I’m 48 years old as a kid I loved collecting certain players mainly baseball just got back into it earlier this year not realizing where this hobby had gone after spending thousands of dollars trying to “chase” I’ve realized to me that’s not the fun part I enjoy sets and collecting certain players the sad part is I just looked at prizm football coming out Dec on blowout 1100 bucks for 144 cards like wth happened this is out of control and prices are up on boxes which causes ppl to go to breakers just to get a chance at anything it’s out of control I’m back to buying old wax boxes and back to enjoying collecting
It's all gambling. Breaking and rolling dice with PSA. Can't sell shit now. If it isn't grade worthy. People don't want it. I've got heat from the 90s. People wanna grade all of it. Cards from the 90s aren't easy to grade. I'm not collecting or buying any sports cards any more. Can't even sell a card that comps for 100 for 80. Dudes complain about grading fees and margins. Fuck your margins. It's all dealers selling to dealers. Leave room for the next guy. It's ridiculous. Dealers are lame and flippers suck.
Hobby base is smaller than it appeared in 2020-2022, but it's probably the same percent of collectors within it. Cards will sell for what they're worth, so as money leaves and shifts around it means most cards will drop and only those deemed 'hot' will appreciate until the hype cycle on them runs dry and the new hot card/player comes along. It's always been this way.
I am 55 years old and have been COLLECTING since I am 4 when my father brought home my first pack of baseball cards. I have amassed a large vintage collection in all four major sports that I still love to just LOOK at. Do I hope it has value? Of course...it is in my will to go to my kids to sell someday. But I dont collect for that reason. I collect because I love getting an old card that I dont have to add to the ones I do!!!
Im the exact same. Started at 4 ( 1977). I would get a pack a day after getting out if school everyday. I have a very large collection as well. My first job still in high school, I was buying up to 5 boxes of 1990 material. Now I won't buy modern. We collected for the memories. Im a master set builder. These kids now a days don't even know what that means. These kids are are walking around with 10k in cards on them. Selling 1k cards like we did. At shows for a dollar. The product today is all the same. I only collect 1990 and back. All my sets are in penny sleeve and top loaders. These kids will never experience what we did. Its sad. Great comment
I got into collecting when I was a little girl starting off when my grandfather bought be a pack of 1997 Fleer Ultra Football cards. I switched to Pokémon at its heyday and then stopped. Started back in 2008 collecting baseball and sending out for TTM autographs then stopped again. Started collecting again loosely on 2017 and it got more serious in 2021. I’m older and make older people money but admit that I got (responsibility) carried away with buying boxes where I’m disappointed when I don’t get a big hit. Recently I’ve told myself I’ll buy boxes of specific sets and only until I’m somewhat near a complete set. The rest of my purchases will be singles. But watching your videos consistently has slowly helped to recalibrate myself into why I love the hobby and focus on what I want rather than the hype around the next shiny thing. But if I’m totally honest, cards used to be a purely fun hobby for me but now, while still fun, are a way to give me sense of control in my collecting and organizing. Takes me away for my day job and helps to center myself after a long day. It’s getting a bit overwhelming though! Anyways, great content and thanks for speaking to the collector community!
I'm trying my best to dust off the Hobby history books for collectors but it's like pushing a boulder up a hill much of the time. Yogi Berra once said, "When you see a fork in the road, take it". Wise words from a wise man. Society is like a pendulum in many ways, and this includes history. With all the problems that gambling has caused sports, the players and the fans - why are we going back to thinking this is okay? Gambling scandals destroyed the 1919 World Series, caused the breakup of the 1914 Athletics, countless banishments of Baseball players in the 1910s-1920s, countless Basketball players in the 1960s though the 1980s, and ay least one NHL Stanley Cup and one NFL Championship. Legislatures want gambling because of the potential revenue but it's usually on the ballots before the citizens first who vote for it. Most today believe that the 1919 Black Sox threw the series because Comiskey was a skin flint which was proven completely untrue. The White Sox had some of the highest paid players in the game! Yet people take a sympathetic eye on them because they're unaware of the actual history of what happened. If you don't teach history your going to repeat the mistakes of the past. One thing the hobby has done a terrible job with is not teaching or ignoring it's own history. One of the reasons why is because access to those early publications, media and research is spread all over the place and not organized. Ah dont get me going on this topic, but being in the hobby for 40 years now, it's meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I totally get it, this is a gambler's heaven. Imagine betting on a horse, it looses, but you can still sell that used betting stub to someone else so that you can fund the next gamble. And just repeat until you "hit it big." It's sad to see the hobby come to this.
I'm very new to this stuff, so maybe I don't correctly understand the economics of it all. But I'm going to go against the grain a bit and say that I actually LIKE the gambling--the gamblers and breakers end up being the bag-holders for those of us just buying the singles that we want at pennies on the sealed-wax-dollar. We also don't have to figure out what to do with the 99% chaff that you get from cracking open boxes. Gamblers: Get ON my lawn!
Another honest great video I have been collecting on and off since I was 12 and I’m 50 now and I went back to collecting vintage. With all the scams and BS from these companies I don’t even want the new stuff anymore
I feel like the CT scanning is still a really big issue in every single high-end box or set not enough talk about it. From sports through TCG doesn’t matter.
Gambling is getting to be a big part of the hobby. IMO, that is why the product is so high prices. Fanatics mentioned their price is fair because the product still sells. Not a lot of people I know buy hobby boxes anymore. The $15 wax box of 1985 would be ~$36 today. My mom had me run to the store for a few items one morning in 1967 and gave me 10 cents to spend. I saw this box that said baseball, maybe I was just starting little league, but I bought 2 packs. In the evening I showed them to my dad and he said Don Drysdale and Al Kaline were good players. Later I found out some of my friends were buying these cards, so we would get together and show them to each other and trade. I bought one of these friends collections about 5 years ago. I'm not sure that can be duplicated with all the money being thrown around today.
People can say it is doomed, but if you go to a large show these days, it tells a different story. I went to a large show yesterday and there was easily double the number of people that were at the same show in June.
Most are window shoppers or trying to sell their crap cards off to dealers. Take away repackers, and the amount of people buying who actually collect is miniscule
@moregunzthanroses281. Yes, I understand the difference. And I admit that I tend to view things from the collector/investor standpoint based on that is what I am. I will concede that there may be many motives for people going to a show. But I find it hard to believe that I was the only collector there.
Just attended the Chicago Sports Spectacular, packed, packed, packed! Excitement all around. The hobby seems pretty healthy with collectors. Very nice to see.
Those aren't collectors that's people looking to make cash with illegal transactions. I go to gamestop with a $5 controller I have to show ID and sign for a receipt saying I can legally sell my item. Card shows are fences with all kinds of illegal business practices and gambling for minors
Agreed. Chicago was fantastic for dealers and buyers. Trade night was solid. Strong show. Possible better than the past cleveland nationals. The youtubers were there but they didn't get in the way of the collectors. They stayed quiet were humble and knew their place in Chicago. No johnny somali moments needed.
I was also at the Spectacular. Same dealers with same overpriced cards. Can we just finally admit that attendance has nothing to do with hobby health????? Stop that shit!!! Nobody was spending money. Most everybody just walking around with 30 bucks in their pocket looking for dollar cards because the economy is in the toilet. I talked to one dealer who made $35.00 in one entire day at the show and he brought all kinds of stuff. Oh, but there was plenty of people there………STOP THE CAP!!!!!!!!
@@TheBargainBoxer I said the show was packed, true. I said that I saw many collectors, true. I said there was an excitement to the show, true. Attendance absolutely correlates to the health of the hobby. Who drops parking, admission, $16 nachos, for shits and grins? No need to be so Debbie downer…..
Great topic! The hardest thing though is how can somebody lend their personal hobby experience to another person? The joy of getting packs for me from 1971- 1978 couldn't be replicated. NEO explained how TCG cards though do not have this problem. There has to be some synthesis of these ideas for sports cards.
Found an awesome 90’s basketball collectors group on Facebook and do all my card buying there. Completing sets that I liked as a kid and pulled a card or two from has been a blast. Might buy a retail box or two every couple months. Soccer and WNBA seem to have decent hits and aren’t as overproduced as the other sports so maybe they’ll have some value over time but I’m not too worried about it.
With the price of new hobby boxes being what they are these days it’s difficult for the smaller pack opening TH-cam channels to justify staying solely within that niche. Initially the bigger channels might think “hey good for me” but channels opting out is not good. This doesn’t end well. For a hot minute I thought unlicensed would have a run however I second guessing that now. Like I said before, the “non value” cards are going to have to have some sort of special value beyond being a card to justify the expensive asking price or really the whole thing is kinda pointless.
As a dealer I witnessed the 90s decline .but most cards were. 20 bucks .most folks have cards that are down .most go to zero .but maybe 2 or 3 players .
Feels like I've been watching top signals for a couple years now. Feels like modern and ultra modern are being propped up so they can be used to extract exit liquidity lol
I look at it this way i believe the hobby aint doomed what i do is buy graded psa and sgc of the players thats gonna have a great future and keep the cards out of the gamblers hands and keep the cards in my collection because the less cards thats out of the gamblers hands will be sought after and you can say that you have that card and it stays put in your collection
Great video. You are onto something special with the nostolgia aspect. I will never be the person who pulls the bounty card. I will be dipped in nostolgia when the 1959 Topps Hank Aaron I just won on Ebay arrives in my mailbox.
I been in the hobby from 2014and it was always a lot of gambling which profits I would spend on my collection of players. I believe every card in my collections is all paid for though flipping.
Stopped buying into breaks and boxes years ago after prices went bonkers…. Buy what you love and instead of a $200 box get that lower numbered card that is a bit rare that you would love in your collection. Went from no collection really to a badass collection with cards I thought I wouldn’t ever own!
A sign of Famatics’ focus on breakers is what SKUs they’re keeping and which they’re killing. I’m sad it looks like Archives was killed and Platinum Anniversary is on the chopping block. Even Inception, which was accessible for a 7-card box, is nowhere to be found. Gilded? That doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, though.
I think it’s crazy people dropping hundreds or thousands for Skenes and Elly player breaks hoping to hit an auto. 99 times out of hundred they are flushing $$$ down the drain.
I think a lot of people are in credit card debt because of sports cards , but certainly won’t admit it. I’m a long time collector and even had to fix my spending a little. It’s a shame.
I'll just keep plodding along collecting as I've done for 49 years. Started in '75, riding my bike down to the local country store in upstate NY to buy packs with cherry picking and hay baling money. Got most of the baseball and hockey set that year and maybe 2/3rds of the football set, a couple packs at a time. Now, I go to Meijer in the midwest and do the same. Occasionally, I'll buy a hobby box from Dave and Adams but mostly just packs. Until that changes...
Anyone that has been in the hobby since 2018 thinks the sky is falling. The market is 1000x better than it was in the late 90s and 2000s. Today you have some many ways to sell your cards while back then you had the local shop. Stop buying packs if you do not like the gambling aspect of the hobby (this has been around since the first inserts were added to packs). Go to bargain bins at shows or buy singles on the numerous sites so you can buy what you want. The hobby is what you want it to be for you.
You keep talking about gambling, but I don’t think you understand what gambling is and how opening packs of cards has ALWAYS been gambling. In the history of cards, there has never been a moment where your expectation of opening a pack of cards was “profit.” Maybe that was true for a year or two, recently….but THAT’s the anomoly. It has always been gambling.
I only collect for ME, I love this hobby & not going to let strippers opening flawless getting glitter on the surface or these breakers that cant even spell Wembanyama dictate what i collect. This is like everything else and gamblers with no patience and young kids with FOMO are moving the trends. NOT ME, call me a loser but I enjoy this hobby and opening packs with my son, and finding the fat guy with the brass lined display case will always be at the card shows, so ill stay there!
I buy hall of famers high profile players and when they die I sell most if not all of them example I have around 10 Reggie Jackson rc’s and when he passes I’ll sell them all and 3 weeks later I can buy one back sad but it’s what it is and keep a few gems for the kids Jordan Lebron and Brady rookie cards and some 50s baseball this new stuff is just a lottery ticket odds are you ain’t going to win but you might make a few dollars with the occasional 5 or 10x your “bet”
I can also say those bounty cards topps can throw those bounty cards in the trash because the hobby was never about bounty cards its just another way for topps to make another money grab and sucker new collectors to think its the new era of collectin when its not
47 years old. In 1983 my mother started buying me a pack of football cards every trip to the grocery store. Every week, year after year until basically my teenage years. I’ve been a collector ever since. I collect vintage football. Don’t care too much about the value. I buy the card not the grade. And I love nice corners. Means that the card was taken care of. Centering and color is nice, but nice corners say this card was appreciated. Go Blue!!
Same here but only baseball. I build master sets. Pre 1990 only. These kids missed out on a great time to be a collector. These kids today are making 1k deals at shows. Different time
This action has always damaged the hobby. No matter what year it is we can’t have trading card dealers opening packs. ONLY HOBBY CUSTOMERS. WHEN A COLLECTOR GOES TO A HOBBY SHOP THE FEELING OF GETTING TAKING ADVANTAGE OFF GOES STRAIGHT TO THE ROOF.
Hold on to your a$$es... because here come the "nudity breaks" where you are "allowed" to buy into the breaks and the stripper keeps the cards as their fee." Who sits around comes up with this crap? It's amazing that an industry that has been left to itself for decades is basically battle ramming the door down to regulation. Will these idiots bot be happy until they are a part of a system akin to prison, where every move you're allowed to make is dictated for you?
Dropping F Bombs ouch what about the kid collectors watching 👀 I'm so glad I sold my entire collection but I do still check prices and keep up with things with hopes things will change and maybe just maybe I'll start buying again but it will definitely be vintage only
It's like the hobby is run by criminals.I see these breakers, one in particular, who hits all the best cards 9 out of 10 breaks he makes. Even the card shows prove that its all rigged.Tell me how do all these dealers have boxloads of all the best rookies??? I've bought hundreds of basketball packs this year, and I only have 5 Wembanyamas, then I go to a cardshow, and most every dealer there has a boxload of Wembies, 50 or more of all the popular brands. They just make it so obvious that they are either buying Wembies from the companies, or spending $100,000 buying packs.
You should take a few days off from ranting and railing against gambling, it's not good for your mental health. Non of the hobby gamblers are watching your content anyway, if they watch anything at all it will be pro-break 'positivity' to affirm their confirmation bias.
@@TheSportsCardDad I know what you mean, and it's the breakers not the participants that are watching (I saw an angry breaker on IG just now trying to cast shade on this video).
@@TheSportsCardDad Keep the content rolling, just maybe not try to swim so hard against the current every video. We want you to stick around, not get frustrated you aren't moving the needle enough/seeing the trends change.
Thank you and the printing companies and ones that own them tops and more companies making all the money poor people looking for that stupid bounty card😂😂😂😂 losers
pokemon is a psychological disconnect from life. Your not comfortable with yourself or dealing with people in general so you find an un-specific place you can find a connect that doesnt have anyting yo do with human's. The disconnect is very easy to attach to because you are depressed or under tramatic stress. It's ok to find ways to subvert humanity to feel better, and it's quite normal. Video games ect
Neither can Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig; among many others. I guess Michael Jordan can tear his acl, but I don't think, it would affect his card prices.
Basically man here's what it is breaking is a cancer in the hobby.. it will continue to grow it'll get bigger and bigger until it completely kills the hobby....
I'm ok with it look that the lebron market stuff I could not afford a year ago is coming back for reasonable prices. Jordans as well I'd like to see some more jordan stuff back to the US to much nice stuff over seas right now. Hunting some rare stuff and honestly lebron james is wide but jordans are starting to dry up or they are unreasonable
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I’m 48 years old as a kid I loved collecting certain players mainly baseball just got back into it earlier this year not realizing where this hobby had gone after spending thousands of dollars trying to “chase” I’ve realized to me that’s not the fun part I enjoy sets and collecting certain players the sad part is I just looked at prizm football coming out Dec on blowout 1100 bucks for 144 cards like wth happened this is out of control and prices are up on boxes which causes ppl to go to breakers just to get a chance at anything it’s out of control I’m back to buying old wax boxes and back to enjoying collecting
It's all gambling. Breaking and rolling dice with PSA. Can't sell shit now. If it isn't grade worthy. People don't want it. I've got heat from the 90s. People wanna grade all of it. Cards from the 90s aren't easy to grade. I'm not collecting or buying any sports cards any more. Can't even sell a card that comps for 100 for 80. Dudes complain about grading fees and margins. Fuck your margins. It's all dealers selling to dealers. Leave room for the next guy. It's ridiculous. Dealers are lame and flippers suck.
Very well said.
Hobby base is smaller than it appeared in 2020-2022, but it's probably the same percent of collectors within it. Cards will sell for what they're worth, so as money leaves and shifts around it means most cards will drop and only those deemed 'hot' will appreciate until the hype cycle on them runs dry and the new hot card/player comes along. It's always been this way.
I am 55 years old and have been COLLECTING since I am 4 when my father brought home my first pack of baseball cards. I have amassed a large vintage collection in all four major sports that I still love to just LOOK at. Do I hope it has value? Of course...it is in my will to go to my kids to sell someday. But I dont collect for that reason. I collect because I love getting an old card that I dont have to add to the ones I do!!!
Im the exact same. Started at 4 ( 1977). I would get a pack a day after getting out if school everyday. I have a very large collection as well. My first job still in high school, I was buying up to 5 boxes of 1990 material. Now I won't buy modern. We collected for the memories. Im a master set builder. These kids now a days don't even know what that means. These kids are are walking around with 10k in cards on them. Selling 1k cards like we did. At shows for a dollar. The product today is all the same. I only collect 1990 and back. All my sets are in penny sleeve and top loaders. These kids will never experience what we did. Its sad. Great comment
I got into collecting when I was a little girl starting off when my grandfather bought be a pack of 1997 Fleer Ultra Football cards. I switched to Pokémon at its heyday and then stopped. Started back in 2008 collecting baseball and sending out for TTM autographs then stopped again. Started collecting again loosely on 2017 and it got more serious in 2021. I’m older and make older people money but admit that I got (responsibility) carried away with buying boxes where I’m disappointed when I don’t get a big hit.
Recently I’ve told myself I’ll buy boxes of specific sets and only until I’m somewhat near a complete set. The rest of my purchases will be singles.
But watching your videos consistently has slowly helped to recalibrate myself into why I love the hobby and focus on what I want rather than the hype around the next shiny thing.
But if I’m totally honest, cards used to be a purely fun hobby for me but now, while still fun, are a way to give me sense of control in my collecting and organizing. Takes me away for my day job and helps to center myself after a long day. It’s getting a bit overwhelming though!
Anyways, great content and thanks for speaking to the collector community!
Will include this comment feedback in am upcoming video! Thanks for taking the time to respond!
I'm trying my best to dust off the Hobby history books for collectors but it's like pushing a boulder up a hill much of the time. Yogi Berra once said, "When you see a fork in the road, take it". Wise words from a wise man. Society is like a pendulum in many ways, and this includes history. With all the problems that gambling has caused sports, the players and the fans - why are we going back to thinking this is okay? Gambling scandals destroyed the 1919 World Series, caused the breakup of the 1914 Athletics, countless banishments of Baseball players in the 1910s-1920s, countless Basketball players in the 1960s though the 1980s, and ay least one NHL Stanley Cup and one NFL Championship. Legislatures want gambling because of the potential revenue but it's usually on the ballots before the citizens first who vote for it. Most today believe that the 1919 Black Sox threw the series because Comiskey was a skin flint which was proven completely untrue. The White Sox had some of the highest paid players in the game! Yet people take a sympathetic eye on them because they're unaware of the actual history of what happened. If you don't teach history your going to repeat the mistakes of the past. One thing the hobby has done a terrible job with is not teaching or ignoring it's own history. One of the reasons why is because access to those early publications, media and research is spread all over the place and not organized. Ah dont get me going on this topic, but being in the hobby for 40 years now, it's meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Market is horrible
I totally get it, this is a gambler's heaven. Imagine betting on a horse, it looses, but you can still sell that used betting stub to someone else so that you can fund the next gamble. And just repeat until you "hit it big." It's sad to see the hobby come to this.
Dustin will start breakin' boxes next week hahaha jk
:)
I'm very new to this stuff, so maybe I don't correctly understand the economics of it all. But I'm going to go against the grain a bit and say that I actually LIKE the gambling--the gamblers and breakers end up being the bag-holders for those of us just buying the singles that we want at pennies on the sealed-wax-dollar. We also don't have to figure out what to do with the 99% chaff that you get from cracking open boxes. Gamblers: Get ON my lawn!
Another honest great video I have been collecting on and off since I was 12 and I’m 50 now and I went back to collecting vintage. With all the scams and BS from these companies I don’t even want the new stuff anymore
Gamblers not collectors! Hit the nail on the head!!
We are all doomed! The light may not actually be at the end of the tunnel, just very sudden and ur toast. I am banking on living forever personally...
I feel like the CT scanning is still a really big issue in every single high-end box or set not enough talk about it. From sports through TCG doesn’t matter.
Gambling is getting to be a big part of the hobby. IMO, that is why the product is so high prices. Fanatics mentioned their price is fair because the product still sells. Not a lot of people I know buy hobby boxes anymore. The $15 wax box of 1985 would be ~$36 today. My mom had me run to the store for a few items one morning in 1967 and gave me 10 cents to spend. I saw this box that said baseball, maybe I was just starting little league, but I bought 2 packs. In the evening I showed them to my dad and he said Don Drysdale and Al Kaline were good players. Later I found out some of my friends were buying these cards, so we would get together and show them to each other and trade. I bought one of these friends collections about 5 years ago. I'm not sure that can be duplicated with all the money being thrown around today.
People can say it is doomed, but if you go to a large show these days, it tells a different story. I went to a large show yesterday and there was easily double the number of people that were at the same show in June.
The amount of people dont matter, how many were actually buying and at what prices tells the real the story.
Most are window shoppers or trying to sell their crap cards off to dealers. Take away repackers, and the amount of people buying who actually collect is miniscule
But how many people there were attending with the intention to buy cards to keep because they actually want to own them versus buying cards to flip
These are the people who haven’t lost their innocence yet. People who still think a rookie base card is special.
@moregunzthanroses281. Yes, I understand the difference. And I admit that I tend to view things from the collector/investor standpoint based on that is what I am. I will concede that there may be many motives for people going to a show. But I find it hard to believe that I was the only collector there.
Just attended the Chicago Sports Spectacular, packed, packed, packed! Excitement all around. The hobby seems pretty healthy with collectors. Very nice to see.
Those aren't collectors that's people looking to make cash with illegal transactions. I go to gamestop with a $5 controller I have to show ID and sign for a receipt saying I can legally sell my item. Card shows are fences with all kinds of illegal business practices and gambling for minors
Agreed. Chicago was fantastic for dealers and buyers. Trade night was solid. Strong show. Possible better than the past cleveland nationals. The youtubers were there but they didn't get in the way of the collectors. They stayed quiet were humble and knew their place in Chicago. No johnny somali moments needed.
@ nice diversity of modern and vintage there as well. Take care hobby friend.
I was also at the Spectacular. Same dealers with same overpriced cards. Can we just finally admit that attendance has nothing to do with hobby health????? Stop that shit!!! Nobody was spending money. Most everybody just walking around with 30 bucks in their pocket looking for dollar cards because the economy is in the toilet. I talked to one dealer who made $35.00 in one entire day at the show and he brought all kinds of stuff. Oh, but there was plenty of people there………STOP THE CAP!!!!!!!!
@@TheBargainBoxer I said the show was packed, true. I said that I saw many collectors, true. I said there was an excitement to the show, true. Attendance absolutely correlates to the health of the hobby. Who drops parking, admission, $16 nachos, for shits and grins? No need to be so Debbie downer…..
Great topic! The hardest thing though is how can somebody lend their personal hobby experience to another person? The joy of getting packs for me from 1971- 1978 couldn't be replicated. NEO explained how TCG cards though do not have this problem. There has to be some synthesis of these ideas for sports cards.
Found an awesome 90’s basketball collectors group on Facebook and do all my card buying there. Completing sets that I liked as a kid and pulled a card or two from has been a blast. Might buy a retail box or two every couple months. Soccer and WNBA seem to have decent hits and aren’t as overproduced as the other sports so maybe they’ll have some value over time but I’m not too worried about it.
Back when collecting was collecting 10:31
With the price of new hobby boxes being what they are these days it’s difficult for the smaller pack opening TH-cam channels to justify staying solely within that niche. Initially the bigger channels might think “hey good for me” but channels opting out is not good. This doesn’t end well. For a hot minute I thought unlicensed would have a run however I second guessing that now. Like I said before, the “non value” cards are going to have to have some sort of special value beyond being a card to justify the expensive asking price or really the whole thing is kinda pointless.
As a dealer I witnessed the 90s decline .but most cards were. 20 bucks .most folks have cards that are down .most go to zero .but maybe 2 or 3 players .
Yep. Cant imagine what its gonna be like holding a 5 or 6 figure bag like some of the covid noobs.
@johnwayne9828 ugly .I've sold most of my Modern..have some JOSH ALLEN left
LETS MAKE CARD COLLECTING GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Amen
@@TheSportsCardDad read my other comment. I think ive answered your question
It’s all overpriced gambling.
It's always been a casino TBH, it's just a much bigger casino now.
Feels like I've been watching top signals for a couple years now. Feels like modern and ultra modern are being propped up so they can be used to extract exit liquidity lol
terrific video. sometimes an honest rant is needed and in this case, you're dead on .
I look at it this way i believe the hobby aint doomed what i do is buy graded psa and sgc of the players thats gonna have a great future and keep the cards out of the gamblers hands and keep the cards in my collection because the less cards thats out of the gamblers hands will be sought after and you can say that you have that card and it stays put in your collection
Great video. You are onto something special with the nostolgia aspect. I will never be the person who pulls the bounty card. I will be dipped in nostolgia when the 1959 Topps Hank Aaron I just won on Ebay arrives in my mailbox.
I been in the hobby from 2014and it was always a lot of gambling which profits I would spend on my collection of players. I believe every card in my collections is all paid for though flipping.
Stopped buying into breaks and boxes years ago after prices went bonkers…. Buy what you love and instead of a $200 box get that lower numbered card that is a bit rare that you would love in your collection. Went from no collection really to a badass collection with cards I thought I wouldn’t ever own!
I spent so much in the last 6 months on breaks and now I have to stop because it was addicting and most of my cards are worthless
Great Video totally agree.
Thanks for watching!
A sign of Famatics’ focus on breakers is what SKUs they’re keeping and which they’re killing. I’m sad it looks like Archives was killed and Platinum Anniversary is on the chopping block. Even Inception, which was accessible for a 7-card box, is nowhere to be found.
Gilded? That doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, though.
Spprrs card Dad is getting durrrtay
I think it’s crazy people dropping hundreds or thousands for Skenes and Elly player breaks hoping to hit an auto. 99 times out of hundred they are flushing $$$ down the drain.
I have never bought into a break and never will
What is Topps?
I only buy GPK because my son loves them. Cheap and fun. Not worried about a big hit and grading
I think a lot of people are in credit card debt because of sports cards , but certainly won’t admit it. I’m a long time collector and even had to fix my spending a little. It’s a shame.
The Sports Card Dad just keeps getting better!
I'll just keep plodding along collecting as I've done for 49 years. Started in '75, riding my bike down to the local country store in upstate NY to buy packs with cherry picking and hay baling money. Got most of the baseball and hockey set that year and maybe 2/3rds of the football set, a couple packs at a time. Now, I go to Meijer in the midwest and do the same. Occasionally, I'll buy a hobby box from Dave and Adams but mostly just packs. Until that changes...
Anyone that has been in the hobby since 2018 thinks the sky is falling. The market is 1000x better than it was in the late 90s and 2000s. Today you have some many ways to sell your cards while back then you had the local shop. Stop buying packs if you do not like the gambling aspect of the hobby (this has been around since the first inserts were added to packs). Go to bargain bins at shows or buy singles on the numerous sites so you can buy what you want. The hobby is what you want it to be for you.
Dustin, you shouldn't be cursing and swearing everyone knows you as the Sports Card Dad and the Kids might be shocked at the language.
Nah. Keep it real Dustin. Great work.
You keep talking about gambling, but I don’t think you understand what gambling is and how opening packs of cards has ALWAYS been gambling. In the history of cards, there has never been a moment where your expectation of opening a pack of cards was “profit.” Maybe that was true for a year or two, recently….but THAT’s the anomoly. It has always been gambling.
We're at a whole other level now, never before seen
As Long as Your Collection Doesn't Get Cherry Picked Then there's always light at the end of the tunnel.
Morning bro yeah i agree
Morning!
Due to budget cuts, the light of the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
I love the wheel game and basketball!
Agree completely
You spoke 100% truth.
Sell most of your cards. Keep the ones you love. Invest in the S&P 500
Great players sell shitty players don't. Ain't rocket science
I only collect for ME, I love this hobby & not going to let strippers opening flawless getting glitter on the surface or these breakers that cant even spell Wembanyama dictate what i collect. This is like everything else and gamblers with no patience and young kids with FOMO are moving the trends. NOT ME, call me a loser but I enjoy this hobby and opening packs with my son, and finding the fat guy with the brass lined display case will always be at the card shows, so ill stay there!
fantasy sports, card breaking are just another version of sports gambling...card breaking more so because there is absolutely no skills involved
Preach brother preach. Keep it up.
I buy hall of famers high profile players and when they die I sell most if not all of them example I have around 10 Reggie Jackson rc’s and when he passes I’ll sell them all and 3 weeks later I can buy one back sad but it’s what it is and keep a few gems for the kids Jordan Lebron and Brady rookie cards and some 50s baseball this new stuff is just a lottery ticket odds are you ain’t going to win but you might make a few dollars with the occasional 5 or 10x your “bet”
I can also say those bounty cards topps can throw those bounty cards in the trash because the hobby was never about bounty cards its just another way for topps to make another money grab and sucker new collectors to think its the new era of collectin when its not
It’s getting annoying you constantly complaining about the hobby
He complains because it isn't a hobby.It is gambling.Give aholes enough time and they will eff up everything.
OK Breaker! 😂
I have to agree. It's getting old now. Desperate even.
@benny.....desperate is the word. His views have been falling off so hes copying guys like dan hoping to up his views.
Damnit Dustin Holler Sometime Ill Show Ya A Hell Of a Collection... and ALOT OF THINGS I KNOW YOU WOULD LOVE.... BET
I’ve been telling you for the longest, this hobby sucks!!!!
it has it's finer points. I love my PC and could care less about yours... See, there are still collectors
Did you see that guy on jeremy Lee's live who had the Alvin Kamara black finite card. I have see it now.
Yeah I’ve tried to buy it from him, but he wants more than I’m willing to pay
@TheSportsCardDad that guy has the right idea of how to invest in modern cards.
Awesome episode broski🤙🏽.
Gambling for a useless prize smh. These chase cards will be worth $20 in 5 years.
47 years old. In 1983 my mother started buying me a pack of football cards every trip to the grocery store. Every week, year after year until basically my teenage years. I’ve been a collector ever since. I collect vintage football. Don’t care too much about the value. I buy the card not the grade. And I love nice corners. Means that the card was taken care of. Centering and color is nice, but nice corners say this card was appreciated. Go Blue!!
Same here but only baseball. I build master sets. Pre 1990 only. These kids missed out on a great time to be a collector. These kids today are making 1k deals at shows. Different time
This action has always damaged the hobby. No matter what year it is we can’t have trading card dealers opening packs. ONLY HOBBY CUSTOMERS. WHEN A COLLECTOR GOES TO A HOBBY SHOP THE FEELING OF GETTING TAKING ADVANTAGE OFF GOES STRAIGHT TO THE ROOF.
Hold on to your a$$es... because here come the "nudity breaks" where you are "allowed" to buy into the breaks and the stripper keeps the cards as their fee." Who sits around comes up with this crap?
It's amazing that an industry that has been left to itself for decades is basically battle ramming the door down to regulation. Will these idiots bot be happy until they are a part of a system akin to prison, where every move you're allowed to make is dictated for you?
Can you please start ending these videos by saying "Get off my lawn!!!" 😂😂
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look at Europe and Australia with gambling everywhere. do their economies look good? nope! thats where we are headed!
Great points brother ✊🏼🔥
Appreciate it!
Dropping F Bombs ouch what about the kid collectors watching 👀 I'm so glad I sold my entire collection but I do still check prices and keep up with things with hopes things will change and maybe just maybe I'll start buying again but it will definitely be vintage only
It's like the hobby is run by criminals.I see these breakers, one in particular, who hits all the best cards 9 out of 10 breaks he makes. Even the card shows prove that its all rigged.Tell me how do all these dealers have boxloads of all the best rookies??? I've bought hundreds of basketball packs this year, and I only have 5 Wembanyamas, then I go to a cardshow, and most every dealer there has a boxload of Wembies, 50 or more of all the popular brands. They just make it so obvious that they are either buying Wembies from the companies, or spending $100,000 buying packs.
You should take a few days off from ranting and railing against gambling, it's not good for your mental health. Non of the hobby gamblers are watching your content anyway, if they watch anything at all it will be pro-break 'positivity' to affirm their confirmation bias.
Oh they are definitely watching :)
@@TheSportsCardDad I know what you mean, and it's the breakers not the participants that are watching (I saw an angry breaker on IG just now trying to cast shade on this video).
@@TheSportsCardDad Keep the content rolling, just maybe not try to swim so hard against the current every video. We want you to stick around, not get frustrated you aren't moving the needle enough/seeing the trends change.
@@kevinheckeler let this man be honest and tell it like it is with the hobby. He don't need to sell his soul and follow the trend like everyone else.
@@metsrus😂
Got out in 19
Thank you and the printing companies and ones that own them tops and more companies making all the money poor people looking for that stupid bounty card😂😂😂😂 losers
Time to move to pokemon. Pokemon can’t break their acl or have a terrible season.
pokemon is a psychological disconnect from life. Your not comfortable with yourself or dealing with people in general so you find an un-specific place you can find a connect that doesnt have anyting yo do with human's. The disconnect is very easy to attach to because you are depressed or under tramatic stress. It's ok to find ways to subvert humanity to feel better, and it's quite normal. Video games ect
Neither can Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig; among many others. I guess Michael Jordan can tear his acl, but I don't think, it would affect his card prices.
Basically man here's what it is breaking is a cancer in the hobby.. it will continue to grow it'll get bigger and bigger until it completely kills the hobby....
I'm ok with it look that the lebron market stuff I could not afford a year ago is coming back for reasonable prices. Jordans as well I'd like to see some more jordan stuff back to the US to much nice stuff over seas right now.
Hunting some rare stuff and honestly lebron james is wide but jordans are starting to dry up or they are unreasonable
Why are you always so negative. Always saying the damn guy is falling chicken little
Great video
Good morning Dustin. Happy Thanksgiving week my friend!
Morning! Happy thanksgiving 🦃