Sports card collecting should be classified as a mental illness. Where did it all go so wrong, sportsbros?
>>157340352When Honus Wagner didn't want to associate himself with tobacco use, thus creating a rare card, it only expanded from htere
>modern cards created specifically for the collectibles market have sold for more than a Michael Jordan worn NBA finals jerseyI don't get it
>>157340386Rich people see them as a sort of fun asset, it's art collecting for people who don't do art
>>157340407>it's art collecting for people who don't do artIt explains why Kevin O'Leary has taken to wearing one around
>>157340445You get to make some lucky fucker feel good after giving them a bunch of money and they didn't even have to spend 4 years at RISD learning about how Mark Rothko made a line significant.
>>157340362Nigga thats a fake story dummy
the only type of acceptable collecting is coin collecting and even there you have to exclude almost all modern coins and idiocy like mint marks, key dates, and minor grading differences from consideration. every other type of collecting is a form of mental illness. the only reason coin collecting gets a pass is because it has a legitimate historical legacy and coins occasionally have historical value. sports cards are especially bad because they serve no material function whatsoever.
>>157340489It doesn't matter if it's real, what matters is people like the story
When I was a kid my dad would let me get a couple of packs of NBA cards whenever we went to Walmart. I’d fill out binders and organize them by team, I even had a little binder for my MJ cards and inserts. Every once in a while I’d get a Beckett and look at the values of cards and think it was cool how that one MJ rookie card was worth thousands. Kinda crazy that it’s now just speculative “assets” and fodder for streamers but that’s the modern world for you I guess.
COLLECTOR POWER RANKINGSPatrician Tier1. Art Collecting2. Classic Car CollectingNuevo Riche Tier3. Antique Collecting4. Film Prop CollectingGood College Alumnae Tier5. Comic/Sports Card Collecting6. Designer Clothing Collecting7. Ephemera CollectingCringe Tier 8. Toy Collecting9. Can Collecting10. Pokemon Card Collecting
>>157340551>9. Can Collectingcan collecting is kino
>>157340565Poor old people and hobos just have a kino look to them. Only Pokemon and Yugioh Card collectors smell worseAlthough the other day I did see an old asian guy who had fashioned a bindle out of a garbage bag and a pole
>>157340352Items shouldn't cost more than the price of its manufacture and distribution. If you spend a thousand dollars on a piece of paper that cost less than a cent to make, that's your own retardation.
>>157340594Whatever, Karl
>new talent emerges>suddenly your card is now worthless
>>157340551Where does stamp collecting place?
>>157340631Tennis Fans collect, art, classic cars, classic Chanel pieces, beachfront property and boats, they don't have the time to get involved in Sports Cards, they let Kai Cenat and Logan Paul spend their Youtube Money on a Kobe Card while they sail from their mansion in Cape Cod to their Brownstone in Brooklyn on a Yacht filled with bikini clad hangers on and fellow douchebags and if you want, medicine bags
>>157340672It's with coin collecting in the realm of proto-boomers. It's a social exercise that was more about making friends than it was about making money.
>>157340551>Nuevo Riche Tierholy american post batman
Friendly reminder that sports cards exist as a marketing tactic to get kids to smoke cigarettes
>>157340672My local stamp club shut down because the members got too old to keep it running. They'd probably have been so excited to see a guy under 60 show up. I love sending and receiving mail and do Postcrossing, but I don't have any interest in actually collecting stamps. It seems like a more fun and less dramatic hobby than sports cards though.
>>157341040With how postage is now, it's just not resonant. People used to send postcards to their friends about their adventures, now they just make an instagram or facebook post. People used to send letters and make pen pals and keep up with friends via postage, now it's all online, most postal service money comes from postage prepaid stuff
>>157340873It's not the '30s anymore grandpa
>>157340873You can put them on the spokes of your bike and it'll make it sound cool
>>>/tg/>>>/biz/>>>/trash/
>>157340386it's purely speculative
>>157342524nooooo you can't talk about SPORTS cards on a SPORTS discussion board
>>157340631>__/25Numbered sports cards are the biggest scam of them all
>>157340352I'm sorry but collecting useless shit is autism
I want to apologize for my rude words and I wish all of sport cards enthusiast a wonderful evening
>>157340672With coin collecting in the "knowing its just time wasted but have been doing it for so long you cant stop"t. coin collector
Cards are cool it's just the people who spend thousands of dollars on "high-end" and especially "high-end modern" cards are embarrassingly trump/crypto/saudi-coded. But whatever, as long as they're having fun and they can swing it and they don't think they're going to become rich or important about it
>>157340352Every generation has its thing, I feel like art dealing was Boomers and sport cards is millennials, so the cards aren't really worth a shit but its just trophy hunting for the rich.>>157341040Stamps are such an annoying hobby I actually graded my grandpas entire collection and I fucking wasted my time I got all the 1800s stamps and it was worth a total of maybe 500 dollars man wtf. It was literally on some "here thank you sonny have some candy on me" level shit too I did just to be nice because they have cataracts. Was like 8 hours of my life.
>>157340352These sales happen between industry insiders to drive up the price of cards and get attention/headlines. OP is playing into their phony ass game. No money will actually change hands, no one legit pays these prices.
it's a completely artificial market. its like crypto shitters and memecoins. retro gaming, trading cards, cryptofags, and lottery players all deserve to lose their money. i don't feel bad for any of them >kobe bryant official patch game worn! >vacuum sealed under plastic >break the plastic to check authenticity? all value is gone it's literally just "trust me bro it's real" it's fucking honestly sad that people will pay for this stuff
>>157340551>1. Art Collecting>3. Antique Collecting
>>157340551>cars before antiquesNuevo riche indeed, Paco.
>>157346322>its like crypto shitters and memecoins.Whatever happened to NFTs? Is everyone who bought into them a billionaire?
>>157350773Corpos that got memed into interacting with it saw the complete lack of ROI and stopped.Now it's just Gary Vee still trying to shill his jpgs of catroon Zesty Zygote to the ten suckers who still believe him when he says they'll be worth gazillions once the card game picks up some steam (it hasn't and won't because it's trash)
>>157343988no, you can'tjust like you can't talk about sports vidya
>>157351198Cards aren't vidya! Stop backseat jannying and start talking about sports cards. For me, it's the most infamous card in baseball history
>>157351356don't you mean this one?
>>157347801I have a decent antique collection, antiques are something anyone can get into. There's a few expensive ones, but pretty much in the last 60 years Antiques have entered the hard industrial era and most are cheap and common.
>>157351498No
>>157351538Post your antiques
>>157340551>8. Toy CollectingOne of the zestiest hobbies out there (although I do like the idea of collecting old tin toys)
>>157340352i blame it all on these idiots that flaunt their "rarity" and think its good to hoarde. also the pokemon card craze. that shit made this worse
my dad had sealed baggies with copies of The Death of Superman that he swore up and down were gonna put us through college and when he finally tried to cash in around 2012 the guy at the shop told him in no uncertain terms that *everyone* had sealed baggies of that book and the best he could do was like, $5.the lesson I got from this (beyond "don't hoard frivolous bullshit like comic books on the off chance it'll be valuable in 20 years") was that anything explicitly made for the collector's market is doomed to fail and actual collectibles are the things nobody cares about in their time.and yet somehow that's been completely turned on its head in recent years with things like >>157340386frankly i'm entirely convinced it's just money laundering or retards stuck holding the bag trying to fleece other retards into holding the bag
>>157340352I recently just got into because I like collecting and miss shit from my youth. I stick to retail packs and continue to do research to avoid products meant for whales and scalpers. both deserve the rope.
>>157352173I have an intense hatred of collectors, investors, hoarders. whatever scalpers wanna call themselves this week. mostly because I used to play MTG and one of (many, many) reasons I stopped was because of shit like this. at least with sports cards they're fundamentally useless and aren't actively depriving people of functional game pieces.
>>157340352it's better than spending a million on CHARIZARD FROM KANTO!!!!
If you collect something strange or rare, keep your mouth properly shut, or else, normalfags will chase whatever you like to collect with zero respect, driving any price into the stratosphere and ruining the hobbyThat's how you protect all things you love in life
>>157352243>aren't actively depriving people of functional game pieces.Can't you cheaply buy full sets of just the base cards?
>>157352198>scalpersSports card scalpers are based because of how much they make manchildren seethe
Do sports card guys stink as bad as I imagine they do? I imagine card shops smelling worse than outhouses.
How do i find out how much cards are worth? My parents doensized last year and i found my older brother's card collection (my pokemon cards were mia f).
>>157360813so trueguess the taxman is the basesd of them all, because he makes so many people seethe
>>157360813being a contrarian is not a replacement for a personality
>>157364099just start looking stuff up on ebay? Completed auctions and stuff with bids ofc, anyone can list some dogshit for more than it's worth. Stuff they put in toploaders/binders, rookies of guys you've heard of that aren't from the junk wax years, vintage, numbered parallels etc. But most people's random card collections really aren't worth shit. When I was a kid, my parents would let me spend ok money on it but I preferred opening packs or buying a lot of cheaper stuff. If I only bought $25-$50 singles (at the time) I would have come out way ahead I have heard of someone finding a Mike Trout rookie loose in a shoebox, but that kind of thing is rare and you can kind of guess the story behind it: guy who's not a big collector buys a random pack of 2011 topps update and forgets about it
>>157352197>sealed baggies with copies of The Death of SupermanI bought that new as a kid and kept it closed for the same reason, thinking "Whoa that'll be worth a lot of money one day!" ...Eventually curiosity got the best of me and I opened it up and gingerly read the comic, it wasn't that exciting to me, then I put it on a shelf to sit. Still on the same shelf at my parent's house, haven't touched it since. Kind of glad my curiosity got the best of me that day, because I got to read the actual comic as a child and now I can just throw that thing out, who cares.In general collecting is too much like hoarding
>>157340386It's supply and demand. A rich guy will buy something worth 1 million if be believes it's worth 1 million
>>157352197Comic books and sports cards were nuts in the 1990s. Everyone thought they were going to get rich and now I see so many unopened boxes of 90s cards that nobody wants at estate sales.
>>157368265The craze is actually what made those cards worth jack shit. They produced so many of them. I have probably 6 boxes of cards that were gifted to me unopened from the 90s.
>>157352999When I went to Lithuania a couple of months ago, I thought I really had to go looking for one of my favourite things in the world, so I looked really hard for a place that sold Lithuanian '90s music. Nobody likes this obscure autism outside of about 15 people on the entire planet, so I thought I could score some classic CDs and cassettes for rock-bottom prices. But not even Lithuanians like old Lithuanian music, so I found one shop, and it was run by another music autist who just checked Discogs for all the prices. Everything I tried to buy, he looked up the prices and visibly gasped when he realised I was after really rare shit that all the other autists wanted. I wound up paying 150 euros for like two cassettes, three CDs and one vinyl album. I don't even own a cassette player.
>>157366237>anyone can list some dogshit for more than it's worthThis makes me so angry. Every time I get a slightly interesting 50p coin with a rare design, I look it up and someone's selling one for £4,000. But no. They're worth 50p. The very rarest one might sell for £2. But I used to get my hopes up every time.
>>157340362But Honus Wagner's rare card was caused by genuine demand. He was a legitimately famous player, who refused to have a card. Anyone who wanted baseball cards would have wanted Honus Wagner's card specifically.This new shit is just fake. Companies just deliberately make one-off cards, and then say they're rare because there's only one. Then suckers try to buy them, and the companies just make more one-off cards so that everyone can pay $1m to have their own unique baseball card. Sure, there's only one of each card, but they aren't rare in the same way because companies can make an unlimited number of one-off card designs. And it's not just about rarity; there needs to be a story there too. I could draw my cock on a Pokemon card and it would be the only one like that in the world, but why would anyone care? These rare cards often aren't even put into packs where people might get them. It's all bullshit.
>>157368289>They produced so many of them.Not only did they produce a lot, a huge number of people saved them and kept them in great condition.
>>157352999
>come to /sp/>everyone hating on me for chasing rookie refractor numbered parallel chrome cardsfeels bad, man
>>157387223SOVL
I might get my cards next weekend and see what I got. Bet I got a rookie card of OPs moms minge.
>>157387514>Bet I got a rookie card of OPs moms minge.You want a CP card??
>>157340551SSS+ Elder God Tier: not collecting anything because it's retarded
>>157387223>premiere edition
The Bill Ripken Fuck Face card >>157351498 is the only one I would really go out of my way to pick up.
>>157393455It's normal to be sentimental
>>157399364You can be sentimental without being a tard consumer
>>157399574yes you can, pokemon firered/leafgreen emulators are free
>>157340386>over a million for a sgay cardinsane bubble
Sports cards lost their SOVL once they just became things for people to SPECVLATE on
>>157400526yes thank you for agreeing
>>157400711oh yeah I was actually agreeing, forgive my retarded wording
>>157340873That's like saying that slot machines exist as a marketing tactic to get kids to eat more bubblegum.
>>157340352This is the natural conclusion of materialistic reductionism>Where did it all go so wrong?When the Jesuits linked up with Descartes to descredit any experience outside the paradigm of materialistic reductionist as fake and gay
>>157340551>1. Art CollectingRumor goes most work is as fake as it gets, the real ones (if they exist anymore) are well and truly hidden.
>>157340352I had a few thousand 02-05 Topps baseball cards. No idea where they are... Anything valuable from that era??
>>157368265Unopened packs of early Pokemon cards are actually valuable as are few individual cards mostly because people assumed that it will be a shortlived childrens craze like million other things and most of the cards are in terrible shape because kids actually played with them.
>>157400910It depends a lot on what you want to buy.
Bam signed sport card should be worth 1,584,645
The vast majority of sports cards, even rare inserts of stars, are worth literally nothing. There was a spike in "mid value" cards during COVID but they crashed right back down. I malded a bit in 2020 when I wanted to collect some cards from ~2005 that I wanted as a kid but couldn't afford and they had spiked 10x all of a sudden. Ended up buying them all in 2025 for 1-1.5x the original price before the spike. If you're buying sports card cases (you can only buy cases now, if you buy packs or boxes you are literally scamming yourself) you're buying for the one in a million rookie lottery ticket only. It's a sad state of affairs.Non-sport is in a much worse state because most non-sport is ridiculously overpriced and headed for a massive crash. There's no way demand holds up for everything long term. The random Pokemon shit from 2015 selling for $10k a card for meme PSA 10s is going to crash to under $1k a card eventually. It is not going to replace 401ks despite what zoom zooms think right now.
>>1573405511. Guns2. Knives3. Guns4. Swords5. Axes
>>157340551fuck you, I collect pokemon for the art, not slabbing/hoarding
>>157410476>I collect pokemon for the artThat's like saying you collect basset hounds for the art
>>157411414I’m a licensed basset hound art dealer
I like Yu-Gi-Oh cards betterCheck out this sweet board in my office
>>157413961>OGfag>scan your image to see how based you are>jinzo, yata-garasu, injection fairy lilyExtremely based, anon. Well done.
>>157340551Where does (functional) model train collecting sit?
>>157414205Autism tier
>>157413961Where are Raigeki and Dark Ruler Ha-Des?
>>157414062Thank you my friend>>157414527I had to be very picky since I wanted sixteen from 2002 and sixteen from 2003 to prevent things from getting out of handRaigeki would have been cool, there's a case for that over Barrel Dragon. Ha Des though, I was going with TCG and I don't like his TCG art, it's a touch too censored
>>157414342Warren Buffet has a train room in his house so it can't be that bad
>>157414594Berkshire Hathaway even owns a railroad
i collect sports cardsthis is the biggest one i own
>>15740091102-05 probably pujols, jeter, ichiro, maybe a-roddepends a lot on which cards specifically though
>>157418639>this is the biggest one i ownHow big is it? 5.7x7.9?
>>157418735im not sure, ive never measured it
>>157418735bowman 89 were a special tall size for some reason
When will we get the 12"x12" sports cards we deserve?
>>157418824boy do i have a product for you
>>157418770box toppers aren't the most popular but I like them, usually they can get more intricate with the design since they have more room
>>157418841>>157418841
>>157340352kobe = rapist
Imagine if they made trading cards of /sp/ posts
>>157430126That's basically what NFTs were. Would you like to buy some?
