Yahoo Finance - cards booming

[AGuinness]

Originally Posted by 100backstroke

Today, Yahoo Finance put out a segment of the booming card industry during this pandemic. Interesting, claims of a lot of 20-40 year olds coming back into hobby, driving prices up. Said 80% seeking the modern stuff, 20% going for vintage - which is also shooting up quite fast. I think eventually many young adults will start to gravitate to true vintage thus pushing prices up even further. Most of the info we already know, but cool to see anyway.

Originally Posted by Seven

I've posted it before, I'll post it again, I think prices start to normalize when a vaccine comes out and people are able to spend their disposable incomes on Traveling again. It wouldn't surprise me as well if the people who bought their cards during the pandemic, and don't have a permanent interest in staying in the hobby start to sell off what they have.

If both of these are true, then the modern market would bear the brunt of a correction when the time comes.