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Originally Posted by LincolnVT
I got an interesting mass email from a major auction house yesterday discussing the recent poor performance of modern cards and the steady reliability and value retention of vintage cards. I thought it was strange for an auction house to all but write off a segment of the hobby, but they did raise some quality points. Do pre-war and vintage collectors think that those who have been spending big bucks on modern pieces will throw in the towel and turn to vintage? If this becomes a trend will we see even more competition for the stuff that we like? I know that some people enjoy vintage and modern, but we may soon see some trying to cut modern losses and begin to target vintage which could drive the good stuff up even higher. 🤔
Ethan
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Ethan can you share the email with us?
I started out as a "modern" collector in 1965. When my son started collecting in 1995 he collected "modern" cards and I started collecting again with him. Throughout the late 90's and early 2000's I was collecting the shiny stuff, before I decided to go back and work on filling out some of my old sets from the 60's.
I think a lot of vintage collectors - maybe most of them - started out as "modern" collectors. And because of that I don't think it is a good sign at all that modern cards are down, because that means we are losing new collectors.