them. My vintage cards are my favorite part of this hobby though. (Stadium club is the only series I will ever buy repeatedly. Love that set!)
1991 Fleer you can hit the pro-visions cards and if graded in nice shape they sell really well. Creating value in older cards is fun. Not everything has to be a fake jersey card or sticker auto. Also, Hank 54 Topps RC over any newer card made of him
@Eliteco3 Hey Nolan, thanks for pointing that out. I misspoke in the video. My sheet is 1990 fleer. I do not believe there is anything substantial in the set, but I could be wrong. It definitely is not my expertise! Also, in regards to the Hank Aaron, I purchased a 2003 Stadium Club dual auto of him and Willie Mays in place of a rookie of Hank. I should have explained my thought process better. I personally love that card, but I wouldn't blame anyone for preferring the 54 rookie!
@@MikelTulp the breakers are in it for the money the clientele is in it for the gambling. My daughter is the bookie at Edgewater Laughlin even she understands her job is a street hustle. She is at work right now. If you're around, go check her out! .. she is a collector also
@@josephbuono4392 buying packs or a box is fun . Grab the kids and rip some wax. If you are alone and have a stack of boxes.😔 It's not fun and collecting your after ..
I’m a vintage guy-the key words to me were low/midgrade. There’s a ton of those cards out there and I agree those will go down. High grade however, I think will continue to go up, up, up.
I enjoy your videos, keep it up. If there's one thing I've learned from you is to collect what YOU like, especially if its an area of the market that others don't value as highly. (Billy Butler?) You might make money from that, but it will keep the hobby, a hobby for you.
The good news is we've got Chrome HFA's is chrome update! I'm definitely a fan of heritage real ones and will add a Chourio to my collection here once high number hits the market.
I bought one hobby box of series one when it came out this spring and that is all I’ve purchased this year. Playing Russian roulette would be less risky than spending $200-$300 for a box of cards, especially when I don’t value the rookie cards of a bunch of kids I’m not familiar with. It doesn’t help when I never get an auto of the rookies I would be chasing. I’m sticking with vintage HOFers. Their names will be known far longer than I’m around. We’ve all forgotten Jo Adell, Kyle Lewis, Christian Pache and many other sure fire can’t miss prospects whose cards would’ve been worth a small fortune just a few short years ago and are now cluttering up junk boxes.
I agree with most everything you said. And as for box prices, they have become ridiculous for the price you pay to what you can pull. Buying lottery tickets is probably more profitable. Great video !!!
05:29 applies to all other collectibles. It's either out of reach $money-cost-wise or the younger generation stick to something that is close to the collection. Example comics to Japanese anime
There’s a reason why the vintage question specifically called out “low/mid grades” - it’s a tacit acknowledgement that high end stuff will always be sought after. What the question ignores is the fact that since the high end stuff will retain value, that keeps the low/mid grade values afloat. And that doesn’t even include how the hobby participation continues to grow and new people will find an interest in vintage. Or the fact that nobody alive saw Cobb, Foxx, Lefty Grove, etc. play and their cards have not plummeted or even sagged.
Vintage will always have value because scarcity in amounts and with high grades. Moderns has thousands of psa10 guys where vintage may have 1 if any. Not to mention history and baseball go hand and hand. Especially considering how often topps puts vintage players in every set.
Even though that was right when I came back into the hobby, it's hard to fathom that 2018 Update Hobby Boxes were $45. That just blows my mind given all we've seen in the last several years.
I didn't see Hank Aaron , Mickey Mantle , babe Ruth or ty Cobb or any of those people. But I absolutely collect thim . I'm working on a 53 Bowman color graded set and would love a shoeless Joe Jackson card!!
Yeah IDK what the heck those polls were talking about, Breakers absolutely hurt the hobby. They are just one reason prices across the board are still so high right now.
Breathe Scotty breathe!! You talk so fast you give the 30's and 50's Era a run for their money... you remind me of the reporter chief of The Daily Bugle in Spider-Man. I appreciate the information that you give everybody. I'm just picking at you a little bit man
I just wanna collect Padres players and have fun doing it. Cards today are more confusing than when there were 5-6 or water different companies making them.
That ROI perspective is market dictates price not card or stats. There are also 400 different products all with autos and numbered. Wagers down , if there were 10 products a year then you’d actually have value. Look at pop reports they make millions , there are more RC in product than non.
I was thinking singles are easier to get cause the people that buy into breaks that don't collect cards and are just gamblers, give that stuff away for almost nothing just to recoup some of their money back. I get a fat pack or blaster once in a blue moon cause the kid in me still likes to open packs but if you hunt hard enough you will find that card you are looking for at a great price.
People treat Bowman 1sts like they aren't just Photoshopped. Those players have never worn that uniform. If Bowman Chrome U would release after the draft with a Photoshop treatment they'd be worth 5x.
Hey, you are not the only one who feels this way! I should have explained better. I recently bought a 2003 Stadium Club dual auto of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron which is the card I bought specifically over a 54 rookie. I prefer the nature of the card, but would not blame anyone for preferring the 54 rookie!
@@scottiebcards2354Hey people like what they like! Definitely more variety out there for people now. My biggest problem is when I do pay $150-$400 for a box with a guaranteed auto it will most likely be a 29 yo rookie with 23 ABs in his career. They have to do better with the autos when that is the main if not only selling point.
Hey Jeff, thanks for pointing that out! The sheet behind me was actually 1990 Fleer which I was referring to. I just misspoke in the video. Thanks for watching!
You don't have to have tires to players for collectors. Look at it this way. You'd have to be in your late 70s to have seen many of the stars of the 50s even play and wouldn't have been old enough to connect yet those cards are still widely collected. So no Vintage will always have value.
Agree with pitchers are risky but Football is the worst period unless it's the 2025 sets with rookies get involved in the big rookies and then sell them before the season starts
Bowman cards are ugly because they're photoshopped. (Mainly mean the main Bowman, Bowman Draft, and Bowman Chrome sets here, as they are generally just photos of the players.) They're distractingly bad sometimes. I don't get how people overlook this so much. Bobby Witt, Jr.'s Bowman 1st looks like a cartoon drawing of a 90 year old man.
Agree about vintage. Folks like Ripken Jr, Griffey Jr, Henderson, Rose, Maddux, Johnson will see their values rise while older HOFers like Steve Carlton, Killebrew, Molitor, Bench wont plummet but will decline in value
Bowman’s are just bad cards. The player hasn’t made the big leagues yet and the pictures are garbage or airbrushed. It should just be a minor league set and the rookie cards should be the chase.
Topps has been so boring lately. It's like they hate any modern cards. They're the only game in town, so I can't switch to another brand. Bring back pics on the back, and make the premium stuff more available (cosmic, for instance).
But to be fair, if you make premium stuff more available/accessible/cheaper, then it's no longer "premium". Then it's just your average run of the mill card like flagship.
@@Vizslav True, but I buy most of my cards at Target. They are swamped with standard Topps sets. I have to be really lucky to see anything premium in baseball. NBA stuff is plentiful, with NFL not far behind.
@@JosephRocco-mi4cm yeah man, I hear you. I wish it would be easier to buy the cooler stuff everywhere as well, but that's just the nature of these general stores like Target/Walmart. They have limited space and only stock the items with the widest general appeal. That's the case with everything at these stores. You can get a car battery at Walmart just fine, but you will need to go to an auto parts store to get a part for a 2004 Civic lol.
Fanatics-level. Basically all your stuff has become junk-Panini cards. By the way, MLB did this to themselves. By giving Upper Deck a lifetime ban, unimaginative Topps was the only one left and all they do is make more serial numbered cards. Now all the BBC hobby is about pre-rookies, serial numbered parallels, and autographs, all of which are difficult to scale. Meanwhile UD is killing it with Young Guns with no autos, no serial numbers, and all players have NHL games. Thus they can print 10k YGs, 25k YGs, whatever they like. And many, many of the Young Guns parallels are spectacular and not numbered except a few elite cards.
The hobby will take a huge hit when the Unrealized Capital Gains Tax is implemented in 2025-2026. If you acquire a valuable card you’ll just have to keep it to yourself and not let the IRS get wind of it. The IRS is already monitoring ALL reseller sites.
Wait, are people tracking their basis and gains on sales currently? I'm pretty sure they're not, at least not the vast majority of collectors. And we've yet to see jackbooted IRS agents knocking down doors.
If u wanna invest into something, invest in gold. Baseball cards are for collecting. Especially modern cards. Don't get me wrong, I love ripping baseball cards, but it's for fun and probably shouldn't think of it as an investment
@@Scottie4twenty go look at the percent return on gold over the last 20 years, 30 years, or even 40. If you bought the S&P index it dramatically has outperformed gold. Do you know how compounding interest works? Gold is up roughly 900% since 1984. $1000 invested in the S&P in 1984 is up over 8000% or 11.5% per year every year for 40 years.
Gold is not a good "investment". I'm not saying that gold is bad, gold is great. But it's not what you want if you want the best returns. Gold is a good and safe hedge against inflation/storage of value. It's also a good option for diversifying your portfolio with some safer investments. But if you want top returns, gold is not where it's at.
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The hobby would absolutely be okay without breakers!!!
Youre crazy!
?? Breakers came into this hobby just to make money .they're not collectors and the people they service are not collectors . It's gambling for people that are too cheap or too young to go to Vegas @@mauriciobori
@@mauriciobori the hobby was completely fine without breakers before. I'm confused why breakers think they're anything more than a middle man taking a cut. Singles will still be getting sold by normal people buying product.
@@FacundoCampazzo123 They are a middle man thats not up to debate but the hobby is not the same without breakers they probably sell half of all product and that means millions enjoy and care for breaking so no just taking them out because they are opposed to your interests despite people liking and enjoying the breaking experience is not right
Breakers are in for the money. Their clientele is also in it for the gambling. There's not a collector in that house. The hobby will be just fine without them.
Minor league bowman 1st < Major league Topps RC. The RC is for the collectors, the 1st is for the gamblers.
Best hot take.
There is nothing like vintage its old and its beautiful! I'd rather have a Hank Aaron rookie than some modern monstrosity. I like your channel though
Many seem to share the sentiment! I completely understand where you are coming from. They are pieces of art for sure.
Bowman 1st cards overrated?? Brother it takes like 4 years+ to see those cards actually pan out. Most of the hyped prospects take years to become worthless. For the NBA/NFL, you know who is going to be a big name in the league by their second year of college. Those guys have a million+ rookie cards printed before even seeing a game
A few things -
** Hot Take - Companies need to go back to short printing & serial numbering base rookies like they did in the late 90's/early 2000's. This would limit them to 500-2000 and drive up the demand/value over what we have which is 10 billion of them printed and no one wanting them.
> Vintage - mid-grade vintage dropping in value because the younger generation not knowing those players is exactly what's wrong with the hobby. It's all about money and not collecting. I primarily collect vintage going back to Ruth's era and I am in my 40's. I do it because I love baseball and the players of the past who made the game what it is. This younger generation is only in it for the flip and the profit, and that's sad.
> Heritage - I think Heritage rookies and auto's are undervalued in general. Nicer cardstock and tend to not have the centering issues that chrome has. Chrome is full of crappy relief pitcher autos and has a ridiculous price tag. Heritage should be more valuable across the board, especially since they probably print less.
> Breakers - Breakers suck. They jack prices up and do nothing but hurt the LCS. how many of them have been caught stealing cards? Not all, I know, but maybe that's just because they haven't been caught. I know several shops that can't get enough product because of breakers. Breakers are annoying to watch, while it might allow you into a product opening you may not otherwise be able to get into, you are often paying more than it's worth and getting nothing worth your entry.
> Opening Products - Opening boxes is just stupid at this point. The smart money is just going to shows and finding the deals on singles. If people would just do that, companies would quit raising prices and people would see how much more they would be getting for their money.
Great video as always Scottie 🎉. For modern wax, yep it is a tough time to be buying boxes. Personally, I only go with a Topps Series 1 and 2 blaster for fun ( With no expectations other than to just pick up a few base rookies and maybe the odd cool insert/parallel). With Update, Bowman and Heritage it the same premise as well. After that, I go to the secondary market to purchase the single cards that I want for my collection.
I do miss the thrill of a hobby/jumbo box; however, I don’t need yet another Dan Vogelbach jersey card as the “Feature signature/memorabilia” that I pull . With that said, I have had my share of luck as well over the years with SP’s and even a couple of SSP’s it is just that I can’t justify spending $100CDN++ on some of these boxes as the checklists are now also bloated (Making set collecting a thing of the past for me as well 😢).
I personally rarely buy boxes. I love watching what others get though. I have only opened a few boxes from 2019-2024, and i have more cards than I know what to do with. But I put them in binders and enjoy looking at them. My vintage cards are my favorite part of this hobby though. (Stadium club is the only series I will ever buy repeatedly. Love that set!)
1991 Fleer you can hit the pro-visions cards and if graded in nice shape they sell really well. Creating value in older cards is fun. Not everything has to be a fake jersey card or sticker auto. Also, Hank 54 Topps RC over any newer card made of him
@Eliteco3 Hey Nolan, thanks for pointing that out. I misspoke in the video. My sheet is 1990 fleer. I do not believe there is anything substantial in the set, but I could be wrong. It definitely is not my expertise!
Also, in regards to the Hank Aaron, I purchased a 2003 Stadium Club dual auto of him and Willie Mays in place of a rookie of Hank. I should have explained my thought process better. I personally love that card, but I wouldn't blame anyone for preferring the 54 rookie!
Real ones for sure! Love my Shohei that I pulled out of a blaster… even crazier, it was a hot box!
Wow, that is awesome. I have yet to have a pull that big before.
Gimme the heritage real one! The cards are nostalgic and the on card autos are crisp….
Totally agree about the real one autos! They are a tough pull and look great.
Yes! Especially the Red Inks, those things pop!
The only thing good about plain Jane heritage is the real one auto other then that its just a basic boring set.
Great questions and not surprising by the votes one bit.
As a vintage collector also I enjoy putting sets together.
Breakers take a 400 dollar box get avg of 24-25 a team, 30x $25=……😮 it’s not a hustle it’s being a bookie
@@MikelTulp the breakers are in it for the money the clientele is in it for the gambling. My daughter is the bookie at Edgewater Laughlin even she understands her job is a street hustle.
She is at work right now. If you're around, go check her out! .. she is a collector also
Buying wax or breaks is just gambling. End of story.
@@josephbuono4392 buying packs or a box is fun . Grab the kids and rip some wax. If you are alone and have a stack of boxes.😔 It's not fun and collecting your after ..
I’m a vintage guy-the key words to me were low/midgrade. There’s a ton of those cards out there and I agree those will go down. High grade however, I think will continue to go up, up, up.
I enjoy your videos, keep it up. If there's one thing I've learned from you is to collect what YOU like, especially if its an area of the market that others don't value as highly. (Billy Butler?) You might make money from that, but it will keep the hobby, a hobby for you.
The good news is we've got Chrome HFA's is chrome update! I'm definitely a fan of heritage real ones and will add a Chourio to my collection here once high number hits the market.
I bought one hobby box of series one when it came out this spring and that is all I’ve purchased this year. Playing Russian roulette would be less risky than spending $200-$300 for a box of cards, especially when I don’t value the rookie cards of a bunch of kids I’m not familiar with. It doesn’t help when I never get an auto of the rookies I would be chasing. I’m sticking with vintage HOFers. Their names will be known far longer than I’m around. We’ve all forgotten Jo Adell, Kyle Lewis, Christian Pache and many other sure fire can’t miss prospects whose cards would’ve been worth a small fortune just a few short years ago and are now cluttering up junk boxes.
The prices the skenes are going for at moment are so bloated it’s sickening
Same thing with Wemby. One injury and it's over with.
Bring back Turkey red, Cracker Jack cards
It might not be worth anything, but that 1990 Fleer set gives me so much nostalgia.
Sometimes that is better than worrying about values!
I agree with most everything you said. And as for box prices, they have become ridiculous for the price you pay to what you can pull.
Buying lottery tickets is probably more profitable.
Great video !!!
That would be a fun video to make if I had unlimited funds. "Does 100,000 make you more money on loto tickets or baseball cards?" Thanks for watching!
05:29 applies to all other collectibles. It's either out of reach $money-cost-wise or the younger generation stick to something that is close to the collection. Example comics to Japanese anime
Totally agree with your football QB take, in reality there’s only 1 -2 that will hold long term value,
There’s a reason why the vintage question specifically called out “low/mid grades” - it’s a tacit acknowledgement that high end stuff will always be sought after. What the question ignores is the fact that since the high end stuff will retain value, that keeps the low/mid grade values afloat. And that doesn’t even include how the hobby participation continues to grow and new people will find an interest in vintage. Or the fact that nobody alive saw Cobb, Foxx, Lefty Grove, etc. play and their cards have not plummeted or even sagged.
I ripped a logofractor box Hot pack hits were no name pitchers with ink spots on them. Total shakedown
2024 Topps Chrome Update has Home Field Advantage cards.
Wow! That is awesome. I recorded this prior the checklist being released. I will have to check that out.
@@scottiebcards2354 I came here to say this as well. I noticed it on the checklist and was like thats a first...
and? topps version of paninis downtown and look at what panini just did to them
Vintage will always have value because scarcity in amounts and with high grades. Moderns has thousands of psa10 guys where vintage may have 1 if any. Not to mention history and baseball go hand and hand. Especially considering how often topps puts vintage players in every set.
Great points! I tend to agree that even if vintage slows down, there will always be a buyer pool due to the nature of baseball. Thanks for watching!
Vintage wasn't vintage until it got old. Years from now some of this modern is going to be vintage as well.
Scottie, your content is always on point and I really enjoy the follow my brother. Please keep up the great work.
Thank you for that, I really appreciate it!
1st bowman autos are the GOLD STANDARD of baseball cards
Even though that was right when I came back into the hobby, it's hard to fathom that 2018 Update Hobby Boxes were $45. That just blows my mind given all we've seen in the last several years.
I didn't see Hank Aaron , Mickey Mantle , babe Ruth or ty Cobb or any of those people. But I absolutely collect thim . I'm working on a 53 Bowman color graded set and would love a shoeless Joe Jackson card!!
Some people love the art and history of vintage, and I completely get it! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video.
The cards behind you are 1990 Fleer.
1991 Fleer is bright yellow and one of the ugliest sets ever made.
Yeah IDK what the heck those polls were talking about, Breakers absolutely hurt the hobby. They are just one reason prices across the board are still so high right now.
Incredible video! I've never pulled a Heritage Real One
Thank you for watching, I appreciate it! Good luck pulling your first real one!
The hobby box prices are bullsh*t!!!!
Breathe Scotty breathe!! You talk so fast you give the 30's and 50's Era a run for their money... you remind me of the reporter chief of The Daily Bugle in Spider-Man. I appreciate the information that you give everybody. I'm just picking at you a little bit man
😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
I just collect RC and auto cards. I will sit on them for 20 years. The hobby is crazy pricey now.
I just wanna collect Padres players and have fun doing it. Cards today are more confusing than when there were 5-6 or water different companies making them.
HFAS are in Topps Chrome Update!!
Best video you have had in a while. Brakes are bad. Iv had 2 different ones take money from me and disappear.
Another great video. Entertaining and informative. Thanks!
That ROI perspective is market dictates price not card or stats. There are also 400 different products all with autos and numbered. Wagers down , if there were 10 products a year then you’d actually have value. Look at pop reports they make millions , there are more RC in product than non.
I used to buy Hobby boxes all time. Not bought any last 3 yr. I only buy singles. Too expensive
I was thinking singles are easier to get cause the people that buy into breaks that don't collect cards and are just gamblers, give that stuff away for almost nothing just to recoup some of their money back. I get a fat pack or blaster once in a blue moon cause the kid in me still likes to open packs but if you hunt hard enough you will find that card you are looking for at a great price.
Dude the way things are overprinted these days a 4000 count run would be considered damn rare lol. Sad but so true IMHO!
Yes, it is crazy how ultra modern is changing!
People treat Bowman 1sts like they aren't just Photoshopped. Those players have never worn that uniform. If Bowman Chrome U would release after the draft with a Photoshop treatment they'd be worth 5x.
Scott, if you need the Gold Team card for the Rockies /50 let me know.
Hey!
That sounds great. What are you looking for on it?
@@scottiebcards2354 I just realized I didn't put the year. It's the one from 2023 (#445). Sorry about that. If you still need it. I'll email you.
My dudes are wanting people to spend 400$ on a box so they can get singles for 1$ a piece. Of course you want breakers gone.
I was one of those idiots who bought the max allowed Logofractor boxes from the MLB shop (8) ...$900+
Rather have a patch auto of Aaron vs his RC. Jaysus.
That’s 1990 fleer behind you
Yes, I misspoke. It is definitely 199o Fleer. Thanks for watching!
Somebody wanting a 2000 Aaron patch auto over a Hank Aaron rookie card is WILD to me. I must be the old guy here haha
Hey, you are not the only one who feels this way! I should have explained better. I recently bought a 2003 Stadium Club dual auto of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron which is the card I bought specifically over a 54 rookie. I prefer the nature of the card, but would not blame anyone for preferring the 54 rookie!
@@scottiebcards2354Hey people like what they like! Definitely more variety out there for people now. My biggest problem is when I do pay $150-$400 for a box with a guaranteed auto it will most likely be a 29 yo rookie with 23 ABs in his career. They have to do better with the autos when that is the main if not only selling point.
1991 FLEER PRO-VISION cards sell for a bit in psa 10s. nothing like today’s cards hundred dollars is something.
Hey Jeff, thanks for pointing that out! The sheet behind me was actually 1990 Fleer which I was referring to. I just misspoke in the video. Thanks for watching!
You don't have to have tires to players for collectors. Look at it this way. You'd have to be in your late 70s to have seen many of the stars of the 50s even play and wouldn't have been old enough to connect yet those cards are still widely collected. So no Vintage will always have value.
They need ti bring bsck heritage minors
i dont buy boxes i buy singles only now too expensive
Agree with pitchers are risky but Football is the worst period unless it's the 2025 sets with rookies get involved in the big rookies and then sell them before the season starts
Totally agree. I am grateful I am not a football collector!
Selling all my cards !
When it comes to Topps Chrome the people I've talked to and videos I've watched most would have been completely screwed without the MVP buyback.
Yes, when it first came out a few years back it was a nice cherry on top, but now it feels like a necessity.
Isn't that 1990 Fleer behind you and not 1991?
Yes it is! I accidentally said 91 in the video. Thank you for catching it.
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Bowman cards are ugly because they're photoshopped. (Mainly mean the main Bowman, Bowman Draft, and Bowman Chrome sets here, as they are generally just photos of the players.)
They're distractingly bad sometimes. I don't get how people overlook this so much. Bobby Witt, Jr.'s Bowman 1st looks like a cartoon drawing of a 90 year old man.
There are very few cards for the money
Hockey goalies are bigger risks, so are football running backs.
Agree about vintage. Folks like Ripken Jr, Griffey Jr, Henderson, Rose, Maddux, Johnson will see their values rise while older HOFers like Steve Carlton, Killebrew, Molitor, Bench wont plummet but will decline in value
FLEER!
I’ll buy logo cards I want not by buying a box
Singles vs boxes is always the way to go in my opinion!
Bowman chrome 1st its all AI generated, it aint a real pic!! For rookie card, its topps series!!!
Scotty B!
Bowman’s are just bad cards. The player hasn’t made the big leagues yet and the pictures are garbage or airbrushed. It should just be a minor league set and the rookie cards should be the chase.
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Topps has been so boring lately. It's like they hate any modern cards. They're the only game in town, so I can't switch to another brand. Bring back pics on the back, and make the premium stuff more available (cosmic, for instance).
But to be fair, if you make premium stuff more available/accessible/cheaper, then it's no longer "premium". Then it's just your average run of the mill card like flagship.
@@Vizslav True, but I buy most of my cards at Target. They are swamped with standard Topps sets. I have to be really lucky to see anything premium in baseball. NBA stuff is plentiful, with NFL not far behind.
@@JosephRocco-mi4cm yeah man, I hear you. I wish it would be easier to buy the cooler stuff everywhere as well, but that's just the nature of these general stores like Target/Walmart. They have limited space and only stock the items with the widest general appeal. That's the case with everything at these stores. You can get a car battery at Walmart just fine, but you will need to go to an auto parts store to get a part for a 2004 Civic lol.
Fanatics-level. Basically all your stuff has become junk-Panini cards.
By the way, MLB did this to themselves. By giving Upper Deck a lifetime ban, unimaginative Topps was the only one left and all they do is make more serial numbered cards. Now all the BBC hobby is about pre-rookies, serial numbered parallels, and autographs, all of which are difficult to scale. Meanwhile UD is killing it with Young Guns with no autos, no serial numbers, and all players have NHL games. Thus they can print 10k YGs, 25k YGs, whatever they like. And many, many of the Young Guns parallels are spectacular and not numbered except a few elite cards.
Shit is so expensive why bother?
Why do you complain about breakers when they aren't going anywhere. Everyone needs to use that to their advantage instead of complaining
The hobby will take a huge hit when the Unrealized Capital Gains Tax is implemented in 2025-2026. If you acquire a valuable card you’ll just have to keep it to yourself and not let the IRS get wind of it. The IRS is already monitoring ALL reseller sites.
Wait, are people tracking their basis and gains on sales currently? I'm pretty sure they're not, at least not the vast majority of collectors. And we've yet to see jackbooted IRS agents knocking down doors.
Logofractor sucks!
It definitely was watered down a bit this year!
@scottiebcards2354 I say it because the base packs only had true base. Needed to be some chance for something else, same with Bowman Megas
If u wanna invest into something, invest in gold. Baseball cards are for collecting. Especially modern cards. Don't get me wrong, I love ripping baseball cards, but it's for fun and probably shouldn't think of it as an investment
For a true "Investment", that is definitely the safest route!
Gold in one of the worst investments you can make. An index fund has way way way more growth.
Lol! What are u smoking? Gold is the only true form of money, and it's never been higher. It's never decreased in value. U had me rollin 🤣
@@Scottie4twenty go look at the percent return on gold over the last 20 years, 30 years, or even 40. If you bought the S&P index it dramatically has outperformed gold. Do you know how compounding interest works? Gold is up roughly 900% since 1984. $1000 invested in the S&P in 1984 is up over 8000% or 11.5% per year every year for 40 years.
Gold is not a good "investment". I'm not saying that gold is bad, gold is great. But it's not what you want if you want the best returns. Gold is a good and safe hedge against inflation/storage of value. It's also a good option for diversifying your portfolio with some safer investments. But if you want top returns, gold is not where it's at.