Really good documentary on Baseball Card Collecting today

[bender07]

Great watch. I love how the shop owners lament the post Internet world. Their monopoly was taken away from them.

[LEHR]

Originally Posted by bender07

Great watch. I love how the shop owners lament the post Internet world. Their monopoly was taken away from them.

I've always wondered why the guys with the "brick and mortar" card shops don't embrace the Internet and use that as an avenue for additional sales as opposed to sitting around complaining about it.

[ReefBlue]

Originally Posted by bender07

Great watch. I love how the shop owners lament the post Internet world. Their monopoly was taken away from them.

I had this exact discussion a couple weeks ago.

Speaking of new inventory that gets the new collectors into the hobby:

I got into this in 1988, probably the worst time to ever look at a baseball card that humanity will ever see.

Every dealer had stacks of the same inventory, they'd all charge the same prices (which were high) and no one would budge on anything. You'd have 10 dealers at a show lined up next to each other just like I described.

I wonder what all these dealers did with their 1988, 89, 90, etc Topps factory set cases they were asking hundreds for . . . I guess they could make a good step stool? Backstop for a shooting range?

"Ebay killed the card market!!"


Ebay didn't kill the card market, you dealers did.

I don't know what a cord of wood costs, but pound for pound couldn't be much more than cases of junk wax.

[oddball]

Thanks for posting!

[Leon]

Here is a facebook page about it

https://www.facebook.com/TheLastAmericanHobby

[queencitysportscards]

Nice documentary. I liked the comment of the customer who said that visiting the card shop is an experience and not just a retail place to buy something...very true.

Thanks for posting.

[MVSNYC]

Nicely done, thanks for posting.

[thehoodedcoder]

it was very insightful. i enjoyed it. i grew up in an area where there was one card shop for a little while...and then it was gone. we used to pick up cards at local stores, not card shops.

just recently got back into it for the t206 cards i always wanted to collect now that i have a good job and some extra cash.

kevin

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by ReefBlue

I wonder what all these dealers did with their 1988, 89, 90, etc Topps factory set cases they were asking hundreds for . . . I guess they could make a good step stool? Backstop for a shooting range?


I don't know what a cord of wood costs, but pound for pound couldn't be much more than cases of junk wax.

Priceless!!!

I guess it's called evolution.

Regards to all,

Larry