Hobby Resilience - Long Term

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Kzoo

I don't mean this in a arrogant way as that's not my personality, but it's not 'vague' at all to folks that have been truly paying attention the last several years. The MSM spoon feeds their narrative on a daily basis to the 'masses' as a cover story to keep us from noticing the true corruption that is destroying our country. It's worked for years, but with the mid-terms in 8 months and a social media 'change' on the horizon, the tide is slowly changing and the large amount of censorship will be coming to an end. It will be very interesting as it plays out. Again, just my opinion. Everyone's entitled to their own.

Thanks, Dale...when are the black UN helicopters coming?



Seriously, take the political stuff to a political web site. We discuss cards here.

[Foo3112]

Seriously, take the political stuff to a political web site. We discuss cards here.

Your post is also unnecessary. No need to bring up something that happened a couple of days ago just because you were late to the party. This was discussed, handled, and all parties agreed to move on, yet you felt your voice also needed to be heard.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Foo3112

Your post is also unnecessary. No need to bring up something that happened a couple of days ago just because you were late to the party. This was discussed, handled, and all parties agreed to move on, yet you felt your voice also needed to be heard.

Not sure why giving a belated opinion is unnecessary. I do it quite frequently. But to reiterate, lets try to stick to cards..

Concerning hobby resilience, I will always like looking at this card, valuable or not. And since my daughter doesn't collect, I don't care as much what future generations do.
As the OP mentioned, vintage has never let me down.
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[Exhibitman]

Damn, Leon, that is a great card.

[molenick]

I think book collecting is to some degree analogous to what happened to stamp/coin collecting. An aging collector group, young people who in many cases do not come into contact with the physical object (not that they don't read, just that they don't need a book to do so), and the realization that many items were considered "scarce" only because you had to buy them from a handful of dealers. With eBay and AbeBooks, you can pretty much get any book you want now. Maybe not in the condition you want, or in the edition, but for any book published since ca. 1970, probably 95% of the books you are looking for.

Like stamps and coins, the very rarest books will still be in demand and command high prices in an auction. But it's based almost entirely on rarity. You will pay more for better condition, but it's not like a Putnam team history in "like new" condition will sell for 100's of times more than a nice looking but technically very good copy. Many of the books I paid a premium for because of scarcity, edition, or condition are worth the same (or less) than they were 30 years ago (if I could sell them at all).

It may not be an exact analogy, but it is an area of the hobby where there has been mostly a decline in value (especially if you take inflation into consideration). There simply is not enough demand to support the supply. There aren't a lot of stories of coming home from college to find that your books were thrown away and now you are chasing your childhood collection.

[Yoda]

I wonder these days if anybody reads anything that is not on a screen.

[Bridwell]

Sometimes I watch Antiques Road Show. Sometimes they repeat older shows and update the values of the items. Some go up in value and some have gone down. It depends on demand. For example, collectibles about Astronauts have gone up. Guitars have been a good investment. Items used by celebrities have gone up. Metal and Porcelain Signs have increased.