Has card collecting become an outlet for high stakes gambling?

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Originally Posted by mortimer brewster

I disagree with this. In 1980 kids were able to buy a 25 card cello pack for 39 cents. a 15 card wax pack for 25 cents or a 42 card Rack Pack for 69 cents. Hardly high stakes gambling. No kids (or in my case 20 year old) were paying hundreds to thousands of dollars on single boxes of cards. Loading up their credit card hoping for a profit.

Kids and young adults didn't spend beyond their means. It was cash and carry.

When I was 11 I borrowed $45 from my father to buy a 1952 Topps Mays and a 1953 Topps Mays. If I'd had a credit card I've have used it. Seven years later I sold the pair for $500. I wish I still had them...