[kailes2872]

I wonder who is going to be able to buy these collections. I look at average stats, net worth, average income, etc., and everything tells me that I am living in that top decile. Yet, I can count on two hands the number of cards that I have bought over the past 3+ years.

I guess I got used to the pricing from 2012-2019 and I have not been able to adjust to the new normal.

My PSA 6 '54 Aaron was a $1600 card in 2014. It sells for multiples of that now. If I couldn't comfortably "afford" that now with a paid off house, career in peak earning years, and plenty of discretionary income, then where is the market? I guess that there are a lot of very wealthy people in the hobby - more so than me, but it just seems like we are going to get to a point where the norm is buying groups and having shares of collections instead of someone buying everything and holding it, but what do I know.

I sound like my mother in law. She used to lament as she would be looking for a parking spot at the mall around Christmas time. She would throw her hands up in the air and say "where do the people get the money?" - only to finally find a spot and go in and spend hers.