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#26897975 - 08/25/20 12:06 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Holy shit have I been out of the loop. I've lately been fascinating watching these group breaks and shit of baseball/basketball etc over the internet. A lot of the boxes individually are in the hundreds of dollars. People in these group breaks are spending 400 bucks for a spot. You don't even get to choose your team as it's random. It's fucking just nuts. If you don't know what i'm talking about check out Laytonsportscards or theres a ton of them.
One box opening the box itself is 3500$. Theres 4 graded cards in there. These are straight up just high cost scratch tickets. These companies are straight up printing money. Creating artificial scarcity to make the card "valuable"
I collect magic cards and what got me really exploring this was the cost of double masters and how they say they don't know about the secondary market but somehow a booster box is 360$ and a vip box is 100$ and fluctuating all the time.
Man sports cards are nuts. For these little fucking useless pieces of cardboard these sports people are just throwing money away. Theres a world wide recession going on and topps and panini are releasing boxes that cost over 1 grand with like 3 cards in it that are that valuable because "reasons". Holy shit man sit back and watch these breaks and look at these cards that they're paying 1000's for. Shit casinos need to get in on this there like pull tabs.
I watched one where the guy opened a 700$ football pack. It had 4 cards in it. I can't imagine the people he got were worth squat. It was just like wow lol. You spent 700$ on garbage. Literally cardboard garbage. Insane lol.
So I guess my question is does anyone collect cards? Are you one of those crazy ass people?
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: Enjoywho]
#26897979 - 08/25/20 12:14 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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What's the craziest about it is paying 400$ for a spot in these group breaks. If you don't hit you literally get a few base cards in the mail that everyone just throws in the trash anyway. And I buy packs because I like to crack them and I actually play magic. Today I bought 100$ in random boosters and actually pulled 130$ in rares. So not only did I get some cool cards it added some value to my collection.
These are just pointless. I've been trying to get a russell wilson rookie card autograph but there seems to be like no rules on what is worth what lol. It's literally just what someone will pay. If it says it's a low print people buy it because it's percieved to be valuable but what is it actually worth? Nobody fucking knows
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: Enjoywho]
#26897997 - 08/25/20 01:09 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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That shit is insane. I’ve seen these knuckleheads wasting money on group breaks and stuff. Sports cards were cool ten years ago before they started artificially creating scarcity. The one idea behind a card being valuable is just holding on to it for so long it’s one of the only mint/good shape ones in circulation, the rest were lost or destroyed. Now card companies be printing everything as a 1/1 which = this cardboard is RARE
I have a Lebron James rookie card I got in a pack myself for a couple bucks that worth a couple hundred
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It's just another form of gambling. Even people who buy boxes of MTG cards and just open them are fucking dumb honestly. At least draft them; that's where the value is. Otherwise you're just playing some shitty form of a lottery.
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: jewunit]
#26898049 - 08/25/20 02:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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No, I trade crypto currencies and I actually just bought my first regular stocks today. I picked up some Davita, Norweigian Cruise Lines, and Alaska Airlines. Might get more of those and some other stocks next week too.
Cards are cool as long as there are buyers. I would feel like a complete shithead if I spent $3500 on cards and then couldn't find a buyer for the "good" cards.
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theRealrollforever said: That shit is insane. I’ve seen these knuckleheads wasting money on group breaks and stuff. Sports cards were cool ten years ago before they started artificially creating scarcity. The one idea behind a card being valuable is just holding on to it for so long it’s one of the only mint/good shape ones in circulation, the rest were lost or destroyed. Now card companies be printing everything as a 1/1 which = this cardboard is RARE
I have a Lebron James rookie card I got in a pack myself for a couple bucks that worth a couple hundred
Right and it's weird because anything that's made as a collectible is inherently not worth anything. Those are valuable because nobody thought to hang onto them. Now everyone has a mint copy.
I collect Magic cards because at least those are useful to the game. All though them creating artificial scarcity with things like fetch lands and with that secret lair selling them to us at secondary market value is just retarded.There fucking game pieces modern and legacy both really need fetch lands. There 100$ a pop it makes no sense whatsoever.
These companies like topp and WotC is really seeing how far they can take it recently but they are literally printing money. Like they know them saying there 3500 box of 4 cards are made from special whatevers but seriously it's a fragment of a jersey probably not even worn by the player and just because you only print 1 that's why it's valuable? If you look at it objectively it's like 2 dollars worth of material probably lol. WotC charging 16$ for the new double masters boosters that have double the rares. Ok but replacing a common with a rare didn't increase the cost of that booster at all. Why is it 4x the price of a normal 3.99 booster? It's nuts. They can literally charge whatever they want and people are showing that they'll pay it. It's the greatest business ever lol. There overhead must be a small hair of there profits lol.
I do it because I enjoy it every once and a while. Plus I actually play magic so the cards have value as game tokens to me as well. If I find a 30$ gem in one like i did today that's cool. But I found it in a 4 dollar pack. If not oh well it's my leisure money.
These guys are big spenders it's crazy af man. Imagine paying 3 grand and getting like 30$ in cardboard. Or the 100$ vip double masters are going like crazy right now. I've seen some breaks of 1600$ of them and getting back like 600$ in cards lol. Like it's a scam right in the open lol. It seems like in any other circumstance that would be illegal If someone gave me that in return for my money I'd punch them in the face haha.
Whoever had the idea of taking 5 dollars and cardboard and making people spend 1600$ on it is a fucking genius lol.
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: Enjoywho] 1
#26898122 - 08/25/20 04:49 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: HamHead]
#26898310 - 08/25/20 08:17 AM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I have a bunch of sports cards I got from my father after he died. I'm not into (watching) sports so I have no idea if there is any value in them or not :/
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It really is a ton of work to know if older cards have any value or not if you aren’t into sports
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.....which is why they are still in my attic lol
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Mail them to me. I’ll pay shipping and kick u 40 percent of anything I get on ebay Only if you can get the years of the cards and preferably the “make or company or brand”
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I'm alright. The emotional value is why I still have them anyway. One of these days I might get them out and do some research and post on here tho
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I have a hefty collection of sports cards from the 90's era. X-men cards, Pokemon, some Magic cards...but apparently they're some of the least sought after Magic cards ever made. I was trying to sell them on craigslist a while back, and some Magic nerd told me if I would've started collecting cards 1-2 years earlier or 1-2 years later I might've had some valuable stuff. I have some Ice Age, and Urza's Saga...or Legacy...I can't remember.
Dude offered me like 5 bucks for a gallon ziploc full of Magic cards...decided to hang onto em.
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: 1234go]
#26898613 - 08/25/20 12:03 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Wow fuck that. I have 1st edition holo starter pokemon cards somewhere put up deep in the attic. I think they are worth a bit but I would never sell them as the the emotional value on those are worth more than any money to me...
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#26898621 - 08/25/20 12:05 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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I collect some shroomery poster cards on the side
I got a Patlal rookie card valued at $2 bucks and an autographed sheekle cat card that is priceless
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spirit_shadow said: Wow fuck that. I have 1st edition holo starter pokemon cards somewhere put up deep in the attic. I think they are worth a bit but I would never sell them as the the emotional value on those are worth more than any money to me...
Understood. I think I could sell my cards for the right price, but they were just things I collected when I was a kid, and not a sentimental gift.
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: HamHead]
#26898680 - 08/25/20 12:30 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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:jerking off:
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spirit_shadow said: Wow fuck that. I have 1st edition holo starter pokemon cards somewhere put up deep in the attic. I think they are worth a bit but I would never sell them as the the emotional value on those are worth more than any money to me...
Emotional value? They're sitting deep in your attic in an unknown location. You sound real attached
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Re: Card Collecting [Re: Enjoywho]
#26898705 - 08/25/20 12:37 PM (3 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fuck yeah I am. Nobody can mess with them. Not even me
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