Lol it’s a green screen of a museum. When you see overpriced MTG cards all over eBay. You know this is just the beginning of a bear market. It’s going way lower. Key cards are overpriced
I do think Hasbro has moved away from investors and towards players. Which has it's own pros and cons. Rudy is an investor though so he might have to shift to bulk movement over select movement. If they can sustain the player base it will continue. Once again pros and cons.
@@BraniusBalkiWizards wants to sell set boxes for $400, but can’t. Panini can sell pretty basic hobby boxes for $400 easily. I’m not particularly a fan of expensive sports hobby boxes, but the fact that Wizards can’t achieve that is not a good sign. Either their too slow to adapt collectibility or they’ve lost their consumer base. I think both has occurred…basically through a lack of consumer confidence.
NGL the sports are absolutely horrible pricing wise and most times its a strikeout BUT hitting them sweet sweet autos,relics, et al make it worth it though if you've got deep pockets@@dom19945
Selectively following his advice, you mean. If you're investing in cardboard, to the exclusion of everything else, using leverage, while in debt up to your chin, any and all losses you incur are not only 100% your own fault, you were destined to fail from the very beginning.
9:55 _"Listen, it's easier than you think. Every person watching your videos, they wanna get rich and they wanna get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing. Do you Timmies think you got what it takes?? Here, sell me this box!"_ -Rudy Alpha Investments in _Wolf of Cardboard Street_
The biggest take away from Ruby’s ramblings is how folks today are reprogrammed for instant gratification and the now. I agree with his assessment of WoTC. 👍
In my opnion, part of the problem also rests in the way american companies do buisness. We want to turn a profit immediately and get rich quick, and are short sighted and we shoot ourselves in the foot, rather than looking 10, 20, 50, 100 years down the road and seeing where we want to be...
Modern, the gold standard by which all competitive TCGs were once held, is dead as disco. In fact every 60 card constructed format is pretty much dead at this point. I live in a metropolitan area. Many MTG shops. Not one has any MTG community outside of Commander, save for the occasional draft.
@@TunnelSnakesrule13 I had a little draft group going for about a year but then I ran out of smoke money for boxes. Plans were made to play some constructed but it never happened.
Feels like the nature of things. I work a steady job and prefer to manage my risk since technically, anyone can be a millionaire, but what is truly rare is the ability to stay a millionaire.
This feels halfway like an old school pink visor video. But I do appreciate the more aesthetic background. Always good to hear the same consistent advice about leverage. Classic update!
If Hasbro wasn't so money hungry, they wouldn't have nearly as many problems. Companys have forgotten the person who buys your shit is more important than the one looking to make money of the money you make. If you keep the buyers happy, they will naturally spend money on your product if you fuck them over they will stop. The investor are there strictly to make passive cash for themselves they dont care about the company if younstart to drop there the firstnones to leave the shinkingnship
Rudy, I AM that gamepiece guy - I want a company that cares more about the art and mechanics, the story and the gameplay of their product, moreso than the money. It's my right as a consumer to want that and put my money toward it, which these days means being a strictly secondary market kinda guy, cuz fuck WotC. But I love this channel, and the analysis of this wild, Netflix-documentary-esque madness of the secondary market of MTG products, and other TCG products too, is absolutely fascinating to me. So far as I'm concerned, this is the best channel on RUclips for TCG news. I don't even watch people play anymore, just this channel. I hope you make your millions holding the heavy bags and keep speaking truth, even when people hate you for it. It ain't something I live by personally, but it's a truism I think, "If you're not pissing someone off, you're doing something wrong."
Sometimes I think about how much I have tied up in cardboard, and how little I actually play these days. It naturally leads to thinking about selling part of my collection, which leads to the question 'where would I put that money if I did?' And I end up with the truth I'd probably just park it back into other Magic cards...
It's interesting to see though how fast cards lose value at the moment. I'm on a buying and playing break at the moment because in the country I temporarily moved to neither is available. But I will definitely change my spending habits after I return. My rationale so far has always been that a certain share of what I spend on sealed product will be resellable cards. That certainty is gone. I'll just aquire and keep what I need as a game pieces, the rest of the inventory will have to go.
I'm glad things are dying for you "investors". It allows us true enthusiasts to enjoy cards that were terribly out of reach for us.... People win and people lose... Collectors wins and "investors" lose.
Among what cards I could find, I sold a Gwendlyn Di Corci to Card Kingdom for ~$300 last year, now their buy price is ~$100. Had a spideysense that the Fed starting its tightening cycle was going to slowly throttle speculative holdings that lacked actual intrinsic value
Hey Rudy, it would be nice if you gave the art museum credit for letting you record in their gallery. We would like to visit it sometime too, you know.
IMO Magic holds value to a certain age of people just like Star Wars and GI Joe toys. My kids are 14 and 10 and have zero interest in any of these things. Eventually children grow up into adults, eventually.
_"Hey Rudy, wanna buy my collection? It's $30k."_ _"Sure, I'll give you $20k."_ _"What? Why?"_ _"Wasting my time. I'll give you $10k"_ _"What did I do to you??"_ ( ;__;) _"God, I hate you Timmies! I'm sending you a box and stamps, just ship it to me; I'm not paying you anything."_
"I'll give you 20k" "Why?" "Because it's a significant up-front cost for a product that may sit on the shelf for a long period of time, making zero money and possibly depreciating." "Rip-off, unsubscribed" "Thank god, you just saved me 20k"
I do agree with the assessment that the Amazon factor has changed the perception. Amazon's sway and leverage over everyone, from Hasbro and other publishers of consumer media, to manufacturers of electronics and others is so altering. There is very little benefit in fighting them over warehouse allotments. I doubt Hasbro realized what entering into that relationship would mean for their wider market ecosystem, but the control they have given up around inventory management couldn't help but create immense disruption. I feel very fortunate that i can continue to support local game stores and do so to the extent I am able.
Go balls deep into Yu-Gi-Oh Rudy, the greatest card game. It's been a while since i was here last what's the latest meme? Is it tacos? Plenty of 🌮 in YGO lots of fine upstanding ladies too unlike Asexuality the Gathering
I found the times when I was successful was when I bought something I wanted to invest into that I enjoyed. I bought a Deck Box of Yugioh Cards when It was in print for $60. Around 10 months later, that deck box was out of print and I sold it for $175. That was nearly a 3x return. I needed money at the time. 3-4 months later that same deck box I sold for $175 was now going for over $250 a box. Sometimes, you just need to buy stuff you're passionate about and just hold onto it. It doesn't matter what it is really, as long as its something real and tangible.
Remember in The Big Short when the loans that made up some of the bonds were starting to default, but the bonds were still being priced as if they were low risk and stable? Things can be mis-priced for a VERY long time... but the chickens always come home to roost eventually, and it's the ones who expected the ride to keep going up that end up screwing themselves
Here is my philosophy. I can put $100 into savings and know that I will at least have that $100 in 10 years plus a little interest. It won’t keep up with inflation, but I’ll have that money. I could put it in stocks, and historically, in 10 years, I’ll probably have a 7% return each year and have about $200. But I buy a $100 booster box, no matter the set, it is typically going to be at minimum $300ish in 10 years, but more often than not, it’s $400+. That’s why I try to at least buy one booster box of every set. Just diversify!
even if you can’t tell on a day to day basis, those paintings on your wall actually do change overtime due to oxygenation. Paintings like the Mona lisa for example have to be preserved with acidic preservatives, sealed enclosures from fresh oxygen, ect
It's seems almost as if , if you have An LGS your not even your own Business , your essentially at The Distributors mercy and you have to buy certain things ? Am I gathering this correctly ?
As soon as wizards realized they can capture all the cash in the secondary market through reprints, I gave up on MTG. They will not leave cash on your table, in your old cards, that is money that could be going to their investors with a simple reprint.
Thank you, thank you, and thank you for keeping this subject anchored to reality. That is the real risk with investing regardless of what it is. It is always a risk and people should keep that in mind. I’m a MTG collector and player and never really got into the investing side of things but happy with my collection that I have had since 1997.
I'm not a serious collector. I imagine that common sense and experience plays a part in EQ In my head..WHOA there young fella. Are you new to this game? AKA The looooong game... Justin Timberlake's song What goes around Comes back around goes back around
No one knows the new gen 9 pokemon in America. Lol There's no connection to the new pokemon. I asked people in my shop who's the front facing pokemon in paradox amd no one could answer. Lol
A lot of collectibles way down not just Magic. Comics,sportscards, Rolex, sneakers, vintage guitars, action figures and Lego all down at least 50 percent. Thay have all moved onto Barbie the movie and the singer Oliver Anthony. Lol.
I’ve pretty much stopped collecting mtg. Happy with my old decks. There are more reasons than just card value. The media on YT is for 38 year olds and over…. It’s weird AF. Not a good vibe. Even though those 40 year olds are treated like children. The game also got over complicated with weird mechanics. The old cards are good collectibles. The new game is bad though.
Rudy I think you undervalued the cost of logistics for WotC. Shipping to multiple distributors creates a higher cost of production. It's multiple crates of multiple products being processed and shipped with multiple carriers costs a lot of money. Amazon is a different beast however. They own the logistics company. They can come to WotC's door and pick up said product, store it in their warehouses and sell it at whatever loss they want. Amazon doesn't care to sell product at cost or even under cost. They want subscriptions and impressions. Fire sales get them exactly what they want. These boxes wouldn't be limited if there wasn't a risk of selling out. WotC saves a fortune in logistics, and Amazon is still everyone's first stop for premier shopping season.
Antique market is not like clothing fashion where things come back into trend. Old period furniture is not rebounding, old oil on board isnt rebounding. Only the pinnacle grails of those markets hold up. Our culture isnt going back to that. Its a new era, people with money want to put whatever artist would score the highest esg score on their walls. The market future will be interesting because globilism brought in the era of throw away junk, 99.9999% of things made since '90 is in a landfill with no future collectibility. And collectors of the future (kids of the last 15 years) have little to even get nostalgic about in the future since nothing new gets created. Its just shitty recycled makeovers of franchises they dont care for. Guess its for the best since blackrock projects theyll all be living in small apts ands vans just scraping by with no room for the basement booster box forts their fathers use to build.
Rudy, your understanding of the current economic situation is somewhat rudimentary. The curent inflation isn't linked to the extra supply of government issued money, it is overall marginal compared to what the banks are doing by the way they lend 10x the money they get in reserves the rest of the time. No it is mostly about supply chains issues due to the war compounding on the pandemic causing a cascading chain of approvisionment and production. The current displacement of industries from China has also a productivity impact on the macro scale. Combined they create a major supply strangulation. There are also major problem with shipping, first it was the container lack, recently lack of port infrastructure and manpower, lack of trains relative to the shipping industry needs, all that combined with a drastic increase in internet individual shipping instead of distributor bulk shipping. The infrastructure is simply not adapted.
Honestly I got tired of trying to keep track of all the changes wotc does and all of the products they are releasing. Not to mention the storage area required for all of it. I have kept what I have but I've been moving back into the comic book market again for my collectible assets.
This might be the first time he’s ever mentioned Yugioh without intentionally saying it incorrectly or saying something disparaging about it. That makes me think it’s the market he’s going to pump next.
Is it possible EVERY card game is overprinting? If everything was printed less stores could justify a higher price point because of rarity. And then have future print waves depending on demand?
I like how you are telling everyone that's willing to listen how to make smarter choices when it comes to investing, business management and life. I appreciate it man. Thank you.
Good advice. I feel like magic is going to be down for a long time, maybe not ever but for a very long time...perhaps decades. Much like the comic book industry only very select items will hold value and the majority will not be worth investing in. So play, enjoy the game....don't expect to get rich.
Mtg, pokemon, yugioh, all have been catering and trying to cater to this desperate balance of make the blackmarket scalpers happy, and budget players happy, which often kills the black market value
Diamond hands 💎 🙌 baby! I keep buying and scared money keeps selling! Even if the bottom drops out of the bucket I get to draft vintage boxes with the homies for the next 30 years!
Rudy's metamorphosis into a Bond villain continues......
He needs a white cat.
Your green screen work is immaculate Rudy. It even sounds like you're in a large, cavernous room too
Is it really a green screen or is he just an asshole who wants everyone to know he’s got money?
The caverns of rudy
@@Mousajin Giggity
@@MousajinLost* Caverns of Rudy
Lol it’s a green screen of a museum. When you see overpriced MTG cards all over eBay. You know this is just the beginning of a bear market. It’s going way lower. Key cards are overpriced
That time we all watched Rudy eccentrically explain cardboard economics in front of his new Renaissance paintings, yet never really brings them up.
Bro is literally explaining cope to poors about market dynamics in a cardboard game. lmao.
I do think Hasbro has moved away from investors and towards players. Which has it's own pros and cons. Rudy is an investor though so he might have to shift to bulk movement over select movement. If they can sustain the player base it will continue. Once again pros and cons.
@@BraniusBalkiWizards wants to sell set boxes for $400, but can’t. Panini can sell pretty basic hobby boxes for $400 easily. I’m not particularly a fan of expensive sports hobby boxes, but the fact that Wizards can’t achieve that is not a good sign. Either their too slow to adapt collectibility or they’ve lost their consumer base. I think both has occurred…basically through a lack of consumer confidence.
NGL the sports are absolutely horrible pricing wise and most times its a strikeout BUT hitting them sweet sweet autos,relics, et al make it worth it though if you've got deep pockets@@dom19945
@@BraniusBalki😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
_Florida Man Starts Preparing Followers to Accept the Huge Losses They Will Incur After Years of Following His Advices_
Yup , everyone is a genius in a bull market
😂 sometimes I give him the wrong advices
Selectively following his advice, you mean. If you're investing in cardboard, to the exclusion of everything else, using leverage, while in debt up to your chin, any and all losses you incur are not only 100% your own fault, you were destined to fail from the very beginning.
@@Just_PeleLike he's been advising against exactly that sort of thing all this time.
@@iExploder Exactly. So it makes the original comment in this thread moot.
Isnt there a law in Florida against people walking pantless near Historical Painting ?
Someone should call the Sheriff
9:55 _"Listen, it's easier than you think. Every person watching your videos, they wanna get rich and they wanna get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing. Do you Timmies think you got what it takes?? Here, sell me this box!"_
-Rudy Alpha Investments in _Wolf of Cardboard Street_
I too also have a large room chock full of cheap vintage paintings I bought at local estate sales. ❤
The biggest take away from Ruby’s ramblings is how folks today are reprogrammed for instant gratification and the now. I agree with his assessment of WoTC. 👍
In my opnion, part of the problem also rests in the way american companies do buisness. We want to turn a profit immediately and get rich quick, and are short sighted and we shoot ourselves in the foot, rather than looking 10, 20, 50, 100 years down the road and seeing where we want to be...
Modern, the gold standard by which all competitive TCGs were once held, is dead as disco. In fact every 60 card constructed format is pretty much dead at this point. I live in a metropolitan area. Many MTG shops. Not one has any MTG community outside of Commander, save for the occasional draft.
Even modern is dead. Even the guys with turn 1 win combos don't want to play.
@@TunnelSnakesrule13 I had a little draft group going for about a year but then I ran out of smoke money for boxes. Plans were made to play some constructed but it never happened.
You know how much I would pay for a painting painted by Rudy!? Like at least $5.
It's true, I have been homeless 2 times and a millionaire thrice. Shit happens, Stay the course, money machine always goes Brrrrrrrrrrr.
Wtf? XD pls make a RUclips Video about the while Story hahaha
Better than homeless 3 times and a millionaire twice - sounds like a wild ride!
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Cocaine make you go burrrrrrrr
Feels like the nature of things. I work a steady job and prefer to manage my risk since technically, anyone can be a millionaire, but what is truly rare is the ability to stay a millionaire.
Anyone else imagine explosive diarrhea whenever you hear "Mark Bottomwater"
Well, I do now.
This feels halfway like an old school pink visor video. But I do appreciate the more aesthetic background. Always good to hear the same consistent advice about leverage. Classic update!
14:00 _"A lot of you watching blew the money away"_
Heck yeah! Everything on ladies of the night and stimulant substances! 👯🌒👙⛵🍾🌬❄
If Hasbro wasn't so money hungry, they wouldn't have nearly as many problems. Companys have forgotten the person who buys your shit is more important than the one looking to make money of the money you make.
If you keep the buyers happy, they will naturally spend money on your product if you fuck them over they will stop. The investor are there strictly to make passive cash for themselves they dont care about the company if younstart to drop there the firstnones to leave the shinkingnship
Exactly. It's like it took 100 years for all of us to forget what caused the Great Depression.
@iExploder ehh that was more massive amounts of under the table tradeing and illegal information selling.
Rudy, I AM that gamepiece guy - I want a company that cares more about the art and mechanics, the story and the gameplay of their product, moreso than the money. It's my right as a consumer to want that and put my money toward it, which these days means being a strictly secondary market kinda guy, cuz fuck WotC.
But I love this channel, and the analysis of this wild, Netflix-documentary-esque madness of the secondary market of MTG products, and other TCG products too, is absolutely fascinating to me.
So far as I'm concerned, this is the best channel on RUclips for TCG news. I don't even watch people play anymore, just this channel.
I hope you make your millions holding the heavy bags and keep speaking truth, even when people hate you for it.
It ain't something I live by personally, but it's a truism I think, "If you're not pissing someone off, you're doing something wrong."
The best stories. They are the ones you tell other players about those games. You have played before.
The inflation wasn't the surprise... the surprise was that the companies doubled prices and then didn't raise wages a fucking dime...
Holy hell Rudy's hair is thinning like crazy
Kids and Reddit it will do that to ya
Sometimes I think about how much I have tied up in cardboard, and how little I actually play these days. It naturally leads to thinking about selling part of my collection, which leads to the question 'where would I put that money if I did?'
And I end up with the truth I'd probably just park it back into other Magic cards...
It's interesting to see though how fast cards lose value at the moment. I'm on a buying and playing break at the moment because in the country I temporarily moved to neither is available. But I will definitely change my spending habits after I return. My rationale so far has always been that a certain share of what I spend on sealed product will be resellable cards. That certainty is gone. I'll just aquire and keep what I need as a game pieces, the rest of the inventory will have to go.
I'm glad things are dying for you "investors". It allows us true enthusiasts to enjoy cards that were terribly out of reach for us.... People win and people lose... Collectors wins and "investors" lose.
Great video. Mtg pricing has been f**ked for such a long time. Good to see it leveling out.
buying other peoples bags, makes video about bankrupt
Among what cards I could find, I sold a Gwendlyn Di Corci to Card Kingdom for ~$300 last year, now their buy price is ~$100. Had a spideysense that the Fed starting its tightening cycle was going to slowly throttle speculative holdings that lacked actual intrinsic value
Hey Rudy, it would be nice if you gave the art museum credit for letting you record in their gallery. We would like to visit it sometime too, you know.
I'm waiting for Rudy to get a red smoking jacket, pipe, and dog, sitting down for a fireside chat with us 😅😂
Rudy it's time to stop talking about hair cuts and start talking about hair transplant procedures.
He honestly should. No shame especially since he is in front of a camera everyday
Rudy is in his throne room. The King of Magic.
IMO Magic holds value to a certain age of people just like Star Wars and GI Joe toys. My kids are 14 and 10 and have zero interest in any of these things. Eventually children grow up into adults, eventually.
And when they become adults they will realize all the bums hoarding cardboard are mentally insane.
rudy that looks like natural lighting, i hope ur not letting the sun beat up your art collection. take care of them thangz
Welp in the end Rudy’s right 99% of people won’t make it in investing long term.
I'd say it's more like 90%, but it's a definite minority
Robinhood will enjoy the fees, though.
@@N1NJ4P1R4T3 haha they got some from me for sure had to call 1-800-bets-off 😓
_"Hey Rudy, wanna buy my collection? It's $30k."_
_"Sure, I'll give you $20k."_
_"What? Why?"_
_"Wasting my time. I'll give you $10k"_
_"What did I do to you??"_ ( ;__;)
_"God, I hate you Timmies! I'm sending you a box and stamps, just ship it to me; I'm not paying you anything."_
"I'll give you 20k"
"Why?"
"Because it's a significant up-front cost for a product that may sit on the shelf for a long period of time, making zero money and possibly depreciating."
"Rip-off, unsubscribed"
"Thank god, you just saved me 20k"
When I grow up I wanna be like Rudy
+Though I walk through the valley of dark cardboard I shall fear no market Amen+
Tell us something about those paintings 😅
50% of companies in Russell 2000 don’t have enough cash to cover their debts as of Aug 2023, so we are about to get used to bankruptcy.
whats thinning quicker, Rudy's hair or his portfolio?
I went bankrupted 😢😢😢
Rudy must be afraid of fire. His entire empire is built on paper.
Floods. He gets flooded.
His empire is insured. He sleeps just fine
That doesn’t make any sense, if he was afraid of fire it wouldn’t be built on paper. Bad analogy
@@goremall Mtg cards, the paintings... that's basically paper
@@BraniusBalki Yeah, flood too.
Amen Brother ❤
I do agree with the assessment that the Amazon factor has changed the perception. Amazon's sway and leverage over everyone, from Hasbro and other publishers of consumer media, to manufacturers of electronics and others is so altering. There is very little benefit in fighting them over warehouse allotments. I doubt Hasbro realized what entering into that relationship would mean for their wider market ecosystem, but the control they have given up around inventory management couldn't help but create immense disruption. I feel very fortunate that i can continue to support local game stores and do so to the extent I am able.
amazing back drop , do love seeing what back drop you do next
Go balls deep into Yu-Gi-Oh Rudy, the greatest card game. It's been a while since i was here last what's the latest meme? Is it tacos? Plenty of 🌮 in YGO lots of fine upstanding ladies too unlike Asexuality the Gathering
I found the times when I was successful was when I bought something I wanted to invest into that I enjoyed. I bought a Deck Box of Yugioh Cards when It was in print for $60. Around 10 months later, that deck box was out of print and I sold it for $175. That was nearly a 3x return. I needed money at the time. 3-4 months later that same deck box I sold for $175 was now going for over $250 a box.
Sometimes, you just need to buy stuff you're passionate about and just hold onto it. It doesn't matter what it is really, as long as its something real and tangible.
I believe it was 2019 when you said you were only going to be doing this for about five more years. Is that still true?
When they needed him most, he vanished
thanks for the help
Remember in The Big Short when the loans that made up some of the bonds were starting to default, but the bonds were still being priced as if they were low risk and stable?
Things can be mis-priced for a VERY long time... but the chickens always come home to roost eventually, and it's the ones who expected the ride to keep going up that end up screwing themselves
Here is my philosophy. I can put $100 into savings and know that I will at least have that $100 in 10 years plus a little interest. It won’t keep up with inflation, but I’ll have that money. I could put it in stocks, and historically, in 10 years, I’ll probably have a 7% return each year and have about $200. But I buy a $100 booster box, no matter the set, it is typically going to be at minimum $300ish in 10 years, but more often than not, it’s $400+. That’s why I try to at least buy one booster box of every set. Just diversify!
even if you can’t tell on a day to day basis, those paintings on your wall actually do change overtime due to oxygenation. Paintings like the Mona lisa for example have to be preserved with acidic preservatives, sealed enclosures from fresh oxygen, ect
When you see overpriced MTG cards all over eBay. You know this is just the beginning of a bear market. It’s going way lower. Key cards are overpriced
24:47 “try to be right more times than you’re wrong” Rudy once upon a time
Man, it would make my day if one of those frames contained the artwork to Phelddagrif
It's seems almost as if , if you have An LGS your not even your own Business , your essentially at The Distributors mercy and you have to buy certain things ? Am I gathering this correctly ?
OMG I love this room all that old school remake art, even the chest of drawers behind you look like a good solid chest of drawers
As soon as wizards realized they can capture all the cash in the secondary market through reprints, I gave up on MTG. They will not leave cash on your table, in your old cards, that is money that could be going to their investors with a simple reprint.
Thank you, thank you, and thank you for keeping this subject anchored to reality. That is the real risk with investing regardless of what it is. It is always a risk and people should keep that in mind. I’m a MTG collector and player and never really got into the investing side of things but happy with my collection that I have had since 1997.
I'm not a serious collector.
I imagine that common sense and experience plays a part in EQ
In my head..WHOA there young fella. Are you new to this game?
AKA The looooong game...
Justin Timberlake's song
What goes around
Comes back around
goes back around
I disagree with Amazon dumps Rudy, they barely let their employees take bathroom breaks.
What a dope setting my guy lmao. Posted up in the Lourve
No one knows the new gen 9 pokemon in America. Lol There's no connection to the new pokemon. I asked people in my shop who's the front facing pokemon in paradox amd no one could answer. Lol
Frick i wish i still had my Fleer Ultra Xmen cards, even had the mail-in 9 card holo set :(
A lot of collectibles way down not just Magic. Comics,sportscards, Rolex, sneakers, vintage guitars, action figures and Lego all down at least 50 percent. Thay have all moved onto Barbie the movie and the singer Oliver Anthony. Lol.
I’ve pretty much stopped collecting mtg. Happy with my old decks. There are more reasons than just card value. The media on YT is for 38 year olds and over…. It’s weird AF. Not a good vibe. Even though those 40 year olds are treated like children. The game also got over complicated with weird mechanics. The old cards are good collectibles. The new game is bad though.
"The cardboard addicts can stay irrational longer than you pay rent."
Rudy is going bankrupt!!! Please send him Taco's so he doesn't starve! thank you!!
I just buy, organize, then keep buying and organizing. I enjoy just having my collection.
Rudy I think you undervalued the cost of logistics for WotC. Shipping to multiple distributors creates a higher cost of production. It's multiple crates of multiple products being processed and shipped with multiple carriers costs a lot of money. Amazon is a different beast however. They own the logistics company. They can come to WotC's door and pick up said product, store it in their warehouses and sell it at whatever loss they want. Amazon doesn't care to sell product at cost or even under cost. They want subscriptions and impressions. Fire sales get them exactly what they want. These boxes wouldn't be limited if there wasn't a risk of selling out. WotC saves a fortune in logistics, and Amazon is still everyone's first stop for premier shopping season.
Antique market is not like clothing fashion where things come back into trend. Old period furniture is not rebounding, old oil on board isnt rebounding. Only the pinnacle grails of those markets hold up. Our culture isnt going back to that. Its a new era, people with money want to put whatever artist would score the highest esg score on their walls. The market future will be interesting because globilism brought in the era of throw away junk, 99.9999% of things made since '90 is in a landfill with no future collectibility. And collectors of the future (kids of the last 15 years) have little to even get nostalgic about in the future since nothing new gets created. Its just shitty recycled makeovers of franchises they dont care for. Guess its for the best since blackrock projects theyll all be living in small apts ands vans just scraping by with no room for the basement booster box forts their fathers use to build.
I'm surprised some people think 151 isn't going to be an absolute succcess. I will be very surprised if it even does average.
Hahahah where the hell are you?! 😂 how did you get into the Louvre’s basement?! 😅
Rudy, your understanding of the current economic situation is somewhat rudimentary. The curent inflation isn't linked to the extra supply of government issued money, it is overall marginal compared to what the banks are doing by the way they lend 10x the money they get in reserves the rest of the time. No it is mostly about supply chains issues due to the war compounding on the pandemic causing a cascading chain of approvisionment and production. The current displacement of industries from China has also a productivity impact on the macro scale. Combined they create a major supply strangulation. There are also major problem with shipping, first it was the container lack, recently lack of port infrastructure and manpower, lack of trains relative to the shipping industry needs, all that combined with a drastic increase in internet individual shipping instead of distributor bulk shipping. The infrastructure is simply not adapted.
People mad BC they cant time the market. LOL. Same people so broke their whole savings is tied up in MTG boxes nobody really want.
Will Rudy start to collect original MTG artwork and hang them on his walls for future backgrounds?
Why would any store restock Magic product X when product Y is already being spoiled and releases in 2 weeks?
Honestly I got tired of trying to keep track of all the changes wotc does and all of the products they are releasing. Not to mention the storage area required for all of it. I have kept what I have but I've been moving back into the comic book market again for my collectible assets.
This might be the first time he’s ever mentioned Yugioh without intentionally saying it incorrectly or saying something disparaging about it. That makes me think it’s the market he’s going to pump next.
Its all good man, im rapidly approaching 40 too and my hairline is evaporating faster than magic consumer confidence, probably a correlation...
Is it possible EVERY card game is overprinting? If everything was printed less stores could justify a higher price point because of rarity. And then have future print waves depending on demand?
Don't forget reducing demand on the next release by pumping the next next release before prerelease of the current
if you want to say self fulfiling circle in more funny way you can say it is a self licking lollipop :D 🍭
Rudy has over a million in just Unlimited power 9 cards (based on his 300 count estimate)
And yet it’s still cardboard
His family will sell it for pennies on the dollar then they find him under a toppled skid of boxes
lmao@@D0012D13
Alpha Investment made my taco stand million on the new magic card tortilla shell idea because what else was i holding those cards for? Y_Y
Rudy’s the main villain of expendables 4 confirmed
No bro, it is not ok.
Going bankrupt or into debt from spending on fucking cardboard is idiotic.
This is madness bro.
I like how you are telling everyone that's willing to listen how to make smarter choices when it comes to investing, business management and life. I appreciate it man. Thank you.
Good advice. I feel like magic is going to be down for a long time, maybe not ever but for a very long time...perhaps decades. Much like the comic book industry only very select items will hold value and the majority will not be worth investing in. So play, enjoy the game....don't expect to get rich.
Decades? Anyone dumping D&D collector boxes?! I’ll take anything before 2022 since you’ll be down forever haha
Trumpian economics... Someone else will pay for that.
I'm buying more Timmy collections now more than ever.
My family have been in fur trade and we have not went to bankrupt sin e 1721.
I can't take this video seriously with all of these fake gawdy art frames.
Mtg, pokemon, yugioh, all have been catering and trying to cater to this desperate balance of make the blackmarket scalpers happy, and budget players happy, which often kills the black market value
The value is still there, its just changing where the value is
Diamond hands 💎 🙌 baby! I keep buying and scared money keeps selling! Even if the bottom drops out of the bucket I get to draft vintage boxes with the homies for the next 30 years!
Want to be your homie
Art collection in Florida?? Risky....
Rudy's bathroom looks amazing.
I'll pay $5 for a Rudy painting.
I'll pay $5 plus a soggy taco
@@crashthestash too rich for my blood. I fold.
None of this is insightful. Anyone that does this themselves knows this inside out. Next.
You are sounding like Jeremy Lefebvre
Ahh I love the classic sealed product only decreases discussion.
Love watching them every time
I need a video of Rudy with a $1 haircut talking about $1k+ paintings
*50k+
If Hasbro goes under... every magic card would be a reserve list card and be treated like a black lotus. I welcome it more and more.