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[MattyC]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

I love numbers like that, a lot of times you can sneak in and find a decent deal when there's that many choices. Let the slab Queens go after the high end stuff and pick up something in the middle while they're chasing.

Slab Queens. Very grateful you're not copyrighting that so I can use it— and liberally. I was always calling them Sticker Whores but I love Slab Queens so much more.

If you ever wanna try dialogue punch ups for TV or films holler at me!

[ronniehatesjazz]

I’ve seen some crazy things over the last year and no doubt this is a bubble... I think it has a ways to go though unfortunately.

I started collecting in 92/93, right at the tail end of the junk wax era. Whenever I would go to a card shop it was usually just me or another kid or two. My older cousin was really into it in the mid to late 80’s and always talked about how crazy packed shows and shops were back then but I never saw anything like that. This weekend I went to my favorite card shop for the first time since late last summer and was amazed at the number, and types, of people there. It was jam packed and the first time I actually experienced some of the craze that everyone who collected in the 80’s talks about. I’m sure a lot of that demand is not visual due to eBay now, but it was fascinating to say the least. I have a feeling that this will last another few years if not longer. I wish that wasn’t the case though.

[Exhibitman]

An example of how crazy things are. Run a search on eBay for sales of Allen & Ginter cards of bitcoin...amazingly, people are paying into three figures for this trash. I thought it jumped the shark when people were chasing A&G 'bug' cards a few years ago, but cards of a fake currency...we're into Seinfeld 'show about nothing' territory

GEORGE: See, this should be a card. This is the card.

JERRY: What?

GEORGE: This. Just a non-existent form of money that we make up. Call it "cryptocurrency".

JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.

GEORGE: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.

JERRY: A non-existent form of money that no one issues and no government backs? Well what's it about?

GEORGE: It's about nothing.

JERRY: No real money?

GEORGE: No, forget the real money.

JERRY: You've got to have something to back a currency.

GEORGE: Who says you gotta have that?

JERRY: And who supports this money? What does it look like?

GEORGE: I could be on the coin

JERRY: You?

GEORGE: Yeah. You could base a coin on me.

JERRY: So, there's a coin showing George Costanza?

GEORGE: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."

JERRY: And who else is on a coin?

GEORGE: Elaine could be a coin. Kramer...

JERRY: Now he's a coin. (Pause) So everybody I know gets to be on a coin?

GEORGE: Right.

JERRY: And it's a currency that doesn't exist and is backed by no one and nothing?

GEORGE: Absolutely nothing.

JERRY: So you're saying, I go in to Topps, and tell them I got this idea for a card about coin that is nothing.

GEORGE: We go into Topps.

JERRY: "We"? Since when are you a writer?

GEORGE: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a baseball card maker.

JERRY: You want to go with me to Topps?

GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really got something here.

JERRY: What do we got?

GEORGE: An idea.

JERRY: What idea?

GEORGE: An idea for the card set.

JERRY: I still don't know what the card is about.

GEORGE: It's about nothing.

JERRY: Right.

GEORGE: Everybody's doing something, we'll do nothing.

JERRY: So, we go into Topps, we tell them we've got an idea for a card about nothing.

GEORGE: Exactly.

JERRY: They say, "What's your card about?" I say, "Nothing."

GEORGE: There you go.

(A moment passes)

JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.

[68Hawk]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

An example of how crazy things are. Run a search on eBay for sales of Allen & Ginter cards of bitcoin...amazingly, people are paying into three figures for this trash. I thought it jumped the shark when people were chasing A&G 'bug' cards a few years ago, but cards of a fake currency...we're into Seinfeld 'show about nothing' territory

GEORGE: See, this should be a card. This is the card.

JERRY: What?

GEORGE: This. Just a non-existent form of money that we make up. Call it "cryptocurrency".

JERRY: (dismissing) Yeah, right.

GEORGE: I'm really serious. I think that's a good idea.

JERRY: A non-existent form of money that no one issues and no government backs? Well what's it about?

GEORGE: It's about nothing.

JERRY: No real money?

GEORGE: No, forget the real money.

JERRY: You've got to have something to back a currency.

GEORGE: Who says you gotta have that?

JERRY: And who supports this money? What does it look like?

GEORGE: I could be on the coin

JERRY: You?

GEORGE: Yeah. You could base a coin on me.

JERRY: So, there's a coin showing George Costanza?

GEORGE: Yeah. There's something wrong with that? I'm a character. People are always saying to me, "You know you're a quite a character."

JERRY: And who else is on a coin?

GEORGE: Elaine could be a coin. Kramer...

JERRY: Now he's a coin. (Pause) So everybody I know gets to be on a coin?

GEORGE: Right.

JERRY: And it's a currency that doesn't exist and is backed by no one and nothing?

GEORGE: Absolutely nothing.

JERRY: So you're saying, I go in to Topps, and tell them I got this idea for a card about coin that is nothing.

GEORGE: We go into Topps.

JERRY: "We"? Since when are you a writer?

GEORGE: (Scoffs) Writer. We're talking about a baseball card maker.

JERRY: You want to go with me to Topps?

GEORGE: Yeah. I think we really got something here.

JERRY: What do we got?

GEORGE: An idea.

JERRY: What idea?

GEORGE: An idea for the card set.

JERRY: I still don't know what the card is about.

GEORGE: It's about nothing.

JERRY: Right.

GEORGE: Everybody's doing something, we'll do nothing.

JERRY: So, we go into Topps, we tell them we've got an idea for a card about nothing.

GEORGE: Exactly.

JERRY: They say, "What's your card about?" I say, "Nothing."

GEORGE: There you go.

(A moment passes)

JERRY: (Nodding) I think you may have something there.

That was brilliant, you could definitely write Seinfeld fan fiction.
I'd read it.
What a show that was.

[conor912]

The hits keep coming.

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