Gone from the Blue-Collar Guy

[Touch'EmAll]

Traditionally, the next few months often see an uptick in demand and prices. Many auctions houses have spring time events, the weather starts to turn better, spring training baseball starts .. do we see a hobby pop this year ?

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Touch'EmAll

spring training baseball starts ..

One can hope.

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by Touch'EmAll

Traditionally, the next few months often see an uptick in demand and prices. Many auctions houses have spring time events, the weather starts to turn better, spring training baseball starts .. do we see a hobby pop this year ?

By Pop you mean go even higher ?

[Touch'EmAll]

I am optimistic we have spring training, but might be delayed. And by pop, yes, I mean higher prices. Do you folks also consider spring to be a robust time for the hobby?

[Brian Van Horn]

Shifted to these for the moment. OT in it being post-war.

[7nohitter]

I hear what the OP is saying.
Most of the collectors on this site are phenomenal in terms of their attitude, sharing of knowledge, etc. However, there is one member who, for years, posts with an air of arrogance and condescension, especially when listing in the B/S/T.

[Exhibitman]

Our God-given right as collectors (and Americans) is to complain about everything. It is definitely a case of non-problem problems, whining about not being able to buy baseball cards, but it is what it is. I'd like to own a Ruth RC, a 1925 Exhibit Gehrig, etc., but I know they are now out of my reach permanently. Really it is that many of us older (fart) collectors are just pissed at ourselves for thinking we'd have all the time in the world to add many cards to our collections that we now are completely unable to afford, so we bitch about the investors and anyone who can afford it. Nothing new there: I remember 20-30 years ago when card shows were everywhere and the whole PSA thing was just getting into gear, talking to people at shows derisively describing the dealers who were into that stuff as the "Rolex crew" because they all seemed to wear gaudy Rolexes and flash cash as obnoxiously as a drunk in a Las Vegas casino. We'd all just skip the Rolex tables and go for the back of the show. I mean, who is gonna pay a premium for a common Goudey Ruth just because it is in some clunky case? Guess we missed the boat on that one...