General Forum

Decided to go to the closest LCS to me today as I had the day off work, and was pretty let down with what I came across.  I hadn't been there since October, but even since then the prices seem to have increased even more.  There were plenty of Michael Jordan base cards for 25.00-40.00 dollars.  Rookie cards that would normally go for 5-8 dollars being sold for 60.00.  

Then I see on the back wall a whole bunch of 2020-21 Hoops retail blasters being sold for 100.00 each.  There were also rows of retail rack packs that were marked up in a similar fashion.  I left without purchasing anything this time.

My son did get a cool promo Pokemon card for visiting so that was pretty nice and fun for him.

At the end of the day I understand what is going on, but it doesn't make me any less discouraged.  Hopefully I will have some more luck next time I am at Target.

Thanks for the recap.  It is interesting how the market looks in different areas and shops.

Mark 

I seen pretty much the same thing in Odessa Tx. They had one box of baseball bowman chrome draft box for 750.00. The box was 5 jumbo rack packs. I thought about it for a while and bit the bullet and bought the box.  I try to buy a box of bowman every year. 
 

As I was in the store there were 5 other customers walking around looking at things whom I never seen before. I personally think the supply did not change but the demand has which has jacked these prices way up and the card marker companies don't want to do the same mistake they did back in the 80's and 90's. You know the era of mass production

if you think I am wrong in my assumption please let me know

I do think production numbers are much higher, unless insert odds are just much lower.   The colored parallel cards in topps flagship are much harder to pull than 5 years ago.

Mark

This in a nutshell . How do you have 1/2 the odds as 5 years ago unless production is higher . 

Biggest difference is there's only 1 company producing each sport (Baseball football hockey basketball)while back then they all produced multiple sports (Topps in all 4 Upper Deck all 4 etc) 

I dont bother with going to the LCS and the Target and Walmarts are scavenged right away.  I refuse to buy retail products marked up on secondary markets and I hope you all are too.  I'll trade to fill older sets until the hobby crashes then pick up 2020 cards I need at a reasonable price.  

Yeah that's where I'm at. The high price and scarcity of packs really aren't from demand. It's a few people hoarding.  I dont think it'll crash but in a year or two they are going to be  sitting on inventory they can't move.

Been doing this for years.  I can't even remember when I last opened a pack of cards.  But I have ogne through many boxes of unsorted cards bought at pennies on the dollar from "investors" dumping their "worthless" cards.

I agree the hobby is in the middle of a huge bubble, but this is a great time to sell. I've been selling off duplicate rookies and Bowman Chrome 1sts and the prices people are willing to pay is unbelievable. Take advantage and don't be left holding the bag.