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Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

That's the thing, Brent. If all cards were valued at $1, then we wouldn't have a National Convention, local card shops and shows, Net54, supplies for displaying and preserving our collections, access to other collectors to buy-sell-trade with, and all the other venues we now routinely use to build our collections. Without the money factor, many people are just not interested. It's no coincidence that the rise of many of the things mentioned above paralleled the rising value of sportscards. I'm sure there are plenty of other things to collect - old buttons, matchbook covers, milk bottles, Slurpee cups, cigarette butts, rusty nails, etc., that the 'investors' have not infiltrated. And the other thing with devalued cards, many of them would just be thrown out - there would be no new 'finds' as they would be sent straight to the dump.

Money in the hobby is not all bad.

And I'm a collector, just one that has learned to take the good with the bad as far as money entering the hobby.

Exactly.

Endlessly fascinating when some people can't see all the factors on both sides of this coin. And the focus on only the negative just resonates so unhealthily