Anyone else stacking cardboard? It's the smartest play you can be making right now - the prices are crazy, like BAYC 5 years ago, except cardboard is actually going to continue to moon forever.
People said this about comic books in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and then it all came crashing down in the 90s. Modern aesthetics don't age well.
>>62428300Cards have something that comics, Beanie Babies, and Pez dispensers didn't have: modern social media to peddle unlicensed financial advice.
>>62428288classic bubbleas soon as boomers die and younger generations get kicked out of the house you're going to see this stuff crash real quick
>>62428336Cool. That's 20 years from now. Name one other asset with 25 straight years (the past 5 and the next 20) of exponential gains.
>>62428300>>62428317niggers don't realize that Pokemon is the #1 franchise on Earth. Star Wars franchise is a tiny microscopic ant compared to Pokemon. Pokemon is multiple times larger than all Disney properties combined, that includes SW, Marvel, animation, etc, there is no comparison.Also niggers always forget that trading cards have been around since the 1880's, there is a 150 year track record, almost as long as the stock exchange
>>62428347>exponential gainsyou don't seem to understand this term
>>62428348Tbf, they were worthless for a century (until the 1980s) and weren't beating traditional assets until late 2020.That being said, it's only up from here.
>>62428348>trading cards have been around since the 1880's,this is true, but the vast majority of 1880's trading cards are still worthless.
>>62428288I like some of the old designs and those cards are common & cheap. Not paying more than $2 for a piece of 20 year old cardboard but good luck to those who do.
>>62428288I remember when entire binders of this set (fireworks holo ony) were being sold for about $300. I thought that, if I waited, I would find it at a lower price. No way am I going to spend hundreds of thousands for the same thing. There needs to be someone willing to print replicas of this exact holo pattern, but with quality card backing. I personally missed out, I started collecting around Skyridge. Then, the tcg pretty much died out here.
>>62428358>>62428357Trading cards didn't become great until the 1952 Topp's baseball set, up until then 1880's-1951 they didn't even try with the cardsOne of the main reasons Pokemon TCG blew up a few years ago was the introduction of IR and SIR's, full art rares. Pokemon finally started making the cards into actual art-work and people loved it, it will only continue to grow.One Piece TCG also blew up for same reason, their rare's are beautiful to look at irl, the top tier cards shine like it has jewels imbedded, and the artwork is amazing. It is not a fad or anything, they actually started caring about the artwork and people responded, just like baseball cards blew up in 1952 when they started trying
>>62428388what what a postits a bubble everyone trading cards will collapase within 365 days sell ur shit close ur shops it's time to move on
>>62428348Not buying your basedllennial bags, poketard.
>>62428431>>62428427COME SEE MY CARDS
>>62428388>up until then 1880's-1951 they didn't even try with the cardsthis is perhaps one of the dumbest takes I've read on the topic ever.But then I actively collect and sell 1800's trading cards so I'm a bit biased.
>>62428462you're right, I was exaggerating, I don't know much about old baseball cardsIs it a good time to buy 1800's cards? They seem really cheap, most of them are 50-100 dollars from what I see
>>62428468most 1800's cards aren't sports cardsbut no, I don't expect them to go up in value much after this long. Not because they're ugly or low effort, but because almost nobody collects them.
buy vintage cards. psa 9s and ungraded.
>>62428635>but no, I don't expect them to go up in value much after this long. Not necessarily. All trading cards were worthless for the first century of their existence. The people who were babies when trading cards were invented were dead by the time they started becoming valuable. So cards from the 1880s could absolutely moon.
>>62428300but comic books are gay and cards (of basically any type) are inherently cool
>>62429122People thought the exact opposite 40 years ago. You are unlikely to do well long-term with art and entertainment as a store of value unless it translates really well across eras and cultures.
the entire pokemon market was pumped beyond belief and had unique reasons to be worth lots of money
Would unironically be a better play to just buy sealed booster packs and leave them in your garage for 20 years.
>>62428288unironically got into it coz of that zard tard who posts in /biz/ every day
In the 2021 bull run I roundtripped like a dummy but the one smart thing I did was buy pokemon with some of my bags. I bought the card in that pic for not much money. It’s HP condition so it won’t get a 10 (most Legendary Collection reverse Holos won’t, they’re notorious for being easily damaged) but the 1st edition Sabrina’s Gengar is pretty damn good condition, LP at worst. I paid $175 for that one and I paid $120 for the Psyduck Scream promo. Both are worth four figures now.
>>62428288He borted cardboard ?
>>62428288Why does everyone refer to card pumping as "the hobby"? Feels like one of those "we know what we're doing is evil as shit so we're gonna use a euphemism" situations. Like how mafia orgs refer ti themselves as "the family business".
>>62428288How do I literally invest in cardboard? Plastic packaging is going to get banned hard.
>>62434462Buy, throw it in a closet for 5 years, then sell. It's the most autopilot asset with exponential growth potential in the world.
Real $
>>62434659>5k for some gay dude farting
>>62434682Literal Olympians hit this pose when they win. You wouldn't know anything about this, as a chud loser
zoomzooms and millennifags are kinda like gen-z and boomers with real estate when it comes to modern collectibles. They can only remember line going up and have not learned from historical trends.All modern collectibles are junk and a cash grab. Pokelimans, magik the gardening are printed in insane number like the 90s wax era, there is a ton of that stuff stored away and once a downturn in the economy or the consumer base reaches a certain age and lose interest the market will become saturated with stuff that nobody wants because at the end of the day these things have no real value. You can't create anything with it apart from fire.
>>62428635>but no, I don't expect them to go up in value much after this long. Not because they're ugly or low effort, but because almost nobody collects them.There has to be hype and people have to know about them. They need to be reminded they exist for them to be sought after and thus a buyers market. It is fascinating really when you have been in the business for a while and you come across something really rare, special or even unique. It may be cool AF and completely unobtainable yet nobody wants to pay anything for it because there is absolutely nobody that knows anything about it. For instance a while back I had a sealed triple AAA big box PC game from the late 90s which had extra goodies such as the soundtrack on a separate CD recorded by the Moscow symphony orchestra which in itself is probably ultra rare, but in the end I did not get much for it because nobody had seen the damn product, it wasn't even registered on the net and certainly not on the price checking platforms.
>>62434494I did a similar strat with silver bullion coins a while back. I ignored the general consensus about "getting the cheapest generic silver possible" which means Christmas bars from 1977 and went for current year semi-numismatic coins that have lower mintage numbers, but cost a couple of bucks extra. Series that change design every year so that they have a broader appeal to collectors. Some of them did quite well and I was able to increase my stack because of said strategy lowering my cost of silver substantially.
>>62434639Kekked. The elites invest in prices less art and collectibles, they dont care about fungible shiny rocks
