I can certainly speak to this topic. I collected all of my vintage from 2004-2014. I bought everything during this time as well as selling everything during this time. I would have to agree that virtually stagnant prices were the norm.
Just having gotten back into the vintage card game at the beginning of 2021 and seeing the same cards that I sold back in 2014 selling for multiple times what I got for them, timing could not have been any worse for me as I rebought everything throughout 2021, with the greatest percentage coming during the first half of the year and decreasing as the year went along. I couldn’t have rebought everything at the absolute peak of the market any more if I tried.
Fast forward to today and the vast majority of current card values are roughly half of what I paid last year. Things have really worked out great for me, huh?
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