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Posted By: boxingcardman

If more lower end cards are being slabbed and sold (hence reportable via VCP), that doesn't mean that fewer high grade cards are being slabbed and sold. As many here have vehemently insisted over the years, those are two different markets. If anything, the existence of a broader base of potential items to sell should increase the number of items being reported via VCP, not shrink it.

I think what's happening is the same thing I am seeing in my real business: the eco-shock is finally passing up the food chain from the working class and paycheck-to-paycheck folks and is starting to tear up into the middle and professional classes, which is collapsing the disposable income available to buy cards. Collectors who aren't necessarily even losing are nevertheless scared and are pulling back.

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