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Originally Posted by rjackson44

Im buying vintage hockey

I think that's a smart move. Granted I don't follow it too much but Gretzky and Orr have been bringing in big numbers, I'd imagine guys like Bobby Hull would be next

[68Hawk]

I find the shrieking odd.
When it was vintage going gang busters 20years ago/19/18/17...counting down until today, some people mildly said surely this wouldn't last, they'd wait it out, prices would drop and then they'd buy in.
But it never has.
In fact, vintage is also rising in factors.
But it's beloved here, so somehow it's understandable that a peck and snider red stockings can cost what it does.
But modern? Sheesh, MUST be manipulation.

For guys who collect cardboard and pay the prices you do, for lets say a red cobb of which there are thousands, but pay multiplyers because of different ad on the back, to screech about modern and parallels or color border or background differences making those more valuable by multiplyers....is inane.

You realize it's ALL cardboard right?
And just pictures of sporting players adoring them?
And that today's populace might have a connection to the sporting heroes of their day more so than ones they never saw live or in nothing more than stilted moving black and white is logical, right?

While there are ALWAYS unscrupulous or questionable practices going on in ANY valued commodity, check out the number of unique ebay members trading cards on ebay. Then add social media sites.
The rise in prices is because this is no longer considered an oddball way spending your hard earned, and with greater competition comes driven up prices.
The extreme high end goes up by a factor, there are people with lots of money for whom paying double doesn't change their lives and they must compete against other similarly well heeled collectors.
But the rest is generally collected by people just like you and I. Perhaps with less hobby history, but who love owning and looking at a cool sports card every bit as much.
Do people not want to miss out, on the assumption prices may continue to rise? Sure. I did the same when my wife and I bought our first house.
It seemed impossibly expensive to entertain, but it was clear waiting would only INCREASE our dilemma and we wanted to enter the market.

Someone above posted they can't imagine intermingling their 'investment' with their nostalgic joy of their collection.
I'm the opposite.
When I buy a home I buy it because I love it, AND i believe that because I love it my good taste will be reflected by others also loving it down the road when I need to sell it.
That gives me comfort, to be invested in something I love owning and cherish and ALSO believe will have great tangible down the road return.

Super surprised that guys who invested heavily into one sector of the hobby can be so truculent about your sibling part of the hobby.