General Forum

I was in a lil cardshop 1 hour away. Not much displayed. He had a room in back with the long boxes of cards. Filled with Packers.. I spent about a week there each day coming back to rummage through them. I had my iPad with the tcdb list converted to word.. while there, I listened to his lil “pack of wolves” coming in each day.. I would hear “  I raided this store today, got you all these off the shelf. “ lol.  He paid them  extra bucks to do this. Then he had his pack of wolves opening the boxes looking, hoping for that money card. You could here them get excited when finding something. They would quickly search online and post. He even had a wantlist of buyers.  There would be 3 or 4 guys there scanning through , sorting cards. Others buying a box from him then ripping it open in hopes of a money card to sell back to him.. it was quite entertaining.. 

I found my solution to this and eBay... it’s called TCDB.. THANK YOU  🙏 to all the traders on here. You ve kept my fun of collecting with the spirit of trading alive.. 

facebook market place has also filled my passion with the “cleaning out the basement sale” for my collection and building my traders. 

Thanks to who ever mentioned the card shop in N.Y. . Awesome prices on the Ultra pro  pages. I bought a case full. Saved me $8 a box of 100.

Donn from Green Bay.. ps.. so much learned from these forum discussions..

The Wally had three of the $35 ud series 1 hockey, three blasters of mvp hockey and two packs of wwe today.  They had the empty display boxes for a lot of really nice product left around as a tease.  Prior to the insanity, the Zion craze would empty the basketball shelves but other product was still available.

Having flashbacks to the crazy times when 1991 stadium club was released and then the late 90s with grading becoming popular and McGwire and Sosa graded rookies being all the craze.

Going to have to wait a couple years to fill in the 2020 sets.

lol.. 91 SC craze.. My $80 Lofton is now .99 from back then..

Great shout!  I am fortuate to have hobby shop close and he and I were talking about Topps and Panini needing to step in and do something.  Retailers don't care.  They are making their margins and don't care who buys it.  Then again they put a limit on toilet paper and hand sanitizer, why can't they limit cards!

It starts with the manufacturers, but they too may not care if they are selling more than ever.  If we are repeating the 90's it will be worse as everyone has figured out grading now as well.  So there will be a huge surplus of Zion RC's Gem/Min 10 next to the 87 Bo Jackson Future Star card and the Bo may actually sell for more.  

Coach

I do worry about all the people paying mega bucks for graded Zion/Luka etc RCs. They do realise there are approx 10k of them in each release and given they are all brand new the vast majority of them are going to grade 9+?

Why pay a premium for something that is just the norm. 

I say no, because its a discretionary purchase. 

I think we all have a line where we personally won't spend our money.  I draw mine at retail price considering even buying at retail is a losing proposition if you just want to build a set.  Those cards I want will still be easily available somewhere down the road without having to pay that markup.

I have been very fortunate lately in finding collections to feed my card collecting needs so no need to buy new. This weekend I contacted a guy that had a lot of 10,000 baseball and football cards for sale. It had been on Facebook for a couple of weeks for $30. I was passing his way so messaged him and offered $20 and he said yes. He knows what he is doing so no Brady rookies or anything but when I started digging through there were a lot of star players and also a lot of newer stuff and more expensive brands like bowman chrome, heritage, prism etc. I was happy enough that I went back and bought a basketball and hockey lot for $30 each. I now have 25,000-30,000 more cards to dig around in and a lot of stuff I didn't have already.

Same here. Supply has dwindled to almost nothing. I heard at the local show 2 weeks ago one guy saying he bought up everything they had while they were restocking. I guess some places are now limiting quantities so other people can actually get some. It seems online is the only way you can buy nowadays.

Those are the "complete your set" $1/card listings on eBay.

I feel the same way. I look everytime im in walmart and the shelf is bare except for a few boxes of hockey. I only buy to get cards i want. Most of what I get is for trades since I only collect 1 team. But it is frustrating when I wanna get a pack of baseball for trade and tjere isn't any. I dont even have a LCS in the area that go to. The closet shop is about 20 mi s from me. I just might have to go there to see if that's where they are going