t206 Besides the Biggies - What are you buying?

[BobC]

Originally Posted by raulus

I'm actually not buying T206s right now. Not that I've been a T206 hound historically.

Prices just seem too ludicrous to be loading up right now. I figure I'll get more aggressive after the correction (any day now!!!), so I'm keeping my powder dry for now.

But that's my approach with not just T206s, but most all cardboard right now, with the one exception being for some oddball issues where pricing remains somewhat closer to pre-pandemic levels, and some junk-era pieces of my childhood/early adulthood heroes, which can be had for basically nothing.

I will confess that seeing all of the T206 hounds on this site has given me a thirst to more meaningfully get into the T206 game though. Just not yet.

Definitely agree with you on your point about some of the oddball stuff staying reasonably priced, if not going for outright bargains in a few cases. I think it is primarily a function of the newer type of collectors entering the hobby since the pandemic started. They seem especially driven by flipping/investing more so than collecting. And since the oddball stuff tends to have much less interest among collectors overall, it isn't commoditized enough to really interest those newer flipper/investor types. And with everybody so seemingly focused on the surging prices that have occurred with a lot of the mainstream cards and items this past year or two, less interest seems to have been placed on the oddball stuff, keeping those prices down a lot in what has otherwise been a surging market. I can still find some of those obscure, oddball items for what I think are great prices, every now and then. Keeps the collecting part of the hobby fun. Thrill of the hunt and all.