Aloha! I have collected cards since the fifties. My brother since the forties. We both agree that the "hobby" was waaaay more fun when cards were'nt worth a bunch of cash. I remember turning down 500 different t-206's in the late sixties for a dollar a piece.....5 hundred for 5 hundred. I remember being shocked when first hearing of a single card selling for 100 bucks. I remember buying a complete 53 topps set for $30.00. I remember in the late eighties 52 topps high #s for 5 bucks a piece in some dealers books.
This hobby has become more like coins and stamps since grading companies have sprung up. Also in this economy (which I don't think will ever recover) card prices will decline drastically. In a post apocolyptic world all of us would trade our complete collections for food or water or medications or ammuntion, if we needed it.
That being said, I will still continue to collect but "at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near". I suspect someday soon, perhaps in my lifetime our beautiful cardboard wafers will be valueless. I buy now only rarely. And only if I don't need the $.........meantime I am cashing in on many of my duplicates to "get ready when the fan hits the poop". Food, water, shelter, clothing, meds, and guns and ammo....thats the way to go. PS check out the history of the great "tulip bulb mania" to see what will become of this hobby. Mahalo, Just my thoughts.
(graded cards suck.....raw is the way to go)
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